Like exasperation said, I feel I owe it to them to make considerate Christmas gifts, call often to socialize with them even if some days I’d rather be playing video games, etc.

And, some people probably don’t feel that obligation because their parents didn’t respect them or help them grow up well.

I mean that’s the problem, whichever country you want to do this in, the world has started automating its hole-digging. Not sure why you’re using nursing as an example, since that’s a very specialized field that needs a lot of student loans to get into. Traveling nurses are in high demand.

There are sci-fi depictions of perfect utopias where automation has maintained so much of modern life that people need neither learn nor contribute. But, not only would I be somewhat opposed to going in such a lethargic direction, we’re also a very long way from that sort of utopia, and we’d need more educated people to handle it.

I certainly don’t claim that the current pattern of “No one can afford medical school, no one can become a doctor, and thus no one can AFFORD a doctor” is a good one. But the work needed to invest in giving the world more doctors is still an investment, be it monetary or otherwise. Medical schools do not purely operate out of the goodness of their heart; they expect to work within a system (and be given their own means for survival).

That’s the thing, I don’t mean between two humans. I mean between a human, and all the rest of society, which is why I phrased it that way.

Society gives a person an education, and expects that person to do something meaningful in return. It might not be the same two people in that transaction, which is similar to how we pay taxes for benefits we might not personally see.

Hope I’m not thinking too abstractly here:

If you’re an individual with only their bare hands in a society that doesn’t need manual labor, not even necessarily a capitalist society, then that society would have to give you something (education) in order for you to give back to society. Once they do, you’d owe them. Maybe not dollars, maybe a moral obligation, but they’d only give you something expecting a return

“The rich get richer” through things like stock buybacks are their own issue. I just don’t get the implication this is a genuine multi-layer representation of an issue.

That image doesn’t even have the full sentence.

This isn’t really about the user getting used to nuances, it’s about the games getting used to them. People complain when a game doesn’t work instantaneously on Windows too.

Plus, going off the latest Steam survey, people mostly play their own weird and obscure games with only some hundreds of players. So much of the time, searching for game support is not going to give any results because they might be the only Linux player.

That’s not even getting into how much setup annoyance there is if one of your choice games isn’t on Steam.

My last Desktop Linux experience:

One out of two distros could not load levels in Hitman. Helldivers 2 generated a white border around the game and color correction was off. Dead by Daylight’s skill checks had input delay.

Some of these games had tinkering steps to maybe fix those issues but it perfectly fits the headache he’s describing.

What exactly can cause the free version of OneDrive to “expire”? A subscription for more storage can end when you stop paying, but I don’t know what you’re referring to.

He’s part of the reason I hate phrases like “Kill all billionaires”.

Yes, most rich people are pretty evil, and I’d like them taken to task. But simply being born into fortunate circumstances doesn’t make someone evil; it’s the things they DO to keep that wealth that make them a greater or lesser evil. Ideally, everyone would have at least that basic quality of life that he did. Investing in crypto is one thing, but if he committed some atrocity using crypto I’ve yet to hear about it.

Mental health crises are very common now. They don’t necessarily make the act “not brave”.

As far as I know, Luigi’s popularity is not limited to one political side.

It could also be referring to overall election loss, or DNC primary loss.

A very light one, but “Gotta have it all” attitudes in video games.

I too, remember the Gamecube days when the console didn’t connect to the internet, and if there was anything to unlock in the game, it came from hitting buttons really well. We’re now in the days where the glittery, shiny purple armor (with the same armor stat) sometimes costs money. And yeah, quite often it’s more money than I’d say it’s worth.

I guess I just don’t get the people who still get a bunch of “cool” things in the game, but still feel angsty and frustrated because they don’t have everything - because they haven’t completely cleared their minimap of every objective, gotten a platinum achievement, or grabbed that one pointless thingy that only shows up through RNG.

I tend to experience a “majority” of games that I enjoy, and that already is enough to absorb a lot of my time. For games that have DLC content, I might buy one or two skins I like, and still spend less in total, inflation-adjusted, than I would on one disc back on my gamecube.

Note that my post said “old drives” - plural. Mint was being installed on a secondary, formatted drive, and refused because that drive was not GPT-formatted (that record exists outside of the filesystem formatting). At the time, the BIOS was not set to force UEFI, so this was Mint’s decision, not the BIOS’s, and I don’t understand it. I left Windows alone on a different drive.

Believe me, I did plenty of reading up on BIOS UEFI settings just to resolve the issue. I still don’t claim to be a master, but I at least know enough to express how annoying the reconfiguration can be - independent of which OS you’re choosing.

Not to make a “Gotcha”, but Linux Mint was the other distro I tried, as I’ve complained about before. The first release I tried, which was less than a year old (on a 2+ year old computer) didn’t even run the wifi, audio, or bluetooth drivers correctly.

And, I had that same type of UEFI setting on Linux; Mint wanted to install on a GPT drive record, when my old drives (on Windows) used an MBT. It’s a conversion process both OSes will help with, but Mint gave some errors with it, and it was honestly easier to use Windows’ tools to get it done. Not even sure why Mint was insistent on it. Oh, and a mostly distro-agnostic annoyance: While attempting that conversion and making extra space for the GPT format, I ended up wiping more of the drives than needed during conversion because the partition manager used on several distributions uses bad messaging, and incorrectly refers to an individual partition under /dev/nvmesda0# as a “device”.

Installing any operating system is often a hassle. This comes in part from my own experience trying to understand the unguided partition recommendations of a Bazzite (basically Fedora on low level) install. I got through it, but it was certainly no easier than Windows.