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You can do that too. LibreWolf is not taking away any of Firefox functionality unless there's a specific reason for it. Some of its defaults are stricter, but those can be changed. All the configuration is totally available to you.

Let's just restrict them from everyone

If you're Pro-Russia you by definition do not respect the Ukrainian government. If you respected the Ukrainian government you would be protesting to have Putin's little green men GO THE FUCK HOME.

I'd also recommend considering a more gaming-focused distro, they are increasingly popular, easy to use and tuned for gaming with everything you're going to need. SteamOS, Bazzite, PikaOS are all strong choices with rapidly ongoing development at this point (and there are others).

Gaming distros may not be as inherently "stable" as more productivity-focused distros like Mint, but for gaming you don't really want to be. Gaming is pretty cutting-edge, even on Windows you need to get your updates promptly and keep your drivers up-to-date etc if you want many games to work properly. And that situation is doubly true on Linux since it is still a bit less mature for gaming and some parts of the ecosystem are a bit "experimental". A gaming distro balances the need for stability with the need for the latest and greatest games to run properly and with good performance.

This too shall pass. Canadians and Americans have always been friends (1812 wasn't Canadians, it was the British) and shall continue to be despite the efforts of one madman. For now we just need to weather this storm, and if it comes to it, we'll fight with you. We always have our friends backs, and we know that you have ours.

Ubisoft is not really a "Canadian company" as far as I am concerned, they have Canadian employees, which is nice I suppose, but they're a French company. At least it's not American, but I prefer when the owners at least nominally live here so as much of my dollars go back into my own country as possible. Lots of great indie games out there, I guess if you can't live without AAA games then maybe Ubisoft is one of the better choices, but I think it's preferable when we can support our locally-owned indie studios instead. I'm tired of being pillaged for profit by foreign companies.

That push and pull is exactly why they've been intentionally using them to rot people's brains. The dumber and more apathetic you can make your users, the more you can monetize them, you first minimize the push so you can maximize the pull. This is not an accidental "quirk" of modern algorithms, it's part of the design. Money must be maximized at all costs, including the mental health of the users and the stability of society. Money uber alles. The techbros will drive our society into the ground without a second thought if it makes them a few bucks richer. They're not planning to stay here anyway. We are just a resource to them, and they will exploit us to the fullest to pursue their unachievable techno-utopia fantasies.

I don't agree with your premise that the performance and functionality is so far below every competitor. That is not my experience. What are you basing your claim on?

They are well made machines with high quality components and are in most cases perfectly capable of going as fast as the plastic allows. And if they don't, a few minor upgrades to the hardware will get them flying as they're typically mostly going to be hotend-limited. Are you competing the actual realistic maximum acceptable performance of comparable machines that have been independently tested by an experienced reviewer, or are you comparing numbers someone copied from marketing? Because these are not the same thing and only one of them actually reflects reality.

As far as functionality, the only feature I see wanting in Prusa's lineup is IDEX, which I prefer over toolswitchers for making large numbers of small parts. I keep hoping their next model will be a spiffy little IDEX model, but no luck so far.

Tribes was such a stupidly good game. It would kick the ass of all the battle royale shovelware nowadays.

Prusa is tuned for reliability and consistency. They occupy a weird and illogical niche, for people who don't want to have to tinker with their machines AT ALL but want to have the ability to. I personally fit in this niche, and I love my Prusa, but they really don't make a ton of sense for most people I think, and there are probably better choices if you don't fall into this niche.

The implication is typically that they're popular with guys. ie, they're physically attractive to the opposite sex, they are sex symbols. That's really what it's all about. It's not a two-way label, it doesn't mean the attraction is necessarily returned. Although it is often assumed and commonly leads to people accusing them of being "sluts" despite not being justified. But on its own it just means that they are the object of desire of many boys: they probably have many suitors, lots of people want to ask them to the dance, etc. That is the way they are considered "popular".

I understand why some companies still post there. I don't understand why companies don't ALSO post to at least one of Bluesky or Mastodon, preferably both. It's literally free. This is not a huge decision with a massive financial impact. Just fucking do it.