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It's theoretically plausible that you could map someone's brain thoroughly enough with fMRI to be able to detect when they're lying with some modicum of confidence, but that's going to be a pretty huge process (and your actual accuracy will always be debatable and it will be difficult to raise above a reasonable doubt).

Never been happier that all my computers run Windows 10 or Linux. Windows 11 is dead to me, and if anything happens to accidentally get it installed somehow, it's going to be replaced with Linux going forward.

The desktop environment is always available, and from what I understand Bazzite KDE boots directly into desktop mode (KDE is the desktop mode)

I could be wrong though as I'm not super familiar with Bazzite personally. As a relatively comfortable Linux user for many many years, I'm using Pika OS. It seems pretty friendly on the surface although I am comfortable getting dirty in the console so maybe I'm not the best judge. Being Debian-based would make it similar to Mint and Ubuntu though if that's up your alley.

I'm perfectly fine with that.

It's a philosophically coherent argument. We won't own people. We draw the line there. Many indigenous cultures don't and never really have believed land can be owned. You don't have to agree with them about that but you also can't dismiss the concept out of hand. And if people can't be owned, and maybe land can't be owned, it's not clear anything necessarily must be able to be owned. Are animals owned? Are plants owned? Are rocks owned? Largely, yes. But who allowed that? We did.

The idea of private property is an almost uniquely human idea, we have based most of our system of civilization on it, but it is not universal and is not based on any physical laws that we know of. We just like to own stuff, and we kill anyone who won't let us or tries to tell us we don't. And the fundamental corollary of that is that if we exclusively own something and get to decide who can and cannot have or use that thing, then that ability is deprived from everyone and everything else who is no longer able to exercise all of those rights over that thing. Sometimes that is a good thing. The tragedy of the commons demonstrates how things owned in common or public use can become quickly destroyed. By having exclusive ownership, perhaps I will do a better job of taking care of said thing and can protect it from careless use or overuse by others. Ownership can be a powerful idea, giving people equity in things that they would otherwise not be as invested in.

Strictly speaking though, property is theft. Theft from the public domain. It's taking something out of the public domain where it naturally started, and claiming exclusive use and ownership of it on behalf of one person or group or organization, often dating back through a long series of transactions, some incredibly violent, deep into ancient history, but at the very beginning of that chain of ownership you'll inevitably find someone using some justification like "I/we found this first" which in any given case may not actually be true, but the claim is made regardless and then used as a justification for making something private and exclusive for no reason other than that they could, and no one else was around or willing and able to stop them. Nothing and nobody gave the Earth to humankind -- we took it, and divided it up amongst ourselves and continue to do so to this day. And that's good for us, being ambitious and greedy has been good for our species in many ways, although it has also caused great strife and horror. But let's be intellectually honest about what property rights really are and why we have them. I still think they're mostly good, but I can also understand the point of view of people who think they're not, or that they should be limited.

The problem with lies is you have to have a good memory. You need to make sure all the lies line up and don't leave holes in your story that reveal the lie underneath because ironically the smaller the slip the more damning and harder to explain it can be. That applies to falsifying documents too. It's actually more dangerous to try and create something fake because now you need fake evidence for all the fake stuff you're putting in there, and you need to hide any evidence or corroboration that points to the stuff you've removed, and it all gets really complicated and really error-prone really fast. Liars survive by keeping things simple enough that it can't be challenged, or in Trump's case, by hiding all the small lies behind big obvious ones, like "there are no Epstein files" which everyone knows is a lie but the lie is so big it's immovable while all the juicy details are buried underneath.

but I feel like it’s not working with the integrated graphics card

That's possible... but it's also not exactly clear what "feeling" you have about this, and I don't know what other graphics card it could be using? I don't really understand this, are you just saying the performance is bad? That I would believe as a possibility due to the distros you're using, it's probably fixable with the right twiddling of knobs but whether you want to do all that tinkering is a question I'll address later. First, let's address the elephant in the room:

You typically don't need drivers from a website for Linux, especially not graphics drivers and if you do the OS should be able to get them itself. Which drivers to use are notoriously finicky because they tie in so tightly to the OS itself, and there are competing proprietary drivers that might interface with the hardware better and suck at interfacing with the OS and kernel, and open-source drivers that interface with the OS and kernel perfectly but sometimes suck at interfacing with the actual hardware, and the tradeoff of which is better for a particular OS or particular kernel or particular hardware is really not always obvious or intuitive and changes over time.

In short, I personally find this is a good area to trust the distribution you're using is picking a good option for you and will provide reasonable alternatives within its own packaging system. Assuming you've picked a good distribution, you don't need to mess around with installing proprietary drivers from the websites manually which tends to just make a mess of your whole OS, which brings us to the next topic we need to address:

Mint and Kubuntu are nice comfortable stable "desktop" variants but they're not really optimized for gaming, and gaming on Linux is a space that is in very very active development right now and one where it really pays to be on the cutting edge, because projects are improving things rapidly and you'll only get the benefits of those improvements on the bleeding edge gaming distributions that are quickly integrating those changes. Otherwise, you'll be stuck on a "stable" distribution that might be years behind graphically, and years is a huge amount of time in Linux gaming at the moment.

While you might think "stability" is an obviously good and important thing to have, the reality is it also means you're not getting improvements, and sometimes those improvements are really good or even completely necessary for modern and esoteric hardware support, like the kind of modern and slightly esoteric hardware you have. It's also a bit of a misnomer, all distros try to be pretty stable as far as not crashing or corrupting. It's not something that commonly happens even on "unstable" distros. Unless you're using something that has very hard coded environment requirements and dependencies, you're not likely benefiting from the kind of "stable" that stable distros provide anyway.

A lot of people recommend starting out with Bazzite as a relative newbie to Linux who's interested in gaming. It's a pretty safe distro and gets around the stability of crashing vs the stability of the software environment by essentially giving you "snapshots" of each new version that you can choose between or go back to the old version if it's causing trouble, similar to Windows system restore, but better. It should have good performance and get you quickly and easily set up for all the gaming and media you can handle.

IF all else remains constant. Which it doesn't, and isn't.

Do you have any idea how significant of an improvement it is for AMD to bring their process node to this level? All the variables going to be different here, and it's too early to tell what that means until we see the actual silicon.

Self host your own calendar with nextcloud or radicale then use any caldav app (like thunderbird on desktop or davx5 on android), radicale has other suggestions for supported clients.

High clock speeds are not the same thing as high wattage, they aren't even really related, or very closely associated. We have no idea what the power usage of these processors will be. They could even end up being more efficient than previous processors, doing more instructions in a shorter period of time then powering back down to idle sooner on the same workload. Yes people might decide to throw more work at them as a result, but that's not the CPU's fault, that's a people problem not a hardware problem.

We didn’t call them AI because they weren’t (and aren’t) intelligent, but marketing companies eventually realized there were trillions of dollars to be made convincing people they were intelligent and created models explicitly designed to convince people of things like the idea that they are intelligent and can have genuine conversations like a real human and create real art like a real human and totally aren’t just empty-headedly mimicking thousands of years of human conversation and art, and immediately used them to convince people that the models themselves were intelligent (and many other things besides). Given that marketing and advertising literally exist to convince people of various things and have become exceedingly good at it, it’s really a brilliant business move and seems to be working great for them.