I thought it was obvious, 2026 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.

Yeah, and once you get going it’s easier to keep going because of momentum

Only good way to get a house by age 30 is to become a plumber, electrician or other type of job that pays well with minimal study and save up while living at parents or sharing a flat with 3 mates.

Then you need to save heavily and invest in stocks and/or bonds with the saved money so you can beat inflation. With around 30k saved per year it’s possible to get pretty early onto the property ladder.

Going to college and living somewhere in NYC for example will get you nowhere close to 30k a year with student debt and if you have a kid you’re screwed.

Wizard of Oz sepia “filter” fits in here?

I’m also going to in honesty pick Brazil (1985). It still holds up really well.

I really want to see a blockade on the shadow fleet. They don’t even have insurance if they spill the oil in EEZ of countries they’re passing through. It would be a major blow to Russia.

Yeah, with Putin’s approval at 80% it’s hard to see a civil war happening any time soon.

Also remember the shinobi tournament school shooting.

Download a picture from the Internet, move it to the desktop with the file explorer only. Then print it out.

I was in the same boat until I started running. It’s very nice to monitor heart rate so you can stick to a target heart rate.

When it goes on sale 5 years later probably

I played Game Dev Tycoon (2013) from the same people and it was really good, I’m definitely going to try this one out

Also that he’s just blindly following a false emperor so easily while never having even seen his rotting carcass

Musakhan, a Palestinian onion pizza topped with 1/4 chicken.

Thats not true. Privately owned firms tend to be really bad because they don’t have a feduciary duty to long term value. They suck everything dry. Private equity is the reason why daycare costs so much yet the daycare workers make minimum wage.

I think we’re probably not on the same wavelength. Privately owned doesn’t mean bad, a one person owner operated plumbing business is not bad.

Publicly traded corporations are also really bad because the goal is increase in share price at the cost of long term success often. If you can show profit or revenue growth at the cost of losing customers by cutting costs that’s positive over there.

Single person ownership of a company where the person cares about the company providing good value instead of making money is very different from maximising profit or resale value.

So the dissonance I think mostly stems from the example of daycare that you made and your conclusion that private ownership is worse than publicly traded companies. If the daycare was publicly traded it would probably look the same since none of the owners really care about the staff. On the contrary an owner operated business often do care about staff and their development at the cost of their fiduciary duty.

Private equity would gut a business for cash. Publicly traded would syphon away all customer value to increase the stock price. Owner operated business normally does neither since it’s their baby.

… and Gabe N owns more than 50% so it’s not really the same as owned by Blackrock. It’s still a founder owned and operated company.

If the argument is fair and both parties are open then I think I could win an argument that exercise is crucial for a long and healthy life.

They’re a functional monopoly in my case since I’m on Linux. GOG is the main competitor for my money.

Private equity is commonly referring to “owned by a private equity fund” like Blackrock. It often involves extracting unhealthy amount of short term profit to make the numbers look better then sell the business so they can record a profit.

I really liked the first AC game but when I played Odyssey I was disappointed. Beautiful game, fun mini-games, nice subsystems like upgrading the ship and whatnot. After the initial couple of hours I started to feel like everything is a chore.

Need a map? No way to buy, you have to run/ride and climb the chore tower.

Want to use equipment? Grind chore for the XP to meet the level requirement.

Want to beat a quest handed to you early? Grind XP

Want to complete side quests? All of the boilerplate fetch/kill quests.

Just please, give me a starting weapon that’s good enough and I can just stealth kill my way through the main quest. Also, just allow me to buy the map.

I think they were viable but nobody trusts EA and Activision with keeping the game they buy.