That’s fair. I’m certainly not against the concept of drinks with sugar alternatives, but for whatever reason the only one I actually enjoy is Fresca.

It’s the “no sugar” part that I find the most blasphemous.

I’m more curious as to why “$1.00 Drinks” costs $3.30.

If you ignore the first W it reads to me as, “Fart Free Water.” That’s actually an attribute I like in my water.

Good to know. I’ve only been using Proton for like 4 months now and have thus far generally liked the experience, but that’s too bad about your experiences with the Drive client. I’ve used several paid business suites over the years through work and they all have their issues though. The only one that was generally solid was Google’s and I’ve gradually taken steps to remove their products from my life so there’s no going back to them for me. It was also almost 10 years ago since I last used Google’s paid email/Drive, so maybe it’s also gone to shit.

I’ve actually meant to try that but haven’t yet gotten around to it. I’d still love an official app though, as sometimes 3rd party solutions don’t work great with cloud storage (at least in my experience).

What we’re begging for: A Linux client for Proton Drive

What we get: A fucking Bitcoin wallet

I’ve never gotten around to actually reading up on this, but I’ve always suspected it has to do with the frequency of gratification. In real life you could study for 8 hours and, while you’ll learn a lot, you don’t get that dopamine (or whatever) hit until you complete the test, succeed at the project, etc. Games, however, are constructed so that you get little rewards at regular intervals to keep you hooked, like levels, new gear, etc. Some, particularly a lot of mobile games, obviously prey on susceptible people with that loop, but even “regular” games can get pretty addictive with that sort of progression.

(I’m far from anti-gaming. It’s my main hobby. This is just my guess at how the psychology behind it works.)

Translation: The AI will show the worker photos of people they will let down if they rage-quit their terrible job.

From what I remember from writing an undergrad history paper on these dudes, it was used for lots of things such as a treatment for chlamydia (or another STI - I don’t remember exactly). These dudes were banging their way across America, especially the black slave they brought along as apparently the locals thought he had big magic.

I’m not condoning any of this sort of colonialism - just clarifying that these dudes probably single-handedly introduced some new STIs to whole populations, and they were dragging their leaky mercury-riddled dicks along in their boats.

I once bought a Dr. pepper BBQ sauce, so in that case Dr. Pepper did indeed taste like BBQ. Perhaps more aptly, BBQ tasted like Dr. Pepper.

The cops:

Did the artist forget to draw legs on that second girl?

If I can’t bare-bottom blow ass on pictures of the aristocracy, am I really free?

Pfft. Imagine not running your fridge on a rolling release distro.

I definitely see how that’d be an annoyance. Glad it hasn’t soured you long-term on it though.

Yeah, I think AMD makes a huge difference there. My old Nvidia card had all sorts of issues with screen tearing, but my current rig worked flawlessly under Wayland with no tweaking necessary.

If so, I wonder if that timeline lines up with when I was trying SearX. For the first few days I was blown away by the results, and then suddenly they became absolute garbage. I ended up switching back to DDG.

Well that’s unfortunate. I guess different hardware and configs can really make all the difference. In my case I’m using a desktop with no integrated graphics at all, so no chance of that particular problem happening. This build is all-AMD and using Wayland.

I’ve only had two small issues thus far, across the dozen or so games I’ve tried on this setup. Both were very easy to fix, though one is worth mentioning as it’s loosely similar to yours: in Valheim literally every time I started the game it’d default to the wrong audio output and I’d have to manually switch it back.

Sorry to hear about your own bad experience. Given the rate at which the desktop ecosystem keeps improving, however, and marketshare creeps up, I’m sure in a few more years it might be worth giving it another shot with your setup.

Well, at least while the founder is alive, he’ll kill to keep you a member.