It is sad in states with poor public health the condition you see people’s teeth. There’s always those that can afford dental care. Poor people can practice good habits but being able to see a dentist for a regular checkup/cleaning gives chance to be pestered to brush well, floss, etc. Utah teeth will look on average worse in the following decade

I’d say try Linux. Ubuntu or Fedora and you’ll realize how much of your computer usage is based out a web browser and it doesn’t matter whether you have a Linux, Mac, or Windows computer

Email you’ll be stuck with some corporate entity that won’t be 100% open source. Running an email server and your emails not being filtered is a pain. I use Proton applications for email, VPN, and Dropbox type service. They have a calendar but hard to beat google calendar

Signal for pretty much texting. I actually have around a dozen people I primarily message through Signal so it’s viable for me

Matrix/Element for something like discord.

Onlyoffice, Libreoffice, or WPS Office instead of MS Office. WPS may not be open source

Browser use Firefox or Firefox forks

Krita, Darktable, GIMP for image editing

KeepassXC for my desktop password manager and whatever is available on Android

Maps you can use Organic Maps

Video editing i use kdenlive

Android TV at least you can do simple custom launchers. I’m still hoping a more normal Linux becomes popular for TV. Hoping maybe SteamOS will be the pathway for that

Signal has been with me for a decade. Have had Matrix/Element installed for years but no one i know uses it

I’m not expert in sed or awk. I always have to Google. For me though, it’s generally that you can do a great deal in just one line of awk or sed. They’re standard on any Linux distribution I’ve ever used. When building out pipelines, scripts that you want run from an installer you built post install and when removing, sed and awk rather than needing python.

All really nice when you have strict configuration management and versioning and there’s something deployed but it doesn’t have the python packages installed that would make it easy in python and you can’t just pip install it on hundreds+ of computers without going through a process of approval and building a new tagged version release but sed/awk/etc can do the job. If it’s hard enough, python and whatever packages you can install. If simple enough to do in a small bash script, no python just what’s standard in your Linux distro

It’ll fall won’t be as dramatic as Digg but it will decline over time. Probably not have a major exodus event like Musk buying Twitter and renaming it and sending people to try BlueSky and Mastodon

I use nvme enclosures. Very fast and very hot. I also got some fikwot ssd based flash drive that’s about the size of a common flash drive. I’ve seen it sustain around 500MB/s very well. Some type of metal enclosure. At this point I’m probably only buying enclosures and small NVME drives or USB sticks where the enclosure is metal and reviews seem solid saying it’s hitting SATA 3+ speeds sustained well

Over the years I always hear people in real life tell me how much they loved Parasite, Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Harold and Maude, Everything Everywhere at Once. They never seem to be able to find movies they like. They never put much effort finding things they’d like

They’re all movies that are from indie filmmakers that managed to get mainstream recognition. Movies like O Brother Where Art Thou, There Will Be Blood, Pulp Fiction, etc. Auteur led movies making original movies. There are tens of thousands of movies being made with passion outside of just return on investment a year. Uncut Gems had some popularity some years ago.

I can confidently say with certainty that at least a couple hundred a year are good to great. Almost none of them make more than like $5 million at the box office worldwide in their release year. Most barely get screens and even in AMCs they show to theaters of like 3 people

Discovery issue but also even marketed with great trailers, people aren’t going taking the risk of being disappointed. Either it goes viral or people aren’t watching it. Japanese movies to non-Japanese people might as well just be anime adaptations and the latest Godzilla movie

Korean movies was for a period just Old boy to people that googled and then just Parasite. Maybe the Wailing.

Every other country in the US may as well not exist when it comes to movies. Like 1000 feature length movies a year from the US but the only ones people know are like 5 blockbusters a year where they may watch 2 and then when the Oscars come around they learn of a handful of indie movies and maybe try the best picture winner. That’s it. Even a movie they like, they can’t come up with the idea of seeing who directed or wrote it and see what else they’ve done. We can complain about studios all we want but time and time again we are shown that the general consumer including the whiners in here will not try to find what isn’t already popular. Same with music, television, books, etc.

Unless it has a cookie cutter easy to see the appeal hook, very few people will show up. Celebrities they think are attractive and action. Way more competition now though. I don’t think romance movies are major anymore. Plenty of good content, you just don’t know it and you don’t take risks. That includes everyone complaining about Netflix. There’s plenty on there and Amazon Prime. There’s plenty that hits the AMC or other major chain. You just don’t watch it. You’re a part of the problem.

Played the Yumia demo and just purchased. First day one Atelier game for me. First one on Steam instead of Switch. Really excited for Steam cloud saves and performance stability

But will 100 billion actually be spent and if so will it be spent to anything cutting edge by completion

Hoping that it’s possible to get one at a good price maybe end of summer. By the time it’s possible to grab one, it’ll be hot and I don’t run AC. Once it’s fall, used market at least hopefully isn’t trash

Ultra wide is better. If enough space an ultra wide and another 16:9 monitor. Games look so nice 21:9 and wider without the bezels of the older solution for ultra wide with multi monitors

The rest of the year and next are going to be a ghost town or it’ll be the cheapest away game for people to fly to

Like 2 days ago I decided to try pop_os on my main again. Way better than September. Enough for me to be able to tolerate the quirks. But still bugs here and there to the point I wouldn’t recommend it to most users. Maybe by the end of the year

Hard part is software distribution. You can buy Chinese phones but what app store? Can focus on open source applications. Use F-Droid. I have an iPhone and an older Pixel 7. In the past I’ve had ZTE phones. I guess you can buy a Chinese phone with a Mediatek processor that has YMTC memory chips and … whatever else

Desktop/laptop you should and encourage other to try Linux. Something common. Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Even if it’s US based, supporting Linux and open source software aligns with what you want

Luckily my collection is practically all Blu-ray at this point. I’ll be sad if any of them decay in their case. Most of my movies I don’t believe have a UHD release and I doubt they will

Someday Qualcomm will stop being annoying and get AV1 decoders in all their chips and we can all move on from h.264

What VPN? Haven’t seen that yet with Proton

It’s appeasement but until projects complete it can end up being a political boondoggle that by the end of spending $100 billion (if even) just gets them the political sway they needed at the time while not compromising their domestic production advantage

I can see Bazzite keep growing from interest in streamlined console experience Linux gaming. Pop_OS probably won’t grow again until after Cosmic DE is better. It’s not so bad now but still a number of annoyances and bugs. Once it’s stable it can contend better again as a gaming and general consumer centric distro. Mint is solid so no surprises that it can quietly grow