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Like consistently? Or just one or two days a year? Because I feel like bringing out the electric heaters a few times a year is way better than just giving up and using fossil fuel all the time

Also I'd mention that heat pumps are super common over here in Scandinavia so I have my doubts that it's an issue with the medium and not something else. Maybe you guys have like, heat pumps that are more designed for the heat rather than the cold?

I'd also add that like, for a lot of Scandinavia heat pumps work just fine? Like does America just have some really bad heat pumps or something?

I think the only reason why you wouldn't install one here (aside from obvious cost issues) would be if you already have a robust heating system built into your home, like a hot water system. And if that's the case, you can use the heatpump of the earth - geothermal! Use the power of the earth's molten core to heat and cool your home!

(... geothermal isn't as ubiquitous as I make it sound it's just, really fucking cool)

Ok using your Google analogy - there's a reason why "librarian" is a job and "Googler" isn't. One requires years of skill and practice to interpret a request and find the right information and do all sorts of things, and the other is someone kinda bashing keys to make Google give them what they want. You wouldn't put them in remotely the same class

There is a very real chance they spent more time on this piece than other artists they were up against spent on theirs. I generate thousands of images a month

.... you've never actually made art, have you? The sort of stuff that you enter into contests takes months to make, from the actual painting to rough sketches to reference gathering, and that's just the basics

Clicking a button a thousand times isn't really comparable

Hey as someone who kinda grew up in that scenario, I really reccomend you show your kid what a windows dual boot is

Your kid doesn't exist in a vacuum. They have friends and inevitably your kid's going to be in a situation where their friends are like "hey, want to play this game with us?" And they can't because it's got a kernel anti-cheat that doesn't work with Linux. They're going to try and get into a hobby, only to find that the software everyone uses doesn't work on Linux and the alternatives that do are badly maintained and frustrating to work with. They're going to encounter a programme they need for school that just straight up does not work on Linux.

Sure you might be able to find a work around to all these things but like, can your kid? Because I speak from experience when I say that feeling like you have to be constantly running to your dad every time something doesn't work doesn't foster a sense of mastery, it makes you feel like you can't do anything on your computer because you're too small and dumb.

The teacher probably isn't "afraid" of the Linux box, they're probably frustrated that they don't know what's going on and can't help if something goes wrong. The programmes they'll probably teach your kid aren't a perfect 1-to-1 match to their Linux alternatives and they'll be left sitting in the back confused and upset while everyone else is learning about stuff in word and excel that you can't do in libre Office. You're not going to be known as the cool hacker dad, you're going to be put in the same category as the crunchy mum who doesn't let their kid eat sugar and needlessly restricts something that's just so petty to the layman.

Not quite star trek, but I do know that in The Man From UNCLE Illya Kuryakin, the Russian/USSR operative working for UNCLE was so popular that in the second season he got promoted from side character to full on protangonist and that aired a year or two before star trek. So if an explicitly USSR aligned spy could get that popular to the point the producers felt comfortable making him a main character, I imagine one from the far off future where Russia is more of a off hand mention in comparison would be even less controversial

Funnily enough the 2015 movie version of him is way more critical of the Soviets than the show made in the height of the cold war ever was

...in a fight right?

Stardew valley - it sells itself as a harvest moon inspired farming Sim but as someone who grew up playing a lot of harvest moon, I really can't help but be super disappointed in it. Harvest moon games have a complex and more importantly moving relationship system - you start to go after one marriage candidate, the others will pair themselves up and have kids alongside you. People move in and out and you need to really get to know people in order to progress the game and unlock things. Stardew valley? Super flat in comparison. All the candidates you don't marry feel super flat once you lock yourself out of them. There's not much locked behind friendship so there's less reason to get out there and really work on befriending everyone.

Also fucking combat - it's a supposedly nice and peaceful farming Sim, yet combat is an unavoidable part of the game. I didn't sign up for combat! It's not fun it's just annoying.

Or if you're using for purely notes, OneNote is like, right there. In your system tray. For free.

Nah we just have regular old crypto shill people instead

On one hand, yeah

On the other hand, I'm scared about the day when someone who is tech literate gets into government and tries to push stuff like this

Because different genders taste cheese differently obviously duh. Don't want to give them NBs an unfair advantage in the Roquefort round

(Serious answer - I think it's to try and combat entrenched sexism in the sport? There aren't many women in chess and by making a space explicitly for them you hopefully create a safe space that can encourage more women to take up the pursuit. As it's a social perspective thing, AGAB therefore really shouldn't matter because the point is to go "look women!" Not "women are inherently better/worse and so we should segregate on gender")