MarcRnt

Yeah gaming on Linux can be frustrating at times. Some games work perfectly out of the box, some don't even start or lag a lot. Especially on Nvidia graphics things get complicated. I'm an AMD user and everything is mostly working fine, but a friend of mine uses Nvidia and he struggles more with driver issues and missing Wayland support.

If all I did was just office tasks and browsing the web, I'd completely switch to Linux as well. But as a gamer, things start to become complicated very soon. Some games run perfectly fine, some don't run at all. It's hit or miss. That's why I keep Windows around and boot it almost daily. But the situation of gaming on linux is improving currently, so I'm hoping for a bright future...

Signal won't be interoperable with WhatsApp, because that would destroy their whole privacy. And honestly, it's better they aren't. Don't know about other private messengers standing on this topic, but Signal already said it won't happen with them.

I've already switched to Linux partially. My PC now dual boots to Manjaro and Windows. I won't switch completely, but it's great to have such an awesome alternative right there one click of a button away. And the funny thing is that I'm not even the only one amongst my friends to do that. We are now three already and we even game on Linux too.

Also ich sehe und verstehe deine Beobachtungen durchaus auch, aber ich würde behaupten, dass "militant" und "Mitte" sich ausschließen. Für mich scheint es eher eine laute, rechte Randgruppe zu sein, die immer behauptet sie seien die Mitte. Die wahrhaftige demokratische Mitte der Gesellschaft, das sind die, die wir in den letzten Wochen auf den Großdemos für die Demokratie gesehen haben.

Ich wohne in der Gegend um Reutlingen und muss sagen, dass ich besonders auch die meisten Dörfer und Landstraßen als höchst gefährlich erachte. Hier sind oft Radfahrer aufgrund mangelnder Infrastruktur auf Straßen unterwegs, die sehr unsicher sind. Außerdem scheint mir gerade die Landbevölkerung massiv überfordert damit, wie man als Autofahrer einem Radfahrer begegnet, ohne diesen zu gefährden. Überholen in der Kurve oder 20cm Abstand zum Rad sehe ich oft und bin einfach froh, dass es zum Glück bisher immer gut ging. Manche Autofahrer werden hinter mir ungeduldig und drängen, wenn ich nicht sofort überhole. Ich hasse das. Wir brauchen dringend eine gute Infrastruktur für Radfahrer, am besten ganz getrennt von vielbefahrenen Autostraßen. Einziges Positivbeispiel der Gegend: Tübingen. Viele Radfahrer und ausreichende Infrastruktur und Radwege dafür.

I guess your brain implant will probably kill you before the end of your favourite playlist. Just like all those test animals.

That's a valuable Idea. If I force them to use the secret chats option, then they maybe notice that Telegram is worthless without all the flashy stuff and is not private at all. And it's at least a step forward into the right direction.

I don't think WhatsApp is a good option. Their clients are not Open Source, so it's unknown if they really implement all the privacy features of the Signal client. Also, Facebook and WhatsApp are known to collect every single bit of Metadata they can get, it's really bad. I wouldn't touch it again, under any circumstances. I'm glad that nobody I know uses it, at least inside my circle of friends. Some still use it for outside connections or family members.

And they have some weird crypto scams running in the background as well.

I know, but their server doesn't. And since everyone uses it without the secret chats feature, they could read every message we exchange.

Germany, 25. Always driven manual, don't even know how to drive automatic.