https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule

If you’re coming from something like windows or non atomic distros, there is a learning curve. Just be aware that you should not install packages manually. You can’t simply do something like: sudo apt install package

There is an app store where you can install probably 95% of what youd need (bazaar), start there and if it isn’t there you can spin up a distrobox.

I do dev work, so I have a dedicated box with Ubuntu that I have my build tools and vscode installed on.

This is really nice because it allows me to run experiments without nuking my main distro, it just feels really weird at first to be running most things containerized.

They do have recipes for common things if it needs to run on the host, like I have something added for controlling AMD GPU fan speeds/power profile.

Yeah I use bazzite as a general desktop distro. It’s incredibly stable and the atomic nature really has grown on me.

And we’re at 1000 and counting dead in Iran. This mfs only legacy will be the pile of bodies left in his wake.

It’s pretty disturbing how the president can decide to kill thousands all on a feeling and all without authorization from Congress

Why should one man get to decide the fate of thousands and the destiny of an entire country?

After he leaves office we have serious work that we need to do to reform the executive branch and to formally strip away all the powers that we have been warned about.

Nobody wanted this, the way wars are waged has changed and I think it’s only a matter of time until there are strategic drone attacks at home that we’ll call terrorist attacks.

Iran has every right to defend itself. I don’t want Americans to be killed, but ffs what did this administration expect?

And we wait two years and people say oh well let’s pick the safe option and we have the most corporate candidate shoved down our throats again for the fourth time (Hilary, Biden, Kamala, and I guess Newsom)

We can’t wait, our problems are too large in this country. We need significant changes, fdr level.

If we elect another corporate candidate then our fate is sealed, pretty much proves magas point and we leave room for fascism.

This guy still has 40% approval. It’s hard to even fathom

What’s absolutely bonkers is the DHS went out and immediately called her a domestic terrorist. Our tax dollars paid to kill her and post propaganda on x defaming her.

They put the public at risk by using force. Literally created the situation to kill her by having a goon step in the path of travel

A group of men with guns surrounded her car and she fucking panicked. It’s not surprising she attempted to flee, it doesn’t take that much brain power to know to never use your body to stop a car and even the police would never use their bodies to stop a fuckin car.

There was no verbal warning, there was no negotiation with her. Nothing. She got murdered because she didn’t comply. Fucking pigs.

Democrats must demand the files be released as one of their requirements. Make it so that Republicans are at fault because they were so scared of the Epstein files

You can’t cling to the current Dem establishment and also expect them to handle Trump and maga. They can’t and they won’t-- it’s been 10 years.

Maga is organized and motivated, we need to organize and motivate the rest of the country, it’s very hard to get motivated around neocon candidates.

Every election since Trump 1 has been the same thing: quietly accept the inadequacies of the Democratic party and let maga walk all over the country while you watch half of the country get swept away by misinformation. People are exhausted trying to wait it out. If we are going to fix this country we need to seize control now, not waiting for the next election cycle.

Yup. I’m just one person but I warned people voting for Trump that we were about to get fucked over again by this. Now we’re going to have less services and a shittier future because it takes so much more effort to raise taxes than it is to cut them.

I don’t want to be dramatic, but if this passes we’re fucked and there’s almost no way to come back.

Taxes were cut during Reagan and hardly came back after all those years, Trump came in and cut them even more than Reagan. Once Biden took power taxes were only slightly raised, but nowhere near their pre Trump levels, Trump is trying to lower taxes again.

Our government is not going to be able to function or handle the debt load, there’s just not enough income. It was so obvious that this would happen again, but I guess the people that voted for him don’t mind a shittier government and a larger deficit. Trump is going to leave office with the largest deficit in history, or maybe second to his first run.

We’re at a serious risk of losing the dollar as the reserve currency at this point. If that happens we can say goodbye to this country for good.

I can’t tell if they’re actually following Putins orders or are actually just that dumb.

Id love for the US to transition to having less influence globally without totally collapsing, but if this is how we do it, so be it.

It’s kinda the devil we know situation, if the US steps down, who steps up? Are they going to be better or worse, who knows. I never really bought into the notion that we had to be the world police or that all the evil stuff we did, we did because we had to.

As an American I think I’m going insane? The last 3 weeks have been some of the most anxious and stressed I’ve ever been.

Trump’s first term was nothing like this, there’s a feeling of apathy in the air among people and coworkers (I live in a very liberal city in the deep south). Folks around here just seem to be on edge at all times, whether you’re pro or anti in a much more divisive way.

There’s a strange feeling knowing there’s a solid chance we won’t make it out of this one. There have been plenty of times in the past where we’ve had doom and gloom (Trump v1, conservatives and Obama), etc. Nothing ever happens, but this time I’m fairly confident the country I was born into will be dead and gone given the shear destruction being waged against our institutions.

I’m protesting and will continue to do what is needed to ensure 47 isn’t the final chapter.

It could be as simple as losing access to grants, scholarships, and general funding. Add to that any of them hoping for a government job doing something they’re passionate about (wildlife/park/environmental sciences) only to have their future prospects crushed by an ignorant foreigner.

I want no tax cuts. If they’re serious about the deficit (they’re not) then more tax cuts for the rich make no sense. A fair compromise would be some modest budget cuts and no tax cuts to shrink the deficit.

Id also like to see some more transparency and oversight into President Elon, and maybe some guardrails.

Problem is, government shutdown is what president Elon wants.

Democracy died a long, long time ago. The options were preservation of our neoliberal corporate order, or fascism. The status quo died in 2016 and Dems are hodling hard until I’m guessing America is a completely hollow husk of its former self. But at least they played fair!