I don't why people are bent over the woman president prediction not happening. It has almost nothing to do with it being a female candidate, and way more to do with actually having a quality candidate, hence why it's still a 66% "Will have happened".
Obama actually wasn't the DNC favorite, but he had a popular campaign which is why he succeeded.
Hillary and Kamala's campaign can be summed up as a flaming pile of garbage that wouldn't have made any difference in polls had they been males.
I tried bubble tea a solid 7 years before it took off in the USA, in the USA. The owner of the store unfortunately closed several years before it blew up, and I felt really bad that the dude was ahead of his time.
I also tried Adeni (Yemeni) Chai and Coffee from the first Qawah House only a month after it opened. Now the product has rapidly expanded to the point where several chains are in direct and very heated competition with Starbucks which is cool.
I don't like sharing this because it kinda sounds less like fame and more like I'm being a hipster lol.
I don't really see how this is any different than 50 or 20 years ago, they're just stating their geopolitical stance.
More to the point, as others have mentioned, it would be exceedingly difficult to invade Taiwan and capture their fabs intact.
Actually it wouldn't even matter if they captured them intact because the US could just eliminate the supply line, making it unideal for production to continue for several years.
And unlike Ukraine, the US actually has a lot of interest and dependency on Taiwan, meaning they would get militarily invovled immediately.
China's only benefit would be the elimination of the world's primary chip manufacturing, and unrestricted access to the Pacific ocean.
I only see them doing it after they've achieved complete independence from Taiwan's fabs in their own supply chain.
I actually thought the fan translations of AAI2 were more well thought out than the official localization which makes some of them so cheesy haha.
The pan arab flag all the middle east nations used was designed by the British for one of the many opposition groups they funded during the downfall of the Ottoman empire lol.
ITT: Ubuntu (and downstream) users crying that they dont have a one click Nvidia solution like literally every other competent distro.
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia
Seriously though, this is still the same problem on windows. If you switch from AMD to Nvidia, it'll load a generic display driver until you install the Nvidia one either through windows updates (heavily outdated) or GeForce Now (heavy bloat).
At least Linux gives you Nouveau instead of throwing you into a 480p fallback output.
I really don't want Apple to enter this market because then all the current OEMs will just be even more incentivized not to make generational advancements, and to just copy Apple's Chinese grade quality to sell more slop because idiots will buy.
Google already threw a grenade with their subpar pixel fold and then Samsung magically swapped off snapdragon for their zflip. If Apple joins, next they'll start using plastic for the shell and still charge $999.
People who think this won't be a competitive product can just look to the past 20 years of Apple successfully selling stupid shit for exorbitant prices. I would even bet money it comes with an even deeper crease than current gen foldables against the "new hinge tech" hype this guy is claiming.
You were filthy rich if you had such a massive CRT in 1984
Okay so step one is to take GNOME and throw it into the trash where it belongs, and replace it with KDE which is a complete DE and not a bunch of plugins disguised in a trench coat of bash scripts.
Step two is to recommend a distro that targets both user quality and latest stable kernel releases for the most updated modules (Like Fedora or OpenSUSE)
Linux needs to adopt executable installers for software packages that can be downloaded on the web
Is the wrong problem because that's what Flatpak accomplishes without creating distro dependency hell. Regressing to .run and .appimage files for everything is why windows updates suck total ass, and it would nuke one of Linux's most killer features.
Users are already used to an appstore on mobile, I can personally guarantee you that they have no trouble getting accustomed to a desktop app installer, especially since they find it so much easier to search and click install without opening a bunch of websites. Since it shows both package manager and flatpak apps, they don't even have to be aware of the backend system.
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The only thing holding back linux at this current point in time is honestly just vendors using it standard in consumer hardware. The dependency hell issue was resolved years ago by both huge improvements in package repos and the widespread support of Flatpak. The leftover baggage from X11 has been replaced by Wayland, which finally became viable around end of 2023. Even stuff like pulseaudio has been replaced by pipewire to handle every edge cases scenario.
I would not have said the same thing 2 years ago. The evidence is that the linux desktop user base is growing at an increasing rate. All they need is to hit a critical share (6-7%) for bigger vendors and OEMs to follow.
The good news is, as mentioned, there are a lot of vendors that are starting to do this. Valve's steam machine by itself could be enough to add another 10 million users if they play their cards right.
My other anecdotal evidence is that I successfully changed several of my friends and family members over to Fedora just last year because I finally found it viable to throw at any former Windows user.
The only dissatisfaction I caused was one "dependent" person who couldn't play Fortnite (the only game in their library that didn't work), which I audaciously told it would be possible in 2026 via waydroid/lepton (valve plz dont fail me lol).
This is even funnier considering the fiber element in toslink is actually plastic which was chosen to make it really cheap since the distance was not of concern like a proper multimode fiber cable made with glass.
For claiming GMOs are bred for glyphosate resistance, which is the real reason why USDA Organic products grew significantly in the market, not because consumers actually think Organic produce is "naturally" healthier.
But this was only enforced after I pissed off the mod in Political Memes and he went backwards through my comment history to find me in another community he mods to delete another comment lol.
Still a million times better than the reddit experience.