Aceticon

The sheer perfidy of the Norwegians, with their dastardly scheme to lure researchers away from US universities ... by not treating them like shit.

I think it's more that the British Press in general is pretty political, heavy on the spin and hence one of the least trusted in Europe by the locals themselves.

When it comes to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine - which is very politically and geostrategically significant for the UK government - the level and direction of the bias of the BBC is no different from the Euromaidan Press hence for those who think the latter is not a "serious source", the former is also not a "serious source".

Mind you, on different subjects which are not related to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (such as the Israeli Genocide in Gaza) I fully expect the Euromaidan Press is often less biased (on this specific example, significantly so) than the BBC.

Just because the BBC is posh doesn't mean they're honest (in fact from my own experience living in the UK, posh more often than not means fake. manipulative and dishonest)

Whilst you're absolutelly right that not everybody outside the US follows what's going on in the US, it makes sense to expect that the universe of people who have the money and inclination to go spend a whole month travelling in the US AND are not at all aware of what's going on in the US, is miniscule - if you're a middle class person in a wealthy enough country (hence you can afford the plane ticket and the costs of 1 month worth of accomodation and travelling around the US), who can speak English and who is interested in the US that you want to spending a whole month travelling there, you're almost certainly paying attention to all things America and since what's has been popping up in the news all over the World, you're almost certainly aware of that.

I mean, I can understand how poor people in Latin American who would want to immigrate to the US by walking all the way there might not be up to date with what's going on in the US or at least fully understand the implications, but that doesn't make sense for actual European tourists who can afford to and chose to fly there and spend an whole month there.

Those holding the Power Of Money will keep on using it as long as it has value to make sure they are alright (and screw the rest) hence they'll keep on propping-up and buying out whomever controls Force and when those lose that control they'll directly prop-up and buy out the yielders of Force.

Sure, they would've preferred it for the many to pay the full costs of formal yielders of Force whose main jobs is protect the holders of the Power Of Money and their assets from the rest - the way the system still works right now - but they can easilly afford to pay the yielders of Force directly if they have to.

Further, even if Money loses its value and hence its power, they'll fall back to using what's produced by the Assets they own (for example, food produced in fertile land) to pay the yielders of Force: in a total societal collapse (which, frankly, is unlikely) you can bet that the moneyed classes will use whatever power their money has left to either flee to places were society is not collapsing or setting themselves up as the Warlords of the subsequent age.

Anyways, the point anchoring my free thinking about this is that they'll try to keep the very same ownership, dependency and control loops going, just at smaller and smaller sizes (i.e. instead of the society-wide "people have no option that directly or indirectly work for the owners of everything to pay for the place they live in and the food they eat who cost what they cost because just a few own everything" you'll have a smaller sized version of it with a landowner whose land produces food and who uses that food and living areas in that land to pay a couple of armed people to stop the rest from taking the land and the food, so a smaller version of the societal loop we have now were the very people being exploited by money are the ones indirectly giving money the power to exploit them).

This kind of shit dates back to at least the aftermath of 9/11.

Some of us were paying attention when the rightous indignation following 9/11 was weaponized to lead America down the path of Authoritarianism.

Time to start live streaming a lettuce again to as the traditional Liz Truss standard for how long her projects last...

Basically, EMP but directed.

How much of that effort to prohibit "hate" speech in the EU isn't just the Germans supporting the Zionist Regime by claiming that criticism of it and their actions is "hate speech" in very much the same way as the Trump Regime claims that criticism of his own regime's actions is hate and even terrorism, and trying to get it in place EU-wide using the EU institutions as a backdoor?

The EU isn't exactly immune to the subversion of Humanitarianism and Rule of Law coming from Fascist regimes, especially when one of its leading countries, Germany, is quickly sliding back to it's old ways, this time around under Zionist (an ethno-Fascist ideology, sames as the Nazis) puppet strings.

I'm definitely pro-EU, which is why I think we need to be very aware of the rotten apples we have in this basket and their attempts at spreading their rot.

Remember Cambridge Analitica, most of whose money came from wealthy Americans?

Maybe they were or maybe they weren't in cahoots with Russia, but sure as hell it was the very same members of the American "elites" who supported Trump's rise who also bought Brexit.

Britain's careless openness to American influence makes it easy for Americans to play it like a fiddle.

Well, the "magical" Steam config was that stuff others pointed out that you need to in Steam actually under Settings -> Compatibility enable use of Steam Play with Proton for all titles since that's not enabled by default.

I had quite a lot of the same frustration because, although I was never a sysadmin (more like a senior dev who has done a lot of software systems development and design for software systems where the back and middle tier are running on Linux servers, which involved amongst other things managing development servers), I was used to the Linux structure of a decade and more ago (i.e. runtime levels and the old style commands for things like network info) and the whole SystemD stuff and this whole raft of new fashionable command line info and admin tools that replaced the old (and perfectly fine) ones was quite frustrating to get to grips with.

That said, I've persevered and have by now been using Linux on my gaming rig for 8 months with very few problems and a pretty high success rate at running games (most of which require no tweaking) not just Steam games but also GOG games using Lutris as launcher.

That said, I only figured out the "magical" Steam config settings to get most games to run on Linux when I was desperately googling how to do it.

Oh, and by the way, Pop!OS is a branch of Ubuntu, so at least when it comes to command line tools and locations of files in the filesystem, most help for Ubuntu out there also works with Pop!OS.

I moved to Linux on my gaming rid (this last time around, as I've had it as dual boot on and off since the 90s, but this time I moved to it for good after confirming that gaming works way better in it than ever before) when I had a GTX1050 Ti, and I had no problems ^1^

Updated it to an RTX3050 and still no problems ^2^

Then again I went with Pop!OS because it's a gaming oriented distro with a version that already comes with NVIDIA drivers so they sort out whatever needs sorting out on that front, plus I'm sticking with X and staying the hell away from Wayland on NVIDIA hardware since there are a lot more problems for NVIDIA hardware with Wayland than X.

Currently on driver 565.77

I reckon a lot of people with NVIDIA driver problems in Linux are trying to run it with Wayland rather than X or going for the Open Source drivers rather than the binary ones.

^1^ Actually I do have a single problem: when graphics mode starts, often all I get is a black screen and I have to switch my monitor OFF and back ON again to solve it. I guess it's something to do with the HDMI side of things.

^2^ I have exactly the same problem with the new graphics board.