Just look at them.

If there was a Fisherman DLC for Risk of Rain, that would be their “outro” text.

Manatees.

You can also just throw some fish bait into the water. You don’t need a special ball or anything.

River Monsters.

Wasn’t much of an argument on your end to begin with.

I haven’t had to do that for any PC in probably close to a decade

Then clearly, you haven’t done a proper clean install of Windows on a system in over a decade. I’ve yet to see a system actually install all of its devices from a Windows update. Hell, even Microsoft’s own fucking hardware requires that you download and run the Surface app to get their drivers. I call bullshit. You either haven’t done it, or you’ve recovered from the OEM recovery partition that has the shipped/updated version of the drivers from the previous install.

Installing windows is not difficult at all, not like it used to be. A clean install, hit windows updates, 90% of drivers are done this way, no problem. Maybe back in XP days you needed the driver discs and whatnot.

Not even close. I do a shitload of Windows 11 installs for work. Clean install on most machines involves going to the manufacturer’s site and grabbing drivers. Windows update is horrible about getting them all, and it’s really fucking slow to do it that way. Discs that come with your hardware are functionally useless, by the time you buy the hardware, that software is out of date, most of them just contain update applications to install the latest drivers from the manufacturer’s site. Plus, who is bothering to put optical drives in their machines anymore?

…you sound like you just hate the simplicity of it and are looking for the negatives.

Chances are, I’ve been using Windows longer than you’ve been alive. It’s not simple anymore. It used to be, if your system crashed, you got a nice message telling you why, now you just get a frowny face and a fuck you. Used to be, you could use the control panel to admin your system from a centralized point, now you have fragmented “modern” settings menus that pester you with shit you don’t need, and hide existing tools that work better (printer settings menu in win 11 is fucking garbage.)

It’s not simple. Used to be you had an operating system. Now everything you see is a glorified system hogging web UI. Why make an efficient UI element when you can just load a fucking web browser for every little thing? And they wonder why 8GB of RAM is the bare minimum to use Windows today…

Windows comes out of the box usable and compatible with everything.

Flat out wrong. Microsoft made sure that Windows 11 would not be compatible with older hardware, at this point, there are many more systems that will run Linux than will run Windows 11.

Not to mention, as a recent Linux user, the most profound part of switching, was how easy it was to setup my system. Anyone who has done a clean install of Windows, or built their own computer, can tell you what a pain it is to find and configure drivers for a lot of your hardware. In 5 minutes, Linux had my system up and running, and even setup my networked printer.

…anyone who says Linux just works better is selling your something.

The irony here is that Linux is free, there is nothing to sell, vs Microsoft, a closed source multi-billion dollar company that charges the consumer to have literal spyware shoved into their systems, and you’re out here defending it with “points” that are, in my experience, 100 percent the opposite of what you claim.

I put Mint on my mom’s laptop, because it was easier and safer for her to use than Windows 11, and it has led to a lot fewer (zero really) issues for me to resolve on her computer.

American here.

How much do you care about the average Russian, who hasn’t done shit to overthrow Vlad and the oligarchy there for decades?

We need to do something about our domestic problems instead of going on the internet and grandstanding to the people we’re harming about how “we’re one of the good ones”.

Seriously, let’s have a modicum of self respect and stop begging Canadians to like us, and instead do something about the reasons why they don’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_republic

A Democratic Republic is a form of democracy, by definition.

You can argue that the US is no longer operating as a democratic republic, you can’t argue that a democratic republic is not a democracy.

A democratic Republic is a democracy though…

The incoming LRM warning sound is forever stuck in my head.

“Wetnose”

Look on the bright side kid… You get to keep all the money.

Seems useless, you’d need to be awake to take the shot.

I recommend an automatic “Bird Banger” to scare them away periodically.

I did this when I was visiting Mexico. Probably some of the best sleep I’ve had in my life. Balcony was on the North side of the building. Even though it was hot outside, the extra airflow through the hammock kept me pretty cool.

Number of days since they finished reading a book.

Some dude with no hands just has a DIV/0 error floating over his head.

How long is a 14?