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Dude it’s so worth it. I’ve tinkered with a few distros but Bazzite was a good mostly beginner friendly set up for gamers.

Sometimes Linux can be weird with Nvidia but that’s rapidly getting fixed and I haven’t have any problem in a long time.

The whole company is gross. I forgot about this.

I encourage parents to talk to their kids about online safety but specifically come up with a plan. I’ve written this in a few comments, but u really believe it helps.

Ask them what they do if a stranger says something that makes them scared or uncomfortable. Ask them what they would do if it’s someone they know like a friend or a family member. Help them come up with a plan and identify a person who is a safe person to tell. Someone parents and kids trust, often it’s an aunt or uncle.

A parent is fine too, but at a certain age, I find kids seem to be afraid of getting in trouble or maybe just uncomfortable talking to their parents about sex, so having a 3rd party that the kids and parents trust is a good back up option.

Bc of what I went through with my ex’s kid, I talk help parents talk to kids about online safety. It’s good that you are so proactive!

The #1 thing I see parents miss in those safety talks is coming up with a plan when something bad happens so kids know what to do.

I spoke to my 14 year old niece last weekend. She wants to use Snapchat but her parents said no. I asked her what she would do if she got a dick pick from a stranger. I asked her what she would do if her boyfriend sent her one. Various situations like that.

She didn’t know what to do, so together, we came up with a plan and identified an adult in her life that she would feel comfortable talking to that isn’t her parents. A third part adult that you and your kid can trust is helpful for kids that are afraid to talk to their parents and get grounded.

For example: if your kid is online after they got grounded and something bad happened, they might be afraid to tell you since they weren’t suppose to be online, but maybe they’ll be okay speaking to an aunt or uncle.

Every situation is different

Also, I did grow up with AIM and all that nonsense and I did get predators talking to me constantly, especially on AOL and Yahoo. Crazy that we had such different experiences during that age.

Yeah. I wouldn’t let my kids in Roblox personally bc of how the company has tried to ignore the problem . if parents just took time to understand it and talk to their kids about safety, it would solve many problems, not just in Roblox.

I’m very against Roblox. I know a kid who had a really hard time with online predators and a lot of it stated with Roblox. He’s 19 now. He and I were talking about it recently.

Parents think Roblox is like Minecraft bc of the aesthetics of the game. But, Roblox is not a game with a chat feature, it’s a chat room with some games. That’s a big difference.

They have 380 million users. Around 60% of the user base is under the age of 16. 40% is under the age of 12. That’s 152 million mostly unmonitored kids.

I’m sure Roblox has gotten better moderation during that time, but in our experience predators meet kids on Roblox and get them to exchange Discord or other contact info with them.

Discord is also a problem here, but that’s for another rant in another thread. If you are concerned about your kids and want to discuss it with me, feel free to message me.

TLDR: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY ROBLOX unless you are actively monitoring the game.

Yes. They brought like 17 or members of the El Chapo family into the US already to resettle.

That will be the nail in the coffin for any Latino voters who haven’t quit on him already.

Religion is like one of the main reason many vote red.

That and the thing where GamerNexus caught them benchmarking incorrectly, then selling off prototypes that they didn’t pay for. It’s not a good look for their integrity.

GN found a bunch of other errors but LTT won’t retest because of the aforementioned selling off prototypes they were given.

I quit trusting .gov sites months ago.

Trump goons had unrestricted access to the files for way too long. Nothings going to happen.

You made out like a bandit!

Buying used RAM on marketplace and hoping it isn’t broken. Hoping it was just stolen from a Best Buy. Fingers crossed y’all!

Fuck that noise. ChatGPT and OpenAI murdered Adam Raine and should be held responsible for it.

The helicopter raid they did in Chicago should have had every real American in the streets rioting. It was a massive violation of the rights and it should have scared everyone.

Going door to door, yanking out all residents, regardless of citizenship was the most heinous example Gestapo bullshit I’ve seen.

What if it’s not a publicly traded company like OpenAI?

Missouri tricked people into banning it by making it sound like they were banning non-citizens from casting multiple votes and the dumb dumbs who don’t read anything just voted for it.

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:

• Make the Constitution consistent with state law by only allowing citizens of the United States to vote;
• Prohibit the ranking of candidates by limiting voters to a single vote per candidate or issue; and
• Require the plurality winner of a political party primary to be the single candidate at a general election?

https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2024-11-05/missouri-amendment-7-ranked-choice-voting-noncitizen

MO GOP had a long history of getting illiterate voters to vote against themselves with shade language. Voters approved an anti-gerrymandering amendment but GOP put confusing language on the ballot, a year later, that tricked voters into cancelling that out.

A judge had to step in on the abortion ballot proposal because they tried to do it again. Thankfully, the judge made them out clear language on it. Unfortunately, they are trying it again with abortion next year.

https://www.kmbc.com/article/missouri-abortions-judge-approves-ballot-language/68915245

I hate to say this but I’m not even sure I could trust whatever gets released. Those scumbags had unchecked access to the files for too long.

As an American I agree, I don’t trust our government to do the right thing and big corporations run all our farms. I don’t trust them to do the right thing either.

Unfortunately, that shit gets into the water and makes its way everywhere.