I’ll pass on further debate, thank you for understanding! <3

I’m gonna be honest, its been so long since I’ve actually had people to set it up and use it with that even I would need to spend a day and a half figuring out how to set it up again.

It seems for the last 5 years or so, Ubuntu has done a good job of making everyone hate them.

I less have an issue with people getting trapped in software they understand is insecure, and more with people who will push shit like telegram and pretend its the most private and secure thing ever invented. If they want to use discord, sure, fine with me. As long as they know not to do their activist work on discord I’m fine with it. People doing activist work/planning over telegram will never make me not cringe.

Signal isn’t something I personally want to use, but its tolerable, and it was doing a good job of replacing telegram in activist spaces I felt, but I’ve recently seen a few different groups using telegram again because they don’t trust signal.

xmpp with omemo is what I wish I could get people to use but uh, well, that just will never happen.

https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/

“The legacy 32-bit PC (i386) architecture is supported only as a co-architecture for running 32-bit software on amd64”

You can’t just install 32bit debian anymore.

Granted, bookworm will be supported for a while still.

Some distros do call their 32bit version i386.

Debian did drop 32 bit support. (although some 32 bit packages will exist)

This started with me saying I didn’t like that people were cheering this on and you decided to get triggered about it.

I said you were sucking up to big tech because…pfft you’re sucking up to big tech!

Distros are not linux.

Linux is the kernel.

Linux is not linux distros.

Linux is the kernel.

The Linux kernel is not dropping 32 bit support.

Where is this coming from?

Linux isn’t ditching it. A few distros stopped supporting it.

That isn’t the point.

If someone has a 32 bit computer that is doing everything they need to do, and that hardware is now being rendered unusable…its e-waste.

And I get it, software has to end support at some point for certain hardware, it doesn’t make it suck any less that it is happening.

Yeah man, lets just abandon shit that works perfectly fine, let it become e-waste because we can just buy the latest and greatest thing.

Do people think anymore or do they just let the tech companies do that for them?

Not a parent, but here’s my perspective.

My mother always made me work for it. She had a door open policy among other things. She didn’t actually care if I was doing the things I wasn’t supposed to be doing, she just didn’t want to find out. If she found out, it meant I was being too careless/stupid. It’s actually a really good way to build up your risk evaluation skills! I did occasionally get myself in trouble (not with sex but other things), and she would help me out of the situation. Id get a lecture about what I did wrong afterwards, but honestly she was pretty good at teaching me.

Unreal usually has an engine.ini file somewhere. You can more or less mod that file with as many parameters as you can find and nuke the graphics into oblivion. Has worked really well on most games I’ve tried. Especially useful with games that force trash AA and volumetric fog stuff.

Anyone suggesting a rolling release distro to you is setting you up for failure, especially on a 2014 laptop that will absolutely not benefit from it.

Use Linux Mint. It’s still Linux, you can still break it customize it as much as you want.

edit: Y’all are absolutely insane to downvote this when we are talking about a NEW linux user using a 11 year old laptop.

There’s hardware as recent as like mid-late 2000s that’s 32bit. That’s still within the realm of stuff that consumers might be using, let alone corporate/industrial applications.

Even if Firefox leaves us behind, the kernel likely won’t stop supporting it for years to come. We just removed 486 support. Surely 32bit support will be around a while.

I hate how people are cheering this on. 32bit has its place and linux has always been a sanctuary for legacy hardware.

Its actually kinda about both.

I had an aggressive gambling problem as a teen. 2016 would have been my worst because I was still gambling on counter strike skin sites. I’d save up every dollar mom would give me to run to the store or whatever (I’d lie and say things were more expensive than they were), throw it onto prepaid visas and just waste it.

I can’t even begin to describe the amount that I spent.

The first part of the question, yes.

The second part of the question, no.