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Indeed, but I find the system tray a bit lackluster as some apps don’t appear in it.

Yup, pretty much. And most of the times I’ve seen right wing people just come comment the most batshit crazy thing imaginable. This doesn’t mean left wing lunatics don’t exist too.

You’re in for a bad ride then. There will always be politics in some magazines/threads.

He said he’s using Arch so it should be available. I got it on my EndeavourOS and I’m really satisfied.

I agree. Of all the social media platforms I’ve used, Linkedin is the closest to an insane asylum I could get.

I’ll be more than happy for more people to migrate to linux (or mac, but many people just can’t afford it) so MS doesn’t have such a monopoly on the OS space.

And some will probably give Linux a try. I only stopped pirating Windows because it got free, but I have no intention to pay a subscription to be able to use my fucking PC.

On the flipside, atm Edge seems to be the better Chromium choice (if you don’t have a Microsoft hate boner).

I beg to differ, protests matter. At least here (Romania) they made those in power revert some bad legislation after seeing massive protests. Don’t mean to insult or anything, but this apathic approach towards civil society is a big factor in eroding democracy.
Again, if enough people think a certain narrative then it will affect the events.
You can both have a decent awareness of things around you and enjoy life to its fullest in my opinion.

Absolutely agree with your approach. Also not being aware about news at all might make those in power get away with passing nocive legislation without much resistance from the population.

I think Kbin replies are broken because I had to go to your profile to see your reply to me.
Anyways, I don’t think being reasonable up to date with whatever happens in your country or in the world means “worrying about things that will materialize decades from now or are going on thousands of miles away”.
For example, not watching news at all (I usually never use the TV nowadays) might make me miss some bad legislation that was/will be passed. I might miss protests against such things. Or I might be more prone to believing fake news about a certain topic (war in Ukraine for example).
But I completely agree one should not be 24/7 worrying about news.

I’d argue that one should not stop reading the news forever because you’ll just become increasingly disconnected from what happens around you. As with all things, reading news in moderation and not doomscrolling is the way I think.

It’s also harder to harmonize a thing such as EU with a lot more heterogenous states than the US. It’s still better to move slowly than to not move at all.