No chance they will block out the entire EU market. They will probably just do the same as everyone else and make a specific EU policy.

Actually I think Meta Threads is still not available in EU for the same reasons.

I think it's completely insane to say that any of that is worse now than it ever was. Luckily you only meet pessimism like this in sheltered online echo chambers, so busy whining about Elon Musk or "Google bad" or other irrelevant bullshit, that they can't see beyond their own bubble of ignorance.

The fact that Twitter is dying or websites are collecting more cookies is not a world crisis. The rest of these issues are just caused by USA's capitalist greed, and no amount of activism is changing that, evidently.

Nostalgia trips are always great, but it was nothing compared to now

The internet has endless quality content (including porn) for free and is still a place where you can have fun while being completely anonymous.

The world has never been more peaceful and prosperous.

I don't get how either is worse than, say, 20 years ago. Stop being so fucking pessimistic all the time. It is what you make it.

But muh POSIX

I just have pack and extract functions in my shell RC files that look at file extensions and use the proper tool with proper arguments.

Wrote them 10 years ago and they've worked flawlessly ever since!

It's not that great tbh. I spent maybe 6 hours in it and didn't get hooked. With BG3 however, I'm at 60 hours and I can't put it down

Show me some proof of any significant performance gain from these configuration changes, then. You also forgot to mention running Zen kernel as well, which might actually provide some benefits.

Nvidia are notorious for releasing broken Linux drivers… You probably won’t notice this unless you actually update frequently. Arch is bleeding edge so they often fly right through without much testing.

I upgraded my 2600K to a 6600K and it felt like a 5x increase across the board. Same when I upgraded that to Ryzen 7 5800X

All in all, a whopping 1-2% increase. Yay!

I’ve been using Arch for over a decade, and I would advise you to be careful when upgrading nvidia drivers. They just break every so often. Just do not delete your pacman cache and you should be able to easily downgrade

No, and I’m not siding with them, but selling ads and anonymous information you agreed to share doesn’t automatically make them evil

Working in IT/development, this article encapsulates all my every day frustrations

Oh, the irony…

It should simply be considered false advertisement.

You can probably legally require your money back, saying it looks nothing like the photos, but that’s not enough imo

Now you’re talking about the real issues I mentioned. I’m glad to have awakened your sense of justice, and hope you stop crying about optional internet cookies.

You instantly resort to name-calling and personal insults while calling me juvenile, like a true keyboard warrior, so I think we’re done here.

Hurting people for profit? Who are they hurting? It’s a free market, and it’s your choice to use their products or not. Just stop fucking whining about it all the time.

You’re a corporate slave only if you choose to be. This isn’t some 1984 dystopia as you try to make it out to be.

Start worrying about real issues. You’re a free person and I believe in you :)

You care too much about their regard for your well-being. Of course they don’t give a shit. Why would they? It’s business.

Why does a corporation’s opinion of you mean anything? Why do you care if they care? You choose to use their products. Nothing is free, and if you don’t like them earning money by showing you ads, don’t use their products.

Sure, but most of the people on here have no clue what they’re talking about and think using a VPN gives you pRiVaCy, or that not using Facebook somehow is sticking it to the man

Yeah disagreeing with a tiny army of lemmings is bootlicking, makes sense