Joe Breuer

I’d guess about monthly to bimonthly, in the sense of submitting a fix for an issue that affects/concerns me/my use of open source projects.

Thank you for sharing your story!

For your kind of use case and issues, I’d recommend finding someone local with a good amount of Linux experience and do a couple of pair sessions. I find this transports a lot more (especially ‘soft’) knowledge on concepts and how to do things efficiently. Also, it helps to share frustrations ;-)

Linux does not try to be another Windows. While it’s fairly possible to treat it kinda as such especially in newer times, it won’t feel efficient or convenient that way, in my experience.

Kinda disappointed in The Register of all things adopting this faux personal life story reporting style on such a matter.

In my opinion (see also Dr Gabor Maté), addictions (which, I also think, can be about petty much anything) are very much mostly attempts to escape pain, when better alternatives do not seem available to a person.

So, yeah, video game addiction can be a thing, and certain game designs exacerbate that (similar to what might fuel gambling addictions and such).

But all of this perspective only distracts from whatever is causing the people/kids pain, makes them seek out games in an addicted fashion in the first place.

I’m gonna be interested how that’s supposed to work with false positives, err, collateral damage, err, plausibly deniable canceling of free speech of citizens. Nice try.

Working and well-integrated “run this on that rendering GPU”, with unused GPUs being switched off (laptop use case).