A slightly more positive way of putting this is "choosing the set of problems you want to deal with." I vastly prefer the problems that Linux hands me over the problems with Windows.
"Could a depressed person do THIS?" [brandishes Harry Potter fanfic]
("mad dental science": Silverbook is the mouth bacteria instead of brushing your teeth guy)
Reinforcing my belief that you can find someone who holds any opinion it's possible to hold, no matter how dumb it is
Honest to God, I thought a "Librephone" was something that already existed. I think I was thinking of the PinePhone or smth.
There's a promising treatment for Huntington's disease in the works, and we might have vaccines for allergies and/or asthma at some point!
Yarvin doesn’t think Trump has the guts to pull off a full fascist nightmare.
It physically pains me to say this, but I think Yarvin is correct here. What IS getting done is bad enough, but he's right that you can't really half-ass a hostile takeover, which is what Trump et al seem to be doing. Yes, they're fucking the US systems up, badly, but they're leaving the structures too intact. They're still bothering with things like court cases and gerrymandering. You don't bother with gerrymandering if you're not planning on still having elections, yknow?
I also think Yarvin is correct that Trump and crew will ultimately fail because of it. That's probably cold comfort to the people who have already lost loved ones, or who are dying or going to die because of this administration (and as a trans person myself, I may well be among that number), but it's not nothing.
I'm petty enough to put stickers over mine.
NVIDIA
Welp, there's your problem. I have an NVIDIA card as well and it's been the source of at least 95% of my Linux headaches.
I've tried a few distros and Linux Mint was definitely the most "just works" for me. Make sure you're using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers, regardless of what option you choose. Currently I use SpiralLinux (Debian with a few tweaks) because I really like the BTRFS snapshots and fell in love with KDE during my distro-hopping, but Mint is what I would recommend to the vast majority of people.
Why go to all the trouble of branding yourself as "rational" if you're just going to reinvent religion?
I do the cooking. It's not like my wife is incapable, she's just the breadwinner and it's more fair for me to do most of the house stuff.
California is not the center of the universe, but in the US, a fair amount of companies have to tailor their practices to accommodate California law, because A) it's so weird a lot of the time, and B) California is huge and rich, so there's a lot of business to be had. It just makes sense to accommodate the outlier. What happens in California has knock-on effects for the rest of the country, and occasionally the rest of the world; case in point, the recent systemd debacle. It's not certain that they added the age thing in response to the California law specifically, but it was certainly a factor.