XDG? OpenDesktop? Dunno what that is, time to dump everything into ~/.myawesomeapp

Remember dudes, if you smash your Blackbird onto the deck of an aircraft carrier it becomes a bad ass burning cross and you can move the ship with the power of pure spite.*

*May necessitates consumption of weirdly genderfluid umbrella nazi

Good for you there wasn't an "ease of use" or "intuitive" field.

Personalized propaganda is quite something these days.

Dude, there were literal happy posts all over the place when Kissinger passed. There are US-critical memes on Lemmy and the Fedi all the time, in addition to those making fun of Russia, China, communism etc. Most people are aware that the US is shit. However they're also aware that the USSR back then and China right now are also huge piles of garbage, politically speaking (country and people sure are nice!).

Has it ever cross your mind that most people ain't pissed because you're anti-US, but because you're pro-shit?

Damn, never noticed I couldn't say stuff like "the US is a shitshow" over here. The agents on my door were always so nice as well!

Buggers, guess I'll have to buy some Apple stocks now and pleasure myself over a picture of Abraham Lincoln.

Now what's the juicy backstory to this drama?

Not knowing how anything works, being scared by errors that you don't know how to get around or deal with, not knowing alternatives for your former favourite apps to do things quickly, wondering if you get the peripherals you currently own to run?

naah thanks mate, hard pass.

The Element Matrix client in a nutshell.

Only five missing dependencies, ten configuration mistakes and three compiler errors to go.

I heard very desperate people also use Linux From Scratch. Might help. Might induce neurosis.

Do you vote separately for your president in the US?

In Germany we vote for Parliament, whoever receives a majority of votes then gets the governmental mandate and their candidate becomes chancellor. Many people thought there never would be any other chancellor than from either the "social" democrats (SPD) or "christian" conservatives (CDU/CSU, also just called "Union"), until 2021 when the Green Party got so good in surveys we suddenly had three official candidates.

I do know about the "electorial college" nonsense, just asking what exactly the votes are aimed to be for, government or specifically the president.