As a kid, I used to deeply hate arts, singing and photography.
Now, that I do Karaoke, cosplay and photography as an adult, I realized, that all of these things I hated... I hated them only because I was forced to participate in their lowest form.
Imagine 30 kids each trying to out.false each others song, so that one of them can be the special one in that song. The one to be heard.
Or parents framing family in the center just to have a frame where nothing stands out. Just pose where everyone can be recognized.
And an art teacher ignoring any vision, just thinking that kids will find themselves in an unorganized time with pencils. Maybe ocasionally forcing them to use a method they don't like to get a result they never cared about.
Can I blame these people for not starting these hobbies earlier? I have honestly no idea. But the lack of perfection as a goal was present in all of these cases. And I will have to think about what that means myself.
"Gaming is prohibitively expensive these days, you can't play video games for an affordable cost anymore!"
Ladies and gentlemen, the humble $200 Alienware Alpha.
Are you going to be able to play the latest AAA games on it? Can it run the latest graphics techniques like DLSS and ray tracing? No.
Will you have fun with the myriad of indie games and massive PC gaming back catalog, as well as emulation of a dozen retro consoles? Hell yeah!
This little guy was my first ever gaming PC. Jumped straight into modded Skyrim with it, lol. I still own one from over a decade ago and, although it has about the power of a PS4, that certainly doesn't prevent you from having fun with it.
There is a whole world of gaming just waiting for you to uncover it. Outside of the latest and "greatest" games getting shoved in your throat. And no, it's honestly not that expensive to get into at all. In some ways, gaming has never been cheaper. You just have to temper your expectations a little bit and you'll find so much joy.
Either way, I don't think I would recommend Omarchy, just from the security issues and the vibe-coded nature alone. If you want a non-woke distro, either OpenMandriva or Devuan is probably your best bet.
If FOSS wasn't important you wouldn't see so many resources thrown at pitting people working on it against each other.
It's a shame to watch important work Cointelpro'd in real-time.
it's interesting, from what i've observed women gamers are usually either into the most surface level, hyper popular games possible... or they are into shit i didn't even know existed. there's no middle ground. there are no women playing AA or indie games. it's either league of legends and overwatch, or a ps1 fmv game that somehow had online connectivity if you brought your memory card to an arcade in japan.
LG responded to Gamers Nexus investigation on TVs spying on their viewers with more or less a denial. LG is spying on your TV watching EVEN IF you only use it as a dumb input for another device like a DVD player, computer, or similar device. Automatic Content Recognition isn't new, but it's so much worse than anyone understood prior. It's also listening to what others are saying without their permission who do not know and violating laws in some states (wiretapping).
One of the things making it worse is that LG TVs will scan for and connect to open access points. Maybe even restricted cable provider access points it has access to in order to upload the spying apparatuses data (ie your TV). So not connecting your TV to a network isn't enough.
Effectively even if you remove the wifi card and never connect your TV to a network the TV contains potentially incriminating information about your computer/TV watching habits because it's recording to storage tons of data on you. Given the massive storage capacities and conversion of voice and imagery on the screen it does not need to store images themselves, but fingerprints of those images is enough. Though voice takes up relatively little space too.
There is NO solution to this problem for 'big screen TVs' (I believe anything over 43") as all TV manufacturers incorporate at least ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) among other spying apparatuses into modern televisions on the market today. In fact some of these are built right into the TV standards (ASTC 3.0 I believe).
The US is banning foreign manufactured routers on 'national security' grounds over the mere possibility of data ending up in China's hands, but it's nowhere near as dangerous as the data smart TVs send.