I'm willing to bet I could teach someone how to count in binary on their fingers who doesn't know binary in five minutes or less. They don't need to know it's binary. It's just a simple rule that you add one and if that finger is up it instead goes down and the next goes up. They don't need to know more than that. Then they just work backwards to get the final count. Knowing this is binary can be helpful, but it isn't a prerequisite.

Try as you may, it still doesn't erase the fact that not everyone commenting on a US post must absolutely be American...

Must? No. I said as much. It does make it a reasonable assumption, if the other assumptions are true. If I go to a hospital, it isn't crazy for me to ask what issues someone has (though that may be weird). Most likely they are there because they have some medical issue. Sure, sometimes you'll be wrong, but it's a reasonable assumption.

Also doesn't erase the fact that by your own logic you're as cringe as me...

I was making fun of your statement. It was stupid, so I also said something stupid. You're supposed to see it and realize it's dumb, and then reflect on your statement. At least you got the first step.

twisting my words or using my comment condemning the lack of due process in the article to derail the topic due to their own personal coping issues and lack of reading comprehension.

You complaining about "American defaultism being cringe" derailed the conversation. You could have ignored it or just made a correction if you wanted to stay on topic.

I agree with your statement, but you don't need to rant about "American defaultism" when someone makes that assumption on a US topic in a largely US community.

Or do jou mean my device isn't representative?

Yes, this. Most devices it just works, and a small minority will work with a little effort. A miniscule number will be like yours. It isn't representative of the average experience. It's an outlier.

Out of curiosity, how long ago was this? It very well may have the support now, though if it's from some manufacturer using proprietary drivers for their webcams, for some crazy stupid reason, then maybe not.

The good news is this isn't an issue for most people, it was free, and your device was already doing so poorly with Windows you felt it was at the end of its life, so even not working perfectly it still worked.

Edit: Also, Linux isn't one thing. Your distro may not have included the packages to make those devices work, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. You could have searched for a solution, or perhaps a different distro would work.

It's because, for the vast majority of people, it isn't an issue. Web browsers work fine and gaming is pretty much solved. If you're doing something technical enough to require specific software then you're technical enough to figure out if it works for you. If you aren't then it will work for you, and solve a lot of the issues Windows causes too.

American defaultism is pretty cringe, imho.

You're in a thread about America and Americans are at least the plurality here on Lemmy, if not the majority. Of course in this situation, when you make a statement about the US, people assume you're from the US. What do you expect? It's pretty cringe for people to make a big deal out of well founded assumptions being incorrect.

I wouldn't. It's easy, people just haven't learned it. It takes probably all of a minute to teach someone to count in binary with their fingers.

I don't know if there's a better term, but a subset is what it is.

That's fair. It's pretty easy to do at home if you want to try it. You may need to mix your spices yourself if you can't find a spice mix, but I'm sure all the spices are available that you'd need. Just get some tortillas (soft, not hard), ground beef or chicken (or whatever else), tomatoes, lettuce, onions, and you'll be good to go. Maybe look it up online to find inspiration for what to add/what spices you need.

The funny thing is, hard shells aren't authentic. That's an American thing. Soft tortillas are authentic, maybe cooked just a little on the stove.

I agree, hard tacos are a mess. I don't understand why they exist. The texture is fine, but it'd be better as something in the taco, not as the container.

You can make tacos at home too by the way. They're a very simple food, and you just use whatever protein you want and whatever additions you feel like. It's like a sandwich. You can't go wrong. You just use what you have/want.

I don't think that anyone can just not like tacos at all, because they aren't just one thing. It's like a sandwich with bread, then whatever you want to put in it; beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, fish, or whatever protein you want and spices/vegitables/toppings. Maybe you don't like Taco Bell, but there's tacos out there you'd love.

For gaming, I recommend Garuda. It has a preset for gaming in particular with a lot of packages you'll need to install, and a tool to install extra things you may want, like software for controllers and things like that. I think it also has the Nvidia drivers built in (I'm AMD though, so I'm not sure) which isn't always the case. It's also Arch based, so the Arch wiki, which is one of the best Linux information sources, will all work, and it can access the Arch User Repository (AUR) where users upload packages, which may be important. For example, Runescape doesn't work on Linux as is, but there is a package on the AUR for a launcher that works.

I have a question. Have you modified registries in Windows? If so, you've done harder stuff than Linux will ask of you already. You just don't think about it anymore.

Once Linux is set up (which is trivial now), it's easier to manage than Windows. How often do you have something to do, launch the app, the app sends you to a website for an update, then you have to navigate there and download it, run it, and restart? On Linux, as long as you tell your package manager to update occasionally, all your applications will be kept up to date. Applications don't have to manage updates themselves and you just need to hit a few buttons or type one command and you're updated.

If you made it to Lemmy, it probably isn't. I'd bet most Windows users here have modified their registry files at least once. If you can do that, you can handle Linux without an issue. People just forget how much they've had to deal with on Windows, but expect Linux to have zero problems.

Almost always, Linux users try to help. However if someone comes over and wants to do things like Windows instead of learning how the new system works, they probably won't help them with that.

It's a new system. It's going to work differently. You have to be willing to learn and adapt to it, just as you had to do when learning Windows. No one is going to spend time helping you contort Linux to work like Windows when the solution is simple but you just have to be willing to learn it.

If you want things to "just work" in any capacity, then you're in for a bad time.

Most things do. Not everything obviously, but that's true for Windows and everything else too. Technology is complex.

People say that anything is possible on Linux, but at the same time roast you for even thinking that it's not gonna take enormous amounts of un-learning and self education when coming from Windows.

You see, this is the issue. Of course it's going to behave differently. It's an entirely different system. The issues come when people switch to Linux and expect Windows still. It isn't Windows. You have to be ready and willing to learn how Linux works, and willing to adapt to what it does differently. For example, on Windows most applications check for updates when they launch and you have to go to a website to get them. On Linux, once a package is installed, your package manager handles all updates for you and you never have to worry about it again, besides just telling the package manager to update occasionally.

Linux fanboys who don't see it's faults can be sort of toxic.

Obviously it has faults. I don't know anyone who says otherwise. Windows users who ignore that they've just gotten used to all of Window's faults are horrible though. I spent a long time learning to avoid or fix the faults of Windows, and I stopped seeing them because that's just the way things were. Once I switched to Linux and don't have to deal with them anymore, they become clear. It's not a user friendly OS. Users just got used to it because they had to. They can also get used to Linux of they want too, for free and without a company harvesting their data or trying to push stuff on them.

The problem is, the US isn't actually divided by red/blue areas. It's divided by urban and rural/suburban. Even red states, the cities are almost all blue. You can't just break it up like that because they'd have revolutions in the south at least.

1 would absolutely apply. I believe this to be a felony, and they're sure as hell going to use force if they need to. 3 probably also applies to many people. They'd believe they would be willing to use deadly force, especially if they show up with weapons drawn.

If LEOs can say they believe they were in danger when someone isn't nice enough to them or whatever, surely when armed men come to your door, without a warrant, and force entry, that's enough to believe they're going to use deadly force.

Exactly my thought. If they try to enter without a warrant then we have the right to protect ourselves, right? If the "2A" people have ever cared about logical consistency (which I won't accuse them of) this is where it applies more than almost any other case.

It's just as likely to just make something up than site a case, real or fictional. It'll use very confident language to gaslight you into thinking it's real though, as it does with everything else.

Humans are stupid. The issue with LLMs is that they're all just confidence men. They speak with authority so people believe them without question, even though it doesn't actually know anything.