@IronKrill
@lemmy.caWouldn't he have got citizenship ages ago? I thought he transitioned to a sponsor-focused role. I know he was in sponsor spots for a while but I block those so don't know if he still is, but his Twiiter bio lists him as still being LTT sponsor creative lead.
Depends what you use and how you use it. With how I use my computer, I have issues on Windows that require terminal input to solve and are more confusing than many of the Linux issues I face, but the way I use Linux also requires terminal. Some applications just work better or only on terminal whether you're on Windows or Linux and some debugging steps will inevitably take you down the dark road of decade old menus and terminal commands.
Day to day basic tasks though? It shouldn't need any special knowledge, provided that you don't follow the wrong online tutorials like I did when starting out. For example, Firefox was out of date so I looked up how to update Firefox. The package manager did not have a new version and I didn't think to manually go into settings and refresh the repository (stores auto update, right? Well, no actually...). Basically I ended up trying to install via a .deb package from their website... it didn't work and I felt Linux was dumb. What I should have done was update my OS and package manager first or simply sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
(yes this is terminal, sorry). My point is, sometimes you have to realise the question you are asking is flawed and not the system.
Ignoring the rest of your points, I disagree on porn piracy. Not that I would know, being a good Christian ofc ofc, but that scene feels the most alive. If I want to find content from a certain site/person then it is generally a couple of searches away. No private trackers or special software needed. When I compare that to other scenes that require much harder to find websites, applications, etcetera... and it's been that way every time I've checked. I don't think it's going anywhere soon.
No, they're saying it's 20:00 in the day, or 8PM, and it's 30C out. This implies it was hotter earlier, presumably around 35C or 100F. 30-35C is not the hottest, but it's hot, and different humidity levels will affect how bad it feels. Those unused to it will have a rough time.
I actually think the poor branding is part of why Mastodon is hard to spread. Can you picture anyone seriously saying they "tooted" something? Because I can't.
They do often have better sales, but you have to launch the store to know and personally I would rather pay the extra $1 to buy on Steam...
Better alternatives? That is highly subjective. Itch's store-front experience sucks balls and they lack 98% of the features Steam has. I appreciate their existence and have bought games from them, but language like that will only serve to alienate people that know how much Itch lacks compared to Steam.
This may be unhelpful, but I ended up port forwarding through my VPN. I seem to recall errors with UPnP and while my connection to slsk.net is still buggy, it works better now I've manually forwarded. I had already paid the extra $2 a month to my VPN for forwarding so that I could get better torrent performance, so.