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Talk is cheap, get contributing! Donate, translate or code. That way we'll have a proper way out of Mozilla sooner
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With 6-day weeks (which have their own set of advantages) you can have 12 perfect 5-week months and an extra leap week that dissappears every 8 years
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Smaller projects get more (less likely to have a lot of donors) big projects less (hopefully they have a lot of people donating small amounts that add up).
This is what I've been thinking of doing. It's also possible that big projects have bigger reserves they can rely on and be able to mobilise donors should they be in need of a money injection
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10 % is really good!
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I can only confidently answer for some of these
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the Heroic launcher is probably what you're looking for and it should work really well. You may also be interested in looking up Lutris and Bottles for other games.
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these should work 1:1 on most desktop enviroments from my experience. If not, they should be quite easy to configure
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most of the time software will be available natively as a Debian package, and then other distros. Sometimes there won't be a native package for your system, especially if you use anything outside of Debian, Arch, Fedora or their derivatives. If that happens there's distro agnostic Flatpak, which works a charm. You also have tools like alien or dpkg, which convert formats from one system to a different one. They are slightly hit and miss, but a great tool if you've exhausted othe avenues
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I vovch for what other people have said, Fedora KDE. It works out of the box, has lots of customizability and you don't need to use the command line much at all. You might be interested in lagging one version behind (the three latest distros are supported at any given time, to allow people to skip one when updating) and install Fedora 39 so that any possible bugs are completely ironed out and compatibility of packages and programs is higher.
I would also recommend Linux Mint 21.3 (for the same reasons as I said to lag one version behind with Fedora, I would recommend to only update between one X.3 version and the next X.3 version) but the Cinnamon desktop environment might be a bit simple for what you're looking for. It's made for people coming from Windows though, so it will feel very familiar.
Boot them both up as a live system and fiddle around with them for a bit. You can keep your session and everything in it as long as you don't unplug the pendrive or reboot the computer, so you can reslly take it for a week- or a month-long spin if you really want.
Hello, I started donating to my favourite open-source projects a couple years ago, but stopped about 6 months ago for different reasons and wanted to get back into it. I wanted to ask if anyone here has a set system or process they follow when donating - How much money do you donate? A set amount, whatever you feel like, a percentage of your earnings? - When do you donate? Whenever you remember, on the first of the month, Thursdays? - Do you have a minimum donation amount? - How do you decide what projects to support? Do you forego donations if you've contributed in other ways? Do you keep a list? - Do you donate to all equally or do you have some sort of ranking? Is it by amount of use, subjective preference, something else? - What platforms do you prefer using? Liberapay, Opencollective, Patreon, ko-fi, Paypal, Monero, actual post? So far the system I've devised for myself would go something like: - put 2 % of all my earnings, whatever they are, in a separate account - every quarter (on the first of January, April, July and October) donate the full amount of money in the account (with a minimum of 5 €, so as not to lose a big amount in fees) - keep a ranked list of projects that I've used or deemed important or promising in the last three months (projects I donated to recently go to the bottom of the list), things at the top get more money than things at the bottom - prioritise Liberapay since it's open-source itself
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My hometown has very similar ones and they can hold up to 25 people adding up seating and standing space, don't underestimate them
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We must rally behind score voting, and not ranked choice (at least that is, if we want actual reform to stick)
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Surprisingly, the British Indian Ocean Territory is not in the Pacific ocean, but the Indian Ocean.
Being serious though, yeah, it's a really good strategic location
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Thank you for the explanation! Such a shame that anti-Zionism is so often conflated with antisemitism
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Why is Czechia obvious?
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Actually, score voting would be better. IRV (also known as RCV) has been proven to lead to the same 2-party domination and has many disadvantages.
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I know! Will definitely try again at the next release. So far I'm running a minimal install of Arch without DE (only running Sway) and it works pretty well, but I'm not a fan of the bleeding edge release schedule. Wouls prefer something more stable, especially for that laptop which I don't plan on using as my daily driver
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I tried to get it running on a 2 GiB RAM laptop I've got, but couldn't get wifi to work at all
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These are different ways to fill the same ballot! In score voting you give every party a score (in this case from 0 to 99). This was the example of a die-hard Democrat. A more moderate voter might vote something like Dems 50, GOP 60, or Dems 30, GOP 25
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First time around Dems would probably vote Dems 99, GOP 0 and leave every other party blank, but over time people would realise that you can ALSO score your actual favourite (think of all the people that would vote Green if it wasn't a wasted vote) a 99 without hurting the "lesser evil's" chances. Greens 99, Dems 99 and GOP 0 is just as bad for the GOP as Greens blank, Dems 99 and GOP 0. That's the magic of score voting. And people who are really apathetic and refuse to vote because they think all parties are bad could still express an opinion akin to Dems 10, GOP 0, rest empty.
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Ranked choice voting probably leads to two-party domination (see Australia or Malta), and even without that caveat it's otherwise suboptimal. Score voting is the way to ensure voting for your favourite comes with no strategic tradeoffs.
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Score voting is the real way. Superior to every other method by pretty much every sensible metric