Playstation releases games on PC, gamers say "PS5 doesn't have any exclusives" and whine about it incessantly for 5 years. Playstation responds by saying "ok we will do some exclusives" and now gamers are whining about that. There's just no winning.
Reading all of this, I just feel like you are a very cynical person looking for reasons to give up. I can't even bring myself to argue anymore. You win. I'm going to go make someone's day better.
It's so obvious to me but I can imagine it's not obvious to some folks... the bias is actually wild and the articles are very boilerplate and "emotionally charged"
You are wrong in that, yes. Voting is the most basic form of civil participation. It's like paying your bus fare. Riding the bus is not praxis.
It's a whole lot easier to organize when you're able to pressure those in power, though. There is a meaningful difference in organizing conditions under leaders like Zohran Mamdani and even liberals like Joe Biden than it is under fascist regimes.
I'd rather have leaders who are afraid of getting voted out than leaders who want to crush all resistance, and you're a fool for acting as though it doesn't matter.
I condescend idiots who act as though voting does nothing. We managed to elect a socialist mayor in Seattle. The margin was under 1000 votes. Fucking vote.
And stop assuming just because someone is pro-voting means they don't participate in other effective forms of praxis. You have no idea what people are up to.
I think most pundits have come to agree that he intends to sabotage the Republican party on his way out. Dude knows once he's done with politics he can just burn it to the ground behind him
If you're on a Mac, you can likely use an app called "Balena Etcher" to create a bootable Linux USB... if it's an Intel mac, you can just boot that right up by holding option at boot-time. If you're on an Apple Silicon Mac, you are not going to be able to boot most Linux distros there. If you're on PC, you can usually stick the flash drive in and mash F12 at boot-time to get into a menu, select the USB stick, and then it'll boot you into a "live environment" to test with. That way you can just poke around and see if you like it. Almost all distributions come with a live environment by default.
There are a lot of differences and a lot of similarities between the operating systems here. It will take you time to get used to no matter what you do. Start by swapping your apps on your existing Mac, trade out any apps that you know won't work on Linux with apps that do. That way, you spend some time in your existing environment with the new apps you're going to need going forward.
Next, make sure to test out your peripherals in a live environment. Does everything you use with your computer work correctly? If not, find out why. See if you can mitigate it, or if you'll need to replace stuff.
Finally, be willing to experiment. I know others in this thread will recommend various desktop environments and distributions to you. Try many of them. GNOME is good and simple out of the box, feels kinda mac-like, but if you want to completely replicate the functionality of macOS, KDE Plasma has more options for that like global menus and the file management app (Dolphin) is incredibly extensible and customizable.
Try to have fun with it, and don't give up. It takes time to learn a new way of working, and you will likely have frustrations along the way, but ultimately the goal is to learn and figure out what works best for your needs.
This is just TOS enforcement, they updated their TOS in October. From the article:
Github updated its acceptable use policies in October 2025 to forbid “sexually themed or suggestive content that serves little or no purpose other than to solicit an erotic or shocking response, particularly where that content is amplified by its placement in profiles or other social contexts.” This include pornographic content and “graphic depictions of sexual acts including photographs, video, animation, drawings, computer-generated images, or text-based content,” according to the terms.
Because their hate for communism is greater than their hate for naziism