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  • His Hyprland setup looks cool if you’re into that sorta thing but it’s just not what users just switching to mint, fedora, whatever might be looking for.

    I would not underestimate how much of a draw “it looks cool” can have on people who are not tech savy at all. If you think about what drives new phone purchases, their major version upgrades always include lots of things that are nothing but eye-candy and those are often heavily featured in their promotion material.

    If the goal is to get casual users to convert to Linux, I would argue that aesthetics is a lot more important than ANY talk about technical details, privacy, etc. If those users cared about those things, they would’ve switched already.

    Now my bigger worry is that those users will bounce off before they manage to get their setup to look as (subjectively) cool as his.


  • I think the upper limits are mostly there for two reasons. To give the students a rough idea of what’s expected in scope and also to protect the person from having to grade a 100 page thesis when they planned to grade a short essay.

    That being said, there were a few times where they enforced strict page limits for us, but in those cases they would warn us about it explicitly multiple times.





  • Other than “they’re gonna stop paying you” there’s also the risk of inflation making it so you receive way less overall, since I doubt the amount gets adjusted to match inflation.

    But yes, if the jackpot is so high that you’d get 2+mil per month, assuming you’re so worried about the dollar being worthless soon, you can still take the 2mil/mo and diversify. After a year you should already have plenty money to live comfortably for the rest of your life.




  • If you’re talking about the base image, it’s sort of real.

    The player is YouTuber Max Fosh and it was a charity football event. However the incident (as far as we know) was not scripted and he actually tried hard to get a yellow card just to be able to pull off this stunt. You could probably find the video he made on it by searching “Max Fosh yellow card”.