As someone from the PRC myself, I can share the following experience with you:

雪花飘飘 北风萧萧
天地一片苍茫
一剪寒梅 傲立雪中
只为伊人飘香
爱我所爱 无怨无悔
此情长留心间
雪花飘飘 北风萧萧
天地一片苍茫
一剪寒梅 傲立雪中
只为伊人飘香
爱我所爱 无怨无悔
此情长留心间

Usual suspect, the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card. Milk spoils? Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Card! Freshly divorced? Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card!

I’m not the target audience for this, but I’m still happy to see GNU/Linux installation numbers getting pumped up in the near future. That’s why I like it.

I want an unmolested computing experience, and the more people use said unmolested computing experience, the better for the entire platform.

It must be a lot of work for Richard Stallman to juggle between advertising the free software movement and giving out presents to children.

In a parallel universe, Firefly has seven seasons with the exact same writing quality as the first. But in the said same universe, Starsector wouldn’t exist. There’s always a price to pay.

IMO: original oblivion has good art direction, looking like a classical fairy tale. The remaster just looks brown.

Wget?

I have always used what PopOS bundles. It used to be the proprietary driver, but ever since a certain driver version, they have switched to the Nvidia-made FOSS driver. Because nvidia stopped developing any sort of proprietary components in the driver and just made the FOSS driver instead, which became the “official” Nvidia driver in May 2025 i think.

Edit: Correction, only the kernel modules are all FOSS, while the userspace modules such as CUDA for example are still proprietary.

You after cars in movies, if they actually had a crash:

Speech note. Support a whole lot of models and you can even do some voice cloning.

I really like the configuration aspect of it. You can customize how it works internally and how it even looks. For example, I use a big 1m diagonal TV as my main screen and I sit about 45cm in front of it. So with bidirectional integer scaling, Full HD looks kind of blurry and bad, but with lanczos scaling it looks great! And that’s why I like MPV.

Nah. mpv.

The art style invokes some Kingdom of Orungu vibes from the ancient equatorial African period.

For that goal, really stick by the FSF recommendations, for that, they are perfect as they have strict requirements.

But I think calling other GNU/Linux distros black box only because some drivers are proprietary is a bit too far, some people just prefer a “minimum damage” approach and that’s a compromise everyone needs to decide for themselves. If I were living in China or Iran, however, then I would exclusively run distros like that as well.

Edit: typo

“I can’t switch, there’s this one function of this one programme that I may need in the next 50 years.”

Maybe not what you’re looking for, but there’s a program called “Money Wallet” on Android. It’s on F-Droid and free software. Maybe my favourite because every time I spend cash I just open it up and I enter what I just spent.

For professional use, I’d recommend GNU Cash, though.

Out of principle I always reject all, even though they are blocked by pf blocker anyway.

No. Uclock Origin.

Oh no! It only plays the CoD games that were good.

IMO: let windows have that, as these games do some SCP-level containment for everyone sane in this hobby.

The GPL doesn’t force to contribute. But if you make changes to it, you need to have these changes reflect the liberties you yourself received. Megacorporations use the so-called “Explore, Expand, Exterminate” model, the GPL stops this from happening.