Yeah, but there are an order of magnitude more reddit users.

If it’s cold too cold to be outside, it should be cold enough inside for a sweater inside. What are you keeping the heat at in the winter?

The other side is that tariffs and trade “negotiations” are all over the place. You can’t really integrate that into your model when they’re changing on a day to day basis.

I suspect that Trump’s screwing with the economy is so bad that it’s messing with their models.

I’m pretty sure the idea is two fold. First, being a politician wasn’t supposed to be a full time job. The second is that politicians need to spend time in their home state to hear from constituents and be a part of their state (travel which used to take days/weeks for travel).

They probably want that, but also at the same time, that would kill software development.

It’s not uncommon for there to be revisions, and they can be quite large. I think the concerning thing is that they’re both large and negative revisions, although I’d say somewhat expected.

Overall though, I think these numbers are being reported truthfully as Trump has (maybe wants to) fire the head of the BLS - source

My suspicion is no one is able to accurately predict anything in the economy though due to Trump and Republicans going crazy with tariffs and killing the federal government.

This one is a big deal. This report is just the tip of the iceberg as we have only just begun to feel the pain of the federal layoffs (and don’t get me started on tarrifs). If he removes people from accurately reporting, we’re going to have a crashing economy with no metrics on what’s really going on.

That’s not really the problem here though. The problem is that Trump and Republican policy is literally breaking the economy. Tarrifs cause inflation to go up while loosing jobs, while the feds policies can generally only address one at a time (lower interest rates -> jobs and inflation go up / increase interest rates -> jobs and inflation go down).

Ultimately Trump has screwed over the economy so bad, that in half a year he’s created an economic environment that the Fed can’t fix unless Trump walks back his trade war.

Edit: This is why the Fed is in a wait and see period, they expect things to get worse and don’t want to play their only card (rates decreases) too early. Trump continues to chip away at the economy and the Fed is about the only thing keeping us afloat.

Also, no more jobs!!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/01/jobs-report-july-2025-data/85467514007/

Thanks for the info.

I don’t disagree with you on the first point. I put “unlawful” in quotes to imply that lawful/unlawful is ambiguous and gives Mastercard the cover they need to not really be lying in their statement, even if effectively they are.

Its corporate doublespeak to a T.

What they’re saying is: “we haven’t called out any specific games, but we told steam if they can’t prove a game is “lawful” well cut them off”.

This effectively has a chilling effect because it means anything that could be illegal becomes toxic and risky for steam.

Its a way for Mastercard to dictate what can be sold without actually dictating what can be sold. Now the real issue is that at the end of the Mastercard is in a position where this matters and they can influence things. Should work just like cash and leave the government to decide what items are legal/illegal.

Wow! I appreciate your thoroughness.

After hearing you found it in a setting I went looking around again, and while I couldn’t find any official Kubuntu documentation, it does seem like Flathub has a setup guide that mentions it as a setting config.

Also, I generally lean towards Ubuntu as most support I find online leans Debian, but curious what distro you use.

Pretty sure it’s AI as the faves also look off. I had to look up the original photos, but Patrick Stewart looks noticeably different and William Shatners is too high Def.

My example was just to highlight that the “average user” may not be as technically capable as many in this thread propose. But that’s also why I called out I may be underestimating the average user.

To add, I believe that town clocks probably also played a continuation of the church bells used to communicate the time to the village/town.

One of the main reasons Church bells and clock bells were so loud was to communicate to the area the current time.

It’s possible that I underestimate the average user, but I did work IT at one point in my life and I still vividly recall needing to point out to someone that their computer wasn’t turning on becuase it wasnt plugged in.

I just looked it up again and it seems like they require you run a command in the console to enable flatpak. I’m not sure if it’s cause they use snaps, given it’s an Ubuntu derivative. I suspect as flatpak continues to win out it’ll all tend that way.

However, the fact this its even a discussion is kinda my point.

I feel like clearly everyone here is smarter than me or something.

I’ve been running Kubuntu for a while and here is a recent anecdote and you can tell me if I’m just an idiot. I went to install an application so opened up the software store. After installing I found out it was an out of date version of the software. I went to the companies site and they recommended a flatpak install. Kubuntu doesn’t have flatpak enabled by default, so I have to lookup how to install flatpak and could then install the flatpak. However another piece of software recommends using the apt install, and another the Kubuntu store is fine. All of this is okay, but now there are three different ways I have to manage my software.

Its fine for me, but if that’s really the case, you’ll loose the average user at using the command line to install flatpak.

Cause there is literally nothing stopping the average user from trying, and yet they typically choose windows or macs.

But also, let’s be honest, most people just use a tablet or their phone now anyways. If you believe these numbers, people are choosing even more locked down OSs like android and IOS. Trying to get them to use linux just isn’t likely.

I’m not anti Linux, I use it all the time. But trying to convince the average user to change their OS is an uphill battle.