I’ve had Fedora encourage me to reboot, but I don’t think I’ve ever had it do so without consent (excluding when my laptop battery died).

Huh, I’ve never encountered this obstacle. On the rare occasion I’ve had to use Outlook, I’ve just used OWA.

I’m sorry for the challenges you’re facing.

You can use Teams on Linux through the web browser.

It’s not.

And the owner of Epic, which owns Fortnite, is rabidly anti Linux. I believe he’s made some concessions to lose less of the Deck market share, but he’s made many insulting and untrue statements of Linux and its users in the past as well as actively sabotaging Linux functionality in games that used to have it.

That sounds like an alliterative challenge.

I think you’re making a joke I’m too oblivious to get, but in case I was wrong:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)

(Not to be confused with a similarly titled book that definitely uses the letter ‘e’)

Did you ever read that book that was written without using the letter “e”? Now there’s something on which English - the word itself even - depends.

Huh, I’ve never noticed you write a message without the need to replace a “th” before.

Personally I’d rather it broke mine.

I believe that’s on purpose, a subversion of expectations.

You can end a line with a backslash to have single line line breaks.

Lemmy just uses markdown, so any good guide for that should be able to help you:
https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#line-breaks

If you can’t find a specific thing, just searching “how to x in markdown” in your preferred search engine should net you an answer if x is supported.

There are also many markdown editors that can be run either locally or through a browser; these can be useful if you want to test some syntax without putting any mistakes in the eyes of the public. I like Obsidian for local editing and usually recommend this one for online testing.

Hope all that helps!

Why are there non breaking spaces?

most games run fine even though they say that it’s not Linux supported

You might appreciate ProtonDB as a resource!

edit: ProtonDB

I was going to mention DOS, but I looked it up in the hopes of not sounding like an idiot and it turns out the history is more complicated than I knew.

I misread that as “self-loathing” and the answer was obvious.

I tried to buy an external 20TB drive from Amazon twice. First one that came, I bought refurbished; the drive had been shucked and replaced with a 146GB drive.

Second one I bought was 20TB, but was clicking and grinding from the moment I turned it on. When I tried to initiate a return saying “drive is clicking and grinding, indicating that it’s failing,” their support bot helpful informed me that a clicking and grinding drive usually indicated drive failure.

They did accept the return for the latter. They also accepted a return for the former, but it took literal months and several support interactions where the (seemingly real) agents actively lied to me.

I’ve had okay luck with smaller Amazon drives in the past, but will have trouble recommending them for this kind of purchase in the future.

A little passive-aggressive of you

That’s a fair interpretation, but in fact I was trying to avoid the appearance of passive aggression by providing a reason for my exiting the conversation, rather than just bailing.

Ah. Well, I have questions or comments I could make about the license. However, while I feel passionately about Unix and Linux and OSS in general, I don’t think I have anything useful or interesting to add to the thread that hasn’t already been said.

I wish you luck both with finding engaging conversation and with your licensing.

I kind of suspected it might be something like that, but it was a genuine query that, yes, was intended to be mildly humorous. I don’t intentionally annoy except maybe my wife.

Your indirect accusation made me smirk, but as far as I’ve noticed you’re the only one who does this without doing it on every comment, which seemed interesting enough to observe.