There is a great book by a journalist who was fired by WashPo to being “political” about their identity.

The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity by Lewis Raven Wallace.

It is excellent and details why having a view from no perspective is damaging to minorities and others with disabilities, etc. We must have principles and speak about those in journalism. If we stand for nothing, we default to the status quo.

Thanks, I didn’t know that.

That’d work too but booting into game mode first would be a bit of a curve ball for many newbs.

If the recommendations for Mint do not work, I’d try a different distribution with an easier path to install nvidia drivers, namely one that has the open nvidia drivers included in the ISO.

PopOS and Ubuntu do this.

I’d avoid CachyOS for Linux newbs as it is bleeding edge and can be difficult to manage.

The sunken cost of buying a plexpass on sale for 39 dollars 15 years ago.

The corporate world is really clamping down on VPN use. VPNs for me for not for thee is their motto.