I feel its more a quirk of the internet, in how things naturally get divided. When browsing the web, you’ve likely found websites you never heard prior that are really big in other countries. Things just happen to be separated by regions, languages, etc. for purposes of relevance and accessibility.

In our space, things are largely dominated by European and North American influences. Once you cutout the whole USA from that, it’s effectively Canada and Europe in this grouping too. I remember back when I was on Reddit, I saw ‘Buy Canadian’ quite a lot, just seems ‘Buy European’ is slightly more dominant on Lemmy.

I’ll translate the other guy’s comment;

Israel and the US attacked because they were basically handed a golden opportunity in a world where they search for opportunity. The top governmental officials were present within the same room, confirmed by their intelligence officials, and during a vote for the next supreme leader. By attacking then, both the current government would be inept for days to weeks, and a new government would have a shoddy transition of power.

Tl;Dr: the goal is a long, drawn-out war. I realized after writing this whole thing out, It’s totally a tangent you didn’t mention, but fugget I’m not gonna let it go to waste.

Now, here’s the opportunity in that opportunity: A “short victory” is not the goal, this is a resource war. Venezuela was effectively captured by the US, Hegseth has stated intents to revitalize the Americas as the ‘American sphere of influence’ (paraphrased), Iran is unable to export significant oil, and with that goes most of the middle east’s production through the closed strait. This disproportionately favors the US, Russia, and Canada for oil production. Trump previously pushed his “51st state” agenda on Canada, and Russia is cutoff from trade with much of the world due to sanctions. This has the US in a position where it disproportionately benefits from having the Strait of Hormuz closed, and the longer it goes, the more reliant countries get on the US for energy.

As to why it happens now, Trump is in power, and the current admin understands the developed world is slowly becoming more energy independent without the need for oil (alternative energy). This explains why the narrative is maintained that “green energy doesnt work,” while Europe actively sees progress and positive outcome with it. It’s not about what’s best for the American people he speaks to, it’s more oriented around what he wants to leverage in the current state of global affairs.

Likely that the sub is called ‘Buy European’.

Ahh, reminds me of the gym membership I’d started just a few weeks ago. Small town thing, I knew the owner by name, yet they used an online service that required every little detail of your personal life to sign up, like why use such a thing? I asked him that, and its just because it’s convenient for his small-scale company to use.

Turns out, it didn’t actually care if your info was right, save for a card to charge. Put in some random driver’s license number and guerilla mail email, just sucks I didn’t have a knockoff phone number.

It really makes you wonder, why need all that? I know the answer, I just wish I could see it with my own two eyes, what all data brokers do dealings for that info.

Windows is active spyware, this isn’t overhyped lingo, it’s thoroughly well documented that it’s a three-letter agency’s wet dream. The main difference is that the vulnerabilities are likely only problematic if someone is actively looking for you.

As for Linux, it has many different types of OS called Distributions/Distros. You’d likely want to start off on a distro that’s beginner friendly, like PopOS. Others work too, this is just my personal preferred flavor of ‘just works’ distribution. A lot of people will overcomplicate the process of selecting what type of Linux-based OS to choose with loads of technical terms, but you dont need most of that if that’s not what you seek to make of it.

My serious answer for running games, as much as I’d like to answer it here, it would likely need a fair sized explanation if you’re completely unfamiliar with Linux, just so you can know what to expect. It’s more than I feel I can reasonably explain, so I’ll recommend you lookup YouTube videos of how to run specific game emulators on Linux, since the video format will likely help a lot.

This has always messed with me to explain, but mostly since this confusion is based on different experiences. If you learn the theory and understand how to craft your own circuitry, pushing and pulling amps can be designed for, but if all you’ve ever done is install things like a contractor would, then all you’re familiar with is pulling amps.

It always makes it such a hard explanation when someone says, “I thought you pulled amps.” There really ain’t an easy explanation, since most people are only familiar with systems designed to not be used outside their target voltage, so they don’t experience Ohm’s Law in action.

In retrospect, its probably because I only have these talks with contractors lel, and they’ve spent a whole lotta time going with the “Pulls amps” approach, and it works out well enough for them. Whatever works for the groups you’re communicating among, I suppose.