But also Discord search is catastrophically bad and won’t find lots of matches.

Yeah, Mac is pretty meh for gaming, but when I want to game I just use GeForce NOW. It makes gaming on Mac a non-problem and actually turns out much cheaper for me than buying a gaming rig.

Pretty much

Because over time I realized Linux wastes a lot of my time on unimportant shit. Then I was given a Mac and eventually I realized that macOS has most of the upsides of Linux while being much more stable, less buggy and more pleasant to use. It just works®™

I don’t regret ever using Linux tho, it’s a great for learning new stuff and acquiring different kind of thinking. Everyone who’s a programmer or in some adjacent field should use Linux at least for a while. It’s easy to notice when someone never used it.

But Yandex sucks for actual search… Except their reverse image search which is really good, altho they nerfed it recently.

I like my Xerox Phaser 3020. No complaints so far, doesn’t even require installing drivers, and cheap non-OEM toners are widely available.

That’s a very naive take. Even if BRI was only meant for trade - so much influence on trade necessarily means that China will have greater political power over included countries. The debt trap thing is also true - the westerners noticed it because they employed the same tactics to gain influence over other countries. These are pretty hegemonic things to do.

The whole One Belt One Road initiative?

Is there any evidence that China wouldn’t want to be a hegemon?