Everything is doable with a nice GUI, sometimes more than CachyOS+KDE Plasma
Very stable, very reliable
Mint's Update Manager is great
Matches my personality/philosophy a bit more
I installed it for my mom after her old drive died, and it just works for her (she is not a computer person so this is a big win)
I quite like Cinnamon, though my feelings on this aren't that strong, I'd be happy with just about any sane desktop environment
Here are the reasons I switched to CachyOS:
My hardware is new enough that it really benefits from being up to date on everything upstream. On Mint, it's not hard to switch to a newer kernel and stuff like that, but the more I stray from Mint's defaults, the more I have to do to maintain my PC rather than just using Update Manager.
I could not get VRR (FreeSync) to work on Mint Cinnamon. I think it might be impossible.
I wanted to try other desktops like KDE, and see if Wayland makes any difference to me as a user (it doesn't). Mint's supported desktop choices are quite limited (just Cinnamon, Xfce and MATE) and I didn't want to screw around getting an unsupported desktop to work, defeating a lot of Mint's advantages.
Generally wanted to be on the bleeding edge of software updates, just because.
I do have some qualms about CachyOS, specifically I feel like Shelly (their choice of GUI package manager) is undercooked and not ready to ship as default. You don't have to use it though.
I'm going to stick with CachyOS for now, mostly because it's just working for me and I don't feel a strong reason to switch. I hear that Mint/Cinnamon is getting closer to Wayland, which might make for a good time to switch back to it. Or I'll just stick with what's working for me until it doesn't.
I have a regular donation going to Linux Mint. But I've kinda switched my main PC over to CachyOS a while back, so technically I'm not paying for the distro I'm using.
I still think Mint is the best. Just kind of confused about where my money should be going.
Yeahh this is what I was gonna say. The biggest problem I have with dogs is that shitty dog owners (pun intended) leave their shit as landmines in public places. Yeah I know it's the owner's fault and not the dog's, but this problem still wouldn't exist if it weren't for dogs.
Can you do it in a very public way that gets a lot of attention? Would make for an interesting news cycle. Or if you happen to be a magician, it could make you legendary!
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Mathematically, assuming perfect knowledge about the future (if we can remove an animal, we might as well see the future):
Define S_0 = the number of piles of dog shit I will step on in the rest of my life assuming no dog has been removed.
Given dog d, define S(d) = the number of piles of dog shit I will step on in the rest of my life assuming dog d is removed right now.
Select d_1 = argmin{S(d}}. (If there's a tie, just pick one arbitrarily or use a tie-breaking metric)
If S(d_1) < S_0, then remove d_1.
If S(d_1) = S_0, then there is no improvement over baseline - maybe whichever dog I could remove just gets replaced with another dog. In this case, I could still remove d_1 if the tie-breaking metric did find an improvement, otherwise see next case.
If S(d_1) > S_0, then no matter what dog I try to remove, somehow I end up stepping on more piles of shit in my life?! Ugh. Remove the nearest ant or something.
"One animal" could easily mean an individual animal. This makes things tricky. Ruling out humans (because that's no fun), how can a single animal's disappearance affect anything?
Well, I don't think it can. The biggest effects would happen if you remove an individual from a critically endangered species, but I don't see anything good coming from that. For just about all other species, it would be like a drop in the ocean.
So, given that I probably can't make the world meaningfully better, I'll aim smaller. I'll remove a dog that shits in the street without its owner picking it up, causing innocent people to step in it.
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There is some benefit to this in some cases: they compete with the others of their species for the same finite set of resources, causing fewer breeders to make offspring. They might also attempt to breed with a fertile mate (unsuccessfully), causing that mate to never produce offspring when they otherwise would have.
The effectiveness of this is obviously very dependent on the species and their breeding habits, and I know nothing about this one. I'm just talking about the general case.
They are fractions of the format m/(2^n), but they only mimic fractions like 2/5.