Could someone explain the joke to me? I'm a dev but haven't read this

See my comment here.

Rodney also notes that millions of slaves were taken from Africa. The Europeans did not simply show up to find them all waiting on the shores. Africa had no need for this huge amount of slave labor, but the new colonies did, which is why they traded in slaves and not gold. Some African states that did enslave other groups, even before the Europeans, didn't necessarily use them as labor but would integrate them as citizens.

The Europeans coerced many African states into engaging in the slave trade when they were otherwise reluctant, for example by playing on existing social divisions to turn groups against each other, or by refusing to trade desired European goods for anything other than slaves. Any comrade here who is curious can read "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by Walter Rodney.

Someone shared this link about Brave recently though the article is a couple years old: https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

There's a browser called Ladybird written in a new engine but it's still a ways off from being released.

It was pretty nice. Our oldest just turned 3 so I think she really appreciated the gifts this year and is having a blast with her new toys. We just finished making gingerbread cookies. We're also not talking to my in laws until April at the earliest so that's a load of extra stress gone and it's amazing.

Harvey also has a companion guide book to Capital.

It started last month for me

I worked with a guy who had a flag with the Arch logo and his Arch forums username on it hanging above his desk.

womp womp :)

Do you mind sharing what sort of research / studies you were doing? I wasn't even aware that was a possibility.

I don't think the point is that swap is critical. Whether that is true will depend on your workload and hardware. But the point is it makes memory management better and more efficient. Whether you notice a difference in performance or not is again dependent on your workload & hardware. I personally see no reason to not dedicate a couple gigs to swap even with lots of memory on a personal system.

For what it's worth, I've used Nvidia cards for at least a decade without any major issues. Mostly on Arch, though I do vaguely recall needing to fiddle with it more on really old Ubuntu releases.

If you have enough ram, you don't really need swap at all.

This isn't really true. Swap is important for things other than acting as a memory reserve. Even if it was only used that way, it can still improve performance by paging out unused memory (such as from application startup that then isn't used).

There are other benefits too. This link goes into details.

It's possible. Tech companies do hire people to work full time on open source software. I'm not sure but I doubt there are many positions like that. There were several at a previous company I worked for.

What hashtags if you don't mind sharing?