I gave up on 343 more than a decade ago. Halo died the moment Bungie stepped away from it

Slightly related because it’s horror and Adam Scott, I saw Hokum today and it was awesome. Horror isn’t really my genre but I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you like either one of those things you should definitely check it out

It’s always been that way. Even most people who used the internet “way back when” have no clue how it actually functions. Terms like DNS and IPv4 are vaguely familiar concepts at best outside of professional or hobbyist circles.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with that either. There’s too much stuff for any one person to know. You learn the stuff that interests you and ignore the rest, which hopefully means somebody is interested in all of it. That’s why it’s good that there’s all different kinds of people out there.

It’s so funny to me (in a depressing way) that the known outcome of destroying the planet doesn’t move the needle away from fossil fuels much, but one crazy guy starting a war and demonstrating obvious market volatility sends all the people previously unconcerned into a race to install solar capacity. I won’t complain about the outcome but the motivations are so selfish and short sighted that it’s really hard to cheer for.

Nah, my EV charged on solar will cruise right past their broke asses while I give them the finger

I do, but unfortunately the dog just refuses to shit on the wall

Israel does have compulsory military service though.

I watched his video on renewable energy and it was awesome. That ending was very unexpected but he killed it. Thanks for the info

Gracias

Why?

Who is that? I love heat pumps too and would happily listen to someone talk about them for hours

any company who allows themselves to be cowed by his parlor tricks will lose investor confidence.

That sounds like a pretty significant change in behavior to me. Do you have any reason to believe this is true and not just wishful thinking?

We’re close to “use Linux, it just works” but the closer it gets the more glaring the remaining issues become.

Yeah I totally feel that. For basic PC stuff like web browsing it’s already there and that’s part of what makes gaming so annoying. You can tell that everything else is designed with flexibility and the user experience in mind so when a game just refuses to boot it feels more disappointing. I want it to be ready for everyone to use and it just isn’t.

My problem is I forget and try to look at something else out of habit. Then I come back to the game and it’s borked. Before I figured out that horrible vulkan shaders load time issue it would take 20 minutes for the game to launch again. Not exactly trouble free to say the least.

I disagree that those things happen on Windows, at least with any comparable frequency. I can count on one hand the number of games that have caused me serious problems on Windows over 20 years. By comparison I can count on one hand the number of games that have worked without any issues on Linux.

Granted, I haven’t tried nearly as many games on Linux but that does illustrate the point pretty well, which is that most people aren’t going to fuss with settings for hours just to get a game to launch. They’re going to get frustrated and say “this doesn’t work” then switch back to Windows. I really want gaming on Linux to be a viable replacement but I honestly don’t think I would recommend it to any of my less technically inclined friends. It would just be an annoyance to them.

Bazzite isn’t a bad distro, I’m currently running it on my gaming PC, but to be honest I’ve found it kind of frustrating. I’ve gotten used to Debian through my self hosting experiences and Bazzite is much more sandboxed than that, and not in a fun way (at least to me). It’s a good option for people coming from Windows but if you have previous Linux experience I don’t think you would enjoy it. I will probably switch to something else soon.

Despite the recent hype, I also haven’t had great experiences with gaming on Linux in general. It’s much better than it used to be but there’s still a lot of inconveniences in too many instances. Things that are not insurmountable but definitely more annoying than they should be. I don’t think casual gamers would put up with most of it.

As an example, Helldivers 2 works pretty well except for the fact that it black screens anytime you alt+tab out of the game. What good is being able to play it if you have to restart every time you check a message from a friend, open a web browser, or start playing music? I don’t want to deal with that and most people are way more likely to get frustrated with stuff like that and quit than I am.

Trump doesn’t want anything but money and power. He has the most base motivations of anyone I’ve ever seen. Any actual strategy does not come from him. He’s too clumsy and unintelligent for planning things in a coherent manner.

Sooner or later we’ll get the guillotines out. Although it looks like that won’t happen until it’s far too late, which it may already be.

People don’t want white collar jobs because the work is fulfilling. They want them because the jobs aren’t physically demanding and they pay well.

In this case… I’ll allow it