If I were to grasp for a level of gaming hell deeper than EA, it'd be Richard Garriott. By several floors.

The old internet was hidden behind dial-up modems and TCP-IP stacks and weird telnet and usenet protocols. This complexity worked as a filter and the people using it were mostly academics, students, techies and other nerds (me amongst them). The moment uncle Bob could poke his way through social media on his phone from the shitter, the whole thing cascaded into Eternal September and "the old internet" was lost forever.

They are not changing anything. They are warning the customer import charges wil incur if the purchase proceeds. They gain nothing and stand to lose a sale.

Shit like this is why we as a species are doomed.

Someone inside law enforcement called it "An exodus of morality" that was going on across all agencies.

Hate on the politicians not moving, not on those moving too slow for your liking. This shit is why you have Trumpaloompa now.

Troompa Loompa doo-ba-dee-doo, I've got a briefing just for you. Troompa Loompa doo-ba-dee-dee, Guess who forgot about diplomacy?

What do you get when you govern by tweet? Policy swings that can’t stand on two feet. Blame goes flying in every direction, While facts get lost in the news correction!

You’ll get no… grown-up debate, Just vibes and polls and culture war bait. Why not try… something brand new? Like telling the truth—too radical for you?

Troompa Loompa doo-ba-dee-done, Can't name a win, but they sure spin one. Troompa Loompa doom and despair, Try finding a budget—if you dare!

How do they cope with a crisis or two? By holding a hearing and blaming a few. If something breaks, just shrug and say, “Let’s ban books or TikTok today!”

They don’t want… nuance or plans, Just memes and PACs and high-fives from fans. If you're wise, you'll listen to me: Don’t run the country like reality TV.

Troompa Loompa doo-ba-dee-dough, Good luck, America—enjoy the show!

I had the same experience as you did: I've tried Linux every few years ever since someone brought it to my attention in the nineties. And it always felt like a hobby instead of an invisible layer that just makes my computer tick. After Microsoft tried to ram W11 up my arse for the umpteenth time, I tried again recently. And it was amazing. Absolutely zero driver issues and it is FAST and CLEAN. No pop-ups or sneaky ads or any of the other things that make me feel like a tenant on my own computer. I now have a dual boot setup Ubuntu/W10, where I really only still use the W10 boot for games. And I have my office and audio software living in separate VM's that I can use regardless of which OS I booted into at the start.

It's awesome.

Meanwhile my laser Kyocera prints full color full duplex and doesn't try any funny business.

Nah, that's America. Children as young as five and two years old, some sick and all without parents, have been abducted for months all over the US and all comments were mostly about hurrdurr-conservative-values. Things only got really heated when two white people got shot. People are only in it for themselves.

is there are policy responsible for this?

Probably just a result of the snow. No way any policies got implemented that fast.

Honestly: "Journalist discovers Apple product still functions properly after 10 years" sounds like a headline to me.

Tbf, this holds true for any accessory, from chairs to computer cases: Anything branded as "gaming" is usually mid quality at a premium price.

Honestly, you’re getting a bad bias from the kinds of Americans that currently are immigrating there.

No, he really isn't.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (basically the newest regular Ubuntu release). It has native support for my Geforce 1080 gtx and every USB device I have tossed at it so far. I you install on a desktop I recommend setting up a W10 VM just to broaden your options.

Reminds me of the videos of the metro flooding in China two years ago. Really nasty stuff.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzh3e33aulhme1.png

Mobile phones and apps did it. They let boomers poke and swipe their way into platforms while taking a dump in a volume that Apple alone could never have managed.

Torvalds and the maintainers are acknowledging reality: developers are going to use AI tools to code faster, and trying to ban them is like trying to ban a specific brand of keyboard.

The author should elaborate on how exactly AI is like “a specific brand of keyboard”. Last I checked a keyboard only enters what I type, without hallucinating 50 extra pages. And if AI, a tool that generates content, is like “a specific brand of keyboard”, does that mean my brain is also a “specific brand of keyboard”?

It's about the heritage of code not being visible from the surface. I don't know about your brain.

LARPing valuable insight is the least amount of action that people can put in while feeling they contributed something. "Oooh, look at them. Now someone else do something about it!"