Wind turbines don't make infrasound like datacenters. While they do make some infrasound, it's less loud than datacenters, and most impostantly, doesn't get transmitted really far (air is pretty inefficient at transmitting infrasound).

However, datacenters are louder, and have better mechanical connection with the ground. The ground is very good at transmitting infrasound, and it can even vibrate an entire building if the structure resonates. This effect is not new, and we've also seen it with other industrial buildings with heavy machinery. Furthermore, due to regulations, you can't build as close to a wind farm as you can to a datacenter.

That driver should have been shot 10 times in the face. In self defense, of course. And then denied care.

If we have already established that a "terrorist" driving in your general direction is grounds for using such violence, why doesn't it apply to everyone?

Yes! I've been advocating for 4x6. I don't think we should be stuck for 8h at work every day. Especially when you take lunch into account, and then the commute. Those hours are killing me, and I think we as workers deserve better. Laws have been so far behind we're fighting for 4x8, when we actually want 4x6 (or 3x8).

It's the same as the VAT. You can calculate it. But you shouldn't need to do math before going into a restaurant just because the owners can get away with expecting you to pay more for something advertised as costing less. In most other countries, shops have to include VAT in the price they advertise. If I see a 25€ item, I know I will pay exactly 25€ for it. And if I see a 20€ meal, I know I will pay exactly 20€ for it.

If restaurants expect you to provide at least a 20% tip, they should advertise their menu with that 20% added to it. Else, I'm gonna pay exactly what's on the sign.

Gamers Nexus released a parts list with better performance for cheaper. And it's more upgradable than the Steam Machine. And it doesn't suffer from high temps.

The sad reality is that this product is not competitive in today's expensive market. The original leaked price range ($550-$750) would have been competitive, and a price hike to $850 would have been reasonable after the AI hardware price hikes. But Valve is a company that can make use of the economy of scale, and it shouldn't have developed a PC that has issues and still turns out to be more expensive than a DIY PC with similar specs.

And before anyone mentions it, yes, I wanted this product to succeed. Valve has been bringing a lot of gamers to the Linux world, and that could be good for us. If the price was good, I was even thinking about buying a steam machine myself, because my system is getting old. I'm still hyped for the steam frame, but the steam machine is not it. Not at this price, at least.

Same thing stands. I run Arch daily on a 10 year old mid-range laptop, and I used to run it on a 20 year old core 2 duo laptop.

It won't become noticeably slower with time, that's a Windows and MacOS thing.

Arch will update all your software to the latest version, but it will still not add anything. Updating your software can even make it faster. Of course, things like web browsers will get slower the more stuff they add, but that will be the same in any Linux distro or OS.

You can also just not update, it won't suddenly stop working. I still recommend updating for the security patches, but if you won't connect the machine to the internet, it's perfectly fine to not update it.

I am left speechless. What a load of bs you just wrote. Do you actually believe it?

The left are the fascists with their politically correct and willful segregation practices.

Made me laugh, ngl

This sounds a lot like suicidal empathy, a right wing ultra nationalist and racist dog whistle used to justify discrimination against minorities.

The Arch repos only host the latest version of a package, so usually you can't install older versions of a software. There are some exceptions (like with PHP or Python, where you may require a specific version of the framework), but there's not that many of them. You'll see that it's usually not a problem, as it's still recommended to run the latest version of every software, for the security patches.

If you update your system constantly, there shouldn't be any compatibility issues with the updates. The official repos are carefully managed so that, at any given point, every package works with every other package. If a common library is updated, all the packages that depend on it are recompiled and updated to use the newer version.

If you stop updating your system, everything that you already have installed will keep working as it was.

For a while, installing new apps without updating will work flawlessly. But after a while, the new apps will start becoming incompatible with your system, due to outdated libraries and missing dependencies. In that case, you'll need to update the system so that everything is up to date again and it works. The package manager will prevent you from messing things up, so don't worry that much about it.

Arch is a rolling release, so it's designed to be constantly updated. That's the way I recommend people use it, especially if they're new to the distro. But if you don't inatall new software, it's also perfectly stable without updating (and you can also install new software without necessarily updating everything, if you know what you're doing).

Yes, and I've seen it happening. Usually it doesn't instantly brick every PC, but it can sometimes brick certain PCs with specific configurations. Then it will be silently patched without acknowledgement for the bug.

I've seen it mess with (and crash) graphics and network drivers, rendering PCs useless until forced reboot. It can also mess up other games, processes, and even updates.

People have been warning gamers about kernel level anticheats since they were introduced, because no userland code should run with that level of privileges, period. However, people still installed those games not really understanding the threat, and that's why we have so many games with a kernel anticheat.

It's for boosting Wi-Fi reception, don't worry about it.

What Gates is doing right now is a massive publicity stunt to make people believe he's actually a "good person". He is not. He is still a disgusting billionaire that contradicts everything he preaches.

• He is constantly buying farmland, to the point where he's the biggest land owner in the whole US. This is seriously harming small farmers.

• He preaches about climate change and using cardboard straws while in his massive ($650M!) mega yacht

• The "humanitarian/healthcare" stuff he did, while helpful, was only done because he could use it as a tax writeoff. He wouldn't have done it if it wasn't the case.

Yes. It loads faster, it has integrated quality levels that increase while loading (so a web hoster doesn't need to have 5 different copies of the same image at different qualities), it has better compression and it also supports more features. It can also be lossless. Most importantly, jpeg can be converted to jpeg xl losslessly, and it will have the benefits of jpeg xl.

You could have just pasted a PNG of a Dollar General over a pic of the moon and nobody would have complained.

Oh lord please have mercy! Blacklisting the file extension right now!

He'll do it regardless. Half of what he's done was already illegal. More of what he'll do will be illegal. He doesn't care as long as nobody stops him.

As an IT, I can confirm we have to use the terminal for some sketchy workarounds every time we install Windows just to skip the Microsoft account thing

Probably years, if not more. XKCD's "What If?" has a nice explanation on a similar question, but in that case it was a portal at the bottom of the mariana trench and the question was about draining the oceans. The answer is that you probably wouldn't notice in all your lifetime.

If you use Arch, you aren't really affected. As far as we know, the backdoor only affects SSH if it is linked against liblzma, which is a requirement for libsystemd. However, Arch doesn't use that, so SSH has probably been safe. However, you should still update, because we don't know if the backdoor could've been used in other ways.

Note that if you update, xz 5.6.1-2 will be installed. This is a safe version. However, if you run xz --version, it will still report version 5.6.1.

It can't be luigi because he was at my house at that time.