Fortunately Valve publishes monthly hardware statistics so we can back claims with statistics. Linux comprises 2.89% of their surveyed share. Of that 28.31% are using Steam OS. Using the wayback machine we can check the statistics from last year. Checking the July 2024 results using the Wayback Machine shows Linux at 2.08% with Steam OS comprising 40.97% of that.

From that we can see that Linux is growing, while Steam OS is becoming less of a contributing factor to the Linux share.

It was mentioned in the LTT coverage. Aside from native ARM games they have a translation layer(FEX) to play x86 games on ARM. They'll have a "Verified" tag like the Steam Deck for compatibility. I assume you'll still be able to force trying to run unverified games.

Edit: FEX is not a Valve thing, but an existing open source x86/x86_64 emulator that Valve is using. It's not clear if they're forking it or directly contributing though.

Every generation has its nerds. I'm not suddenly a millennial just because I know how to fix a computer.

Well, that shows how well I was paying attention to the video

It's already illegal in Canada, you can report them to the Competition Bureau. I don't think its very well enforced though.

https://competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/deceptive-marketing-practices/types-deceptive-marketing-practices/ordinary-selling-price

Sometimes it's due to the battery shipping label that's required for lithium batteries. They need a box big enough to fit it as it's a fixed size and needs to fit on one side of the box.

From my understanding, it's the opposite. Zswap is the better one since it has a ZRAM-like compressed section of RAM and disk-backed swap. That's definitely an oversimplification though.

I agree it's confusing. I always look it up during setup so I know which one to use.

Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald only use the battery to power the onboard clock, the saves are on flash. If you look at the PCB you can see the flash chip on the left, it's the one that's not under the battery.

It's safe to replace the battery, but since the RTC will be starting from 0 again you won't see time based events happen until it catches up to the time stored in the save. If you're not planning on starting a new game or fixing the save file using a cart reader and save editor (alternatively a DS with GBA slot and a flash cart) there's no point in replacing the battery.

Edit: Fixed typos

For some reason it didn't click how oversized the box is. More likely they ran out of smaller ones then, or some shitty algorithm said this was the "most economical" box.

Analogue gauges still break. Even aircraft use digital displays these days, including on standby instruments. The issue is quality. If it's built like garbage, it's going to break more quickly and more frequently.

Displays on connected cars are just more susceptible as companies can push broken OTA updates that should never have passed QA, if QA even exists, but again that's a quality issue.

KDE has it, I believe it was added in either Plasma 6 or 6.1.

As a native Cebuano speaker I would have said it's Tagalog. The word choice is a bit odd for Cebuano as the common way to say it would be "Ingon sila", at least in the metro Cebu dialect of Cebuano. I could be wrong though, as you mentioned there's many dialects of it.

Linguistically Cebuano is a distinct language from Tagalog, though they're closely related as they descend from the same proto-language.

I'm Gen Z and I was still "forced" to fix tech if I wanted to use it. I mean sure, I didn't have to deal with IRQs, setting up autoexec.bat and config.sys, and so on, but if you're not at least a little bit inclined you wouldn't have the patience to fix things even when you're "forced". You'd just give up and move on. There's always something else to do. Things have gotten easier for sure, which is reducing the exposure to "falling in the rabbit hole" but one way or another interested people will get into it.

It's like how cars are getting simpler to use, but you still have car guys around. We don't say only old people know how to drive stick.

In any case, there's better things to use as a generational boundary; like how a single G5 piano note will trigger a very specific group of people.

Edit: I went off on a tangent above and got argumentative. My original comment before this one was intended to be sarcastic but tone doesn't carry well over text. This whole thing isn't really something to argue about so I'll leave it at that.