Highly recommend the Framework laptops as well. Solid build quality and easy to repair unlike basically everyone else’s glued/soldered contraptions. They also explicitly ensure Linux driver compatability.

I would be surprised if they didn’t have a fragmentation warhead in them as it would increase their effectiveness significantly. Even if their primary goal is to bash things, a small fragmentation warhead is still incredibly helpful.

As a life-long Windows user, Linux Mint’s Cinnamon UI feels very at-home. Hell, it feels more at-home than Win 11’s UI, since Win 11’s UI has so many weird choices and unnecessary changes from prior OSes.

for a stat collector this may be an impossible ask

I would put ChromeOS in it’s own category just because it is so different than the other Linux variants, just as MacOS is so different than the rest.

Windows, Linux, MacOS, ChromeOS

The main goal is to stop people from dying with hopes of making the stopping of the dying permanent. Considering Russia wants all of Ukraine and Ukraine obviously doesn’t want to be taken over by Russia, there isn’t much middle ground to build upon a ceasefire.

The best way to ensure peace is to give Ukraine the tools they need to repel the invader. Secondary tariffs on anyone helping Russia is certainly helpful in repelling the invader.

A lighthouse uses the same lens, just with the light coming from the inside. Since this is old knowledge, what is the drawback? Why isn’t this widespread?

My completely uninformed guess:

• The lens and assembly costs too much compared to just more solar panels

• The lens/panel combo is so bulky/prone to failure it becomes unreasonable to actually install/use.

Are the cops in the US really that bad?

News items are news because they are rare. The US amplifies it’s negatives in search of eyeballs and in search of fixing problems. The average officer is average, not the extreme you see on the news.

Intel has always been a two cookie company

Intel sat on 4 cores with exceptionally high power usage for a decade while everyone was screaming for more. This resulted in Apple starting up their own damn chip business, and AMD smashing through the wall with 6, 8, 12, and 16-core chips available to the masses; and core counts requiring a third damn digit if you go server. Furthermore, Intel’s process node is woefully behind TSMC’s.

Intel sat on their laurels and are getting shat on from all angles now.

I think Fabled is using ‘Moisturefox’ as a stand-in for all Firefox forks, with Waterfox being the primary basis for the stand-in.

AdGuard blocks ads on iOS.

Google blocked a bunch of ad-blocker addons in Chrome by killing the APIs they rely on. Several of my friends have been complaining about it, while the rest told them to stop using a browser that actively fights them.

I guess they are finally going to put it out to pasture. Maybe it can catch on fire one more time during the transit, for old times sake.

Yeah, Heroic is the way to play GOG games in Linux.

Though I have not tried it in VR, I have no reason to think that would present an issue here.

Yeah, I’m just going to wait and see. If it’s good, I’ll buy it, otherwise I won’t.

From this article:

the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule

The FTC is free to issue this again. They need to do it in accordance with the law next time.

DCS (Digital Combat Simulator)

Tons of well-simulated combat aircraft. IL-2 is probably the closest simulator to it.

Don’t finance DLC purchases. If you are that bad off for money, you need to just play the games you already own.

The united snakes doing what they always done

Yeah, how dare the pentagon buy arms with money they were given by Congress. Damn snakes they are!

Yeah, this is a bridge too far. If they try to enforce this, shit is going to hit the fan for them.

That said, I have no intention of giving them money in the first place. The sheer hubris of this policy…

Yeah, I’m confused on what else the Pentagon would be spending money on.