Jets ain’t great this year. Though I feel games like this really show the dead weight that needs to be traded away.

I sometimes wonder why we often lead with Connor and Scheifele; they’re excellent scorers largely due to their smarts and playmaking; they’re not really lights out talent 1-on-1. Sometimes I’d like to see us throw some others out first.

Honestly, though, that game was so well played and tight, it feels like a let-down for it to end in a shootout. Felt like playoffs and OT should just give them another 20 minutes to go for it.

I’ve never seen a puck bounce as far back off the post as Morrisey’s did. Wild.

Well, he called Greenland “Iceland” 4 times in a meandering, somewhat incoherent ramble of a speech.

I know! Hard to believe!

I’m really loving watching the 2nd line these days. The chemistry continues to grow and it really feels like the first two lines are capable offensively now. The 4th line is doing well at being a 4th line too. Biggest issue is 3rd line feels like its under-performing, but I think that it’s going to take the season for Lowry to really recover from his hip surgery.

Rather poetic less than 24 hours after Trump paraded out a map with American flags over Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela.

I mean, I understand this is all reductive, but I think as a CEO the concept of “commercial viability” is kind of an important one since you need money to pay your employees. And players have always had the power; just don’t buy slop you don’t like. Buy stuff you do like. Sheesh.

Seems like suspension without pay would be reasonable. That said, I have no idea what Gimil’s charter or laws or like. Probably a part of civics I should brush up on.

Projected Lineup (Updated @ 9:30AM):

Forwards
Kyle Connor - Mark Scheifele - Alex Iafallo
Cole Perfetti - Jonathan Toews - Gabriel Vilardi
Nino Niederreiter - Adam Lowry - Vladislav Namestnikov
Cole Koepke - Morgan Barron - Tanner Pearson

Defence
Josh Morrissey - Dylan DeMelo
Dylan Samberg - Elias Salomonsson
Logan Stanley - Luke Schenn

Goalies
Connor Hellebuyck (starting)
Eric Comrie

Jonathan Toews on facing the Blackhawks in Chicago as a visitor for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yur-jsw6e7o

7-day suspension with pay…so he, like, gets a paid vacation for having terrible conduct?

Jets win! Final score 6–2.

Goals for the Jets:

Jonathan Toews (Vilardi, Scheifele)
Tanner Pearson (Barron, DeMelo)
Josh Morrissey (Scheifele, Toews)
Logan Stanley Gabriel Vilardi (Morrissey, Scheifele) Mark Scheifele (Iafallo, Connor)

Goals for Minnesota:

Danial Yurov (Middleton, Tarasenko)
Marcus Johansson (Boldy, Hartman)

I didn’t get a chance to watch tonight, but seems like the Jets are finding their footing after the Christmas break. Points for players all over the place these days.

I’m particularly happy for Toews finally starting to find his groove. He might end up becoming a critical piece I think a lot were hoping he would.

Looks like Barron is back in the lineup tonight; it’s nice to have him back. I wonder if I’d have preferred Pearson to get the healthy scratch and keep Zhilkin in though, he’s had a pretty decent couple games and I think Barron would mesh really well with the young guys.

Just not sure what Pearson adds to that line.

Projected Lineup for tonight:

Forwards
Kyle Connor - Mark Scheifele - Alex Iafallo
Cole Perfetti - Jonathan Toews - Gabriel Vilardi
Nino Niederreiter - Adam Lowry - Vladislav Namestnikov
Cole Koepke - Morgan Barron - Tanner Pearson

Defencemen
Josh Morrissey - Dylan DeMelo
Dylan Samberg - Elias Salomonsson
Logan Stanley - Luke Schenn

Goaltenders
Connor Hellebuyck
Eric Comrie

EDIT: Zhilkin replaced with Barron.

This is fantastic. I’m not some Linux fanboy, but I am increasingly disillusioned that Microsoft cares to make Windows good in any meaningful way. Vulkan seems to be a far more efficient low-level graphics API compared to DirectX these days, and what’s been coming out of Valve seems to support that idea: a lot of performance issues on Linux are solvable problems.

I’m writing this from my Steam Deck which has become a more than capable general use PC even on its limited hardware. I was planning on getting a Steam Machine, and this ongoing work Valve is doing only makes me more confident in using that cute little box as a full jump away from the Microsoft stack. I recognize that’s not a viable option for everyone out there, but I’m excited to try.

Jets win 5-4! 3 games in a row!

Tonight’s projected lines for the Winnipeg Jets:

Connor - Scheifele - Iafallo
Perfetti - Toews - Vilardi
Niederreiter - Lowry - Namestnikov
Koepke - Zhilkin - Pearson

Morrissey - DeMelo
Samberg - Pionk
Stanley - Schenn

Great article. I’ve used my Steam Deck as a very capable desktop PC. I do about 85% of my work on an iPad I take around with me, but whenever I bump into more friction than I’d like with it, I just pop over to Desktop mode on my Steam Deck.

Flatpaks seem the future for Linux as they simply abstract away the dependency hell that can get less knowledgeable users in big trouble. Having used macOS/OS X for many years, user agents as an alternative to system daemons are familiar to me, but I didn’t realize that SteamOS supported them; good to know!

I think that immutable operating systems are going to become more and more popular purely for the various security benefits that can come with them. Hopefully we continue to see the tools adapt to let us do more and more in user-space so we can get the benefits with few drawbacks.

This is a good list. The reality is that at the end of the day, you have a really important question to answer: Do I want access to this outside of my home network?

If you don’t, this can all be pretty easy; if you do, it gets significantly more complicated for most solutions.

Keeping it internal, it can be very simple: get Docker, fire up some containers of software you like, make sure you have your ports mapped properly and you’re off to the races. You’ll want to set up a system to make sure you’re at least aware if new versions of your software are released so you can upgrade, and that you have a backup system in place for your data.

I have a few things I now run on my home network, including:

• Homebridge - enables non-Homekit smart devices to be used with HomeKit
• Jellyfin - Media sharing
• Bitwarden (via the Vaultwarden fork) - Password manager
• Forgejo - Code repository
• Podsync - Convert YouTube channels to video Podcast feeds

I see your point, but I also think that Steam is so much more than what your example gives. In your case, Steam also has Instagram built in, it has photography forums, it has low-level interfaces to standardize hardware control across multiple camera brands and types, it has a body & lens store, it offers additional software to aid in photo editing, and… and… and…

It’s really an impressive accomplishment what Valve have done with Steam and the hardware/software in its orbit. And that’s not even mentioning all the work that they’ve poured into the open-source community to make Linux a viable gaming platform. Yes, it serves them all in the end, but little of it is easy and it’s all taken a lot of work over the years.