Windows will be the default until suddenly it isn’t. Valve is doing amazing at destroying the core of Microsoft’s support. This story would be different if this was a decade ago, but these days most average people do their computing on phones and tablets. The ones sticking to traditional PCs are mostly gamers and now more than ever Linux is a viable alternative to Windows. Vanishingly few games can’t be played perfectly fine on Linux. Once enough gamers are using Linux it will become the default choice, and once it’s the default choice for gamers it will become the default choice for most people, at least the ones not on phones and tablets.

Just wait until they figure out that the hundreds of billions of dollars that keep showing up in deals don’t actually exist because it’s all a giant circle and all the deals cancel out. They’re literally trading the same imaginary money back and forth to generate headlines to pump the stocks. Also apparently the company formerly known as Facebook might not actually have enough money to cover the cost of their shiny new data center. If Zuckerbot manages to bankrupt his company chasing the AI fad I am going to laugh so hard I might actually pass out

The merits are that the only “precedent” they have is an idea that was spitballed a while back, never implemented, and even back then regarded as blatantly unconstitutional and unlikely to survive a legal challenge. The article even says as much itself. The entire rest of the article is based on the idea that that idea would magically work rather than being smacked down by the Supreme Court instantly. They wouldn’t even need to come up with some convoluted unconstitutional bullshit to do so, the constitution is actually on their side in this one.

They should call it the FIFA corruption prize, it would be a far more accurate name and actually match what FIFA is all about.

It still does despite what Trump and his gestapo claim. They are illegally deporting U.S. citizens. If we ever manage to dislodge these parasites the ones responsible better face jail time for these crimes, because “I was just following orders” isn’t a valid defense for breaking the law nevermind the constitution.

This idea keeps coming up and while it sounds great it has the slight problem that states don’t pay taxes, people do. Basically your suggestion is then that people living in blue states should stop paying their taxes. Now, the majority of those taxes are collected for them by the companies they work for. You can reduce (maybe eliminate I’m not actually sure if you can opt into 0% withholding) how much is collected by your employer by filing out a new W-4 form, if they let you. But even setting that aside there’s the problem that none of that will matter in the slightest when the IRS comes for you with an arrest warrant for unpaid taxes. Or they might just start garnishing your wages, I’m honestly not 100% sure how that would play out. I just know that number 1 rule is you don’t fuck with the IRS.

That would be incredibly unlikely. As a general rule the US military does not use foreign made gear, particularly anything from China. More likely it’s human error, someone fucked up the maintenance.

Ruby is a terrible language. It combines all the worst parts of Perl and Python. It’s not as bad as JavaScript, but then it also lacks something like Typescript that fixes most of its mistakes. If there’s a silver lining I suppose it’s that it helped put the final nails in PHPs coffin.

The minute I found out this was created by DHH and came preloaded with a ChatGPT link I knew it would be hot garbage. Give me an opinionated distro from someone who has a clue like John Carmack and I’ll be interested, not the madman who dreamed up Ruby on Rails (or really anything by anyone connected in any way to a train wreck like Ruby). It doesn’t surprise me in the least to find out Omarchy is a pile of fragile kludges and poorly thought out decisions.

It’s very popular to the point where multiple other distros are starting to offer its patched kernel on their distro. It’s very focused on gaming performance, particularly around Steam and Proton.

Yeah that should be completely fine then. Try dual boot, if you don’t have any issues you can always go 100% Linux at some point in the future and in the meantime the old Windows partition can provide some amount of reassurance if something does go wrong.

Is it a newer Nvidia GPU? If so I believe it pretty much works the same these days. It was mostly the older Nvidia GPUs that seemed to have a lot of problems.

So the standard setup these days. The regulation won’t be used to actually regulate the industry but instead will be used to set up a series of roadblocks that protect the major incumbent players from any smaller competition.

Cachyos seems like the general recommendation. Haven’t used it myself, but I’ve used its kernel so I guess that counts for something.

They don’t even know how to use a gamepad nevermind a keyboard and mouse. If it doesn’t have a touchscreen and big shiny icons it’s too complicated for them. One step closer to Idiocracy.

I wonder if this is a single cell bacteria in the process of becoming a virus? This could be an important evolutionary link to how viruses come about.

So I looked it up and title 10 is all the rules that govern the US armed forces. The president of the United States can trivially be shown to not have plenary authority by the simple fact that the constitution exists. That is in fact the entire point of the constitution, it ensures nobody in the United States has plenary authority. Even title 10 disproves that as it sets out the rules that US armed forces must operate under.

Seems like a lot of the early LTT crew were chaffing a bit under the LTT contract for a variety of reasons and opted to leave and start their own channels. I hope most of them succeed because honestly I always liked the other hosts on LTT far more than Linus who usually came off as more comic relief than actual tech news. As the old technical crew left I’ve found myself watching Linus Drop Tips very rarely.

Should start a crowd funding campaign to make an even bigger version out of something hard to damage like steel. Make it a regularly scheduled display throughout his entire term.

It seems like both of them are dancing around talking about the actual issue. Reading between the lines, the Steering Committee is claiming moderators aren’t moderating based on the code of conduct but based on personal beefs they have. The Moderation Team is claiming that the Steering Committee is being political and trying to enforce moderation rules that didn’t exist and targeting specific community members. Weirdly they’re both kind of claiming the same thing but blaming each other, namely that moderation is happening that isn’t following the standards.

I’d like to know what exactly set this all off. They obviously have some specific events they’re thinking of, but are refusing to say what those are. Who got banned or yelled at that started this whole thing and why?