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Most are designed so that the wheels don’t fall off at all

If I’m right about where this is, it’s also right by Pearson Airport, and is the busiest stretch of road in North America by average daily traffic.

Big punitive settlements aren’t really a thing in Canada. He probably already has to justify to the court how Google’s action led to him actually losing $1.5m. If his claim for damages was unrealistic the case would just be tossed.

(obligatory IANAL)

You just know some exec is making a bonus from some invented metric that this supports.

If you’re using one of the clients that supports piefed (Interstellar does, not sure about others) you can use piefed’s /r/random feature to find new communities. I can’t figure out how to do it in the app, but https://piefed.social/r/random should work.

I’ve been running games that advertise they run in linux for a few years, but only within the last 6 months or so started trying out made-for-Windows games, and it’s really incredible just how good the Proton compatibility layer is now. All of the games I’ve tried are at least playable - most run perfectly, a few are a bit slow, and some you have to tweak settings but there’s a big database of how to get different games to work at appdb.winehq.org. Not one of the games in my library don’t run on linux at all, other than a couple with kernel anti-cheats that I don’t play any more anyway.

I was dual-booting but a couple months ago I deleted my Windows partition and now I just run linux full time. If a game only runs on Windows, I just won’t buy it.

I mean, you train your LLM on search engines that inject ads into everything you look up, it’s going to learn to inject ads into everything it vomits out too.

Well gee, that doesn’t sound like a nightmare of a Ponzi scheme at all

Ahh, I remember the first time I heard the intro music to Star Control through my Sound Blaster instead of through my motherboard’s piezo speaker. Like the audio version of The Wizard Of Oz switching to colour.

The Chipmunks Movie, not the live action one but the animated one from the mid-80s. I had nightmares for years about a scene where their hot air balloon gets blown around by a hurricane, which I watched I guess around the same time as Hurricane Hugo.

It’s also very possible that my brain invented the whole thing.

Why not set up a Polymarket bet for how Polymarket is going to handle this? Or whether they face any kind of legal repercussions at all.

Definitely not a waste to keep your skills sharp. You will be needed when the inevitable crash comes and nobody knows how to even troubleshoot, let alone code a fix.

If you enjoy the original Civilization, be sure to try out Freeciv. Basically the original game but with expanded gameplay and updated for compatibility. It’s OpenTTD to Transport Tycoon, if you’re familiar with those games. It also has multiplayer features, and there are sites that run turn-per-day MMO events.

The same EA that was recently sold to and is now part-owned by an investment firm owned by Jared Kushner and with ties to Donald Trump? Yeah, that’s not getting kernel access to any of my systems.

Many drivers won’t stop unless they’re forced to by a physical barrier, and some still won’t stop. Ever seen those videos from Europe of bus lane bollards that retract when a bus approaches and pop back up again after the bus passes, and the cars wrecked on them? Those are much more solid barriers than these plastic things.

We have those where I live. Crosswalk compliance is decent here, but these don’t get anyone to stop who wasn’t going to stop anyway, and they get stolen all the time.

They won’t last long enough to be damaged by ice before someone drives into them.

I’ve read the same argument in the other direction: that repeated thermal cycling of electronic components degrades more than keeping them at operating temperature constantly. I’m sure there’s some truth to both arguments and the best approach depends on particular use cases.

As far as needing to power down to reset the state of the hardware and the OS fully, that’s totally unnecessary with linux.

I pretty much only ever shut down if I need to open the case for some reason, or if the battery dies.

There is occasionally an update where things don’t work right without rebooting, but shutting down is pretty much completely unnecessary unless you’re concerned about power consumption.

US automakers designed EVs that are really just toys for the wealthy, not a family mover or grocery getter or daily commuter. It’s not just the EVs: I’m in Canada and the market is different but not that different, and I don’t know anyone who drives a US-brand vehicle smaller than an F150. I haven’t set foot in a US dealership in maybe 30 years. US automakers are apparently baffled that they’re not selling luxury second vehicles at a time when affordability has been on the decline for 40+ years.

Meanwhile, in markets with reasonably affordable, well-built, and compact EVs available, they’re selling like crazy.