Domestic buyers have to have money, so they have to have jobs, etc etc. They have official unemployment over 5% and among employable youth it's over 13%. Cars which sit degrade. This is more true for ICEVs but it's still true for EVs. And actually it's more true for EVs if they aren't kept charged, but I was assuming basic maintenance (washes, waxes, fluid changes, battery charging) being done in both cases to be generous.

I agree that those two things should happen at the same time. But I stand by the vast majority of AC comments being trolling or worse (e.g. uncreative trolling) and the "feature" being a huge detriment to the quality of Slashdot.

I don't know many people these days, so I'm the wrong guy to ask. However, it's super common for people with fiber to have 2.5GbE to the routermodem. I also live in a BFE county that's just now getting fiber to ONE city, so even if I knew a lot of people, I'd still be the wrong person to ask. But I'm also not representative in general, so again, wrong person to ask.

So it's not a thought terminating cliche numbskull.

A thought terminating cliche exists to end debate by dumping a simple and wrong statement.

You are already thinking about the implications of whether or not it's possible to be happy with a 40-hour work week. That's thinking you're doing is why it's not a thought terminating cliche. And if you had any self-awareness you would have figured that out all on your lonesome

2.5 GbE is cheap and common, you can find it on $100 motherboards. Switches are very cheap, even managed ones. There's simply no good reason not to use 2.5 GbE.

I'd call that "Another day in the Trump administration."

My composite score would have automatically disqualified me from most "selective" colleges. So I guess you could say I failed the ACT, by UCSD's standards.

You're entitled to your opinion.

I did get into a college, yes. Certainly not one that was considered "selective", like the one we're discussing here.

People with college aspirations still take the ACT/SAT, or at least they did 5 years ago when my kid was going through that process. This college isn't necessarily "broaden[ing] the applicant pool, based on concerns that otherwise qualified students were deterred from applying by standardized testing requirements" only by allowing people that didn't take the test to apply. They are also allowing people like me, who flubbed the ACT but were otherwise qualified, to apply. Prior to 2020 I literally wouldn't have been allowed to even apply because my number didn't meet their hard threshold.

The United States spent $1.3 billion to manufacture money in 2017. If it takes a 0.0001% increase in my tax rate to not have to carry coins around sign me the hell up. Of all the stupid stuff this country pisses away money on, saving some portion of $1.3B rates about on the same level of concern as the dust bunnies under my fridge.

Oddly enough at least last I heard Marvel rivals is fully supported. It can best be described as playable just because it's a relatively modern game and the steam deck is getting long in the tooth but the company does actually support it and when it's broken they've fixed it.

The last establishment I accidentally wandered into wouldn't give you change in singles. $2 bills only.

Assuming your numbers are accurate, a coin lasts 4.5x longer than a bill, but also costs 3.125x more. Sure, it's cheaper for the lifecycle, but it's not like THAT much different. (.0033 $/year for a coin, and .0048 for a bill.) Not to mention the lifecycle of each. For me, 99% of the time, a dollar coin goes from the store, to my pocket, to my change jar, then back to the bank in a couple years. (Just like every other coin) The dwell time for a dollar bill in my wallet is measured in days. Assuming any significant portion of the population is similar, how many extra dollar coins would you need in circulation to fill demand if (like pennies) a significant portion of them are in jars at home instead of in active circulation?

Um... People that want to play PC games in the living room that's who.

There are tons of games that never get released on console that people like to play or that have inferior versions on the console.

The biggest issue here I think is going to be that the console only has 16 gigs of main RAM and I think it has 8 GB of video RAM.

It is at least upgradable but I think you really want 32 GB of RAM.

The Xbox and the PS5 for example have several strategy games that basically grind to a halt 2/3 of the way into the game because it's just too much for the CPU and RAM on the Xbox or the PS5.

Also if you already have a large library of games this is a convenient device that may be affordable with the price of RAM and hard drive skyrocketing because of AI bullshit.

AI is guzzling down all the RAM and hard drives so it's going to be tough for valve to source hardware at a price that's affordable.

I'll bet you a nickel which way the rounding will go.

I have experienced this myself, but I have also experienced the reverse many times. There are also many games that won't run on Linux at all. Most of these have Windows kernel DRM, so I wouldn't buy them anyway myself, but I'm not the whole market.