the hunger by the 1% to remove as much humanity from the workplace is sickening.

they fully know they are destroying the middle and lower classes (even more than they already have).

they, like the R party, just dont care. they think they are rich and insulated enough. they never cared what their own people need. the 'let them eat cake' time has come back again, but even worse.

there will be no thought to social systems needed to support the unemployed (which will be many of us, given enough time).

I'm glad I'm retiring soon. I would not want to compete in a job market that bosses think can be done by computer, alone.

and I would not want to be the 'prompt meister' to try to coax answers from the machines that make sense.

some see a great future with AI. I see nothing but doom and gloom. the greed factor is strong in humans and the class disparity will cause rioting and civil wars.

maybe not wars. the US has created a special police force that is above the law, so any uprisings will EASILY be dealt with. they thought about that. ICE is not just for foreigners. its a general purpose police force answerable only to 1 person.

people, please show me I'm wrong. but all signs point to a very bad future for 95% of the 'thinks for a living' workforce.

I hate sites that do this. Passwordless with an email token to login seems to be the trend for a lot of smaller ecommerce sites. It is so much more of a hassle to check my email, then check my spam folder where the token probably landed rather than just fill int he password from my password manager.

PINs are only for logging into the terminal, they aren't valid for network logins. You set a numeric PIN for your home PC because it is relatively physically secure. For a laptop you use a fingerprint or a FaceID. You are also free to tell windows you want to use an alphanumeric "PIN", at which point it is just a password.

Jim-bob doesn't have qualified immunity and a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.

You guys write the laws, how about making it illegal for the government to buy such data without a warrant? You could also make it illegal to sell the data without consumer consent while you are at it. Cover things from both ends...

Bazzite is a gaming-focussed distro that has steam pre-installed as well as controller-friendly launchers for non-steam games.

Most people have 1Gb or less to their ISPs anyway. For those with a faster connection, only a slim minority will ever connect to ethernet.

You can switch accounts pretty easily on the steam deck. It's not as smooth as on the PS5 since it is in a settings menu, and IIRC it does a soft reboot when you do it, but it is functional. I've flipped mine to my sons account and back a few times when we were traveling. Takes about 30s or so assuming you've already provisioned the account onto the device before. It takes a couple of minutes to do the whole Steam Guard song and dance with the authenticator the first time.

It's a fixed configuration that developers can target and test against. It's within the realm of possibility that major publishers and larger indies will start shipping with a profile optimized to run smoothly on it, just like the Steam Deck. Valve will probably add a new "Runs great on Steam Machine" badge to games with confirmed compatibility just like they do with the steam deck.

In addition, Valve will probably debug HDMI CEC integration with all the major TV manufacturers. Something that is not easy or cheap to do. They will have integrated controller support and a UI designed to be navigated with a controller. It's basically a more powerful steam deck without the design and cost tradeoffs you need to make in order for the thing to be a handheld.

These billionaire dipshits think the corpo-fascism surveillance state was the GOOD PART.

but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

It's hard to find something that isn't a SUV or bus-like minivan if you want a family vehicle that can take more than 2 kids who need boosters or car seats. Fix the CAFE standards so that station wagons are legal and profitable again please!

Yeah, they all need to go to the Hague, but that will never happen...

It's in the name.

Summary of the entire silly discussion:

a) If one favors cats over birds, cats are pets, birds are food.

b) If one favors birds over cats, birds are pets, cats are pests.

Options not included in the discussion, but welcome to make things even livelier:

d) If one favors both birds and cats, both are pets and cats walk with bright red collars and bells so the cats can roam freely and the birds can survive.

e) If one favor neither, all are hunting targets.

f) If one favors dogs, they need come and say something offtopic.

g) If one's a fundamentalist Christian nutcase, all animals are automatons whose existence serves the sole purpose of pleasuring humans, and they won't be in Heaven because they lack souls.

h) If one's a Muslim, cats are clean and you're a sinner.

i) If one's...

Etc. etc. etc.