Gabe Newell is 63 years old, he can still have many years to live, but he won't stay president of Steam forever. I fear that when he'll step down, the enshittification will begin.

All the ones I've tried on Steam, officially supported or not, work perfectly fine on Linux. The only exception, being a few (but also popular) comptetitive multiplayer games that included kernel-level "anticheat".

People who think this is a good idea obviously live alone and work in an individual sealed office. Otherwise they'll know that as soon as you start talking on your own, people around will either ask you what's up, or get really worried about your mental health. Try to imagine an open space office, with a dozen people mumbling to they're laptops in unison, and how is that supposed to work out.

That is because string theory has not been proved, while anthropogenic climate change has been proved over and over again. You do not dissent climate change, you are just wrong about it.

The point is that there are press articles about it.

Among those 4.3 billions, about a billion are aged 12 or less (forbidden from having and IG account because of TOS), some 400k are older than 65. It leaves less than 3 billion potential users.

The glass fiber of fiberglass is recycled, but the resin is currently burnt away.

Choral molecules can react differently with left and right variants of other chiral molecules. This does not mean they do not react at all with the left version.

What a surprise, who could have guessed?

In theory, but in practice I found that its performances are closer to that of the backing HDD than the SSD. It is similar for the bcache kernel module to be fair. Using ZFS on HDD with L2ARC and LOG on SSD is comically slow. The only thing I found to give a real performance improvement is LVM cache, which is as fast as SSD as long as there is room on the SSD.

"the world of mousing and keyboarding around will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z [using] MS-DOS"

I'm pretty sure Bill Gates wrote more or less the same thing in his 1995 book "The Road Ahead". He was wrong then, I'm not confident they are right now.

âpâ¥âiâ¥You may be confusing your suburban or urban experience for everybody's experience.â/i⥠âpâ¥The majority of people leave in urban or suburban area. About 83% in the USA.

Chips from Taiwan are subjected to whatever tariff there is on chips from Taiwan. Chips made in Arizona have no tariff, but they may have to pay tariffs to buy materials and equipment. Which may turn out to be higher if the tariff is chosen by a rambling psychopath

A phone is designed to not produce an harmfully amount of sound, no matter what signal you send down the line.

A lifetime guarantee refers to the life of the product. I.e. a pair of waterproof shoes with lifetime guarantee, are guaranteed to be waterproof until they have a hole. In general guarantees only guarantee that the product is free from fabrication defects and will keep working as advertised during its lifetime.