I agree that suicide is a personal decision, so I don't think a person should be criminalized for attempting it. But it's inconvenient for society, so others should be dissuaded from encouraging it. Even if you remove a humanitarian motive, and please don't but this is slashdot so there will be people who will get mad if one doesn't, there are good reasons why the legal system should act to reduce suicide.

Yeah this. Jet Set/Grind Radio looked amazing on the Dreamcast because it didn't render stuff it didn't have to when creating the cel shaded look. Therefore you could have big complex scenes that performed fluidly at all times. I thought that was the point of this game which I haven't played, get off my lawn etc etc.

There's several OSS FPSes built around this concept, but all of them that I've seen have been pretty lo-fi so it would make sense to me that it would take a commercial title to sell it. Finding out that they aren't doing it is not even funny, but just weird to me.

If you're using your phone for something that winds up being the subject of an investigation, then your phone can be subpoena'd. Even if everything is on the up and up, and everything on your device is ducky, you can still be inconveniently deprived of your device for a time. Therefore you should never use your device for work in any way other than calling in to it, which doesn't leave any traces on your device that it doesn't also leave on the network.

Availability of guns enabled the crime of course, but I don't think that being raised around lots of guns is the whole problem here. Grandma said they're all MAGAs. He was raised around a lot of violent rhetoric in combination with guns. Did he have to be wired wrong, or was being programmed from an early age enough?

You can easily add new bus stops near rail, it's not as easy to add rail near bus lines except by luck.

Safe and clean are going to require some upgrades to society. They would be cheaper than what we've been doing, but then some people would get things for free that other people are paying for, and then lots of people would be mad. And not without reason, but not usually for the reason they'd be mad for.

I have cable, it's expensive and they keep raising the prices while offering deals at now (given how much they've increased our bill) around a third of the price for new customers. I live in a small city so I'm not going to see it any time soon, but fiber is going in somewhat nearby and I'd sure like some of that here.

A doubtful premise given Microsoft history, as I've experienced all kinds of minor upgrades/updates breaking software on various forms of Windows over the decades. But even given that, it won't all run it equally well, and Windows 11 is festooned with more crap which has to be dodged. They've also dicked up the interface regarding snap and multiple monitors in a way that causes my mouse pointer to warp incredibly unpleasantly, but I don't try to do multimonitor on a system I also play games on any more so I'll be honest and admit that's not affecting me in that way.

Your point about the legal status is granted. Otherwise, it has a longer support life than Windows 10 Pro. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft supports it when there's more improperly activated users than legit ones. I'm not depending on Windows for anything I can think of these days, but I assume I'll need it to run some configuration utility at some point.

IME "support" is mostly notional anyway. In terms of what will run, it's true that a bunch of PvP games for Windows require Windows kernel DRM, and will not run on Linux. Or, you have a degraded experience where you cannot connect to most servers, and there may also be no anticheat functionality at all. So yes, if you want to play those games, you will still need Windows.

Otherwise, most games seem to work on Linux now, including a bunch of older games that don't work well on modern Windows. Market share is only a matter of time if Microsoft keeps alienating users.

Considering that most fully practicing Muslims consider watching porn just as evil as eating pork, I don't think there are going to be too many people upset.

I would argue that mergers should be banned if one of the merger parties has more than x% market share. This would apply on a national basis but also in individual local markets (e.g. if both supermarkets in a small town want to merge, that would be blocked unless the alternative is that one or both of the supermarkets go bust).

Seen plenty of smaller mergers work out good for both the merger parties and their customers/the market as a whole (usually because the new entity is not big enough to be able to control whatever market(s) they are operating in but are big enough to be able to better compete with other players.

"I am willing to bet any of the Trump picks are better than you, both ethically and professionally."

A number of them were clearly picked, off of the Faux News rotation no less, specifically because they have no ethics and no professional qualifications for their jobs. So absofuckinglutely not.

"Plus, there is still very little native game support."

Do not want. Ironically, it's easier to run old Windows games on Linux than old Linux games.

"Which historical trends are you looking at?"

People only getting more days off through social unrest and violence.

The problem is a combination of resource-hogging DRM being forced on these games by publishers and developers not being given the time needed to actually optimize their games for performance (although as someone who has been involved with performance optimizations in a game engine, I can feel for those who have to do it, its not always easy)

Normally I am against forced breakups because they cause more harm than good (like the idea to break up Google and force them to spin off Chrome or Android or the idea some politicians have had in Australia to break up our big supermarket duopoly) but in this case a breakup of Ticketmaster would be good.

That plus some restrictions (e.g. no more exclusivity deals with venues/acts/artists/bands/teams/managers/etc and banning both the new-ticket-sales part of the business and the used-ticket-sales part of the business from selling used tickets) would solve a lot of the problems IMO.