An actual game changer (literally) would be native Steam and GOG clients for Linux and BSD. Windows would still be, percentage-wise, the king of desktop gaming, but you'd see a mighty river of players move over to Unix systems if those two things came to fruition.

You can still get them, they just tend to be expensive because they're "commercial grade" by default if it's a Samsung. Sceptre still makes low end affordable non-smart TV's for a pretty good price. A 50' is under $250 at Wal Mart. We have a Sceptre 55' in our living room. All smart stuff is through HDMI Roku sticks. The sound on Sceptres tend to suck, but we picked up a nice Sony sound bar for under $99, and it's slim enough to fit under it. So, tax and all, you're still getting everything you want for under $400.

> Copium in spades, for not being able to get a driver's license (or maybe have the money to afford a car?). I bet you a chunk of cash you actually could afford one, but it's your fear of actually becoming independent on the bus (or some other equally poor*** dependent transit means) that renders you disabled to operate as a Western adult in a real sense.

What the fuck is wrong with you car nuts?

I've lived in both the UK and US. The UK is nicer to live in, period, because you don't have to drive everywhere. For people who don't have their penis semi-permanently fucking their exhaust pipe as they fantasize about the Porsche they'll afford one day, driving fucking sucks. It's minutes and sometimes hours of having to focus on moving a huge metal object between two white lines without killing anyone. It's boring, it's uncomfortable, it's just shitty in every way possible.

My experience is also most Americans, having visited the UK - or even New York City - and ridden on buses and trains, come back to the US feeling the same way.

What is it about you carfuckers that makes you think everyone is like you?

And that has what to do with his point? He's right. With very, very few exceptions.... guys like Bill Maher... the kind of people that mock Christians would never have the balls to do the same in the same manner to Muslims. That makes them cowards, hypocrites, or both.

What kind of performance hit did you notice? I'm considering giving it a try, as some older games are the only thing really keeping me on Windows at home. I've been steadily moving non-gaming family members to Linux Mint and Chrome OS Flex with the Win11 hardware apocalypse. I'm very interested in first hand reports on how well these games work in the real world with the translation layer factor. I'm assuming there has to be at least some kind of performance hit, so I'd like know your experiences with it.

LOL. How long have you been here? Because personal stalkers have been a tradition here as a long as Natalie Portman's hot grits, Stephen King dying, and Netcraft confirming that FreeBSD is dead.

Why do business schedules need to change with the season? And wouldn't it depend on the business anyway?

I'm curious to know what businesses you're even thinking of. I know farmers hate the time changes. I know office workers hate the time changes. I can't think of any reason a factory would need to open earlier during the warmer months than the colder months.

Who actually wants it?

(Also I can't believe I agree with TFG about something. Urgh. I need to shower.)

So they're giving pregnant monkeys Tylenol?

Pretty sure that whatever it is, it involves some translation of Fuck the English.

I always thought that pressing those thousands of old turbojets just sitting in storage into service for backup generators would be a good idea rather than junking them. All it would take would be one enterprising CEO to start snatching them up and when word got out, there would suddenly be a run on boneyards everywhere.

...this seems like flawed proof. A 27" screen seems a tad small. True, 25" TVs were popular in living rooms in the CRT era, but LCDs generally start in the high forties for a living room (and are priced well below what that 25" TV used to cost.)

And programme makers are generally taking advantage of the large sizes too. It's blindingly obvious watching HD content from the 2000s when it was designed to be simulcast in 4:3 for legacy TVs and watching TV even from the following decade that they've changed the way they frame shots, include smaller subjects, etc.

Do I think 2K is high enough? Probably! My 50" Plasma is a 720P and I'm not seeing any improvement in quality when I visit Best Buy. But it needs to be proven with normal TV standards.

Or do what my schools did: ban them in the classroom and give plenty of pop quizzes. If you can't do the work on your own successfully in class with nothing but your pencil, paper, and brain, you fail. Period. Today's entitled mommies will scream, but fuck 'em.

No it doesn't. It disconnects at random, and autoplay still happens even if you disable it in both Android Auto and whatever app you use to play music and in the bluetooth settings. Yeah, three fucking settings for autoplay, and all of them are ignored, and the first thing that happens when you turn your car on is something you didn't ask for starts blaring out the fucking speaker.

I'm done with Android Auto for anything but GPS. It's shit, the programmers behind it are morons, it's yet another case of Google ramming their shit preferences down everyone else's throat.

Good luck to GM, hope you can make yours work at least.

> There has been no study that the current rule does anything. They just made it up. For all we know, the current rule CAUSES more accidents than it prevents. This is not medically tested science, but just someone that said '4 paces', and then later clarified that to mean 3 meters/10 ft.

Then why does the rule exist? You think someone just came up with an arbitrary rule for no reason?

Reminder: virtually all safety regulations are WRITTEN IN BLOOD. Ignore them, and you'll die in the comfort of your own plastic submarine. And good riddance to you, but it's a shame you inevitably crush to death innocents with you.

Or just idiots, there's quite an overlap.

Musk becoming so prominent and popular and insisting on not shutting up about anything had one positive benefit: we saw that the establishment in this country is largely made up of rich psychopaths who neither care about the impact of their policies on normal people, nor understand the impact or even understand how self defeating it ultimately is. And often are just nasty not because they think it's necessary or helpful, but because they can, and they get pleasure out of making other people's lives a misery.

Oh sure, we all suspected, but Musk spoke the quiet part out loud. And he crapped on various groups in public until inevitably he crapped on one you or I was a member of, and we saw what a load of bullshit it all was.

If we survive the next few years and ever get a government that cares about people in again, even to the ludicrously low level that Democrats did (hey, at least they made a half-assed attempt to get us all healthcare), one of the first things on the priority list has to be strengthening the rights of employees and reforming how much businesses prioritize profit compared to their employees and customers. The focus, profit wise, should be on long term sustainability, not on shareholders.