On one hand, I agree with you, I want everything done the old way and all my packages updated, and for all that software to still work.

On the other hand, that's not actually realistic, and a lot of people have to do a lot of hackery and patchwork in order to make it be like that.

I chose the version of Lutris that you get from their apt repo. If it installed extra 3d libraries, I didn't notice because disk space is cheap. I noticed it installed extra copies of runners available to Steam. I'm not thrilled about it, but I only noticed because I was was watching (I like to watch... status messages, that is.)

I run Devuan and I mostly run the versions of things I can get at least from backports, and I am running testing now, but it is now in rc status so that is not very testish. But sometimes, if you want the latest version of something, the best options are a flatpak or appimage. I also have found myself using docker containers to build a lot of software, and to run some services that are just problematic to get working otherwise.

According to this, the class action has been settled. And no more claims can be filed beyond 2022. On the other hand, there was a UK group that tried to sue the Vatican for reparations for the occupation of the British Isles by the Romans. So I guess lawsuits die hard over there.

Microsoft has entered the discussion.

You assume that kids get their phones from their parents. Or will California resort to requiring a Form 4473* for all phone transfers?

*Hint: It doesn't work for firearms. It just creates an income opportunity for cartels.

Doors? Top? What part of Just Enough Essential Parts did they miss?

Yes. But it was tried and settled once. Not repeatedly.

Why would you want socialism? It has been tried in more than 100 countries by now, and every time it included concentration camps and related goodies (strictly speaking, there were close shaves like Grenada which had only disorganized killing -- but given that it lasted only 4 years in a nation with 100k people, two towns and a bunch of villages, I'll give it a pass). Also, every major brand of socialism: soviet, nazi, maoist -- includes a massive push for propaganda and social control. Are you going to suggest that current socialist countries (China, N. Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc) don't use dark patterns and AI in their propaganda?

Capitalism's record isn't so stellar either, but at least it's not 100% bad and not so extreme. But then, the word "capitalism" is way too fuzzy to use in a serious discussion, we'd need to define it first. And the definition that was used the most, in countries that had dedicated universities of Marxism-Leninism and had mandatory lectures in all other university departments, was "capitalism = every economist system other than communism, including those that don't use money at all (like early kibbutzim), but excluding cavemen ("primitive communism")".

The other major definition is free market. But those billionaires you've spoken of are not so keen for free market, they prefer corporatism.

Thus: your post about capitalism vs socialism deserves to be at -1 not +4, as it brings no valid contribution to the discussion.

... settled already? With fines and penalties, mandated fixes or vehicle buybacks, etc? Isn't this sort of like beating a dead horse? Or beating the glue that the dead horses were rendered into?

to serve up advertisement and privacy-invadind SaaS at lightning speed. I can't wait!

"account owners (parents)" might end up being your 15 y.o. daughter's 26 y.o. boyfriend.

Dial the timeline back a few decades and ask yourself why all the middle school girls were suddenly dating 20+ y.o. guys with mullets who drove Trans Ams.

... an East Coast thing. Out here in the West, our Democrats slavishly follow California.

[citation needed]

Windows 11 is causing me grief daily, and the UI is provably worse than it was in 10.

People don't appreciate how aerodynamic cars can be at this time, and have been since the late eighties. My 1989 240SX fastback had an 0.21 Cd. Yeah, the Aptera has a lot less frontal area, but it also has a bunch of stupid shapes sticking out that a car doesn't have to have.

Same for three wheeled car projects. The only time they ever made sense was for war-ravaged Europe trying to get back on its feet and saving scarce materials and manufacturing time by making simpler 3-wheeled microcars with fewer complex parts. It seems like a good idea at first glance, you reduce rolling resistance, you could potentially reduce wind resistance, you save money on parts. But the driving experience is shit; you can't corner as hard so your ability to avoid obstacles is reduced, the three tracks mean you drive through more potholes and hit more other obstacles (all kinds of shit falls off vehicles) that you could have dodged if you had two tracks, replacement of the third tire is more complicated than on a normal four-wheeled vehicle, you can only tow them on a rollback and not with a wrecker, etc.

Three-wheeled vehicles are shit, and any business plan which involves selling them in volume is stupid.

No, only the ones involving determining eligibility for social services that should be replaced by UBI.