Skill issue.

to evade SEO spam. Google needs to do something about it or they'll be irrelevant in a few years tops.

I've been a Windows to Linux waffler since I put Slackware 2.0 on a 386DX25 with 8MB RAM and 120MB ATA hdd, using Kernel 1.1.47 (thus dating the start of my Linux saga) with A, N, D, and enough of the X set to run Netscape 2.0. And on that system I played (besides the epic classics like Nethack) Doom and Abuse. I ran Windows 7 for some time because it was a great place to run most games, even most of the vintage ones, and a tolerable place to run other things. I ran Linux occasionally in VMware Player or from USB stick for tasks that Windows couldn't or wouldn't do gracefully.

Now I run Devuan 5, and I am having a fairly excellent experience gaming with a combination of Lutris, PlayOnLinux, Steam, and Proton-GE. I only have a Pinnacle Ridge (1600AF) and a 4060 16GB, but I only game at 1080p. I got the version with more VRAM for LLM stuff, and so if/when I do get a 4k monitor, the card isn't worthless. I am frequently surprised by how many games I actually can run with this combination. With the exception of games with Windows kernel DRM, by far the vast majority of them can be made to work well.

If I were only gaming, I'd probably be on Windows 10. But Linux now is a very viable place to do a lot of gaming, and thanks to work put in to support the Steam Deck, a lot of games will now run very well indeed. Publishers of older games are also putting in a fair bit of work to make games function on Linux today. The new Fallout 4 patch coming out (I know that game is old AF, but it has an extremely active community) is Steam Deck Verified, but the game has run at least as well on Linux as on Windows for years now.

I do sometimes indeed still use normal Wine, but more commonly I use Proton-GE. Try it out, it's impressive.

You not picking up what I'm putting down doesn't mean I'm not putting it down for you.

The current streaming service apocalypse. A bunch of streaming services while they haven't gone under or so on profitable that they are licensing out content again and Netflix has been able to pick up a ton of shows and movies. That plus enforcing anti-password sharing policies against heavy users while being smart enough not to enforce them against light users has let them boost subscribers.

I had every intention of canceling it the moments they started blocking me from password sharing but they never did that. I'm sure that's because I'm a pretty light user but so is my kid that I share my password with. Meanwhile heavier users seem to be getting shut down pretty heavy-handedly..

if it ain't in your head they can use it.

You mean the guy who just had all charges against him dropped?

under Obama during his second term (when he had a little more political capital and could risk the inevitable lobbying backlash from the diploma mill industry). It all got rolled back under Trump. That's how/why the "University" of Phoenix closed for a while and then reopened.

I suspect in Biden's second term he'll do the same thing, but right now it would be too risky to spend that political capital, just like it was under Obama.

then often the loan terms are such that after X years of payments the loans are forgiven. This is how/why Biden's forgiven around $142 billion in loans. The terms of the loans were met and the loan officers were (illegally) still collecting. No punishment or requirement to pay back the ill gotten gains of course, let's not get too crazy...

But at these diploma mills the loans are super shady, so I doubt it applies unless the CFPB gets involved like they did here.

They don’t care what happens as long as the suits get paid.

Depends on how many free vacations https://www.propublica.org/art... and motor homes https://apnews.com/article/sup... Bytedance is willing to gift.

I'll make a wager with you.

Travel to Mexico. Mail your passport and identification back to the USA. Try crossing at any of the "open" areas and report on your difficulty.

Are you talking about Russia and Ukraine or Israel and Palestine?

Putting the ram on the package means both making everything cheaper and smaller. Having equal length traces between modern CPUs and memory is not feasible so you also have to add latency to compensate. Apple probably gets a measurable performance boost this way, but making the system cheaper and smaller certainly matters more.

None of that excuses selling such a low-memory configuration at all, or the prices Apple charges for versions with larger storage, let alone having soldered storage. Ram on package makes sense, it saves space and significant money. SSD soldered makes little sense, it saves almost no space or money. The soldered SSD is on the same kind of bus it would be on if it weren't soldered!

It is retaliation in English, but it is not retaliation in legalese.

And only the latter matters when it comes to having something done about a firing.

I had an employer who did not pay the wages legally required by the state. The state was unwilling to do anything about my wage claim. Although what he did was technically grand theft (here in California, wage theft over a certain amount is now legally grand theft) they had no interest in prosecuting. This is why wage theft exceeds all other theft combined, it is not at all enforced. District Attorneys across the nation are not willing to do their jobs and prosecute. But once we got to my retaliation complaint things got a lot more serious and I was able to secure a settlement.