Which is ironic because they completely do support that happening for the owning class, but not for them, even though they are promoting their own demise by supporting that class.

L3 is not used as direct communication would be impossible with today’s technology. A relay satellite at L4 or L5 would be required. There are no L4 or L5 satellites right now but L5 is being planned for a space weather satellite that monitors solar activity.

"Hateful virtue signaling" by using her full name?

So I take it you will not explain anything you mean. We are supposed to read your mind about your grievances then.

Only if it wears a toga.

From what I can tell at the places I've worked: Macs cost a little more; however, they are only slightly more than business PCs. Remember large companies do not buy the cheapest consumer models from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. They get the business models. They are cheaper when it comes to maintenance. Incidentally one coworker with transitioned over to a Mac in one day. She had a Dell laptop and was visiting our offices for a meeting when her laptop just died. To fix her laptop would require a week to get the parts. It was a few years old, and she was due for a new laptop. But they only had Macs or the largest Dell laptops readily available at our offices. So they copied everything over to her new Mac.

[sarcasm]Yes because Steam 100% controls all the software that they sell. No one else sells this software at all like GOG, Epic, Microsoft, every publisher themselves, etc. Also no one makes PC hardware that plays games. No one at all.[/sarcasm]

It's $300 for 1.5TB more. Without part numbers we can't really tell it that is slightly more than component cost or not. A Gen4 or Gen5 NVMe SSD is around $300 though. Also performance and reliability is better if the SSD has a small RAM cache which adds to the cost.

I priced out a similar build for over $1,000 today. I probably could have saved some money by bargain hunting and waiting. That's the sad state of PC parts due to the current situation. Unfortunately the $1049 price is a deal today.

If you can buy those components and build this for $500 these days, good luck to you. Also why is it Steam's job to subsidize your gaming habits?

This time is already different. You don't need a crystal ball, you need glasses.

I guess by your virtues means we do not call people by their legal names, then sure. However like HST, JWST, etc, abbreviations are used by everyone to soothe your hurt feelings.

The people at Debian who chose to adopt systemd with less than the usual amount of debate, and at other distributions as well. I thought you participated in these discussions at the time? Guess not.

sysvinit has never stopped me from booting, but systemd has. In fact I got into a situation where in order to troubleshoot booting, I would have had to use a debugger. That's when I noped out forever.

sysvinit with startpar and the LSB-derived daemon management boilerplate is more than adequate. If you want to use another init system, feel free, but there is absolutely no justification for deprecating sysvinit. You do not need sleep commands, you need to read the headers of some init scripts and see that they contain dependency information, then use dependency chaining to ensure that scripts fire in the correct order. It's really not different from filling out the appropriate fields of a unit file.

Middle class jobs? They sure don't fucking pay like middle class jobs. Most people who think they are in the middle class are in fact not.

That's not how it's going to work. In the past you'd replace people with automation and then they'd go get a job that was harder to automate. Well, now the job that's harder to automate requires a four year degree or better, and they're looking at automating that job away as well.

Humanity punted on sharing the wealth when this became an issue, but now there's no more time to waste not solving it, because we're at an inflection point. You're going to care if your job is lost to automation today if the other job you were going to do is lost to automation tomorrow.

Nobody said otherwise but you had to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that you missed the point.

The Luddites didn't say we shouldn't advance technology. They said that the advances in technology should benefit everyone, not just the capitalists at the top of the pyramid.

You are attacking a position that not even the Luddites held. Enjoy playing with your straw man, but you are adding absolutely nothing to the conversation.