I'm HODLing my 100 Trillion ZWL. It'll bounce back any day now, you'll see!

Once when my daughter was 4, I told her that she'd had enough screen time and needed to turn off the tablet, and her rebuttal was, "but my brains aren't rotted yet!"

Agreed. Consumers focusing primarily (or exclusively) on upfront purchase are missing the bigger picture, and have contributed to a lot of the problems we're dealing with now. See also: Framework.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. You can install Windows on the Steam Deck and Linux will not be involved in any way. Here are Valve's instructions for how to do so: Steam Deck Windows Resources

Sometimes Windows plays better with multimonitor setups, so that might be a way for you to fix those issues. I personally haven't had any of the problems you describe, and I use Valve's dock with my 4K TV and a Anker USB-C hub thingy connected to the KVM on my desktop and both continue to work fine; but that doesn't mean others haven't had issues. I have a first-gen LCD Deck.

Isn't "the ability to govern, audit, and mitigate risk" a big reason to use open-source software over proprietary? I though the point of the move was to eliminate dependence on opaque softare from US-based (and potentially US gov-compromised) companies. It sounds like they're advocating for the EU's actions here.

The distribution of the mass can absolutely make one feel heavier or lighter, depending on which muscles in your hand are doing more/less work. And probably the moment of inertia as well.

Nintendo claims the Switch 2 is 1.18 lbs, or 536 grams. Valve says the Deck OLED is 640 grams (which oughta be light enough for everybody), so they're pretty close. My Deck LCD is apparently 669, so it has some nice heft to it (a little more than I'd prefer, TBH).

Nearly all AAA/AA battery needs in our house for the last 15+ years have been met by the same rotating selection of maybe 30 eneloops (plus a few energizers) that's gradually grown over that time. I have a Rosewill smart charger that intelligently detects when a battery is done charging, and a dumb energizer one that just dumps current into whatever for when the Rosewill charger can't see a totally dead one. The idea of discarding a battery after a single use just seems so weird now.

When it's warm, because according the Property of Ones, a one that is not cold is scarcely a one at all.

You mean there are 10s of us

Not as much as you might think - consumer protection laws and contract terms act as a form of guarantee for many transactions even if you don't realize it. And even then, companies frequently flout the law and screw their customers, even when we know who runs the company and where its headquarters are located. Taking the crooks' word for it is foolishness.

The "promise" of organized crime is not worth anything, especially in scenarios like this where a viable business strategy is:
1. launch ransomware compaign targeting multiple companies, promising to delete all data after payment
2. claim data is deleted, but secretly hold on to it
3. wait some amount of time
4. sell "deleted" data, tweak the ransomware and rebrand as a different group
5. repeat

You can just hold off on torching that reputation as an honest criminal until you've accumulated enough sensitive data to be worth it. I often wonder if it would be better to criminalize paying ransoms in cases like this.

It's an explosive allegation, that's for sure.

That would be nice, since YouTube's copyright system exists solely to keep YouTube from getting sued by big media companies. It goes way above and beyond any legal requirements of copyright purely so YT can appease the big rightsholders. If they get legal shielding from those suits, then maybe they can dial the creator-screwification back a few notches.

I think the copyright term should be 25 years for free. That's basically exclusivity for a generation. After that, you can renew annually, starting for $10,000 the first year and doubling every year after, up to a maximum of 25 renewals. So you can keep something in copyright for 50 years if you really want to spend $600 billion on it. Realistically most valuable IP would fall out within 35-40 years, which still would be within the lifetimes of most people that were part of the culture from which it emerged.

I might agree with this argument if not for
1) libraries exist, where you can get movies, music (and even books!) for free
2) people with disposable income steal stuff all the time. There's no guarantee that having the means to purchase something means people won't just take it if they can