AC problem.

*Take AC to mean whatever you want, it works all the same. Suck it Fox News. - Sincerely: Europe.

Credit to you for being a racist MAGGOT who thinks that fentanyl or "illegals" have even the slightest impact on these figures.

This has literally zero to do with GLP1 as the effects on this on wider health will still take several years to have a measurable impact. Many of the things you list are long term effects that may improve health over time, but while GLP1 may e.g. reduce Type 2 diabetes, it doesn't cure the disease in those who have it.

That is one factor for sure, but there are many things that contribute to this. Cancer remains a top cause of death and we have gotten far better at catching and treating it earlier.

Please do us a favour and don't think. It's not working well for you.

That's horseshit, components are made to order under contract, the contractual terms are determined by the purchaser. The ball is 100% in Valve's court for this. Microsoft doesn't manufacture the Surface Pro either, and Apple doesn't manufacture the iPhone, yet both provide 1st party availability of parts for their devices.

To be clear I'm not saying that Valve needs to do this. I'm saying that talk and action are two different things. We ran an article here praising the Steamdeck's repairability and valve opening up it's OEM disassembly and repair process. Good for them, except the instructions are completely fucking useless if they don't make parts available.

Valve are good at some things, but give credit where credit is due, don't bootlick for corporations for actions that are undeserving. The OP said Valve is genuinely interested in helping customers, whereas their actions show that they very much aren't.

You're confusing trademark and copyright. Companion Cubes aren't trademarked by valve, and there's no requirement to defend a copyright, it's entirely your choice as to who you pursue for copyright claims.

eInk is meant as a display tech, nothing more. Static vs constantly updating is a function of limitations of a particular piece of hardware. Your view is a bit outdated. Modos has e-ink displays that update at 75Hz, higher refresh rates than most laptops.

And while Adafruit's display is not one of those, it does support flicker free partial update meaning you absolutely can use it for real-time graphs, though you need to periodically do a full refresh.

It's open source. Fork the design and change it to suit your particular set of unique desires.

True. If only Gabe bought one less yacht they can make it happen.

But the point remains talk is cheap when it can't be converted into action. The Steamdeck has a repairability score of 9/10. The Surface Pro 4 had a repairability score of 1/10. Why was I able to fix the Surface Pro but not the Steamdeck?

Praising repairability needs to take into account part availability. We all praised Valve for releasing the OEM repair instructions here, but it turns out they are completely fucking useless since the parts aren't available to actually complete the instructions - not even from after market Amazon sales.

The Steamdeck is a Valve device, it's not a combination of aftermarket off the shelf parts. But that's beside the point. I'm just talking about the fact that talk and action are two different things.

I was one of the people who praised the Steamdeck repairability and Valve releasing full set of repair instructions, right until I actually had to repair my unit.

That's one possible answer. One of many, but it's not the real answer.

Another is that healthcare is so poor that so many people are disabled and unable to work (to be clear that isn't the real answer either).

The real answer is very much the same as it is in every other western nation, people are getting old. They are aging out of the workforce and the demographics of the population have a hump around the boomer generation which is currently leaving the workforce, and THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING.

At least it's not a good thing when you have built your economic system around the current generation funding the retirement and social support of the previous one, as virtually all western countries have done.

But making jobs available doesn't give people jobs. A person isn't simply going to decide to go to work if you make a job available when they've made a conscious decision to be a stay home parent. Until we get necromancy figured out people aren't going to rise from the grave to work. People in jail can't just be let out from 9-5 on weekdays.

Again you seem to fundamentally have no idea what the article is taking about. Low labour force participation rate and unemployment due to lack of jobs are two very different topics that are in many ways completely unrelated.

Yes and no. They talk a good game, but sometimes that's all it is. For example the Steamdeck is listed as having excellent repairability by iFixit. Valve have provided an official OEM guide on how to replace literally any component.

However try actually getting those components. Even iFixIt's own guides given a nice disclaimer that you effectively need a donour Steam Deck to do something like repair a left button: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/S...

In this case it's a little different since this is a project reliant on 3rd party parts from Adafruit, but still Valve talk the talk but don't walk the walk on their repairability. They have some ways to go yet.

Some are, some aren't. Death rates are one of those things that are harder to fake. You can't just redefine death on a sliding scale of unaliveness.