You just know that this "rule" was passed immediately after several senators placed bets on whether or not Congress would pass a rule limiting trading on prediction markets.

Iâ(TM)ve truly thought that there were missed opportunities to develop social interactions and connections here like Reddit would go on to have (in the past golden days of that site).

Even though the note about his friends passing is personal, it touched me too. It feels like âoeone of usâ has passed.

Itâ(TM)s been 33 yearsâ¦..

It isn't about Hollywood making movies that Chinese audiences would appreciate. It's about making movies that the authoritarian Chinese government would allow to be available to Chinese audiences. There's a difference.

There's a pattern here. Today's "server" becomes tomorrow's must have home personal computer.

They should bring back the guys in the bunny suits while they're at it!

Betteridge's law of headlines says "no".

But I would have been disappointed if it had not appearedâ¦.

I think the only Premium TVs left are the business TVs that give you meaningful mechanisms to not have intrusive "Smart" features.

Is there a meaningful difference between a Sony TV that harvests data and won't let you opt-out of "smart" features, and a Wal-mart TV that harvests data and won't let you opt-out of "smart" features?

I guess I am blessed to not be an audiophile and not have flawless supervision :)

FWIW, I have:
- a 20 yo 720p dumb 42" plasma
- a 20 yo 1080P dumb 50" plasma
- a 1yo 4k Samsung 65" TheFrame TV

That last one was a splurge I wanted because the "Art Mode" is just too beautiful, and at the time, Samsung really had the only coherent offering. (I guess there are now "off brand" ArtTV attempts from HiSense and others.. i have no experience with them.)

On the ArtTV, we watch youtube or DVDs or XBox on it a little of the time, and all that stuff looks fine to me on the 65" Samsung. But the TV is otherwise displaying pretty artwork almost all of the time, and whatever Samsung has done with the screen, dimming control, bezel, etc, really does work and really is lovely. And you don't need a service or an app to get the experience - just stick a USB full of public domain masterpieces into the TV.

Even so, the Samsung ecosystem is pretty annoying. I can have it show my images in ArtMode, but i cannot have the "real" experience you'd get with a subscription - with Art XML metadata and stuff (artist, date, etc). We don't always remember what a piece is or who painted it when it comes up..

Anyway, AFAIK, the only way to get TVs that aren't enshittified spyware is a business SKU, right?

In my house, we use Steam to play "windows-only" games on:
- Devuan with XFCE
- Devuan with Cinnamon
- Arch with hyprland
- bone stock Ubuntu 24
- ubuntu 25 laptop w/ second GPU

From my POV, there's not much need to port games to Linux. With the heroic efforts of Valve, most Windows games now just work. Win32, DX, D3D, and whatever else windows game devs have been using seems to have become the defacto reference gaming API on Linux.

Steam makes it work on every linux distro we've tried.

In writing this, it occurs to me: The F/OSS ecosystem does a very good job of re-implementing someone else's API/products (WINE, Proton, LibreOffice, etc)

The F/OSS ecosystem does a comparatively poor job at independently developing its own technology and then standardizing/universalizing those choices. E.g. the transition from X11 to Wayland; the systemd "situation(s)", desktop environments... gui greeters, audio muxers...

I think Valve has done the right thing. They made existing games work on Steam; they made Steam work on most linux distros.

Making everyone use a reference linux platform seems to be a total non-starter.

We already have a reference gaming platform: Windows 7 thru 10. And what we learned in 2025 is that Steam on nearly _any_ Linux often implements that windows reference gaming platform better than Windows 11 does.

Yet this horrible person managed to do the singular thing the previous person was unable to do - and that is to gain control over and close the Southern border!

Also, for the first time in years we are starting to see deaths due to drug overdose decline.

There is truly a lot to hate Trump for. But hate for a guy does not mean anything. Results do.

The point was not the firearm charges. The point was the Burisma dealings of Joe Biden who at the time was running for presidency.

The amount of outright censorship about the laptop was also legion. Countless accounts were banned who dared to mention that the laptop was real.

Your narrow focus on one issue surrounding the laptop exemplifies the dismissiveness of the outright truth telling by various people who do not align with the Democrat party.

I like a lot of progressive ideas. But I do not believe in using censorship to obtain them or putting the thumbs on the scales to win an election - which the censorship amounted to.

This is the most hilarious comment made yet. The U.N. sucks on the U.S. governmentâ(TM)s teats more than any other entity.

Of course Russia and China are going to disapprove because they have lost a customer of their hand-me-down weapon systems.

Everyone knows poop flinging monkeys are better!

I'm inclined to agree, but thinking about it there might be some things that an "agentic" AI could help with. Like "fill out my timecard for today" or "every time Outlook web logs me out, log back in with my credentials." You know, the things that would give the bureaucrats a heart attack if they knew I could do them instead of wasting my time.

Assuming I trusted the AI enough, of course.

Very good analysis. And he did modulate some rather draconian "bathroom bills." I can't help but wonder how many Democrats are actually registered as GOP so they can help keep him in office!! - past the "caucus system"!

Good on them!

The demographic that helped put Trump into office was actually Hispanics. Do you think they cared if his opponent was black or not? Or the fact that his opponent came off as a clown that only cared about abortion as the single greatest issue facing the nation?? Or that "new arrivals" were taking the very jobs that they work at?

I'm pretty sure there's a list of reasons where race was not a primary factor. Not to mention that Obama, a black person, was elected president.

When everyone cops out and single mindedly puts their scapegoat excuses front and center, 'demented' people who actually vote will continue to vote for the 'wrong' person.

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