The ones in my box do nothing but support gay rights (metaphorically). Such pretty rainbows. Anyway, I guess they are harmless enough except if I am trying to sleep and they keep screaming at me.

It is completely useless. I bought a box recently it has 6 fans with lighting that I shut off and lights on the ram I couldn't see how. As for Windows profitability, they'd have a lot fewer sales if it wasn't on all the prefabs. It is cheaper and easier to buy a prefab with windows than to buy the parts and put them together without. My box cam with win11 and I booted it exactly once by mistake before I wiped it an put Linux on it. Can I get the MS tax back? not on your life. Oh and the NVIDIA card has an led branding, I guess its an Aero that I can't turn off either.

Oh well, I guess there is a cost for expediency.
What the use is a light on my mouse that gets covered by my hand? At least I finally twigged on how to turn it off permanently using CKB-Next, except it comes back on with the box is off. How stupid is that?

Thank you for this confirmation of what I was thinking. I mostly don't use that box, it is like third on the chain on my desk behind this new one using the same OS and a mac mini I use to do my taxes all attached to the same monitor.
BTRFS seems a bit more finicky as to how you attach extra drives to it, but I can't say I have explored the available information accessible from the net. I've used LINUX for quite some time going back to Mandrake but was never particularly an elite user.

Anyways, not particularly germane to the article.

Lol no, I just ticked the wrong box in the package manager when given the option. I din't hand roll nottin.
now, if I was more familiar with pacman (is it?) I could probably roll it back but maybe first I shou;d turn off the quick boot in the bios so I can select a different line in grub or turn off auto login. or something. I'm not sure how worthwhile it is to salvage an old box when age is diminishing my brain power. I can just slap the drive back into the new box and take advantage of the extra terabyte. I misspoke earlier it is my win1o era box, I already trashed the win7 one.

The first thing I did on this new box was trash the win11 it came with and never looked back.

Now if only I has paid more attention when installing this box I would have insisted on ext4 instead of whatever newfangled file system it installed (btrfs) and my old knowledge wouldn't be obsolete.

I wonder if it was a problem with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers.... It is too hot out lately I need to find a glacial runoff to dunk my head in. I mean good luck finding a glacier around here, right?

I mistakenly applied it to my win7 era Manjaro box and was left with an unresponsive black screen, I can login to a terminal CTL-ALT-F2, etc but I don't know how to fix it. I guess I shouldn't put it into my new box and let it try to adjust to it before I put it back in the old box and let it go back to its old configuration, I probably corrupted the install. I can't imaging what possessed me to try the release candidate when the 6 level linux was a safe option and the stable 7 level was also available.

I think it is a wayland problem but my command line is rusty.

Mozilla could always require user pay, at least for enterprise installations. I mean, I don't pay for it, myself, but I use it. It seems to me that whole free browser schtick is a means to discourage new entries. It is hard to make a living if your competition has a $0 price point.

What other concessions has Mozilla had to make to stay afloat, I'm sure default search engine isn't the only revenue stream, What else do you suppose corporate donors expect for their money? I find the user experience is degrading over time. Perhaps I'm just getting old.

150 games, what is the download size, the installed size? I didn't see any information on the website. If they add up to 150 GB I'd be surprised. How many of them are relics of a game jam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Does the spaceship know which way to go?

That is funny. I started using windows with 3.1 and had problems with software in every version since. Sometimes I had to troll support archives to get the drivers for peripherals, sometimes they stopped being supported at all. By the time it came to think about upgrading to winqq because 20 crapped its pants I said no more! Of course I skipped 8 and 9 and who can forget the gems that were vista and millenium. You sound very young. I'm glad you know it all.

Good luck with that.

By the way I was saying my computer was underpowered not that there was anything particularly wrong with steam on linux. I'm not sure why anyone would want to use SteamOS on anything other than a repurposed handheld. Steam does have usability issues and it led the way in intrusive functionality in the gaming world where you don't own your games and someone is always trying to look over your shoulder but I guess that is just what we have to live with now.

In a way the AI companies driving up equipment costs is all part of the scheme to get everything into the cloud where they can keep an eye on you if people can't afford more than a dumb terminal then they will get to watch every click you make as it is transfered to their server. I realy realy reeeeaaaaly want to play games remotely streamed, don't you?
 

Steam on Manjaro was just a click away, I'm guessing Ubuntu might be as well as it is apparently what steamos was based on. I've had a few problem but not many but then I'm probably not playing the same games. No bleeding edge fps for me. I am running a ~7 yr old ex-win10 box. M odern games are full of bloat, blame them as much as the OS Why does a game nee 100+ gigs of disk space to play anyway? It just drives up the ram. Eye candy comes at the expense of playability.

For people who don't build their own box, the one they get mostly comes with windows, I suppose some computer stores will sell you a box without it but if you are buying at a costco, bestbuy walmart kind of place, you might just use the windows it comes with instead of trying to dual boot or wipe and install linux.

Off with their heads!

You can't just strip mine things to make money.
Well you can, I guess.

Chicks are people too! but call them ladies because some of them don't like "chick", "dame" or "broad". Or anything else dudes call them.

All they need to do is put it on a track. Somehow I got the idea from the summary that they were drones with lasers but the image pretty clearly shows a heavy device mounted on a platform.

What are they going to do put one on every rooftop? Looks like there will still be a lot of shrapnel if they blow them up in the air.

It is on its way to Europa to investigate the monolith,