We are either headed face first into a 1930's style bubble, or the Singularity.

that it should not be used for important stuff.

RFK was right! Measles good!

I'm Waspman, thanks to radiation, my wanker is now the size of a wasp.

The part that I suspect they genuinely don't like is that the "MicrosoftXTA" CPU vendor code, which corresponds to a Windows ARM device(which I think at this point means 'Qualcom'; possibly a VM on a mac?) is meandering between .08% and .07% and back.

Despite those systems being genuinely well above average in terms of bringing remotely mac-like battery life to Windows; and(despite...optimistic...MSRPs) often appearing on sale at decently attractive price points; it appears that some mixture of apathy, incompatibility, and the total disaster that was the rollout of 'recall' and 'Copilot+ PC' seems to have just cratered those; at least among people who touch steam even casually.

Could be that windows-on-arm is flying off the shelf somewhere else; I don't have MS sales data; but when what was supposed to be the halo product of the win11/Glorious AI product era is under .1%, beating out those well-known Debian gamers by .01 to .02%, they can't be entirely thrilled.

What would be interesting to know(I did some poking; but didn't see CPU information breakdown by architecture or model number; just vendor, clock speed, and core count; and no computersystemproduct/other platform identifier; my apologies for asking a dumb question if I missed something) is what the percentage of linux on steam deck 'like' systems is.

The steam deck itself seems to have held up very well in terms of the semi-custom CPU's priorities, the target resolution, the peripherals included, and the overall polish and user experience; but it is definitely not getting any younger; and there are a bunch of options that ship either with the Z1/Z2 or generic newer AMD laptop APUs, plus MSI's 'Claw' with an Intel(that actually puts in really respectable numbers when the drivers aren't letting it down); but consensus on win11 as a touchscreen OS on devices either without a proper pointing device or with a teeny little one seems to be pretty solidly negative.

That makes me curious about whether gaming handhelds get converted to linux at a significantly different rate than other form factors. I'd assume that 'gaming' laptops are probably about the most hostile hardware flavor; since Nvidia has massive share in discrete laptop GPUs and the 'Optimus' arrangement that allows all the internal display and the video outs to be wired to the iGPU, with dGPU picking up work as needed, is massively driver dependent; desktops are probably the easiest(since you have more control over parts; and you can just shrug off "weird ACPI quirk causes BT chipset to not sleep properly" because you are on the wall and who cares; where that would potentially drain a sleeping laptop's battery pretty quickly; but desktops are also the place where win11 is as inoffensive as it is possible for it to be(still pretty obnoxious; but when you've got a large screen and a real pointing device and keyboard its complete unsuitability for handhelds doesn't matter; even if you hate copilot and the MS upsells).

...with those Satan-horn things pass by each other and knocks one kilter? Does it get confused and careen into a housing tract? The clearance looks small.

If we want the public to trust science to the extent that it's trustworthy, we need to make sure they understand it first."

= We B Fukt

In case you never took that course, the classical economist David Ricardo figured out that if you were a tenant farmer choosing between two lots of land, the difference in the productivity of the lands makes no difference to you. Thatâ(TM)s because if a piece of land yielded, say, ten thousand dollars more revenue per year, the landlord would simply be able to charge ten thousand more in rent. In essence landlords can demand all these economic advantages their land offers to the tenant.

All these tech companies are fighting to create platforms which you, in essence, rent from them. Why do you want to use these platforms? Because they promise convenience, to save you time. Why do the tech companies want to be in the business of renting platforms deeply embedded in peopleâ(TM)s lives? Because they see the time theyâ(TM)re supposedly saving you as theirs, not yours.

Sure, the technology *could* save you time, thatâ(TM)s what youâ(TM)d want it for, but the technology companies will inevitably enshittify their service to point itâ(TM)s barely worth using, or even beyond that if they can make it hard enough for customers to extract themselves.

He claims he never drinks, but perhaps he should start. Sobriety isn't working for him.

complaint details extensive similarities between the games, from post-apocalyptic robot dinosaur settings to red-haired female protagonists.

Would it have been so hard to make robot dragons instead of dinos, or chicks with green or purple hair to create plausible deniability?

There are crooks, and there are stupid crooks. This sounds like the second. There are plenty of ways to clone the general concepts without cloning the details.

Trump wouldn't mind a civil war, he could be the King of Dumbfuckistan, the equivalent of the Confederate Nation.

There is 0% Trump knows any technical details about how any of this works.

My scenario didn't require Don to understand anything, only that he have the self confidence that he could later conjure up a solution if things fell apart.

He habitually kicks the can down the road on many things, believing he can shoot from the hip to solve when need be.

It's why he's not worried about lower interest rates triggering inflation. If by chance he gets his bully wish and inflation spikes, he believes he'll somehow work magic to solve it, OR blame it on Democrats.

Vetting and maintenance have always been the bottlenecks of software development, not code creation. RAD pushers keep selling clueless bosses on the creation part. RAD pushers have been around for more than 5 decades.

(RAD can be done right, and reasonably flexible, but one has to accept certain conventions. They may be good conventions, but people are spoiled and want it their way.)

Your cat is shaking in a corner, hoping you never answer.