Dude. 10% of the time on Windows I can't get shit to work right.

it depends on which boot you have is running when the hardware survey is pushed to you. They do these hardware surveys by pushing a popup to users every now and then, and users need to actually be bothered to click through the dialog.

If you've never seen that dialog, you were never counted.

There are a lot of community fixes for that kind of thing, but for most people who ain't got time for fiddling, gaming oriented distributions like Nobara are shipping with baked in patches for things like SMP scheduling issues, Wine bugs, driver gotchas, etc.

I've been running Nobara on my PC exclusively for the past couple of years. It's been great - like a fixed version of Fedora that just works. I hear great things about Bazzite and CachyOS too.

The most fiddling I really have to do to get my games to run is to check protondb and look for game specific launch options (there's a place to put that in Steam), and select a compatible version of Proton (a simple drop-down in the Steam console). Most stuff just works out of the box though.

Just because it's a fallacy doesn't mean it's incorrect - it just means it's not *always* correct.

The answer to the maintenance and upgrade question is simple - you don't maintain, you don't upgrade. You design the whole thing to be disposable. If an individual server breaks, you turn it off and pretend it doesn't exist anymore. Keep going until the thing is so broken you can't do anything more with it. When it stops working entirely, you abandon it as space junk or splash the whole orbital DC into the Indian Ocean where it can cause environmental havoc for centuries to come.

Bah. Give me WordPerfect 5 with the card you place over the function keys on the keyboard. Memorize those key combos and you were a GOD.

I figured my kid would be doing that. Nope. Kids don't have the appetite for mischief anymore like we did, at least with my family.

The planning commissions *are* the locals, or their elected or appointed representatives. There is no politburo directing this, but based on your response, you seem to desire one. Be careful what you wish for.

Exactly this.

It's economics.

It's always economics.

If they can offer this stuff at a discount compared to ground beef - USD $5/lb or better - they will get sales.

Actually I was being honest. I've seen what you see there and none of it seems to indicate Elon was ever there, which you even state. Curious why you think I'm being dishonest when I asked a sincere question.

I think it's funny though that you reply with basically "Of course he was there!*"

*he was never there.

I guess that's the state of the world.

Would you mind please pointing out exactly where he says this? What part of the Epstein files shows Elon having been on the island?

My teenager prefers to watch any videos on his phone as opposed to the 56" 4k on the wall.

We are moving from a 'home theater' experience to a more personal experience for video - and higher resolutions are not required nor desired for those viewing mechanisms.

TVs are dead, and Sony knows it.

at first, but only for 12 parsecs or so . . .

M immediate reaction was to wonder if 3d printers will join C & Perl with annual obfuscation contests?

You know exactly why things are not more transparent -- because we keep electing the people who have a vested interest in keeping things hidden. But what are you going to do - vote for the other party?