when I can't schmooze my way on a private get (G550 last time), then I would fly commercial on the cheapest fastest flight I can get. Especially when flying domestically where sitting on a plane for 4-5 hours isn't the worst part of the trip, it's the airports. And paying more and still having to get naked body scan pictures taken of my wife seems like a pointless way to spend extra money.

I mean it's roughly 30 years past the "Year of the Linux desktop".

And that's because Windows fanbois moved the goalposts and people either didn't notice or didn't realize what was going on. Back then, "the year of Linux on the desktop" meant the year when Linux was good enough to be used on a desktop as your daily driver, something that's been achieved decades ago. However the Windows lusers started using the term to mean the year that Linux was on the majority of desktops, something that clearly hasn't happened yet and Linux users let them get away with it.

Seems redundant, I already use a private terminal at SFO (and a few other airports). Maybe it isn't fancy but the staff returned my rental car for me. Flying privately is super convenient compared to commercial carriers.

A sign that civilization is in decline.

Actually I do want to memorize. But not random idiotic key strokes that have nothing to do with the action/command they execute. EMACS is a prime example for that. ^G for example, what has that to do with "help"? Good, ^H is backspace, so during normal editing not available ...

If you want to memorize the commands, knock yourself out; nobody's stopping you. And go right ahead and use ^H as backspace, as that's what it does in nano. I'm not saying that you must, or even should be using it, I'm explaining why I've been using it for the last quarter of a century.

wine you have to install and setup, while there are tools to help. steam itself install the proton and do the setup...

I use Fedora, so I can only talk about that. With Fedora, Wine is in the standard repos and all you need to do is tell the appropriate package management program (I use dnf, the CLI program, because it gives me the control I want.) to install wine, and away it goes, finding and installing wine and all the needed dependencies without any further work on your part except accepting the transaction. I'd think that most if not all of the mainstream distributions do the same, although the details change, but unless you really want to do it the hard way, there shouldn't be any need to descend into Dependency Hell.

I'm not going to carry water for trillion dollar corporations that rake in record profits every year through subtle and not-so-subtle anti-competitive practices.

The users currently get a walled garden system. With Apple locking other markets out almost entirely. And Google playing whack-o-mole with user-installed open source markets and subtle limitations for OEMs that want to maintain capability with Play store but also run their own store and own search partner.

The current market is not consumer friendly. And doing nothing is not going to change that.

Yes, it's fine.

I agree that this sector needs to be regulated in order for there to be a fair playing field for all participants. But let's not forget that DMA was written with Apple and Google in mind, it is not much surprise that their cases are going to be lost in the EU.

A regulatory agency has no business regulating. This is how you get big government, by letting bureaucrats do their job.

Micron stock is about 9X what I paid for it. So even though I can't afford RAM, I am happy that nobody else can either.

... and shit out a loose stool for you to consume.

This is the future that Zuck, Elon, Altman, Pichai, Nadella, Ghodsi, Admodei, and Huang envision for us. A circle of consumption like a human centipede, with AI datacenters as the head and the rest of us on the back end.

QIC-80 was such a good deal for what you got back in the day. I went the DAT/DDS route when I had a little money and found a used SCSI DDS-1 drive for a reasonable price. My most recent is a SATA Quantum DAT 72, but it only works in my old tower, my new PC's BIOS freaks out and refuses to boot.

It's really obsolete though, I'm running two BD-R M-DISC drives (one internal and one USB). I can make archival media that is far easier to pack away than tape, and even in 40 years it's going to be pretty easy to find a reader. I can't say that my DAT media is going to be terribly accessible in 10 to 20 years.

But you don't need to memorize it; all of the most common commands are listed at the bottom of the window. And, if you need one that's not listed, there's always ^G, the first command listed which gets you to Help, a complete list of commands. Nothing to memorize unless you want to.

Congratulations, they've now gated the security updates behind 26H2, because Dumbfuck Klanbitch Trump and the Treasonfuck GOP allowed them to.