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Which if they hadn't completely lost their way would be unnecessary because anything not related to browsing would be an addon.

No, they don't. They don't actually listen to users.

We're sick of GNU Linux. We're making NEW Linux.

I've never met a highly skilled person who is perfect. Neither have you, you may just pretend you have.

No one said rust is magic. But but attempting to claim that whole world of memory safety issues being resolved is somehow countered by a single vulnerability is not just dumb, it's mindbogglingly stupid.

Rust isn't perfect. But claiming the old tools were is just spectacularly ignorant, especially given the recent history of CVEs related to those "well-working, _old_ tools".

Rather than your dumb fucking US vs THEM approach, how about you advocate for both sides to improve their code?

So if you restart Firefox (at which point the process and its resources are released by the OS) and it doesn't fix your memory problems, what makes you say Firefox has a leak?

And just what do you suppose a browser that already browses and has a plugin system to customise your browsing do to improve the browser?

People who don't understand history think the idea of a currency free from any manipulation by an economic agenda is a good thing. The reality is very different. You only need to look to major economic depressions during times when some countries still had currencies backed by gold or silver. The inability to control the economy through monetary supply caused those specific countries to suffer from economic depression far longer than other countries.

The long timing and severity of the great depression for the USA, France, and Belgium is widely acknowledged to be caused by them switching back to a gold standard after WWI. In fact several countries floated their currency to enact economic controls (France) specifically because there was no other way for them to get out of depression.

But please, tell us who much you want to fuck yourself with your silly math cosplaying as a currency.

That is an incredibly dumb assessment precisely because you completely failed to address the problem of the cable. The number of people who have accidentally ripped their headsets from the head due to the cable is near enough to 100%. A very very significant portion of people have damaged their cable or their headset, often beyond repair. The defining failure mode of the Rift CV1 wasn't the headset, but the fact that no replacement cables are available. Heck one of my friends ruined his motherboard thanks to yanking the cable with his arm mid game and reefing the USB port straight off the PCB. I ruined one cable just sitting on my arse when it was run over by the wheels of my chair one too many times.

The people who strived to eliminate the cable are the opposite of idiots. They addressed a very real problem. I loved my original Oculus Rift. I loved my Rift S, but wholly fucking shit did a whole world of usability open when that god fucking awful experience of being tethered and tangled was eliminated. And I played most of my games sitting on my arse.

You are not most people, and clearly you've never met or conversed with most people. Get out, spend a bit of time on VR dedicated forums, or even just reddit. You'll find your opinion is in the strong minority. Side by side latency comparison is useless. The question is does it work for the use case or does it not. The existence of 144Hz+ gaming monitors doesn't mean that most people are perfectly fine gaming at 60Hz (in fact the majority of people are).

Latency has zero to do with why VR "couldn't break into the mainstream". At least not since Oculus resolved the motion sickness issue caused by latency back in 2013. By the way VR headsets have well and truly outsold the Nintendo 64. So if you don't consider that mainstream it's worth noting you also didn't consider a ground breaking and highly successful and popular gaming console mainstream either. I really question either your knowledge of the industry, or your disingenuous use of the term "mainstream".

I use Linux specifically because of the license. Linux succeeded because of the license. If Ubuntu wants to change what made Linux successful then the obvious thing to do is to change to not using Ubuntu.

Yes that is what it is supposed to do. You opened a pipe to a file destructively, it did what you asked. Don't ask for that if you don't want it. Once you do that the original file is gone. Either append with >> or write to a temp file next time.

Have you ever seen a long movie that's actually convincing that is generated by AI? I've seen sloppy ones. Even the "good" ones, like Higgsfield ones are impressive for AI, but not convincing. The shots are claustrophobically close...mostly to keep from rendering hands or the bodies. The physics are just WRONG...which is something you'd think AI would be able to do OK. Like punches are a foot away from making contact and things are just really really off.

There will definitely be a niche for this...but AI movies are kinda like fruit-flavored candy. Grape sales didn't plummet once nerds candy came out in grape flavors.

The AI movie experience is slowly improving, but is still terrible. You can make a very short 5s shot that's QUITE convincing...so long as there's a single subject...really closeup.

There's an interesting parallel in AI porn. A girl in a bikini? AI gets an A+. I am not confident I can spot the AI vs a real image. Most of the time, I can detect mistakes in the background, but they're quite great at the foreground. At first, they'd always make lighting mistakes, but I just looked at some reddit examples and they've gotten quite better.

OK, the woman gets naked? B- Real women don't have perfectly circular symmetrical nipples. It's mistakes like that really mess things up. The shadows and proportions are often just "off"...however, where it fails nearly universally is any sort of liquid. if she's in the shower? (or any other fluids on her)...definitely F.

Video? Well...if there's on subject...it's definitely getting better. I've seen videos where I can't tell if it was generated by AI or was a real video through some sort of AI correction filter....so long as it's a closeup of the subject's face and has minimal movement. If there's a second person? I've seen C- videos here and there, but mostly horrible Fs. There's a LOT of physics mistakes from basic movements to fluids. Objects change size from frame to frame, etc.

Why do I bring up porn? Well...not just because I'm a pervert...TBH, AI porn isn't for me. However, it's because I believe many great consumer technology leaps were driven by porn: photography, home video, the internet, the smart phone, etc. Most of us love sex, don't get enough of it, and are willing to pay to get our thrills.

But also, there's a LOT of porn on the internet that would make for very easy training data. LOTS. Also, the subject matter is limited in scope, making the data more likely to be applicable. Next to sports, I can't imagine much filmed more often than a woman taking her top off...so...it is logical to assume it's the easiest thing for AI to generate. Few things are shared on the internet more than images of breasts. Why can't AI render a topless woman convincingly?

Once AI masters recreating a basic porn, I think Hollywood has reason to fear. However, if AI only works if the subjects is EXTREMELY closeup, doesn't show their hands, there's no fluid, there's little movement...then the movies it can make are really limited. Also, AI movies are EXPENSIVE to make today. I can't imagine people paying top dollar to see AI slop...and today, they cannot make them cheap enough to just give away for free for very long.

So while I can see a few scenes here and there or backgrounds using AI...we're FAR from replacing actors in convincing movies that don't look like shit. Also, AI is just not that popular. People hate AI slop. I don't see that changing until it actually does something cool...custom content?...maybe...but making slop with AI and charging us movie theater prices?....I don't see that working very well.

Some run through Proton, many don't, even some that are claimed to. You may want to take a closer look at those compatibility ratings.

Outer Worlds is listed as "Playable" on Steam, but cut scenes don't work. A story-driven RPG is not "playable" without cut scenes.

The "Verified" rating is what actually denotes a playable game. With those, you still often get graphical glitches and performance issues. Everspace 2 was definitely playable with Proton, micro-stuttering made the Windows version the clear preference.

The games that I've ran well on Linux tend to be older, low-key graphics, or more "casual" fair. Klonoa, Digimon Story: Time Stranger, and Psychonauts 2 all played wonderful on Linux.

So you're saying your family is made up of liars? Neato.

You get hard for corporal punishment. Hard man. Soft brain.