One could argue that no one is doing it in six days without a shit ton of automation support. Some cherubim in ops saved eons when he wrote createstar.pl and it's still running in production today (though it looks like creategalaxy.pl stopped executing some time ago and hasn't been restarted and/or patched yet).

This was a reasonable screed two decades ago (and probably at least somewhat factual) but today Microsoft is one of the world's largest users of Linux. It has no current motivation to harm Linux and every reason to defend it.

I have nothing to base my gut feeling on other than I don't believe the laws of physics will give us all the supposed magic parallel information processing for so little energy expenditure in effect almost for free. I'm prepared to be proven wrong but right now I don't think I am.

Some parts of C are easy to learn but pointers, particularly double and beyond , plus pointers vs arrays, tends to trip up the no hopers.

When Rust has anything approaching a useful OO model get back to me. Sure, it may be great for to the metal bit twiddle stuff where it can fight it out with C, but for writing a large user space application? Yeah, oink flap.

... that an all powerful sky fairy spoke to some peasents thousands of years ago and "revealed" the truth to them while other believe the earth is only 4000 years ago and others than its flat.

You can't fix stupid.

At this point the people who believe anthropogenic climate change is a hoax/conspiracy won't change their minds no matter what anyone says or what evidence their own eyes give them. Just ignore them and move on.

"The wife has a Tesla, and while it has an amazing powertrain, it is just so aggravating to interface with in so many way"

Yeah, most of us knew that already and didn't spend $$$$ to find out the hard way. Maybe do some research and a test drive first before you open your wallet next time?

Epic added a Linux build target to Unreal Engine 4.1 in 2014. And since UE5 in 2020 the entire development toolchain has been feature complete in Linux. Meaning you could make your Unreal game on Linux and then release it natively for Linux (and Windows/consoles/mobile devices/etc).

So while Epic has not been the best supporter of Linux, they have not been ignoring it, either. The core engine is ready. What's left is that the anti-cheat software (Easy Anti-Cheat) and the store need to catch up.

Epic looks to be hiring to improve the anti-cheat situation as it currently lacks kernel-level support, and this latest announcement indicates that they're working on getting EGS running as well.

These days with a lot of discs just being a boot loader to download the game and some games requiring always on net access then even a disc isnt a guarantee of you really owning it if it can - in theory - be disabled or deleted remotely.

Sentience or consciousness implies an inner life however when an LLM isn't working on a task precisely nothing is going on in its network ergo no inner life, no self reflection, no sentience, no conciousness. They're just very complicated statistical pattern aggregators but they're still just software running on von neumann computers.

Germany is on the same latitude as as newfoundland idiot. 37C is NOT normal.

Not enough competition. Macs are too expensive and Linux still doesn't come pre-installed on many systems and there are way too many desktops. That might be great for us geeks but Mr and Mrs Average just want a consistent and intuitive (hello Gnome devs, anyone listening?) desktop experience.

The problem with the above is that you are mistaking "yourself" for "the market."

"Everyone isn't doing what I want them to, obviously 'the market' is broken."

The money men are the only ones who want this shit.

Better not drive near any normal cctv cameras or ring doorbells then without covering your plates first.