I noticed the new option to do an in-review hardware survey and post the results with your game review is currently broken in my Linux client. I wonder if similar bugs with the main hardware survey could be affecting these swings in the Linux usage stats.

It's more like a battered wife. Most of them are suffering from his actions, and they just keep coming back for more. "But he really loves me..."

Marjorie Taylor Greene compared herself to a battered wife during her exit speech. I guess she's the one who found some trace of inner strength and self-respect and filed for divorce. (Imagine getting shown up by MTG...)

Mostly web services for people in the Middle East. All part of the plan when launching this special military operation. Grind down every sign of civilization you find to dust.

I have a single Steam account on a single computer that dual boots Windows and Linux, each OS having its own installation of Steam. How is that counted?

They seem to have a very loose definition of "Playable" though. To me, an RPG where cut scenes don't play, and you miss huge chunks of the story, isn't "playable." Last time I burn 100 GB of bandwidth and write cycles based on that "Playable" rating.

TDS is when you believe that man cares about you, or has something for you. So yes, TrumpTok is spreading loads of TDS. Deathly silent on those Epstein files, though. How old was she, Don?

Later we'll come to find out Elon has a mansion on the moon where he's been taking the little girls. Islands are so common.

People arranged a lot of stuff before social media: Socializing, marriage, buying and selling, applying for work, watching the news. They can't seem to do any of it without social media today.

I heard, on a regular-people radio show, some commentary on the Sora thing. (They first had to explain what LLMs were, to give you an idea of the audience.) Even a lot of regular people now are getting tired of the slop. It's just not interesting to look at day-in and day-out.

On the flipside, I do know 1 person who seems to gravitate heavily toward the slop and repost it on a daily basis. He seems genuinely drawn to it. He has a learning disability.

In many ways, these times are really separating the wheat from the chaff.

I've been told he wants to turn me gay and Jewish, but that scares me a lot less than building a panopticon and turning the eyepiece over to Trumpistas.

Even so much as acknowledging the problems in the world, is instantly deemed "political", by those causing the problems. As they're paying off politicians.

Nothing can possibly remain apolitical when you're dealing with that.

My understanding is that individuals generally don't apply to be Delivery Service Partners, it seems more like a business-to-business arrangement. You might be thinking of Amazon Flex.

They probably can trick enough individuals into driving for Amazon Flex, even at a bad deal. These areas have plenty of people with large vehicles and little income.

China's interested in developing AI systems. They may not be as interested in constructing a financial illusion (bubble) surrounding it. It's that part which leads to gross inefficiencies like one company buying up half of global memory production.

So that's why why my Windows PIN shat itself a few days ago.

Luckily my internet was working, so Windows was at least able to send a ping out to Microsoft Authenticator to approve my sign-in. Last time Windows Hello shat itself, Xfinity was having an outage, and that left me with no way to log into my computer until the internet came back.

For those of you still grandfathered in with local accounts, this will be your future too, before long.

Other half of the dual boot: Linux hasn't crashed, although it has had random issues with starting up slowly, up to 2 minutes sometimes, or random dialog boxes and windows in KDE will lock up for 10 - 20 seconds and I can't interact with them. All kind of applications.