There is no right to privacy.

There is no right to your image.

Government can TRY to make those rights, but the freedom of expression is superior to the idea that you can stop me from hand drawing your image when you're at the beach.

Mazda's legacy button layouts plus the dial are really great. I have a 3rd Gen Mazda3 and it's nearly perfect. There is a touch screen but it's never used. The dial turns and also pushes for select, and there are some other buttons around it for getting back out of menus and a home button, and some shortcuts for various things. All within comfortable reach just between the gear selector and parking brake (real mechanical parking brake handle!) without having to raise your arm and glance away from the road to make sure you're finding a button. It's all done by feel.

On the steering wheel is volume, track skip (which works in Spotify for it's normal 15 second skip function forward or backward to skip through commercials) and cruise control. Also a phone answer and hang up button.

About the only complaint I have is the A/C fan speed is two buttons rather than a knob, but at least the temp adjust is a big fat knob. They gave up room for a fan knob in exchange for dual temperature knobs for passenger and driver.

The Gen 4 Mazdas are similar, with better Android Auto / Car Play integration and a nicer screen, and are still fairly new, a lot of low mileage cars still available through CarMax, etc.

If they are going to rely on voice commands I'm done. I don't talk to machines. If it's still usable via buttons, fine.

My wife has a Tesla and the UI experience is awful. Absolutely awful. The only good thing about it is the drivetrain. It's like owning a supercar in terms of acceleration. Other than that, I would consider Teslas to be actively driver-hostile. I avoid driving it as much as possible. I hope they will eventually be considered a quirky novelty relegated to the dustbin of history, while more traditional button interfaces make a comeback.

First of all, the amount of money that gets back to the creator is vanishingly small compared to what's kept by the cartel. While you think you're supporting the creators when you pay your license, you're really just supporting a vast army of middlemen leaching the money out. I'll say that to the apologists in this thread.

Secondly, they'll hit you up for a license even if you're just playing over the air radio. A radio station that's already paid a license and is playing advertising to pay for it. They will blatantly double dip. This happened to me when I owned a cafe / art gallery a long time ago.

I'm all for supporting the aritsts, but the system as it exists is seriously broken.

This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

Are you talking about this article, or other articles?

Because this article says that linux is faster on one bespoke and fully integrated handheld.

If other articles, care to share them?

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

I'm not sure which side of the discussion you're on from that reply, I was fairly balanced. I can try to restate again..

- linux gaming on amd is awesome with steam/proton

- linux gaming on nvidia is generally substandard but works well for some people

- Gaming is still generally more performant on windows

- The article title is misleading. A few specific games on a specific device ran faster on Linux than on windows. This isn't a large win for anyone except the people who optimised proton for this very specific chipset + processor + video combination.

- SteamOS will be great when it's fully out as a standalone thing and lead to more and more of the above scenarios as it's tuned for more and more devices, but right now it's only out for a handful of VERY specific devices

Which of those are grasping at which straws, from which viewpoint?

It's two guys whose other project was an iOS collaborative whiteboard app. I'd guess they are iOS developers in their day job.

On a specifically tuned for steamos device that cannot use the latest windows graphics drivers....

- If you have NVIDIA (which is a HUGE majority of the market) then games will run worse on linux, including linux native ones

- SteamOS isn't supported on desktops yet, even if you're 100% AMD, so this is limited to a small selection of handhelds

- If you have a 100% AMD desktop proton runs games VERY well, but most games are going to benchmark slower.

Once/If SteamOS is supported on desktops then this will be awesome news.

You can play MSFS in linux if you're using steam through proton.

Proton (basically a gaming based wine fork) has been amazing for 2+ years. Don't try and use default wine.

Most of these games don't have a native linux version, but are built to play nice with proton.

As a gamer who goes between xbox and pc every few years I think this will be great. I especially like that the "xbox frontend" will support steam games inline as well.

The only real thing missing is ability to log into your PC via controller somehow.