Most people don't get to see my IP address, and therefore can't run a whois query on me. Only server owners have that, and that too assumes that no VPN has been used during the trip to the site
Not just that: even if they do nationalize it, people can still fork the FOSS version and build independent private companies around it. Hopefully w/o needing datacenters worldwide to run on, but just running on their own processing farms, w/ themselves paying for the power to run it all
Recently, it was found out that SteamOS on Arm ran Steam games compiled for Wintel at par w/ how they ran on Wintel boxes. Given that, I'm curious whether or not Valve has started compiling the bulk of their current games for Arm?
In fact, any computer that comes w/ Windows-on-Arm would be a good candidate to wipe out Windows 11 and install SteamOS in its place. Since the games run at native speeds under Proton/Wine, one could do that, and experience a speed boost for games that go native
No, support for legacy software is a big reason Windows is dominant in the market. Otherwise, it would have lost everything starting from Windows 8. People who are most into games would either have bought consoles, or even among the alternatives, there are enough games on Apple and Linux.
Anybody who has SteamOS on his system has it on his gaming rig, or gaming is all he does on his computer
I think it's well known that the only people who install this are gamers who install it on their gaming rigs. Others would pick other Linux distros, be it Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, Omarchy, Kali,..... It would also not be on their primary computer, unless all they do is play games
I wouldn't say I don't notice it. Normally, I wake up somewhere b/w 8:00-9:00, but today when I woke up, it was b/w 9:00-10:00. The body doesn't instantly know that the time has changed, even if it adjusts to it over time
Also, some of the clocks, like the oven clocks, the car clocks still need to be manually changed
Can't we go all in this time? Global time? Make it metric in the process. 0 days is at midnight. 1 is right before the next day starts. Global, as in 0 is midnight at Mar-o-laga.
Decidays, centidays, millidays,
I used to be pro-metric, but now, in this age of computers, I'm now pro-binary. I'd come in w/ a completely new system
For example, for weight, instead of defining the number of molecules in a mole of an element as 6.023x10^23, I'd take 604,462,909,807,314,587,353,088 or rather 6.045x10^23, which would be exactly 2^79. Then make every binary based fraction or multiple of it - 1/2, 1/4/, 1/8 or 2, 4, 8....... the other units of measurement built around it. Similarly, for distance, I'd take the wavelength of a particular color of light, like the one currently used in defining a meter, and then multiply that w/ an appropriate power of 2 to give us a distance in the range of a kilometer to a mile
For a day, I'd re-define the minute as 64 "seconds" and hour as 64 "minutes": only thing - a day would then have 21 hours, since its duration can't be altered. Maybe if we could alter the length of a second so that only 16 such "hours" constitute a day? Only problem: we still can't do anything about the year having 365 days
It might be a tad more useful in tropical countries, particularly in desert-like regions. Particularly like golf carts, or cars that need to go really short distances
That's what struck me as well. One would need the entire roof and hood of the car to be solar paneled, but that would also end up heating up the car
One use I can think of for solar is powering the door locks and hood of the car, in case the battery is completely dead and the car needs to be popped open. In such cases, it's useful to power their electronic locking mechanisms w/ a source different from the battery. It's not enough to power the car itself, but it would be adequate to unlock the doors or hood whenever they need to be opened
No, at that point, Trump will be forgotten, and people will be praising him, while bitching about whoever is the #1 Right wing leader then. Just like these days, even Nancy Pelosi praises the Bushes, even though 20 years ago, they used to call Bush Hitler
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