That driver should have been shot 10 times in the face. In self defense, of course. And then denied care.

If we have already established that a "terrorist" driving in your general direction is grounds for using such violence, why doesn't it apply to everyone?

Yes! I've been advocating for 4x6. I don't think we should be stuck for 8h at work every day. Especially when you take lunch into account, and then the commute. Those hours are killing me, and I think we as workers deserve better. Laws have been so far behind we're fighting for 4x8, when we actually want 4x6 (or 3x8).

Gamers Nexus released a parts list with better performance for cheaper. And it's more upgradable than the Steam Machine. And it doesn't suffer from high temps.

The sad reality is that this product is not competitive in today's expensive market. The original leaked price range ($550-$750) would have been competitive, and a price hike to $850 would have been reasonable after the AI hardware price hikes. But Valve is a company that can make use of the economy of scale, and it shouldn't have developed a PC that has issues and still turns out to be more expensive than a DIY PC with similar specs.

And before anyone mentions it, yes, I wanted this product to succeed. Valve has been bringing a lot of gamers to the Linux world, and that could be good for us. If the price was good, I was even thinking about buying a steam machine myself, because my system is getting old. I'm still hyped for the steam frame, but the steam machine is not it. Not at this price, at least.

It's the same as the VAT. You can calculate it. But you shouldn't need to do math before going into a restaurant just because the owners can get away with expecting you to pay more for something advertised as costing less. In most other countries, shops have to include VAT in the price they advertise. If I see a 25€ item, I know I will pay exactly 25€ for it. And if I see a 20€ meal, I know I will pay exactly 20€ for it.

If restaurants expect you to provide at least a 20% tip, they should advertise their menu with that 20% added to it. Else, I'm gonna pay exactly what's on the sign.

Same thing stands. I run Arch daily on a 10 year old mid-range laptop, and I used to run it on a 20 year old core 2 duo laptop.

It won't become noticeably slower with time, that's a Windows and MacOS thing.

Arch will update all your software to the latest version, but it will still not add anything. Updating your software can even make it faster. Of course, things like web browsers will get slower the more stuff they add, but that will be the same in any Linux distro or OS.

You can also just not update, it won't suddenly stop working. I still recommend updating for the security patches, but if you won't connect the machine to the internet, it's perfectly fine to not update it.

I am left speechless. What a load of bs you just wrote. Do you actually believe it?

The left are the fascists with their politically correct and willful segregation practices.

Made me laugh, ngl

This sounds a lot like suicidal empathy, a right wing ultra nationalist and racist dog whistle used to justify discrimination against minorities.

The Arch repos only host the latest version of a package, so usually you can't install older versions of a software. There are some exceptions (like with PHP or Python, where you may require a specific version of the framework), but there's not that many of them. You'll see that it's usually not a problem, as it's still recommended to run the latest version of every software, for the security patches.

If you update your system constantly, there shouldn't be any compatibility issues with the updates. The official repos are carefully managed so that, at any given point, every package works with every other package. If a common library is updated, all the packages that depend on it are recompiled and updated to use the newer version.

If you stop updating your system, everything that you already have installed will keep working as it was.

For a while, installing new apps without updating will work flawlessly. But after a while, the new apps will start becoming incompatible with your system, due to outdated libraries and missing dependencies. In that case, you'll need to update the system so that everything is up to date again and it works. The package manager will prevent you from messing things up, so don't worry that much about it.

Arch is a rolling release, so it's designed to be constantly updated. That's the way I recommend people use it, especially if they're new to the distro. But if you don't inatall new software, it's also perfectly stable without updating (and you can also install new software without necessarily updating everything, if you know what you're doing).

In the worst case, it would be free to open source the server code. Companies can just do that, and the community can take it from there. I think SKG even allows releasing just a binary in their proposition.

Either way, keeping NPCs entertaining or realistic enpugh to substitute other players is also something that SKG says it's not asking for. Even if there aren't other players, being able to enter the world should be enough to consider the game playable.

They also pay artists 5-10x more than spotify per stream!

That's amazing for a first go! Congrats, he turned out great!

"Let's generate the icon and banner of the anarchist community using a hyper-centralized service created with stolen labour that makes billionaires richer"

In the middle of a highway, if it's possible. And don't wear any hi-vis, your leather jacket is so cool, you should keep it on.

The AUR is not indispensable for Arch, and it is not recommended. The Arch Wiki itself says so, and it even recommends against AUR helpers, because it makes the AUR feel like any other official repo. Some Arch based distros do include AUR helpers by default, and that's on them.

Arch isn't even that recommended, and it's only mentioned above other distros in the gaming sphere because it usually has the freshest drivers and innovations due to being bleeding edge. It is also easy to install and easy to use, and for almost any issue you can consult the Arch Wiki or the Arch Forums.

Either way, we should never limit user freedom in the name of making it "safer" for any user, and we shouldn't be installing guardrails that limit what you can do with your OS. That's the difference between Windows/Mac and Linux. Linux allows freedom, while the others limit it. The "guardrails" are already there, in the Arch Wiki, as a pretty visible warning. If a user doesn't read the recommendations from the official wiki, that's on them.

As an aside, your gun analogy is not valid. A gun is a dangerous tool with which a user can hurt themselves, but also other people. Allowing freedom on a Linux distro is just a way of allowing the user to shoot themselves in the foot (like it has always been possible, one way or another, in every Linux distro). But it doesn't allow the user to hurt others. Let's not do these comparisons.

Arch doesn't come with the AUR "installed". The AUR is a repository of user scripts that exists on the internet. The user chooses to download the scripts, or install an AUR helper to download them automatically. There aren't even AUR helpers in the official Arch repos, so you need to go out of your way to install them.

Let's not take one out of Apple's playbook and limit what a user can do for "their owm safety" and because most people "don't know what's best for them".

I'm glad it doesn't inconvenience you, but some people aren't that lucky. Wheelchair users, for example, often need to use the ramps at the ends of crosswalks. People who park like this are inconsiderate assholes that don't care about anyone else, and the outrage is justified.

Yes, and I've seen it happening. Usually it doesn't instantly brick every PC, but it can sometimes brick certain PCs with specific configurations. Then it will be silently patched without acknowledgement for the bug.

I've seen it mess with (and crash) graphics and network drivers, rendering PCs useless until forced reboot. It can also mess up other games, processes, and even updates.

People have been warning gamers about kernel level anticheats since they were introduced, because no userland code should run with that level of privileges, period. However, people still installed those games not really understanding the threat, and that's why we have so many games with a kernel anticheat.

It's for boosting Wi-Fi reception, don't worry about it.

What Gates is doing right now is a massive publicity stunt to make people believe he's actually a "good person". He is not. He is still a disgusting billionaire that contradicts everything he preaches.

• He is constantly buying farmland, to the point where he's the biggest land owner in the whole US. This is seriously harming small farmers.

• He preaches about climate change and using cardboard straws while in his massive ($650M!) mega yacht

• The "humanitarian/healthcare" stuff he did, while helpful, was only done because he could use it as a tax writeoff. He wouldn't have done it if it wasn't the case.

Yes. It loads faster, it has integrated quality levels that increase while loading (so a web hoster doesn't need to have 5 different copies of the same image at different qualities), it has better compression and it also supports more features. It can also be lossless. Most importantly, jpeg can be converted to jpeg xl losslessly, and it will have the benefits of jpeg xl.