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I was on a Macbook Pro (multiple models for many years) and jumped to the 12th gen intel framework. It is fantastic laptop, just showing its age a bit (mostly battery life as I sti…

This is ridiculous. The school will notify you if the student is not at school, or the teachers will eventually (or their grades/missing assignments). Also you don't need to track …

Oh yup, you're right on that. I guess my point still stands as Bayer and BASF kind of fit the bill as well.

The problem isn't with the farmers. The problem is the monopolies that surround the farmers. They buy their seeds from massive corporations that have patents on seeds. They sell th…

> The sticking point like always will be media playback (read: DRM/widevine). That is the graveyard where Linux browsers go to die. If Kagi can legally and technically solve the wi…

Your grandma doesn't need to know what wayland is to use linux. This is an enthusiast forum for people interested in this exact topic.

Most of this article seems unnecessary in 2025 and is very specific to Arch. For most distributions you can simply install the (proprietary) nvidia drivers and you're good to go. T…

You can do that now, and for at least the last year. Very few games don't work anymore, and most that don't are using kernel level anti-cheat or are generally hostile to users anyw…

Microsoft is going the opposite of what you're suggesting. Their games are coming to Steam, Playstation and Switch. Also, their game division isn't exactly thriving right now. They…

The Steam Deck is basically the successor to the Steam Machines. The actual hardware didn't go that well, but they laid the foundation in software for what we have now. So, in a wa…

I figure if it's good enough for login.gov [1], it's good enough for my sites as well. I also find devise pretty simple to get setup and use. It's so easy to mess up some small thi…

I'm not saying GitLab is poorly designed, but a poorly designed website will be slow on the fastest of languages or frameworks. It's not necessarily a Rails or Ruby problem here.

Same here - ads in their "prime" (more like sub-prime now) video service were what made us cancel as well. Honestly, it's been fine. It turns out a lot of other retailers have almo…

Mostly cost - a 55" Samsung Odyssey Ark computer monitor is like $1800. You can get a similar TV for 1/2 that price.

They would have needed controllers and actually cared enough to support steam on it. There is zero chance Valve would release HL:Alyx without full steam support on the device. That…