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Using Arch probably allows for faster updates, since Steam won't have to wait for ages to use some of the newest Linux kernels. Same goes for other supporting software. Ubuntu is g…

1€ ~= 1.18$ US So, probably not just a conversion thing

> I just can't conceive of how modularity, in general, causes duplicate code rather than reduces it. Yeah, like my node_modules folder doesn't contain tons of duplicate code. /s

Don't play multiplayer games on Linux.

That's true if one only talks about one person using an extra 200W. But it matters when it's about millions of people using an additional 200W.

No, the obvious solution is paying a monthly subscription to use a cloud-based computer for such high-intensity tasks like web-browsing. We should all be using https://www.mightyap…

It's not a chicken and egg problem. It's Apples fault/intention. They had really bad support for OpenGL and wanted developers to use Apple's Metal API. But developers stayed on Dir…

Maybe keep an eye out for S&Box, the successor to Garry'sMod. It's not out yet, but uses the Source 2 engine and C# for modding, and will probably have an active community from lau…

You should keep an eye out for S&Box! It's the successor to the popular Garry's Mod. Garry's Mod is, imo, the sandbox and modding game and I think that S&Box will be even better. I…

He didn't haggle over the price of the procedure. He only asked how much it's going to be and was charged with over double what he was quoted.

What punishments would you suggest for bullies?

It's educational, too. Andreas has a lot of video content, which explains different OS concepts, available.

> You can also wrap a page as an app on the App Store For example Apple's store doesn't want these web wrappers: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#min...

Is it illegal to intentionally create security risks?

You make it sound like only RMS' contributions were significant for our current state of software. There are a lot of people with significant contributions without which the world …

> cooking techniques that assume cheaply-available vacuum That also assumes that the atmosphere you're venting for that "cheap vacuum" is cheap as well.

Maybe has something to do with cached driver configuration, but I don't know which version of Windows introduced it. It has to do with remembering which drivers were loaded the las…

I talked about that topic with my principal when I was in school. He told me that the school had to prevent those automatic budget cuts. His reasoning was that it's nearly impossib…

I'd just say that both contribute and stop this whataboutism.

I am not GP ng to clutter my home with old, bulky and single-purpose computers. > and the computers needed to run them are cheap Old computers aren't always cheap. Retro PCs get ex…

Maybe that's because Electron isn't made to just display a single line of text? Text Rendering, CSS Layouts, Accessibility, being good at cross-platform, Canvas/WebGL and a myriad …

> Who are these people? People on the Pinephone forum. Simple survivorship bias. Judging from the videos I've seen, the Pinephone is for tinkerers for now.

Don't you mean much higher? Like at 36MM/36,000km?

How many credit cards do you have? And if it's 3+, then why do you have so many? Just curious.

Text file formats have the benefit of being easier to kerge sometimes. SQLite files are binary and hard/impossible to merge.