I discovered the book after the residents of Springfield went mad trying to win the local lottery, only to discover a chilling tale of conformity gone mad.

They might mean exclusives, of which none of those apply. But I personally don’t think exclusives are a good thing anyway.

There’s some cheap 2.5gbps managed switches on AliExpress if you’re willing to import. I think that speed for switches is still kind of uncommon so you have relatively few offerings in Western countries.

I suggest using Beetle mednafen, unless you’re on a very slow system. Or Swanstation, it’s not like that’s going away.

I also don’t see Swanstation going away any time soon, even if it gets no new features. It’s pretty close to feature complete in the ways that matter anyway.

I just overuse parantheses instead, as you noted. You know you’re rambling when you have several layers of them, like I’m writing a conversation in Lisp.

• Don’t use social media or news sites when you wake up, or before bed

• Block notifications from social media and news sites, or uninstall altogether

• Set time limits (like with leechblock-ng on desktop, or with simple alarms)

• You probably don’t need to read the news every day to be reasonably informed

Most of this is auto-generated header files to be clear. Still, goes to show how many GPU variants they have support for in the kernel, going back 15+ years.

They could, but obviously these people would be against that. Because they don’t have a rational objection, they’re just bigots.

Having a web UI is useful even if you’re not using the extra tools. Not mandatory of course, but nice.

He also won re-election running as an independent, well after the rape charges were known and he was kicked out of his party and suspended from parliament. But that wasn’t enough for the people of his electorate to go: “Err maybe this rapist isn’t the best option to represent us.”

The sandboxing sometimes breaks applications or requires additional configuration. And I don’t like that it’s a separate thing I need to maintain, although some package managers pair main package updates etc together.

And as a NixOS user, I prefer to use nix to handle as much of my system as possible, although flatpak at least is useful as a fallback in a pinch. Of course, this is a niche within a niche and mainstream users, particularly those using immutable distros can and do benefit from flatpak.

“Globalism” invariably means some sort of conspiracy theory, usually about Jews. Given this party are also anti-vaxxers, that’s the most plausible conclusion.

And a broader coalition among the rest of the Western countries including Europe and Australia/NZ etc makes more sense than duplicating effort in every country.

I’m guessing it’s the AI agent stuff. Which at the moment is literally just automating browsing through a website.

Apparently there will be APIs to do this in the future. Ironically, AI wouldn’t even be needed for that to be useful.

Valve is one of the main contributors to the RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, and a bunch of other parts of Mesa and the open driver stack in general.

I should probably add that some of this work is on RDNA3 FSR4 support, which isn’t even supported on Windows. It’s not amazingly fast, but it’s now faster than native and that might be enough to make it worth it (especially in the cases where it improves image quality due to poor TAA implementations).

mpv supports Dolby vision (along with the Jellyfin clients that depend on it), but if you mean with streaming services, that’s unlikely to happen due to DRM.

It’s main benefit is compatibility. As you said fsync is a hack and can cause issues with some games and applications.

The other benefit is more about packaging and the like, in that you won’t have to deal with third party patches. Not an issue if you’re using Proton but can be if you’re using vanilla Wine.

This seems like a “why not both” situation. Limit e-bike speeds to those that are typical in most parts of the world and reduce city speed limits for cars to 20mph, and enforce it aggressively.

Youtube varies from genuinely good content, to generic filler, to complete and utter trash, and there is much of the latter two because it’s not curated by anyone (other than by algorithms).

Try “We Own This City” from David Simon, if you want a documentary on the police that isn’t propaganda.