From the Steam page:

 SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
        Processor: Core 2 Duo
        Memory: 8 MB RAM
        Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or other shader model 4.0

Windows
Minimum:
    OS: Microsoft Windows 10 (latest SP) 64-bit
    Processor: Intel i5 @ 3.0 GHz or higher (or AMD equivalent)
    Memory: 8 GB RAM
    Graphics: GeForce 1660 Super / Radeon RX 5600 XT / Intel B580 or higher

I lol’d.

The GPL explicitly allows redistributing without charge, even if you paid for it. If they didn’t want their program redistributed, they shouldn’t have licensed it under the GPL.

A lot of places that offer both Linux and Windows (like Dell) charge the same price, because the Windows license is subsidized by crapware, spyware, and demo software that they load onto the computer.

Their entire security model depends on knowing file extensions, but they still hide them. Even if you enable it, there are some extensions that still won’t show, like .lnk (shortcut file). You can absolutely have executable code, and therefore malware in a .lnk file.

And it was GPL, so it wasn’t even copyright infringement.

Yeah, I partially-refunded the membership, downgrading to the normal membership. I’ve been ok with going only about a third as frequently as the grocery store. But the lady who sold me the membership said that Costco would be usable as a full-service grocery store, which is definitely false, even after visiting two locations. I think I’m going to keep the normal level membership, though.

Who even enables read receipts?

That’s kind of an asshole take. As a US citizen, there’s no country that would take me in right now. I’m just not eligible to work in any of the other countries I’ve looked at.

First, I only know English. I know a bit of French because my parents paid for lessons when I was a kid, but I’ve had zero chance to practice after college. Many Americans have no foreign language experience at all.

Second, what skills can a typical American market? If you don’t have any good skills, it’s hard to apply for work visa in another country. You could try applying for asylum, but other countries don’t really see things as bad enough to take in Americans yet.

Third, how long would it take to apply? A year is typical. Again, you could try asylum which may have an initial time allocation to stay until your hearing. But that only works once countries start accepting Americans’ asylum claims.

A lot of people can’t afford to move.

And a lot of people want to stay and fight.

It would be profitable if they taxed pollution according to the damage it causes.

I stopped eating there a year ago when I found out they were charging me about 50% more for not using their app.

I use andOTP for two factor authentication. It’s free and open source, and available from the F-Droid app store. It allows you to backup your cryptographic keys in plaintext, with a password, or asymmetrically encrypted using OpenPGP. I keep my backups in a fireproof safe on two flash drives.

24 and a half hours. I showed up the first day and found out the training period was unpaid. They advertised $15 per hour W-2-style position, but when I showed up, they offered a totally different 1099 contractor position where most of my time would be unpaid. I went home and researched, and confirmed my suspicions that Vector Marketing was a total scam. I came back the next day and chewed them out in front of all the other trainees they were trying to scam.

It used to ask. I haven’t tried in years. Maybe it only asks if you also create a gmail email address with your account.

First, I don’t like Google’s terms.

Second, if I try to create an account using a different email address, it usually complains that I don’t have a real phone number, or every phone number I have or can borrow has been used too many times to create a Google account (I’ve never made one, but I’ve lent my number to a graphic designer who needed multiple accounts), or it blocks me at the Recaptcha (“Your computer is sending automated queries”).

For my current main email address, there is already an account created for it, which I did not make. This account was “suspended” as of the moment I first knew about it, with no reason given. Google said it would be automatically deleted if not signed into for several months. For a while, it seemed deleted. A year later, another implicit Google account was created in my name, and suspended immediately.

Each time, I learn about the mystery account because when I try to send email to any Gmail user I get a bounce message from mailer-daemon@googlemail.com stating “The account limonene@example.example is disabled”. Using Google’s forgot-password system, I get confirmation that the account exists, and is suspended.

It’s kind of a big problem, because tons of people use googlemail.com servers to handle their email, even if the nominal domain isn’t gmail.com. When I opted out of Discord’s change in terms, that bounced with the same error message from mailer-daemon@googlemail.com. Contacting Sparkfun’s tech support to tell them I can’t order from them because of Recaptcha, I also got the same bounce message.

I have to disagree about the idiot proof. KDE Plasma and Mate Desktop are more idiot proof and easy for newbies than Windows 10-11, yet have more features in their simple control panels.

I’ve had no bootloader problems in the last 10 years of Debian, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu (15-20 installs, plus another 20-30 if you count VMs.) However, my work computer’s bootloader was semi-bricked twice in 2019 (Windows 7).

What they want is: to reduce the trade deficit. But they don’t know how to do that. The most straightforward way is to produce more American products that people in other countries want. But how can Japan do that for them?

Is there any way to view this link without having a Youtube account? I can’t make one.

Transformers can increase voltage while decreasing current, or increase current while decreasing voltage, but can’t increase a signal’s power.

1905 is a milestone of modern physics, because it’s when Special Relativity came out.

That’s older than the transistor, which was commercialized in 1951. But it’s also older than the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in 1906 or 1908.

In 1905, there were no amplifiers of any kind (though there were relay switches). There was almost no radio. The triode was a necessary invention for almost all of analog electronics.

Hegseth himself is a bigger threat to the US than China will ever be.