When I had a GPU overheat I started seeing RGB dots everywhere. Not quite the same as this, but I’d be a bit worried it might be a hardware issue.

They had an accomplice maybe. Or a careless Apple employee left their laptop somewhere. Both of those have been causes of Apple leaks in the past.

Because it causes problems. It makes you install an extra thing, it sometimes causes crashes or conflicts with other programs, and it often prevents you from playing on Linux (which is becoming more mainstream in the form of the Steam Deck and competitors).

There is this older tutorial from 2015 that goes into more detail and includes examples.

Sleep/Wake issues

I’ve had plenty of sleep/wake issues on Linux, including on my current setup which is Bazzite (based on Fedora, which the author uses). Currently on Bazzite, some things don’t restart correctly after a reboot (specifically Gnome tweaks and OpenRGB). Not the worst issue but still annoying.

AltGr Dead Keys

This is the default behavior on macOS

A desktop operating system needs to come with a solid, serviceable email client. I consider this non-optional.

The only truly useful email client I’ve used is the default macOS one. I am actively taking suggestions for Linux. I tried one called Evolution I think? It was ok but didn’t support all my different email providers. I tried Thunderbird but it baffles me that I can’t view an email and have the list of emails open on the side.

I honestly think the author might have a better time with macOS. Not that they would prefer it over Linux, but a lot of what they complain about is better on Mac.

Whenever I experienced a short stretch of time where I felt “perhaps this isn’t so bad?”, one (or multiple) of the problems and issues described above would snap me out of it.

This was my experience trying to switch to Linux until very recently (until I started using Bazzite). Even now I still regularly have issues I need to debug, but it’s much, much more stable than previous distros I tried.

I haven’t seen a platform ask for it yet.

Lore and writing in Marathon and Destiny has always been fantastic. The issues are almost exclusively in higher level decision making…

Some states are offering digital drivers licenses: now:

https://www.tsa.gov/digital-id/participating-states

I mean you can download a game before you go. Or all your games. Micro SD cards go up to like 1TB these days, and the vast majority of my downloaded switch games are <1GB. The main exceptions being Smash Bros and Pokemon.

Switch and Switch 2 have digital download options of most games including most of the indie market which is exclusively digital

Some drawers do have wheels

Like other Chinese companies, Alibaba tapped into Anthropic’s technologies through tens of thousands of unauthorized accounts, according to the letter, which was viewed by The New York Times. Then it used the data it collected to train its own A.I. systems. Anthropic asked the lawmakers, who lead a Senate committee that was about to hold a hearing on A.I., to explore ways of curbing China’s distillation.

Lmfao they are complaining about what’s basically the same thing as what they did to people to create their AI in the first place

Blu ray video is lossy compressed. Lossless video is huge.

You forgot East Ukraine

Nintendo is still making physical cartridges

I’ve found AI powered autocomplete suggestions is actually quite nice. The time save when it gets it right is sometimes significant, but the time lost when it gets it wrong is usually negligible.

Did you forget to unfurl your sails? I did that my first time… It’s definitely slow traveling between islands but “go make a sandwich” slow sounds like something is wrong.

Once you beat the first boss you can start putting engines on your ship, which make it faster and not dependent on wind direction. Also making your ship lighter helps too.

Lost Skies

It’s a co-op exploration, base-building, and survival game set among floating islands in the clouds. Unlike most base building games, you take your base with you, in the form on your airship, which you have a lot of freedom to design how you like.

The main gameplay loop involves exploring new islands, solving puzzles and fighting enemies to gather loot, and using that loot to upgrade your ship. When you feel strong enough, you challenge the region’s boss, which drops loot that will help you progress to a region of a higher difficulty tier. There are 4 tiers of region difficulty and many regions of each difficulty.

The game has had some drama regarding leaving early access well before it was ready, but the devs are continuing to put significant work into the game, and it’s in a good state now, but with a fairly small community.

Currently on sale 50% off ($25 $12.50)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1931180/Lost_Skies/

They mean smallest transistor