You need to have the right infrastructure for them, and places that have it are the rare exception (example: Peachtree City, GA).

Stealing intellectual property is…

… a nonsense loaded phrase made up by the copyright cartel in order to dishonestly frame the debate.

In reality, copyright is not ‘property’ and cannot be ‘stolen’ to begin with.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

I’m not sure you appreciate how literally technically correct you are.

The harder you brake in the front, the more the weight shifts forward. At the point you start to do a stoppie – when the front brakes are applying maximum force to the road – the weight on the rear wheel drops to zero and thus the stopping force it’s applying drops to zero as well.

In other words, the rear brake gets less useful the harder you try to brake.

For maximum deceleration, the main thing you need to do isn’t to try to use the rear brake more, but instead get out of the saddle and stick your butt as far back as you can, shifting the weight back and making it as hard to get to that point of rear wheel liftoff as possible.

See also: https://bike.bikegremlin.com/813/bicycle-braking-technique/

I don’t know about the third one (I haven’t even seen it), but the second one made huge advances in rendering water (among other things). There’s a pretty interesting Corridor Crew video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Gd0bR2kb4

Nah, you’ve got to get at least halfway to Macon before people start talking like that.

If you think his movies aren’t all about the tech you need to think again.

So this could threaten air travel for a huge region.

Also known as just “travel” because we’re talking about places with literally no way in or out except by plane. (Okay, and maybe hiking, dogsled in winter, or something like that. Point is, no roads.) That’s why somebody was apparently going grocery shopping by plane in the first place.

Between Altman and Bankman-Fried, these scammers are giving Sams a bad name.

Is that French for “listen here you little shit?”

I know Proton has to fool the windows binary to some degree to make it think it is just running on windows

That’s phrased a bit more adversarily than warranted. The game isn’t trying to only run on Windows and Proton isn’t trying to trick it; the game just uses Windows APIs and Proton reimplements them for Linux. It isn’t like circumventing DRM or anticheat or something like that.

Pretty sure that acronym isn’t new.

(Also, it really is an acronym pronounced “mammal,” not an initialism.)

Or that will automatically connect to insecure WiFi.

I don’t want anybody else to live near a data center either.

Not even because of the noise or heat or whatever; just because they only have a few employees and that’s just bad urbanism. A data center is a hole in the urban fabric with no foot traffic.

If you must have 'em, put 'em out in the middle of nowhere (but along the internet backbone fiber between cities).

who needs O Zone either

sad numa numa noises

It’s stalking, not merely “public”. “Public” does not imply a panopticon!

Permissive vs. copyleft isn’t an issue of more vs. less freedom, it’s an issue of freedom for whom. The “freedom” that permissive licensing gives developers is the power to take freedom away from downstream users and comes at their expense.

Permissive licensing is like the Confederacy demanding the “freedom” to own slaves.

According to the Gamers Nexus (I think) video I saw, they’re sourcing whatever RAM they can find, so some units ship with 1x16GB and others ship with 2X8GB and it’s just random luck which you’ll get.

Ah, thanks for the warning. My install has been badgering me to upgrade because my (non-LTS) version just stopped getting security updates. I ought to get off my ass and switch distros.

I just ordered new glasses the other day and sprung for an IR-blocking lens coating when I saw it was an option. Who knows if it’ll help much, but it can’t really hurt (aside from me possibly not liking the pink sheen they apparently have).

Yep.

In 2002, I used Gentoo.

In 2026, I use Kubuntu.

(I should probably switch since Canonical’s policies are increasingly bothering me, but meh, I can’t be bothered to reinstall more than once a decade.)