Ah yes, a tortuously slow gui with late 90s “skin” design sensibilities…

Basically the anti-DRM stance. If I can buy through GOG, I will do that because I know that edition is not DRM encumbered. In steam it should be optional, but plenty of games that are DRM-free on GOG are DRM-enabled on steam. And while GOG galaxy is Windows-only, at least they do bother to provide Linux installers for some of the library.

I will grant that Valve are doing a lot more on Linux and ecosystem, with more integrated support and extending the Linux support to cover a lot of games where publishers didn’t lift a finger to enable Lniux. Probably stemming from having a significant more amount of money to work with and freedom from public investors to let them spend as they see fit.

Well that screenshot was accurate for Gentoo circa 2005, it’s just the worst choice for ease of install, with Linux graphical installs provided by suse, mandrake, and redhat from the 90s.

Fair point could be made that the out of box experience was sorely lacking and you pretty much had to configure;make install most software you actually wanted…

I will grant that particularly steam frame I don’t think Valve could have done as a public company, investors would be rioting over the attempt.

Public companies get heavily penalized for “labor of love” type endeavors.

Though CD Projekt seemingly does some things I’d have assumed investors would have balked at as well.

That’s a good point, also if you can compare like to like conditions and what the data does if you exclude teen drivers. Also if you can identify incidents related to bald tires and brake failures that wouldn’t apply.

Also would be interesting to compare human augmented driving miles to full autonomous miles. With the automated emergency braking/collision alert/lane centering assist. Anecdotally was teaching my teen to drive. Suddenly a car pulls out right in front of us, zero warning. If that happened to me, with experience on a formerly normal car, I’m pretty sure I would’ve wrecked. However my kids reflex to swerve triggered the cars “evasive steering assist” and did an action movie worthy maneuver, avoiding going off into the ditch and returning just right into the lane after getting around the other car.

Thing about autonomous driving is that it seems to get the stupid easy stuff wrong in dangerous ways, but if you have a demanding precise maneuver to make, it has a better chance once that maneuver is needed.

The challenge is one approach only needs to modify the transit infrastructure. The other means having to tear down and build new commercial and residential properties and force people and businesses to relocate in order to have a vaguely sane transit system. My area desperately wanted to do transit but even with rather significant hypothetical funding, they could only service about 10-15% of typical trips. They’ve settled on a plan that is much less money, but only serves like 5% of trips. To go with that plan, they are making restrictions around zoning to force mid density mixed use construction only, favoring one of the two chosen transit corridors.

They are trying but just people are distributed very awkwardly for mass transit.

Let’s put it this way. If you knew a person, and that person just had their fourth crash in 8 years having driven 160k miles, would you think “this person is a bad driver” or would you think “they only crashed 4 times, let’s see where this goes”.

Especially if you’ve seen this driver drive in the wrong lane, go straight in a turn only lane, and other dodgy maneuvers regularly.

A small sample size would just make the prediction highly uncertain, could be way better or way worse.

However others have made the observation that it’s reasonable to consider the miles driven as the sample size, and at over 300,000 miles, it is a bit more credible sounding.

Funny part was that tesla taxis also had a human attendant, but for the sake of appearance made them sit on the passenger side. They deliberately limited staff from being able to interact with steering and pedals.

They eventually moved those to the driver seat.

With respect to the cited companies, sure.

But if we had a GoG gaming ecosystem, then I would favor that in terms of consumer friendly.

I’ll even given them a name for a VR headset: GoGles

He’s right though, SteamOS was triggered the first time around by windows 8 and the associated store and surface rt launching as a “store only” device, widely considered a harbinger of Microsoft trying to get their whole ecosystem to be apple like (in house hardware design with software distribution platform that gives them a cut of everything).

When they came up short, they tried Windows S on x86, thinking that a Windows that could run fewer applications would somehow be seen as more valuable to customers because “security”.

I think they have learned their lesson, again, that long reaching app compatibility is the only reason their OS has a hold on the industry, but around window 8 release it was abundant clear they wanted to lock down the platform apple style. I recall at the time Valve said as much when they tried SteamOS and steam machines and pushing developers to do Linux versions. It was a flop then, but Valve ultimately revitalized it with Proton and the Deck.

Fax machines, fine, certain organizations still require those mostly because people fall to understand that a fax machine is just a scanner and printer and this some bearaucracy failed to keep pace.

Same story for checkbooks.

AOL is still a thing and you can even sign up for it today, email address wise.

Record players are in use, though more people own records than record players, more popular as display pieces than actual music medium.

I would say everything else on the list is pretty much dead unless you go out of your way to do them, and nothing else on the list has so much nostalgia appeal compared to the problems and difficulty with them.

Lost count due to the dementia

He must have died while typing…

Going by inflation adjusted market cap values, it certainly looks like the financial facet of the AI companies alone are bigger than both those events… This is going to be beyond messy…

The issue is that as dumb as it is, SATA ssds are still a big part of the consumer market.

Even though nvme isn’t appreciably more expensive to make, it’s still used as a “premium” product., and SATA is a product tier to capture budget market whole protecting their more premium market.

This move is a clear symptom of the real issue. Manufacturers shifting as much capacity as possible towards big datacenter buildouts at the expense of starving every other market for these products. Trillions of dollars that will pay whatever it takes competing with a more rational market

Getting the stack lined up for hw encode can be a mess, especially with cuda…

So our utility came out and said they have to raise residential rates by a rather large amount, largely because so many data centers are demanding so much power they need to upgrade, so residential rates have to fund that…

I haven’t seen the ads to have any idea about this person, but I will but from the stores.

GameStop very rarely, because a game console store price is dumb and getting a used copy of a popular game is cheap, but overwhelmingly will get/wait for PC editions of games, so it comes up very rarely.

Best buy I’ll buy something because they frequently are competitive with buying online, and I like the ability to just pick something up now without waiting. Also when a controller has an issue or was similarly instant to exchange. Didn’t wait a few days just to get a botched one and then wait a few days for a replacement, got it, find out of was not working, and exchanged it all in the same day.

While technically the truth, it can be a hassle to make sure you restart all relevant services after updating a given library.

I just like being able to restart underlying system to take care of any possible straggler without thinking, and the services broadly be provided by multiple systems so the “experience” is starting up through a rolling reboot