Its a shame they didn’t succeed.

The OG Playstation had, by far, the biggest collection of games that I consider my favourites.

Weren’t expecting what?

Choice?…A succulent collection of choice?

Wouldn’t it be amazing just to watch the aneurysms erupt among the GOP, though? Even if he entered with no intention of even winning the nomination, just announcing that he was considering it would create so many exploding heads on the right that it would be fantastic.

What’s to stop them from just going a generation back and using DDR4 instead of DDR5.

There is no one who can convince me that it makes any noticeable difference anyway. When I was putting together a new/used desktop I specifically looked for DDR4 for precisely that reason and I would take any bet that a performance hit would be measured in numbers too small for any user to even notice.

Constantly needing newer hardware with only fractional improvements is the biggest scam in tech. They took their lesson from Apple and Samsung.

This is what happens when you have one side that sits back and plays some machiavellian chess, and another side that shits on a checker board and makes everyone roll around in it.

China is far from an honest actor, so don’t think I’m saying this as a compliment. But China knows when to shut up, sit back, and let the other guy fuck themselves over.

Absolute Mafioso shit. Hurt the cheeto’s feelings, we’ll arrange to make your family’s life hell.

oxygen and air’s revival

You need to keep in mind that we are part of a niche community (Fediverse), where most of the people (I’m betting) run linux and are pretty old-school in their FOSS and design mentalities. Any excitement that exists here is going to be skewed by confirmation bias in a network where everyone basically thinks the same.

X-Com: The Bureau Declassified. Your “teammates” are fundamentally suicidal, making keeping them alive almost impossible. But the setting, story and challenge made up for it. It was inventive.

The Technomancer: Mid-budget game by Spiders. Was short and straightforward, which most people disliked, but I thought it was a blast. The story still sticks in my head screaming for me to write a novel based on it.

Speak for yourself.

Over-confidence. He thinks is being told that Israel doesn’t have the guts to actually release the files because they need America more than America needs them, or some shit like that. He’s being told that he’s too big to fail.

No. Not wrong. But like everything else in this propogandized polarised world, I generally believe nothing is either as bad or as good as the loudest voices like to pretend.

Cyber risks aren’t unimportant, of course, but our risks from China are certainly no worse or better than the Cyber risks from the American government or even our own.

In a statement, Canada’s big three automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — said the entry of these EVs “undermines” the domestic auto industry and opens Canadians up to “cyber risks.”

A hard cap of 49,000 Chinese E.V.s (roughly 3 percent of the market) doesn’t undermine the Canadian manufacturers, it just forces them to actually fucking do somehing to make their own EVs more appealing.

Trans women are women, so what’s the writer’s point here? That it’s somehow gay to watch trans porn?

I’m the first person to say I don’t understand how the nuances of sexuality work. If I had to make a guess, I’d say that humans aren’t actually attracted to “Male” or “Female”, so much as they are attracted to “Masculine” and “Feminine”. regardless of the relative body parts that may or may not be under their clothes.

It says nothing at all about their sexuality, because it’s nobody’s business but their own.

He shits the bed and wants credit for putting the sheets in the wash

I’m stealing that metaphor. Yoink.

I’ve honestly been having some trouble getting into Prey. Don’t know why. It theoretically should be everything I enjoy in a first person game, but somehow I always turn it off after a half hour or so. I’ll keep trying because, hell, I paid for the damn thing. But yeah… It’s no dishonored (but what is really)

Technically there is no such thing as a “completely secure system”

What Linux offers is the fact that by nature of being FOSS, there are millions of eyes on source code at any one time, and so potential exploits can usually be spotted and mitigated faster than waiting for the software maker to fix their own shit. And the fact that, in most cases with Windows, the call is coming from inside the house, so-to-speak; It’s the operating system itself that is malicious and anti-user.

To put it simply: Yes…linux can be attacked just like windows. But we live in an open-concept house with no hidden corners, and we’ve got a pretty great neighbourhood watch thing going on. Versus Windows users who live a house filled with cameras and alarms, surrounded by a giant wall that they can’t see over, and they have to rely on the security company to do anything about the burglar trying to get in.

I’ll take my chances with the community approach every time.

Nobody ever says the AUR is safe. In fact they say specifically that it’s not; for exactly the reasons you mention.

That’s why it’s the Arch USER Repository. You take your fate in your own hands when you choose to use it.

As for your comment about using a distro that has everything in the main repo? How so? Every flavour has software that isn’t included in the main repos. For Arch based systems, that means either the AUR or Flatpaks. For Debian based systems, that means adding new repos to your sources, which is exactly as unsafe as the AUR in most cases, or using Flatpaks.

If you’ve ever added a repo on Ubuntu, than you’ve essentially used their version of an AUR. The end result is no different.

My father used to make a very excellent Cherry Liqueur from the tree in his yard.

That’s quite likely it. Something almost impossible to notice on a conscious level.