If you’re on Windows it’s hard to recommend anything else. Nvidia has DLSS supported in basically every game. For recent games there’s the new transformer DLSS. Add to that ray reconstruction, superior ray tracing, and a steady stream of new features. That’s the state of the art, and if you want it you gotta pay Nvidia. AMD is about 4 years behind Nvidia in terms of features. Intel is not much better. The people who really care about advancements in graphics and derive joy from that are all going to buy Nvidia because there’s no competition.

Pretty much. Maybe someone at the 8bitdo HQ got an SD and discovered that the controllers all worked great?

Corrupt government does what corrupt governments do? Shocking.

Don’t you pay income tax in the country where you are resident, regardless of where you work? I don’t understand this. Sounds like a badly thought out deal.

The EU? Acting decisively? That’s hopeful.

Eh. Flattery works particularly well on Trump, I believe. So I think Rutte is doing a good job here. It’s sad that it’s necessary and that it works, but I don’t blame Rutte for the election of Trump.

Exactly this. Isn’t the point of the BBC world service to communicate/propagandise the British view of what’s happening in the world to other countries? Imagine Russia Today adding a paywall? It’s counter to the entire point! I think you may be on to something about this being a concession to Trump.

I applaud your optimism, and I think in theory you’re right. I just don’t think the odds are in the favor of anyone taking your advice.

Is it democracy that has a problem, or is it humans? Take the housing crisis, for example. We want low rents without lotteries, except we also want beautiful cities without commieblocks or even high-rises, and the significant proportion of voters who own their own homes want home values to always increase. And god forbid property taxes forces a retired old person out of a home that’s far larger than what they need. There is just no solution that satisfies all constraints. So we muddle through, mumbling something about “damn foreigners” and “eat the rich”. If we all actually agreed the housing crisis is a problem we’re willing to make sacrifices to solve, then we’d solve it in an instant. But no. Only mimimi.

The left runs on vibes and the right doesn’t want to fix anything. That’s not the fault of political parties, but just how different kinds of people think and operate. I don’t have a solution, really. The best I can come up with is: If you don’t like the laws where you live, see if anywhere else has a system you like. If you find something, consider moving there. If you don’t find what you’re dreaming of anywhere in the world then it is probably not (politically?) possible and you’ll just have to cope.

The most extremist-proof voting system I know of is approval voting. Proportional representation is unfortunately not really great at preventing extremism.

The word “idiot” was originally conceived to mean someone apolitical. Its meaning drifted for a reason.

It’s not an emergency if it can wait 15 minutes. So the line just doesn’t work for its intended purpose. That’s extraordinary failure.

What if I want to take the cab but I’m not a cutie?

The government is liberal, not lefty. Very different. But they seem like reasonable politicians. Boring. Normal. Not like this disaster.

MPL for libraries, AGPL for applications.

Oh, everyone does this and it’s not new. The US has done this an absolute ton, and is still doing it in, for example, Iran. Arguably the US exists because France did this to the British empire, although France was unusually direct in its support of the rebels. Recently, Pakistan did this with Afghanistan. It’s incredibly common.

I’m a big fan of open source, but I just don’t think so. Companies and governments want to outsource hosting, cloud, and other IT work to big full-service corporations like Microsoft. If the EU wants digital sovereignty, it’s going to need one or more Microsoft-like corporations capable of delivering full-service solutions. The alternative is to contract with consultancies like Accenture to set up and administer Linux desktops, Libreoffice, cloud storage, and so on. That’s doable, but companies and governments just don’t want it. They want low-risk common solutions with predictable billing (i.e. not Accenture).

Some of it is legit self-sustaining grassroots stuff. Some is funded by Russia (curiously I don’t think China does this stuff a lot). Some in the first category started as stuff in the second category.

This is standard geopolitics. You find dissatisfied people in the population of countries you don’t like, and then you support those people in various ways in order to destabilize your competitors.

Possibly. Issue is the kind of reactors that are typically employed in submarines and on aircraft carriers are not necessarily the ones we want for civilian uses, but the temptation to use the civilian program as a training ground for military stuff is huge, for economic reasons. I think nuclear energy would be far more advanced if it wasn’t shackled to the pressurized water designs.