I wasn’t aware we were… ought I be? I’m not sure I’ve got the time in my schedule to really throw myself into fretting about another thing to a level I’d be proud of.

Now this is the content I look forward to!

May have to try Sainsbury’s beans soon.

I’m going back and changing the convention of current to flow in the same direction as the flow of electrons.

Advertising is the graffiti of the rich. The poor get fined for tagging a wall, while corporations are paid to deface our entire visual landscape. It’s the same act of vandalism, just with a budget that buys legitimacy.

Salad is way too big a lot of that region should be soup. If you give me a bowl of 50/50 water and veg I’m calling that soup not a salad.

I have never used mint so I can’t speak to its gaming performance or optimisation tricks but I would be tempted to try out with a more bleeding edge philosophy (like Bazzite or Catchy or Nobara). They’re likely to have newer drivers and kernel etc. If that solves your problem - great!

Yes and no, you can spec them as high as you’d like and apple bills you through the nose for upgrades. But if you get a base model air (~$1000), iMac (~$1300) or a Mac mini (~$600) they’re some of the best deals in technology. You can’t buy a pc with equivalent cpu and graphics power for the same money. Really powerful machines, sip battery, great screens, great keyboards. It’s impossible to get a new Windows machine as good and that’s before you factor in the Apple build quality and hardware longevity. I have 2 Mac laptops going strong from 2011 and 2013 respectively.

People who moan about Apple pricing are right - you can spend silly money on Apple stuff, but you don’t have to, and some of their value offerings are really very good.

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I think this will make his followers like him more not less.

Google just can’t help adding chat functionality nobody wants. Bonus points if it can kill something people did use to add half the functionality to something new.

yeah a centi-billionaire. Very good guy I’m sure. He seems to burn through wives too… which is a red flag.

Anyway, I wish all billionaires a happy

Oracle turning something to shit? Open AI being a Ponzi scheme? I’m not exactly shocked at these revelations.

A retrofit pocket flip 2 running steam os would be pretty dope

I would suggest the support this has from valve that means it works great out the box does indeed make it novel.

It will move the needle far more than like 2 hobbyists flashing niche hardware. Nobody cares about that because it’s so small scale. Nobody will put in the support for that user base. Conversely the valve frame is going to be a mass market product that will be in the hands of loads of people, so issues and problems will get fixed, software will be optimised and if the install base is large enough it will be targeted with new software and features.

That’s the novelty. It’s likely going to change things.

To be fair I wouldn’t buy one of those to run Linux, and it’s not a extremely hard to see why the average consumer wouldn’t want to buy this to run Linux either:

Yeah yeah, VR and tv optimised steam machine whatever - but the steam controller - now that’s real shit!

Valve is a money printing machine and I don’t love their increasing monopoly over gaming but for now they at least make cool shit.

Yeah for you and me, sure. But I don’t think any command line package managers are good for Joe Public either. My mum isn’t installing software from a command line, but she’s fine to download Netflix onto her phone from an app store. Flatpak integrates nicely into a lot of os software centres in a way I’ve not seen from Guix (though I could be wrong, I’ve not looked much).

Guix is extremely good but I’m not sure if it’s ready for general users yet in the way flatpak is.

I’m pro flatpak it seems the best solution for the job. It saves devs compiling software for every single distro. This reduces wasted effort and also has a significant environmental benefit in reducing cpu energy use on compiling. Additionally the convinience and compatibility are great.

Don’t really care about the file size, storage is cheap. If you do care due to your hardware situation I can see it being annoying though.

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