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Well, you definitelly have "room for growth" with it, especially if you don't care about the fan running (i.e. sustained loads above 20% or so) which in my case and since the thing is in my living room I would rather not have (especially since Mini-Pcs tend to have smaller fans which have to rotate faster hence are more noisy).

I read it as being particularly good at it, since everybody does indeed do pattern matching and can spot details.

That format of presentation - especially when the choice was clearly made to go for more points rather than more depth per point - is unsuitable for precise, detailed explanations, so expecting otherwise isn't exactly logic.

As somebody who, judging by everything else in there matches that particular part of the spectrum (though never formally diagnosed) I've always had an eye for details and am big at figuring things out via pattern matching (I.e. notice that certain combinations of things tend to go along with certain other combinations of things or outcomes) which is also what powers the "skip" thinking (you can jump directly to a list of possibly explanations by recognizing that it shares a pattern with something else whose explanation I already have and then work backwards from there to confirm if indeed one of those possible explanations is the correct one).

I've studied and worked in highly intellectual areas (Science and Technology) and have seldom come across others with a similar style of thinking so to me it makes sense that in that graph those things are there in the sense of more/better than most.

Same here.

Set up a mini PC with one some months ago as a home media box (with Kodi on Lubuntu) in my living room, which also works as a NAS and Torrent client over always on VPN.

CPU usage tends to be below 10% and you almost never hear the fan on the box turn on.

All this on a machine with a TDP of 15W.

I'd say the N100 is massivelly overpowered to be used just as a NAS.

It's called Stockholm Syndrome: people without options often end up genuinelly believing that the guy who tortures them only twice a week rather than daily is "deep down a good guy" and even "is our friend".

I suspect sometime ago it switched from belief in him to most market players believing that "enough people will believe this guy's shit that the line will go up so best jump in early", essentially a self-made prophecy as long as enough people believe that others believe.

In that sense this result of his presentation pushing the line down A LOT means that even the idea that no matter how much he's lying he will move the market up is finished and his bullshit being a Midas Touch has now reached the natural endlife of becoming a Shit Touch.

That being so, has much more massive implications for Elon's business success and wealth as well as that of companies links to him, than merely the market losses in this one instance, since he is very much a One Trick Pony whose "bullshitter of tech fanboys" trick has stopped working and nobody is going to be betting on Elon pushing the line up anymore, the core of his success in getting wildass ideas funded and his companies in non-Tech industries getting Tech-style market valuations.

The next couple of years for Elon are going to be really "interesting".

Also there's this whole track record of Elon Musk's demonstrations were there's no clear independent validation that they actually work as we are being said they to or they're merelly announcements or concepts: those things are invariably complete total bollock at best bordering on Fraud.

I reckon that finally he has entirely exhausted both the benefit of the doubt that his demonstrations are in any way honest and representative of real products present or future, and the idea that "he might be bullshitting but he'll pull in enough suckers that early investors will win from going all in even if it's 100% bollocks".

The Midas Touch of Elon's bullshit has finally ran its course and turned into a Shit Touch.

The Guardian are pretty much the voice of New Labour, who are totally in bed with Israel (they're still sending them weapons and even sent surveillance planes to help them in Gaza).

If The Guardian is actually critical of Israel and the IDF that's a pretty good indication that the Zionist Genocide has already burned most of their good will even in Britain which is one of the most right wing states in Europe and has a history of invariably either being one or supporting White Colonist States in their Genocides of the locals (remember how they supported Appartheid until the last minute and even called Mandela "a terrorist"?!).

The last White Colonialist Nation in the World, no less.

No wonder countries like the US, Germany and Britain love them and send them weapons "to defend themselves from the savages".

Yeah, but unlike Biden who is a Fascist-just-not-at-home-(yet), she's an actual Leftie, which comes with the whole "Nobody deserves to be murdered because of their race (even if they're non-White Muslims and the killers are White Jews)" mindset.

I all fairness, the short sentence "Person X with a fan in France" could just as easily be meant either way.

Probabilistically I wouldn't be surprise that the fan that blows is more likely that the fan who is a person simply because everybody but a handful of people in the World do not really have legions of human fans they take pictures with, but once in a while some of them might in fact be mentioned along with the mention of a fan of the blowing kind.

It's only the picture and us recognizing Lana Del Rey as a celebrity that lets us know it's one kind of fan rather than the other kind.

Valve is a much, much bigger company than GoG, plus Valve's Linux strategy is really a "have our own console on the cheap" strategy.

But yeah, GoG should be doing more for gaming on Linux, maybe not as much as Valve but proportionally so. At the moment they're doing almost nothing at all: they have Linux offline installers available for games which do support Linux directly, but that's it.

So whilst I find it unrealistic to expect that GoG should be contributing to gaming on Linux as much as Valve, I do agree they should be doing more.

PS: Mind you, I'm not trying to make the case that GoG is perfect and Steam is shit, I'm trying to make the case that open and flexible to use is better than closed and tightly integrated with a specific store, which is why I generally prefer GoG with their offline installers, as well as Lutris + Wine (quite independently of GoG) and would be happy enough even if Lutris had no GoG integration since long before moving my gaming rig to Linux I had the habit of downloading and using the offline installers and did not at all use GoG Galaxy.

If there's one thing that 30 years of being a Software Engineer have taught me is that you want your system to be as decoupled as possible from any business, because even if they are nice at the moment that's no guarantee that at a later date they won't leverage people having their systems integrated with theirs to take advantage of their customers (the phenomenon of enshittification being a good example of that).

BDY sells their vehicles in Europe.

I do believe the safety regulations in the EU are actually stricter than in the US.

Oh, absolutely.

The point I'm making is that with its process Lutris + Wine are scaling up much faster to seamlessly make all sorts of Windows games Click & Play in Linux, than Steam can or even will try to (don't expect Steam to get around to cover older games that aren't successful AAA titles).

It's the same old same old, open source software solution vs closed corporate software solution that happens in so many other domains: the open source one starts clunky and quirky and it will always tend towards the side of "giving users enough rope to hang themselves with" (too many option, many very powerful) whilst the closed corporate one will from the very start be slick and easier to use but very limited when it comes to what users can do to customize it or even fix it when it doesn't work, but over time and if it manages to survive the open source one will be better and far more capable and flexible than the corporate one simply because contributions to it scale up with interest in it and number of users whilst that's not so for the corporate one.

It's what you see with for example Blender vs Adobe's suit of 3D modelling programs or Linux vs Windows (if it weren't for the well entrenched ecosystem of Windows-only applications, I doubt Windows would still be around).

That's why I think something like Lutris + Wine are the future, not Proton integrated into the Store application of Steam.

Proton too just automates the work that somebody did in the form of install instructions, same as Lutris.

The difference is that those making the install scripts for Proton are paid for and you don't get the option to fix them or make your own, which means that there are in fact fewer games with Steam install instructions (i.e. Steam Support) than games with Lutris install scripts.

Further, there are fewer things you can tweak in Proton and they're all either changing the proton version or some badly documented text parameters that get fed to its command line, whilst Lutris actually has most such options in menus: the learning curve for just starting a game is lower in Steam that in Lutris when it works but the learning curve for fixing it when it does not work is lower in Lutris and sometimes you simply don't have access to change what's needed to fix it in Steam but you do in Lutris.

If you use Lutris with its GoG integration the experience is generally the same kind of Click & Play as Proton of Steam and whilst the rate of problems seems to still be a bit bigger in Lutris, surprisingly (at least for me) it's not by much.

For me in Lutris having to go and install Microsoft components using Winetricks is generally only needed for some standalone installer executables, not when using GoG integration.

Steam is great when it works and a massive headache and pretty limited on what you can do when it doesn't, whilst at least with GoG integration Lutris is great when it works and still a headache when it doesn't but not as much as Steam and it gives you a lot more options to try and get it to work, plus the coverage of pre-made installer scripts in Lutris (which is what makes games "just work" in it) seems to be broader than in Steam, including covering older and more obscure titles, plus that coverage is probably growing faster because the scripts are user contributed rather than the work that can be done adding support being limited by how many people Valve (who are notorious for having very few employees for a company that size) hired to work on it.

Lutris has GoG integration and it's exactly that same 2 step process if you use it (I believe it passes you through 3 screens of options were you invariably do nothing but click "Continue", so strictly it's 5 steps were 3 of the are just "Press Continue")

The difference is that when it does NOT just work, it's easier to figure out and there are more options to fix it with Lutris + Wine.

I even have some weird weird cases on Steam - like Borderlands 2 were Steam would often and randomly, before actually starting the game spend almost 1h doing shader conversions that if you stopped it the game would fail to start (the solution was to force an older Proton version and now you just get random downloads from the Internet that last a few minutes before the game starts).

IMHO, here too what one sees is the general design philosophy difference between open source software and corporate solutions - the former gives you tons of options and lots of ways to tune it so it looks more complicated to use and has a steeper learning curve but that also means when things go wrong you have a lot more ways to try to fix it, whilst the latter is click & play until things go wrong and then you have very little info and just a few things you can change to try and fix it.

Mind you, Lutris itself seems to be an attempt to also be click & play (hence why you generally get a steam-like experience if you use its GoG integration) but all the "buttons and knobs" are still there (those 3 screens of options that's usually fine to just press "Continue" on that I mentioned above) just in case you want to muck about with them, making it look daunting to use.

I've been playing more GoG games with Lutris + Wine in Linux than Steam games with Proton and I even have one situation of a game were the copy I bought in Steam doesn't work with Proton, but the pirated copy I downloaded to see if that would work runs absolutely fine with Lutris + Wine.

For me at least it's actually easier to sort problems out with games when using Lutris + Wine than it is with Proton and I can even make sure all games I run from Lutris are wrapped in a "firejail" sandbox, which amongst other things blocks all network access, something I can't do with Proton.

It's a vendor-tied solution meant to keep you in the Steam ecosystem, so for all the great work they did in past getting it to have broad compatibility, the future is not Proton, it's Wine.

The info is here and none of that "DRM" means you can't in the future, after the servers are down, install the game from your copy of the offline installer and play it.

None of that is DRM in the sense we're talking about here: the kind of mechanism that allows the game to be taken away from you or won't let you install it or play it in single-player anymore when the publisher decides they don't want to pay for servers anymore.

It is, none the less, a deviation from the No-DRM promise, IMHO.

Not in the sense we're discussing it here, they don't.

There's a list of about 20 games said to have DRM in Gog and when you actually read the list rather than just it's title it turns out none of them has what we would call DRM - any sort of phone-home validation or anti-piracy measure.

It's mainly things games with add-on content that requires you use Gog Galaxy or register online, some that send analytics to a server and stuff like that.

You can see the info here,

Whilst it's still nasty and still shouldn't be happening, none of that makes the game unusable in the future after the servers are down if you still have the offline installer.

There are no penalties for filling a bogus DMCA takedown and the legal cost for restoring the content falls on the victim of such a takedown: the DMCA legislation was designed exactly for it to be used as Mazda and many other use it against individuals and small companies who can't spend thousands of dollars fighting bogus takedowns.

My opinion of Democrat politicians was formed by observing the consequences of Clinton's repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act (i.e. the 2008 Crash), who and how Barack Obama helped in the aftermath of that crash (major asset owners and financiers, unconditionally and by taking money away from the many which resulted in a decade were inequality in the US exploded and social mobility crashed to Latin America levels) and how Hilary Clinton sold herself very overtly to Finance (for example, being paid a cool half a million to give a speech to a handful of Goldman Sachs' employees, which she did just at the start of her electoral campaign against Trump and almost certainly caused her to lose the election).

I'm sure some Democrat voters aren't greedy sociopath assholes, almost certainly most of them, maybe even an overwhelming majority of them, but Democrat Politicians are mainly slippery sold-out sociopath snakes (with a few notable exceptions) who when it comes to anything but Moral Liberalism are almost as Rightwing as the Republicans and far to the Right of the rest of the World and as the Israeli Genocide is making painfully clear, even in the domain of Moral Liberalism for all their playacting of anti-racists who just want equal treatment for all, they're de facto racist that support extreme violence if committed by those they see as a "western" (read: white) race against those they see as "lesser" races (Muslims, which is so fashionable do discriminate against these days in the West), same as the Republicans.

As shown by what they chose to do when the Republicans can't actually block them, the Democrats claiming it's the Republicans blocking them is often scapegoating the other side for they themselves not wanting to do something.

The Democrats do however have a much slicker and more heavily hypocrite Propaganda than the "modern" Republicans, which reminds me very much of the polished deceiver and hypocrite style of the Rightwing (not just New Labour but also the Tories) in the UK and even of the Upper Class there in general (in the real world the English Gentleman is not somebody who does the right thing, it's somebody who projects the right appearance whilst doing what's best for themselves without caring about the consequences for others - it's a learned skillset for image management and deceiving others, not a moral compass)