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I read it and it is a good article. Thanks for sharing.

But yeah, stupid headline.

"felt"? He was kidnapped. By the state.

I've invested all of my retirement savings in bottle caps. I think I'll be fine.

I think the writer just couldn’t resist the pun. A bit myopic of them.

Open sourcing old games is awesome for video game preservation.

Great! So I'll have to pay way less income tax next year, right?

... right?

I agree. E-mail is the original federated service. And 50 years later e-mail spam remains a big problem. I hope Fedi projects can get spam mitigations on-par with email before spammers start getting serious about this place.

Moving from C to C++ would also not solve any real problem. C++ of course adds OOP which I think can be nice (not everyone agrees with this!) but it also adds an insane amount of language complexity and instability. Mentally reasoning about C code is hard, reasoning about C++ code is nearly impossible.

Rust however brings a novel solution to classes of problems like ownership and mutability with the borrow checker. It's now accepted to be a great tool for writing high performance code while preventing a substantial amount of common, but often subtle, bugs from slipping through. It's not arbitrarily the first non-C code to be accepted in the kernel. And it's used in other operating systems like Android and Windows already.

"The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just fucking do it already. America is rapidly being destroyed and all the Democrats will have got to show for it in the future history books is "They did their utmost to avoid taking any possibly biased-looking decisions."

Fresh clear water when you’re alarmingly thirsty.

Duh, I missed that it was under Steam Input. Yeah, most likely that's just controller polling. Amazing that somehow saves 6% battery.

Oh, you refer only to this specific patch. I'm not 100% sure about this patch, but there are other kinds of polling rates, including a global kernel polling rate which greatly affects performance, and tweaking it might perhaps save battery life. And I just mean in general it appears Valve invests a lot of time into mobile power efficiency and I wonder if some makes it upstream.

It has been my experience, which seems generally accepted online, that Linux is greatly outclassed by Windows when it comes to power efficiency on laptops during normal usage. So contributions of new ways in which power efficiency could be improved would be great.

I wonder how many of these updates make it from Steam Deck into mainstream Linux. Because my Deck lasts a lot longer on battery power than my Linux laptop does.

You're not wrong, though I'm not so sure about blaming "welfare teat-sucking". EU right wingers in many countries have pushed hard for decades to slowly dismantle the welfare state, while also neglecting European security. The rich helped the rich get richer, and everyone else is paying the price. Clink clink.

That was hilarious. I totally get it, kid.

Tariffs are from what I've read, according to economists anyway, a lose-lose for both parties. They're apparently useful only for obvious things like targeted protection of specific vulnerable domestic industries. I cant begin to understand what Trump is even trying to accomplish here. Blanket tariffs seem just self-destructive.

Yeah, that must be it. It's a real shame because the core technology seems to be solid. Streaming 1080p videos from other instances just works. But finding channels to follow seems impossible.