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I think a big part of that, for me at least, is Steam Input plus the trackpads being an actually usable alternative to using a mouse to move a cursor.

Those two features have made countless games that I never imagined I'd be playing on a controller, let alone a portable device, completely playable.

Steam Input alone is such a killer feature that I rarely see people talking about. The amount of customization you can do on a game-by-game basis is actually kind of hard to believe.

The first Netlfix season (season 3 I think?) was still good. But aside from that, I agree.

Fair enough... It's been nearly a month since I commented here so I don't remember the exact situation, but if having a lot of updates was an issue, then yeah maybe not EndeavourOS. There may be LTS versions, but since it's based on Arch, I'm not sure. I personally don't mind it, and have yet to have a single issue with an update "breaking" something (though I have Timeshift set up to take a snapshot before updating just in case), but I guess

I could see someone being annoyed by having the little thing pop-up to tell you how many things you could update, but I kind of like it I think. It kinda feels like I'm very slowly, incrementally, making my laptop better, albeit usually in ways I can't even perceive at the time.

But hey, everyone has their preferences. That's why there's a billion distros to choose from.

I imagine the people who still run independent companies that fill vending machines (I'm not sure if this is still the model, or if capitalism ruined that as well) will gladly install the M&M branded machines, when the rental fees go down drastically.

At least that's how I see this playing out: Machine is provided to small business for cheap (possibly free), majorly increasing their ever-thinning profit margins. I'm sure the cost of snacks increasing every month is a nightmare for people who stock vending machines, and their profit margins must be thinner than they've ever been.

They'll install the new machines, and maybe even make marginally more total profits... of course the real money is in the data being collected by the machine.

Shit, I bet they could start having vending machines where they just give you shit for free, all you have to do is give a thumbprint, or strand of hair, or fingernail, or cornea scan, etc... And people would use them. Hey, free shit right?

I second EndeavourOS. My first distro and it's been a great experience. I've felt no desire to switch.

Steam/games have worked great.

It will be far far worse under Trump.

Yeah it fucking sucks. Trolls and 14 year old edge lords with no understanding of how the real world works

Competitive chess just got a whole lot more interesting.

Religion is a malignant tumor on humanity

Lol @ thinking Musk has even a basic grasp on the physics that his employees work with. I bet you think he "invented Tesla" too.

Have you tried using reader mode in Firefox? Or did they fix that one? Still works for me on other sites like New York Times.

Why would anyone want a PS5 with coax? I don't understand... Are you using a 30 year old TV?

I switched my laptop EndeavorOS in 2023. Windows 11 was the last straw. Terrible OS.

You can do all of that with most basic file explorers. I use Dolphin on KDE. Change the view to "details" and right click the top and choose which metadata fields you want to show up. Then you can sort or filter using metadata.

I'm not sure... I don't think so? I use HDMI.

I watch DVDs on mine all the time, including Blu-ray and 4k Blu-ray.

Same. Not only that, but you can play the better quality, 60fps versions on your Steam Deck if you use Chiaki and play the PS5 remotely.

Dunno if anyone has mentioned it yet, but it's relatively easy to set up Chiaki on the Deck to remote play PS5 games.

Founding fathers were mostly (if not all) deists, not Christian.

A true agent of chaos