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iGPU+dGPU, esp with Nvidia is pretty bad on Linux. It's pretty flawless these days if you're using only one vendor and it isn't Nvidia.

I can understand that. I think we should try to work toward a more democratic workplace, although I don't think any existing solution is something we can just apply in the USA. A good stepping stone would be to incentivize different ownership structures and improve the bureaucratic mechanisms for handling them. There's a couple worker owned grocery chains in my city that are a great asset to the community (and have the best beer selection) and I'd love to see more support for people who want to make companies like that.

Obviously one would choose democratically elected politicians over unaccountable dictators and autocrats. What's the saying, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others" or something along those lines.

Regarding workplace democracy, the idealized form of this in a capitalist framework would be having lots of competitive companies in every field. You would then be able to "vote" by taking your labor elsewhere if you don't like what your employer is doing. Now, I of course understand that we don't live in fantasyland, and for many sectors, that might not be possible. Many sectors have unique challenges that would need to be addressed with tailored legislation, but that's beyond the scope of an internet comment.

For land, easy, land value tax. It effectively is an implementation of leasing land from the government and solves a lot of housing issues by encouraging development of high value parcels so you don't end up with dozens of parking lots taking up 50% of your urban centers, and doesn't regressively place burdens on the poor.

If we manage to get to a post scarcity society where we have a lot more people than labor to get done, then I would put my bet on UBI or negative tax rates being an effective way forward.

Democratically elected/accountable doesn't necessarily beget quality. See: politicians.

Point is, people act like moving away from capitalism would suddenly fix all life's ails. Sure, it would probably fix some stuff, it would probably cause some problems capitalism doesn't too. It's much more effective to focus on tackling specifically scoped issues rather than whinging about capitalism and proposing no solutions other than tearing down the entire system and hoping whatever rises from the ashes is better.

To make some very specific points, I believe that if we simply fixed outrageous housing and healthcare costs, the overwhelming majority of domestic complaints about the USA would be solved. No need to ditch capitalism to fix those problems.

I always find it funny when people use the phrase slippery slope, not realizing that it is literally a logical fallacy.

The far right can get bent for what it's worth, but most of the issues people attribute to capitalism are very far from exclusive to capitalism. No matter what socioeconomic framework you go with, you're probably still going to need to go to work, deal with shitty bosses, insane bureaucracies, mid life crises, not having the motivation to read that book you bought 3 years ago, your furnace dying in the middle of winter, etc.

Don't forget about "every problem in existence is because of capitalism."

If you want to play every new AAA release on release, sure, something like gamepass/ps plus is cheaper. You can also get gamepass on PC fwiw, so it's not really a good argument for consoles. I usually just wait for games to go on sale for $10-20, plus it gives time for the games to actually get patched and function properly. I've also been dumping thousands of hours into the same 3 or 4 games for the last decade, so really I could have spent nothing on PC gaming other than a few hundo on a new GPU a couple years ago.

And for most people, you need to have a PC anyway. Consoles are not good at doing your taxes or editing documents. So the alternative to a gaming PC isn't just a console, it's a console and a weaker PC bundled together. The price difference between a budget laptop and a kickass gaming rig is going to be less than the price of console.

A lot of IRC communities migrated, and it's pretty much the go to option now if you want live communications for your project or org, but don't want something proprietary. It's a pretty good replacement for Teams or Slack.

Your proposed solution is too narrow. All housing makes housing more affordable. Just let developers actually build the places people are demanding, whatever they are. No housing you build will ever be affordable unless there is enough of it.

Most of Europe and Japan is pretty mild most of the year. I wouldn't be surprised if a very large chunk of that difference is simply climate, a lot of the USA gets very cold/hot.

Not the same guy but this is basically impossible. I was able to get maybe two of the dozens of people I have to contact regularly to use it, then they dropped SMS support and it's been dead ever since for me.

Actually libEI allows for exactly this. It's very new so not widely supported yet but it'll definitely get there eventually.

Not OP but the Toyota MR2 had the following text on the rear window on some units:

Mature sporty personal

More innovation more adult

A man in dandism

Powered midship specialty

WAV is also braindead simple, effectively just a stream of raw PCM data. It would be really hard to hide any sort of payload in it.

The majority of service members are not infantry. You're far more likely to be a desk jockey or a support role than see combat.

How many games are actually steam exclusive on PC though, not counting 50 cent shovelware crap? A good chunk of the best selling PC games ever (minecraft for example) are not even available on steam.

I just went through the top 10 on steam and other than counter strike, which is literally made by valve, all of them are available elsewhere.

No, they vaporize on reentry.

I'm not saying an attack can't be done, or that it won't happen. Honestly, I'd be very surprised if it doesn't and I fully agree with you on the additional security measures.

What I am saying is that it's very unlikely we wouldn't find out what's going on before the results are set in stone at any scale larger than the tiniest local elections (which if you altered a bunch of local elections enough to exert influence, you run into the same issue of being easily detected). This would still be massively damaging to the election process, especially if the attack goes deep enough to require the election to be re-run, but not the end of our democracy.

The main point I'm trying to make is that compromising voting machines is not the hard part of rigging an election. It would require a conspiracy so complicated, that I'm not convinced there's any group on earth that could successfully pull it off. Set aside cybersec arguments for a moment:

1. Let's assume the worst case for security, that there is one machine per state that you can easily compromise to alter election results. This alone is doing a lot of lifting for this example.
2. Now, you have to cross your fingers and hope that the election is close enough that you can fudge the overall result without raising suspicion
3. Prior to the election, you have to plan which states to compromise, and what districts you will target for altering votes. You can only really do this in swing states and swing districts. It is usually not clear until very close to the election which places will be optimal.
4. Because you are at the mercy of RNGesus as for where you can compromise, you have to compromise a lot of extra states ahead of time to eliminate risk that you didn't get enough swingable ones to pull of your plan. This increases head count and creates more liability.
5. If you swing any given district too far, you can raise suspicion and trigger a recount. If one district raises the alarm, the rest will follow. If you only compromised central machines and not the voting machines and ballots themselves, you fail.
6. If you can't find enough districts to subtly alter, you fail.
7. Let's assume you prepared for point 4 and compromised voting machines themselves. This requires massively more people involved, and if only one person gets caught, you fail.
8. To extend 6. every person involved in your conspiracy is a liability. A single double agent gets in your ranks? Fail. Somebody flakes? Fail. Somebody grows a conscious or gets busted and rats you out? Fail.

While yes, theoretically you could overcome all those obstacles, you'd have to get miraculously lucky and you'd need to not get busted for quite a long time after the election. Why even bother when you can just pay a few bucks to the right people and get news channels to convince the voters to put your guy in charge without committing any voter fraud at all?

Now all that said, I absolutely support improved election security. If nothing else, it will make it much harder to spread FUD about election integrity.

Unreal was obscenely expensive and way more difficult until UE4 though, long after unity had gained traction.