I have the same preference, but companies keep giving me macbooks to use for work no matter how many times I ask for a cheaper (or better specced at the same price) Linux laptop.
This story is a follow-up to reports that the "Gen-Z" rebellion in Mexico in particular seems to mostly consist of older people, like Gen X and Boomers.
I mean, most used dealerships give a report on the battery's state of health, which is at least a more specific and harder to fake metric than a description of the state of the engine
Most EVs on the market have batteries that will last a comparable amount of time to a modern gas engine, often over a decade, and possibly over 20 years if you baby them.
If you don't upgrade the RAM, go with Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. If you do upgrade to 8GB RAM, probably LMDE? You don't need to be on a bleeding edge kernel with a Windows 8 era laptop, modern optimizations will not affect perf much.
Bigger than ever in post industrial society, maybe. Pre-industrial times almost everyone shared almost everything. The ones who didn't share were rich, and even they often would invite guests to stay for a whole season semi-regularly because of their ridiculously big houses and desire for entertainment.
Do you have a link? So far all I've seen is they said you can sideload APKs, which (to me) is just as good, but apks on Steam is cool too. Here's hoping Steam for Android benefits as well.
Basically, the Frame eyetracks you, and it uses that data to prioritize which parts of the overall scene are rendered at what detail level.
That's an accurate description of foveated rendering, but what the Frame has is foveated streaming. Foveated rendering needs to be incorporated in the game, typically at the engine level. Foveated streaming can happen at the system-wide level because it's not reducing the rendering load, but instead reducing the bitrate of the streamed video when you're streaming wireless VR over wifi from your desktop PC or Steam Machine.
Hell, there's gaming oriented mini PCs that are 1/2-1/3 the size of a PS5 Slim, with double the performance...
Sure, for triple the price. Steam Machine's draw here is that it will likely be around PS5, possibly PS5 Pro level performance for around the same price (they said entry level gaming PC, so I'm guessing base price around 600).
Ubuntu uses Snap packages, even within apt. If you type sudo apt install firefox in Ubuntu, you get a snap package of firefox. If you type the same exact command in Mint, you get Firefox as an apt package directly from Mozilla's publishing source.
What I dislike about snap packages is that they automatically update without user input. For a desktop system this is wholly unnecessary and can lead to security issues down the line if one package's packager is compromised, despite snap's supposedly great sandboxing.
I strongly prefer Mint over Ubuntu Cinnamon because I can fully control when updates happen and don't need to fiddle with the default settings for that to be the case. Mint has greater respect for the user, from my perspective.
LMDE is a nice option, as well, since it uses upstream Debian packages instead of Ubuntu packages the way regular Mint does.
Because Teslas have dogshit reliability and all have OTA updates, whereas other brands don't suffer from these issues.