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placatedmayhem

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  • Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

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  • Yup. Some are doing well (like Microsoft with Halo, surprisingly...), others are actively denying doing anti-cheat on Linux. Here's the website to track them:

    https://areweanticheatyet.com/

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Bazzite was the distro that got me to kill the Windows 10 install on my gaming machine. Steam Deck catalyzed the move, but Bazzite was the final piece. Steam comes pre-baked in Bazzite, as does your graphics drives, and some multi-store frontends (I forget which atm), and some other quality of life bits. And Jellyfin Media Player is on Flathub, so installs easily via Flatpak.

  • Tale as old as time

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  • *Socially Awesome/Awkward Penguin

  • Tim Cook has now been Apple CEO for longer than Steve Jobs

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  • Definitely fewer interesting products.

    Steve:

    • iMac, especially the first couple
    • iPod
    • PowerMac
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Tim:

    • Apple Watch
    • Vision Pro

    ... and the idea for Watch may have started during Steve's time, too. And I'm probably forgetting some of the ones during Steve's time.

  • kingdom come

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  • The video addresses this. The biological term "fruit" is not accurate for culinary use. Lots of things we eat are biologically fruit, but you'd get weird looks for calling it a "fruit" while eating it. The video gives a lot of examples of botanical-fruit-but-not-culinary-fruit, including cucumbers, peppers, corn, eggplant, peas, pumpkins, and broccoli (specifically the buds).

  • kingdom come

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  • Not sure about your situation specifically, but restaurants requiring a credit card during reservation is on the rise to combat reservation scalping and the no-shows that res scalping causes.

  • Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!

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  • Network time - Still worth considering an Asus RT-AC88u Pro?

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  • I wouldn't consider a consumer-grade router that doesn't have OpenWRT support. No arbitrary EOL to worry about. I was very happy with OpenWRT until I moved to OPNsense router and Ubiquiti access points. I still use it on my travel router, too.

    Edit: Check if your current router is supported by OpenWRT and get more life out of it.

  • Apple Explains Why It Doesn't Plan to Create a Search Engine

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  • Maybe now, but definitely not originally. Apple grew the Maps ecosystem originally for feature parity reasons, not privacy ones. That's at least a bit more similar to the Search situation.

    Turn-by-turn was the killer feature back in iPhone 4S time frame, and Google refused to allow it iOS, shipping it only on Android. Apple had some geographic features (reverse geo lookup specifically, iirc) prior to this in-house and had started developing their own maps because of the longstanding tension with iOS and Android, but Apple rushed to get turn-by-turn directions out the door in mid-2012, which is partially what caused it to launch pretty half-baked. Google introduced a dedicated Google Maps app on the iOS App Store in late 2012 with turn-by-turn in response to losing millions of daily-active users to the launch of Apple Maps.

    Here's a retrospective from 2013 by The Guardian on the whole thing with a lot more detail:

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/11/apple-maps-google-iphone-users

    Now, Apple has run a web crawler since at least 2015:

    https://www.engadget.com/2015-05-06-apple-web-crawler.html

    Apple has been steadily building up its search expertise for the last decade. Notably, it acquired Topsy back in 2015, which was a search engine mostly based on Twitter data:

    https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-shuts-down-topsy-the-200-million-mystery-laid-to-rest-2015-12?op=1

    ... then launched a few web-based Spotlight search integrations a few years later (which I can't find a good source for) which integrated common web searches for things like weather and news directly into Spotlight.

    IMO, based on the above (and maybe a bit more), Apple's explanation in the article doesn't tell the full story. It doesn't want to build it, but it could. This is more is about Apple wanting to keep extracting the money from Google and not having to build another also-ran service to directly compete.

  • Beep beep

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  • The recommendation changed from car lengths to seconds decades ago, but wasn't well communicated fwict. I learned car lengths from my dad and then seconds when I got my motorcycle endorsement.

    If everyone were leaving 2 seconds of space, it also reduces stop and go traffic that is caused, or at least exacerbated, by the traffic wave phenomenon. But that's even less well socialized.

  • Will the Mark Robinson revelations tank Republicans in a key battleground state?

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  • Yup! Stein (Robinson's opponent) has been polling with landslide numbers for weeks.

    Meanwhile, R supermajority in the NC legislature is overriding governor Cooper's vetoes with some regularity.

  • [Solved?] Weird Font problems in desktop icons

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  • It looks like the png is getting word wrapped. Line spacing is so large that the png on the second line is getting pushed into the space of the icon below, and the icon below is given a higher Z value, so it goes over it. The different font has a different letter width and can influence the line spacing by being taller than the original font.

    See if you can find an option to reduce line spacing or an option to increase icon spacing (vertical or horizontal). I would expect these to be advanced settings though. Iirc, most Linux desktops don't use ellipses on long names, like some other operating systems (macOS iirc).

  • US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges

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  • US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges

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  • As I understand it, planning new, grid-scale nuclear power plants takes 10-20 years. While this isn't a reason not to start that process now, it does mean something needs to fill the demand gap until the nuke plants (and other clean sources) come online to displace the dirty generation, or demand has to be artificially held down, through usage regulation or techniques like rolling blackouts, all of which I would imagine is pretty unpalatable.

  • Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

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  • Second. John Barnett was the first in early March.

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  • Misread, but I'm leaving it!

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  • "May you live in interesting times."