Because it lets you run code, which can harm your computer. For full compliance, throw your electronics into the nearest volcano.

So, so many ways.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/ offers some good discussion.

Per BYU design review, it’s so drivers don’t get bored

this was the winner by a landslide, looks like a human shop job to me

Longtime Apple fanboy here, I bought an SE in 2014, upgraded to the XS in 2018, and the 16 pro in 2024, so once every ~5 years or so. Couldn’t imagine buying a new phone more frequently than that.

That to me speaks more of a failing in the legal system than anything else, though cheerleading in particular is 100% a sport.

I’m with OP on this one.

In my view, sports are games where pure physicality (speed/power/endurance) confers a major advantage. All physical games reward coordination and precision, but I would only call the subset of those that also reward physicality sports.

Kotlin can be great, but the amount of syntactic sugar available very easily baits undisciplined devs into writing very concise, wholly incomprehensible code. I’d pick it for a project where I know and trust every dev who will work on it, but not for something that might get a lot of touches from a lot of people.

the company actively hostile to power users

Open requests with “would you be willing to.” Works every time.

Just like any other compute workload, performance is going to vary significantly by game and by hardware setup. Generally AMD hardware does see good improvements in Proton, while Intel + Nvidia is more of a mixed bag, and there’s plenty of reporting out there on slowdowns when switching over. I’ve invested real time in this—tried Cachy, Bazzite, Nobara, mucked around with drivers, proton distributions, launch options, all that. As much as I’d love to report Linux has blown me away here, that’s just not the case. The ecosystem keeps improving and I’ll keep trying because I fucking despise Windows, but at the end of the day I’m rolling with what works.

None of the big ones have matched Win11 performance on my machine, or even come close enough to justify switching. I’m hoping that SteamOS’ planned Nvidia support, which reportedly is being developed with some degree of collaboration with Nvidia, will move that needle.

For gaming, until the instant I can run SteamOS on my rig

If you want to help them find more old games to archive, there’s a tool you can run on your old computers to find delisted games in your browser cache:

https://flashpointarchive.org/datahub/Recovering_Files_from_Browser_Cache#Flashpoint_Cache_Dumper

Note that there are always privacy/security considerations when running random internet software to scan your files.

*refractive index, for anybody curious

I think it’s actually important to be able to thoroughly defend views you oppose. You can’t rightly oppose a view you don’t properly understand.

The Appalachians have been mountains longer than North America has been a continent

Three points:

1. “Meaningfully different” does a lot of heavy lifting for your theory. You open by defining meaning as downstream of a consciousness; it thus appears that, in order to judge whether a system perceives something as meaningfully different, you must first judge whether that system is conscious. For your theory to be useful, you need to show how we can judge the meaning-attributing faculties of a system without first proving its consciousness.
2. Many comments here argue your theory devolves into “everything is conscious at some level.” This is called panpsychism, and it’s a well established theory in philosophy of mind. You might want to check it out.
3. The way the world appears to a foreign consciousness might be mutually unintelligible with ours. If AI is conscious, it likely has no conception of humans or the world we live in. Its world is composed of tokens, not nerve signals, arranged according to grammar, not physics, and so it and we could never interact one consciousness to another the way we do with fellow humans.

Companies are exploiting regulatory loopholes as they construct new facilities powered by pollutant-spewing onsite gas plants.

The grid can’t handle the buildout, so new data centers are operating unregulated gray-market power plants.

PC. A console is just a super locked down computer anyway, you might as well get the real thing.