MacOS: Am I a joke to you?

MacOS (X) used to be the absolute best operating system around but ever since Apple became a phone company and Macs are merely an afterthought, macOS is indeed mostly a joke, not because the technological foundation is bad (actually that is quite good) but because of Apple’s dumb commercial decisions: The absolutely dumbest thing is Metal (their non-standard take on DirectX), deprecating OpenGL, and not adopting Vulkan.

WSL is the best thing that’s ever happened to windows

WSL is great but the NT kernel was/is more important, then userspace GPU drivers (which Linux still lacks), then WSL.

People now in their 20s don’t realize how utterly bad Win9x and then the first consumer grade NT-based WinXP were (and those older may have forgotten). Win7, 10, and 11 are paradise by comparison. These days I can cope with Windows. I don’t love it but it’s not a daily cause of anger like the Windows dark ages. Heck, winget even makes software installation bearable.

Nothing screams “Workstation” louder than Reddit Mobile.

They got good after Yuke’s was fired by 2K while AEW Fight Forever was still bad. Turned out, the problem was Yuke’s all along.

Check out that last link I posted there

I wasn’t disagreeing with you, I was making an (hopefully) entertaining comment.

But that stinks of communism, doesn’t it… 😄

Sprinkle a bit of communism on that capitalism.

The main failing here in the US though is that rail maintenance falls to rail companies that have little financial incentives to spend the money on safety. That may be changing, however if the federal government just hands over money with inadequate oversight it will just enrich the companies.

Sounds almost as if critical infrastructure should be owned by the public.

Gog.com is always worth a look.

Gog is well indexed by Google. If it’s on Gog, a simple web search would have listed that result. “I barely managed to find it at all” means that it was more work than just googling it and clicking on the Gog result.

Apple probably paid for it

https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube

Even a potato can run Linux so regardless of a distro it should be all fine.

A potato with a GPU only compatible with deprecated Nvidia drivers would still be just that and a hard pass for Linux.

Luckily this notebook is AMD-based, so should be fine. Maybe the WiFi card could cause trouble.

Always porting not-yet-upstreamed patches to new release kernels is additional work to the upstreaming work towards the latest development tree. The Valve engineers interviewed around the very first Steam Deck announcement said their goal with moving from Debian to Arch was to minimize the patchset maintenance burden. Their approach surely has that goal in mind. There are only two variants of Steam Deck with minor differences between them. If backporting patches from newer kernels is less work than forward porting their patches, they just stay with that version for a while. Updates to drivers for hardware they don’t use and filesystems they don’t use aren’t relevant to them anyway.

Or people just don’t want to throw away their own money.

Whenever I’m in a country without a cash deposit system on bottles and cans, I see so many of them just being thrown on the ground everywhere. It’s worst outside of city centers where there is no regular clean up.

They cannot veto it. The patents for x86-64 and SSE2 lapse next year. The only say they have is on extension newer than these two.

X64 doesn’t exist. Microsoft used the label for Windows for a while to distinguish from IA64 (Itanium) and 32bit x86 editions of Windows but these days Microsoft moved mostly away from those labels and only uses them when talking about ARM.

It could be a web app like Voyager but you really shouldn’t just enter your credential willy nilly all over the place.

for non-commercial uses

Why not GPL like id Software did when they still were cool.

Bluesky is the promise of Mastodon with none of the failsafes of Mastodon.

Why do farmers keep buying that shit?