It’s tools and behavior that will produce change. If we have the tools but fail to change consumer behavior, overall change will be negligible.

If I use a 3d printer to print all the replacement parts I would have had to order specially otherwise, I am benefitting from the tool. But if those facilities keep making the parts I used to order, and the market overall focuses on ordering rather than making, not much environmental benefit is made from me not having things shipped to my door.

That doesn’t condemn the tool or the market, but the problem is this technology can’t have greater impact unless it changes consumer behavior at a critical mass, rather than just hobbyists.

Smaller electronics that rely on special plastic clasps or hinges, think ITX computer cases or something like a game console or laptop. 3D printers are nice because then you don’t have to play Ebay part roulette or hope someone manufactures the particular part that snapped in half.

"Has science gone too far?

Short answer, no. We at Aperture believe science just hasn’t gone FAR ENOUGH. Now get back to testing!"

• Cave Johnson

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As long as it is a 64bit platform, I don’t see any potential roadblocks in your way. NVIDIA software can be hit or miss though.

Ebay and Craiglist will be flooded with deals in October, it will be a glorious month for homelabs and budget gamers/hobbyists everywhere.

Like the other commenters said, win10 IOT LTSC is a good stopgap until parity is higher, and you can use a separate Linux machine or dual boot partition to get familiar with the platform/non gaming tasks.

That’s my setup on my main rig due to VR not being very usable on Linux at the moment, but I migrated my laptop to Linux mint. Hopefully once Proton gets the next level of support for SteamVR and certain anticheat-problematic games I can migrate that machine too.

I dont think this sorcerer has properly studied! They may be just a quack…

I think we have a lost user, fellas.

It matters not what accessories one rodent wears on themselves - they carry themselves in a distinguished manner, worthy of being deemed, “fancy”.

Fox scout TF2?

Didn’t play it back in the day ;-; I was the weird kid w/ the PSP. It had a ton of great emulators tho

makes it authentic lol

“Do you have video games?”

While I’m not defending our current situation for news, there is a reason conditions are the way they are. The general unprofitability of running a news network in the modern day, especially when both print and online advertising rates are rock bottom, forces all but the biggest players out.

Social media, 24/7 cable news, and forum websites are many peoples’ main sources of news, often due to their entry price of 0. As a result, the death of well funded independent journalism was inevitable, and we’re all suffering the consequences of that. Especially those who don’t know how or don’t care to verify their sources.

At this point I tend to have better luck running a Wikipedia search on the latest events and checking the citations section than checking any major website/app’s feed, especially with most media feeds being curated nowadays. Unless open platforms gain wider adoption, where people all over the world collaborate to find answers to the world’s problems, I doubt things will improve.

I think it’s fair to say that one of the biggest reasons we are able to have the computing freedom that we have is because of OSS, and the competition it brings to proprietary software. It also allows for a varying expressions of ideas rather than centralized control.

The ability to have tools that can be audited by any human is the greatest tool against enshittification. By far.

I think it’s the same phenomenon in multi-player gaming - community hosted servers tend to have less garbage flying around compared to centrally hosted company servers.

If you run your own server, you’re far more likely to care about the user experience. And if you run your own server, you make your own rules and can manage how you’d like - no obligations.

No wait… don’t you see?

The robots have already breached our defenses.

You’ve seen what they’ve done to other websites!

And worst of all, they could be any one of us…

Probably lack of exposure? Haven’t seen it on Steam…