tristan

Even with your clarification, I think I touched on that. Steam isn't trying to push companies to develop for Linux, instead they are trying to make Linux more compatible with games. That's why they've talked wine and turned it into a very game specific thing called proton.

If they wanted to push people to develop for Linux, they wouldn't put so much time and effort into developing something that removes that need

Simply put, they don't need to. Linux might be a tiny percentage of the market but thanks largely to steam deck it is growing, which means it's starting to become more worth it for companies to make sure their game works on it.

Secondly, thanks to proton, some games don't even need to be modified to support Linux or the steam deck. I play plenty of games that are listed as unplayable or unverified on my steam deck, and sometimes it is listed that way because of one or two minor things that haven't broken the game for me.

And lastly, as every major company has found out one by one, it's worth it for them to pay the 30% to get access to steam users.

Isn't the US leading the world in AI?

Yes and no... You just don't hear about the Chinese ones as much but there's some that are up there with openai and Google, and there's a very real concern that Trump's policies will allow/encourage the global adoption of Chinese ai like Alibaba and Tencent's ones. There was a whole report recently about the potential effect a popular Chinese ai would have due to it being able to manipulate facts and history, and people just not questioning it

Definitely nothing new, that's been going on since before I got into 3d printing like 7 years ago.

There was a point where having a good first layer was actually critical to having good print bed adhesion and successful prints. 99% of problems were solved by re leveling the bed and/or cleaning it.

Now, with abl and fancy tools like lidar and better bed surfaces, it's not nearly as essentially to get a perfect first layer, but it's still a sign of a well calibrated printer.

I dare say it's one of those things that's just hung around because as waves of new users join the community (especially around times like Xmas when a lot of new people join), they start researching stuff and see older users posting about their first layer and think of it as some kind of rite of passage, so they post theirs.... And then the next group come in and see it, wash rinse repeat....

You'll only get the nasty letters if you use public trackers... I've been on starlink since it came to Australia and never once got a nasty letter or warning or anything, and I don't have any VPN going

You're right about the upload speed though

When I had an ulcer, I called an ambulance at 3am because the pain was so bad I could hardly breath

The ambo driver didn't want to take me to the hospital and said it was probably just heartburn, but after I insisted they took me... He even made a joke that I must have been fine because I brought a battery pack and people who are having "true emergencies" don't think of those things

At emergency, they kept insisting it was heartburn despite me telling them I know what heartburn feels like

They gave me medicine for heartburn that made the pain so much worse... It was only at that point when I was literally screaming in agony that they decided they better actually investigate

Half hour later I was on a helicopter to Sydney for surgery

They wasted well over an hour telling me I just had heartburn before they even decided to start investigating it.

I can only imagine the pain this poor man went through at home after the drs Palmed him off

Yeah, it was the first in a long run of failures and "bugs" .... There was a lot of jokes at the time that they cursed it, but the longer it goes and the more issues we have, it seems more plausible

Oh that looks cool, is this to stamp things you're making or just playing with it for fun?

Welp that's not good... Anyone else notice that spaceflight has had a lot of issues since celestis upset the Navajo nation by sending human remains to the moon?

There's already a noticeable drop in quality. I bought a big Mac meal recently for the first time in a while, the fries were like toothpicks, and the large fries seemed much smaller than I recall.

The burger had the tiniest dollop of sauce and the patties were so thin they barely held their shape.

I know it's all purely anecdotal, but for years I was hooked on their hash browns until they changed the recipe... And now I can't stand them but at least I'm losing weight so that's good haha

I do vaguely remember something about it getting changed, but yeah, as you said unless you're sharing it with a bunch of people, it's probably not enough to trigger anything on their side anyway

I think theres a nice variety of methods out there now that there's no "one right way" to do it which I think is great compared to just a few years ago where your only real options were a reverse tunnel or CloudFlare tunnels

Why would you need an expensive switch for CF tunnels??

It bypasses the switch and forms a tunnel directly to the machine and you don't need to change any configuration on the switch

Both options can expose any service as long as the machine has internet