Would you want to publicly lead an explicitly anti Trump, essentially anti-capitalist movement right now?

Watching the series on netflix I had the same reaction.

I don't know how you got to "the author is crazy" but he's making the well-trodden and I would have thought uncontroversial environmental impact argument, so yes windows 10 dying is bad for everyone.

Tried it on PopOS and wondered how anyone could use it at all. Installed fedora on a different machine and it's flawless. Probably just the age of PopOS at this point.

The ELI5 version is that developers can make a lot of assumptions about what a Windows pc means and what features are available. A while ago if you had videos as part of a game (for example a cutscene) it was actually played through Windows Media Player, which was virtually guaranteed to be present on the user's computer. Sure you can play that video with other tools like VLC or Quicktime, but you couldn't guarantee they were installed, so Windows Media Player was a safe bet. Nowadays that's not how video is handled but the point remains for a few other things. For example if I need to load an image, maybe a background, I would look it up using the windows filesystem, so probably something like C:\Program Files\Steam\common\mygame\images\background.png. That's not the same in the Linux or another os. Also the piece of software that handles loading images might be different, which means how we execute that load operation is probably different, and so our Windows-focused version of our game just doesn't work.

Fortunately nowadays that's a mostly solved problem with Steam investing a lot of time into Proton, what they call a "compatibility layer" that basically translates all of the windows-specific stuff to work in Linux. That's a very simplified explanation but you get the idea. The games that still won't run have kernel-level anticheat (Valorant, Helldivers 2) or are so dependent on things only available on Windows that even Proton can't fix it. Some anti-cheat software doesn't run properly so then you can't go online, like Warhammer: Vermintide 2. That's mostly a commercial decision rather than technical, they could make it work they just choose not to.

Well after looking further it's actually the processor isn't supported in general so Linux it is! It's going to be a hard sell to my partner who doesn't like using office 365 on the browser because "it screws up templates". If even Microsoft's tools screw up I can't imagine libre office would do any better so that's an even harder sell... Sigh.

Didn't they effectively kill the oculus rifts with required logins and no more support?

I believe it's 1% for access to the "entire post-open ecosystem", rather than 1% per project which would be unreasonable. So you could use one or thousands of projects under the Post-open banner, but still pay 1%.

It will take years to develop the post-open ecosystem to be something worth spending that much on.

"It was the left that ruined Truss's budget!" Was the genuine reaction of someone I talked to about this a while ago. Could not believe it nor understand it. Still can't.

So I didn't make a statement about that. I'm making a statement about what these results might tell us, admittedly in a very simplistic way.

Literally just bought what I believe to be last generation's X13 on ebay for half the price of the new one. It's been great so far, especially with the power efficiency of Ryzen CPUs. My one complaint is the soldered RAM, which judging by the new lineup is getting phased out, thankfully.

I get it from f-droid rather than the play store and I did see the 0.0.33-alpha changelog on update earlier today so I would have expected to be on that version. Having said that the "What's new" link still says 0.0.32 which could be just a bad processing of the version number but maybe the f-droid version isn't right. Not sure. Still getting th flashes basically all the time.