Open source software. Sigh.

He should play on all the girls teams, crush it like a total badass, then when conservative parents complain that "a boy is playing on the girls team" everyone can tell them to shut the fuck up because this is the future they always wanted. One with no exceptions or grey areas to speak of.

Does she really not understand that this line of reasoning is the same that banned women (and minorities) from all sorts of places/activities in the past?

"I went to the bank today and there was a woman there applying for a loan! She wasn't even accompanied by a man!"

If she likes that kind of discrimination, maybe JKR should just shut the fuck up and let white men handle everything. She just loves that kind of oppression, after all.

To summarize: Requiring installation by electricians means that people will still DIY... They just won't bother to get a permit/get it inspected.

Whereas allowing DIY encourages permits and inspection.

Everyone that works with Trump always regrets it eventually. Everyone.

Don't be fooled: It's just management blowing smoke.

Since they don't have fingerprints they ID the pecker.

He started labelling random shit as masculine/feminine.

FYI: This is totally normal in France.

Give us a standalone VR headset that runs SteamOS and the world of VR will change overnight. Meta will instantly become a minor player!

For Microsoft, the key threat is that the Steam Deck isn't even a Windows OS device by default, let alone having Microsoft's Xbox services and Game Pass on it. Valve has used the platform, very successfully, to evolve Steam from being simply a digital store that runs (usually) on Windows, into being a very capable gaming OS in its own right.

That, perhaps more than anything else happening in the industry in recent years, is a threat to Microsoft's plans for the Xbox platform and gaming more broadly – and if the success of the Steam Deck is a key component of that threat, then creating an Xbox device to compete directly in that space seems like the logical response.

And there's the real reason why Microsoft cares. The success of the Steam Deck is a threat to Windows because it runs Linux. Also, the more games that run on the Steam Deck means the more games run on Linux.

Microsoft normally solves problems like this by abusing their monopoly and crushing their competition. In this case though, Microsoft is the underdog since Steam is the one with a much larger gaming monopoly. They're going to have to spend billions and billions if they want to stand a chance against the Steam Deck.

The other enormous problem they face is that Windows is very, very far behind when it comes to technology compared to Linux. Devices made for Linux vastly outperform the best hardware that runs Windows. Even if that hardware was made to run Windows!

Windows is decades behind Linux from a technological development standpoint. For example, Windows is still running the same filesystem from over 30 years ago!

What this means is that for any given portable hardware Linux is going to vastly outperform Windows in basically every benchmark from battery life to frame rate. That doesn't even include the fact that in Windows you're forced to install many background apps (and kernel level ~~rootkit~~ anti-cheat) that takes up memory and slows everything down just to get basic security and play games.

You ask the mainstream media about this event and you get...

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Crickets

declared that the White House would “smell like curry” if Vice President Kamala Harris were to win in November,

I can't be the only one who thinks that would be a welcome development. More Asian dishes in the White House would be fantastic. Why does the right hate Asian food? 🤔

I say this a white American, "What's wrong with curry‽"

I'll come out and say it: If you elect this white guy (me) as president I would make the White House smell like curry from time to time 🍛

Wait: Do they expect me to eat like some British dude during WW2‽ I mean, that's how the British are still eating (rose water? No thank you!) but still...

Maybe those on the right need a DEI food program.