The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.

This is my surprised face.

Before Milton Friedman and his colleagues popularised the term “trickle-down”, it was known as “horse and sparrow economics”, in reference to the distribution of oats.

At Facebook, that sort of thing would just be called an ordinary workday.

Thinking is like running: almost everyone can do it, but most people don’t enjoy doing it for prolonged periods of time.

The rich will have actual human teachers, but the poor will be trained by AI. The result will be language diverging into two Eloi/Morlock-style subpopulations.

Though given that people acquire language from their peers, and invent what they need, Poorish will have a bland, almost mechanical formal register, and a lot of incomprehensible-to-outsiders slang about actual life stuff.

Good to see it’s on schedule.

Though I do wonder whether an alternative route, from Gedser to Rostock, would have been better, bypassing Hamburg and going directly to Berlin and central Europe. The current route has a bit of a Cold War vibe, staying firmly west of the former Iron Curtain, at the cost of longer journeys to points further east.

As the old SubGenius proverb goes, the difference between Heaven and Hell is which side of the pitchfork you’re on.

We must imagine Sisyphus Hitler happy up to his eyeballs in a lake of boiling sewage

That’s an odd way to describe a Cybertruck

I’m guessing another round of privatisation would fix it. Maybe some regulation-free “free trade zones” as well.

Possibly not, but it may take you longer to return to the nitrogen cycle

Dude is under the impression that he made the new Citizen Kane or something.

Because you don’t use Typescript/JS perhaps?

Given the margin they make on games, and their absolute control of games for the platform, they could get away with a razors-and-blades pricing model of making a loss on the consoles and making it back from software. (IIRC, some game consoles historically were sold on this model.)

Not quite. The US economy is a large, slow-moving mass, and even with the chaos-monkey-in-chief doing his worst there will be meaningful economic activity: food will be grown, wages and rent paid, other goods manufactured even if only for local use. Crypto, meanwhile, has no connections to the world other than a fringe of payments which, for various reasons, cannot be made by other, vastly more efficient means. A scenario where the two are equally stable would look like a zombie apocalypse or similar.

Finally American superheroes will no longer need to go to Shanghai and work with a heroic PLA special agent to save the world.

I’ve taken my Deck on travels, but mostly taken it out to show to friends.

The mainstream conservatives (i.e. those within the Overton window of what’s acceptable in mainstream society, or not open Nazis/KKK) have the big corporate networks. Those Nazis who are too Nazi for Elon Musk have their own instances which everybody else fediblocks from orbit just to be sure, where they can run around, sieg-heil and shout racial slurs all day to their hearts’ content. Which leaves those to the left of the centre-right, who are divided between the tankie-triad instances (full of people who think that Stalin did nothing wrong and Putin’s OK too) and the rest (which ranges from liberals to ancoms).

It’s called the Switch 2 because you take one look at it and switch to a Steam Deck