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  • Oh it’s my time to shine! I just installed bazzite onto my ROG Ally yesterday.

    It is pretty fantastic so far. Not perfect but very good.

    Also, it doubles as a pretty OK developer machine because it comes with buildutils, unlike the steam deck. I was able to get my Nix dotfiles set up on it and do a little Rust work to try it out.

  • I had to go through a full interview to get a TSA precheck. Lots of invasive probing questions about who I am and where I work and what my family ties are.

  • Battletoads was so unbelievably rad that anyone who worked on it will stay young forever.

  • I thought my mom was so mean for not letting me play with any of the cool doctor office toys. Now my kids get to think I’m so mean for the same thing.

  • Why is the picture for this url showing “tally, a free way to make forms”? Is the website really using opengraph social thumbnails to display ads?

    Edit: Never mind, the linked page has a link to tally in it apparently… which is still not really what the OG links are for, but it’s far less irritating than what I originally thought.

  • I would kill for controller support on this game. I have my steam deck set up with some pretty ok mappings that make the game playable, but compared to like FF14 the experience is just annoying enough to keep me from really digging in. It’s mostly the menu system.

  • What were the challenges they faced? The article outlines that they faced insurmountable issues but didn’t state what those issues were or what they did to try and mitigate them.

  • Totally unrelatedly a Boeing whistleblower “killed himself” not long ago.

  • Lifelong California resident here: tell me more about how big oil is paving the roads and buying libraries for us, because that’s all news to me.

    Maybe I’ll drive on our shitty Central Valley roads that are poorly maintained to one of the few libraries we have left to learn more about it.

  • I love that argument, it tickles me every time I hear it because bananas were intelligently designed… by humans, on purpose, over thousands of years, to make them more palatable and easier to eat than their original nearly inedible form.

  • I don’t even need to watch the video. My last insurance claim was for a stolen motorcycle that was recovered but non-operable.

    It sat for months at a garage with the insurance company dragging its feet and absolutely no work being done.

    Then they finally gave me an estimate for repairing cosmetic damage but not actually fixing the engine.

    Then when I was finally done with their shit and just wanted my bike back to salvage at a junkyard and get like a few bucks at least, they tried to charge me hundreds of dollars for the time it was held at the garage they mandated I hold it at.

    Fuck auto insurance.

  • Nah, I can’t get behind that as an argument.

    The restrooms aren’t an exhibit that you pay for, and it’s common knowledge when you buy a ticket that you won’t be able to use the restroom of the opposite gender as a general rule. Seems a bit hyperbolic.

    My personal take: just disclose this at the time of purchase. A simple asterisk on the general admission info noting that some exhibits will be [insert blocking restriction] would make the problem go away.

  • The case is slightly more complicated than the comments indicate. The lawsuit hinged on the women only space being one exhibit in a general admission event; basically someone is making a stink because they paid full price and then were denied access to one thing in it.

    I’m not commenting at all here about my feelings on the topic, just trying to relay facts.

  • GMA told victims that “your personal and Medicare information was likely affected in this incident,” which includes names, dates of birth, home address, some medical information and health insurance information, and Medicare claim numbers, which included Social Security numbers.

  • I’m not sure that a protection against changing the default browser with third party programs (maybe without the user knowing) via the registry is the evil thing being depicted here.

    The way I read this article is that this is a move for compliance with the new digital markets act and I’m not seeing the maliciousness.

    Willing to be wrong, I haven’t used Windows regularly for like 20 years.

  • Maybe it’s in the thread or something? I don’t know.

    I think Musk is maybe the biggest tool of them all and I enjoy a chance to insult him as much as the next guy, but I’m confused about this one.

  • They’re a thing because of wireless charging.

  • Rails is great for starting an app, you can get something to a functional MVP state in a ridiculously small amount of time. We used to do rapid prototyping where we could be shipping it to the client in like 2-4 weeks. I haven’t found anything that comes close to this elsewhere.

    But you’re right that the big trade off is jumping off is effectively impossible, because Rails is your app. Most criticism that I see (and feel is valid) is that unless you’re willing to do a whole rewrite you will be on Rails forever. I think this is a more reasonable trade off than I see represented online; “long terms Rails is a nightmare” comes up a lot and I don’t think it’s that bad.

    I personally like that we’re seeing options for both strategies here popping up. More options is good for us as devs.

  • There are real concerns about side effects. Climate isn’t localized, it is a global system; rapidly cooling one area of the globe could have catastrophic impacts elsewhere.

    I can’t seem to find the article I read on this now, but some people are calling for global legislation requiring any attempt at this to be reviewed and approved as a bare minimum effort.