Yeah i agree with you, but there is a limit to community support. The Steam Deck specifically has a big community, but most hobbyists don’t like to spend a ton of time maintaining ancient hardware drivers.

I believe my 11 year old Thinkpad T540p still runs mainline kernels too. The GPU is not supported by the 2018 Intel Iris userspace driver though, so I would need to run a legacy driver that does not support vulkan. Its still packaged by Arch, but it does limit my options.

I’d say 10 years until new games stop running with all features, and 20-30 years until it stops running mainline kernels and loses network access to Steam.

Other handhelds with closed-source drivers probably stop running mainline in 5-10 years.

You’re probably going to have a noticeable performance impact from running games off of USB.

It may work, but there are software dependencies that will become end of life. The first to go will probably be the GPU drivers. In 10 years or so, Linux will discontinue the GPU drivers and you will not be able to run the latest Linux kernel.

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I think SteamOS does automatic firmware updates so you would have to make sure you don’t unexpectedly lock it up

Yeah the nerds usually find themselves in very powerful social circles if they survive school. Circles of emotionally mature experts with strong careers.

Kids’ needs are of course very important, but abandoning engaging hobbies in favor of some phantom desire to fit in is dumb.

Yeah definitely, the US system is very dysfunctional. A good amount of money simply gets lost in the bureaucracy.

Insurance companies are massive conglomerates that have to negotiate deals with tens of thousands of providers, millions of products, and millions of customers. Every Healthcare provider needs dedicated bureaucrats that can navigate the sea of paperwork. I don’t have the data in front of me, but I believe the US government pays about the same amount of money on healthcare as the Swedish government.

Any difference between what a Swede pays and what an American pays is just pure waste. A wasteland of pointless jobs.

There’s definitely some fuskbolag and dysfunctionalities in the Swedish system, but for the most part, Swedes are not wasting money keeping dozens of massive office towers filled with bureaucrats, and Swedes have a happier life because of it.

With regards to salary, all Americans already pay 4% off their paycheck for Medicare. So Swedes don’t have lower salaries because of vård välfärd - at least not directly. But that’s a complicated discussion, and we’re already seeing American salaries fall drastically due to geopolitical factors. There is some aspect of the US having a monopoly on cloud services, where many top European tech works have been bought up and poached by Silicon Valley. There is also the risk of the American economy overinvesting into AI companies, with hundreds of billions of dollars already spent, and further trillions planned.

You fool! /bin and /sbin have already been replaced by /usr/bin and /usr/sbin! What an buffonish mistake!

Truly the solution is NixOS, we must all embrace the loving embrace of /nix/store.

Yeah, it’s something that people don’t really think about.

För klarhet, fackordet för skatten är arbetsgivareskatt. “tax planning” är skatteväxling. “out of pocket maximum” och “coinsurance” är engelsk fackord för högkostnadsskydd.

Compare with this nightmare: https://youtu.be/-wpHszfnJns

100%, friend. We will never give in to dictators!

Safe as long as you agree with Winnie the Pooh and the CCP

https://youtu.be/GvWnEU_PW6M

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because having no internet feels like being in the stone age, when dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

(this was before Jesus invented the internet)

I know you’re asking about the US, but for comparison:

In Sweden it’s a flat 3.55% of your labor income, so about €100-200 a month for most people, and usually caps out at €200 for people doing tax planning. In either case, it’s paid by your employer so you don’t have to think about the cost.

Out of pocket yearly maximum is €145 for Healthcare and €380 for prescriptions (which was raised 30% this year by the far-right coalition 😑). Dental care is also mostly covered by insurance, but there’s a co-insurance between 50% and 15%.

https://www.skatteverket.se/foretag/arbetsgivare/arbetsgivaravgifterochskatteavdrag/arbetsgivaravgifter.4.233f91f71260075abe8800020817.html

Innovations like selling your medical data to advertisers and bribing politicians!

I think both windows and Linux turn on a number of kernel hardening options when secure boot is on.

Why would you install Windows 11on a computer? What happens if you don’t do it before October?

Switched my main gaming computer in 2023, never going back.

alcohol an capsaicin hits hard. the alcohol acts as a surfactant and your throat just gets obliterated. even vodka+tabasco can be pretty rough.