MajorHavoc

It sounds like you may be ready to Obey The Testing Goat

On the stable channel, it seems like (from comparing notes with friends) a recent update introduced crashes into older games that did not crash previously. In my case, Proton is always involved.

That's something, at least.

I want to show more empathy, but the dude made the choice to start a new war in the nuclear era when we cannot afford war anymore. (And yes, I'm aware he's not the first.)

I wonder sometimes if we face a choice between strictly rejecting his kind (war starters) from our species, or accept that our species is destined to cease to exist.

Right. It's different in that it lacks Google Framework Service, and adds a bunch of privacy controls, like additional quick toggles to control the cameras, and microphone, the way other Android can quick toggle the flashlight and location servcies and bluetooth.

The biggest thing is substantially more granular per app permissions, controlled from a calentral interface in settings.

Return to Office Mandates are trying and failing to mask poor company performance.

I used to buy a lot of stuff off of Amazon, and subscribe to Prime, and Kindle Unlimited, all while their service got a little shittier each year.

But they couldn't stop there, and decided to go union-busting, which changed it from a personal choice to a moral one, for me.

(And some Sarcasm:) I didn't think my behavior was enough to cause them all this trouble, but I guess I was buying waaaaay too much shit at Amazon.

Return the internet to the pre-"smart" phone era, in which a minimum bar of effort and knowledge needed to be present in order to connect and participate on the web.

Yeah. I think that's happening now. The public will discover the Fediverse, but I'm not sure if they'll be welcomed into every community here.

History tells us there's also a release valve of a swift brick to the side of the head, one brick per billionaire.

It sounds messier than paying taxes, to me. But I'm not a billionaire, so I can't say I understand their motives.

Lol. It's not the groundhog we should be watching, then?

They probably mean Open Container Initiative (OCI), the protocol shared by Podman and Docker.

Maybe they're just very careful never to promote anyone from engineering to the bridge crew...

Yeah. If Valve releases a remotely viable desktop console OS, I'll immediately build one for my living room. If for no other reason, to keep the rest of the family away from my SteamDeck.

As in if you live in a state with sales tax but down the road is a state without sales tax- why ever shop in your state?

Mostly the states are quite big, so it's not worth the trouble. But along various state borders, it distorts the shopping experience in odd ways.

I've been to towns that are missing common retailers entirely, because everyone drives to the next town over (in another state), to avoid a tax.

We also have a rich history of driving across state lines to purchase stuff that's illegal in our own state. It's also illegal to bring it back, but the borders aren't patrolled, so the only way to get caught is to have a traffic violation while doing it.

Or so I've heard. I never break any laws, myself.