On the contrary, cars are way too subsidized! We should be taxing these vehicles to appropriately reflect their social cost.

Sandy is beautiful.

This article looks fake.

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Sometimes you get care and you learn a year later that you can’t afford it and your life is over.

Lutris is definitely the strongest contender, and is mostly based on the same compatibility technology.

I’ve run Proton without Steam for a few games. You’ve pretty much got the same code that Steam uses and most of their changes make it upstream eventually, so they’re not holding you hostage with being able to run your games. It just might get less convenient. There are other Linux game launchers that have good compatibility.

Steam and the company behind it have done wonders for Linux. They’ve given publishers a reason to care, they are providing strength and resources to fix bugs and libraries they care about, and generally have done very well in sharing their contributions with the community.

I do think this is a valid concern that we need to keep in mind, but I don’t think that we are at risk just yet. Valve is a business but as businesses go, they’re pretty cool.

How is that possible? We banned it. We had a whole vote on it any everything.

The last printer I bought I returned because it said Internet access is mandatory to complete the set up.

I tried temporarily turning it on but as soon as I disconnected it after a couple days it would tell me I have to reconnect to continue printing.

It’s like how IT people don’t trust printers.

If only it worked like that in practice everywhere. It’s a pretty addictive revenue stream, and the district is incentivized to bend the rules to collect their money.

Of course, I write this from the US, which is currently at critical levels of internal corruption, so this could be a factor.

💯 A better solution through design instead of applying a technological Band-Aid.

In my town, the red light cameras tend to cause drivers to slam on the brakes when the light changes. The equipment is often owned by a third-party that loans it to the city and places stipulations like very short light times to produce more profit.

It does look like there’s significant evidence that speed traps do improve safety.

I much prefer speed traps to red light cameras that are often predatory and don’t make intersections safer.

You can pry my 1080 from my cold dead hands.

Again, their weird obsession with children.

I think it’s the economic cratering rather than simple preferences at work here.

Employer: Skills shortage! (At the low wages I’m willing to pay.)

Very cool, and the best part is that these platforms aren’t directly competing because here I am posting about it on Lemmy. It’s fascinating that the Fediverse can evolve in a way that doesn’t shed users.

This makes sense. I have a friend from way back in HS who interned there while he was working on his degree who said that cloud services was the priority at the time, and Windows was more just a vehicle that they continued to maintain. That continues to be the approximate temperature of the product and is in line with my expectations.