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  • Microsoft also released their own package manager called Winget a few years ago. It mostly just wraps existing installers to allow for unattended installation, but it seems to work pretty well in my (limited) experience.

  • SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support"
  • It seems like one of the most conspicuous contributors to recent Linux fixes works for a consulting firm presumably contracted by Valve, so it definitely seems like a coordinated effort in preparation for... something.

  • SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support"
  • That's a pretty confusing changelog item considering async reproduction has been straight-up broken since SteamVR 2.0. That being said, I'm thrilled that Valve seems to finally be fixing some of the long-standing issues on Linux. They also recently fixed an annoying issue with the right eye mask being uninitialized, and 2.5 along with seemingly this release has fixed issues with SteamVR Home.

  • Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?
  • Ethics may not be fully objective, but claiming that they're fully based on emotion is a ridiculous thing to say. You can make ethical arguments based in reason. Pointing to the war and saying "see, ethics aren't real" is an incredibly naïve conclusion to draw.

  • Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?
  • This is ignoring the fact that raising a cow for consumption requires ~10 times the amount of crops per calorie compared to just eating the crops directly. Also, I don't think I've heard a single health expert recommend eating more beef - the universal understanding is that red meat consumption is generally a net negative in terms of overall health.

  • What could your distro learn from another distro?
  • I miss when this style of website was more popular for software projects. There are plenty of projects with modern websites that still manage to do it well, but there's just something about the instant familiarity that comes with that type of layout.

  • What could your distro learn from another distro?
  • I installed Fedora on a system for the first time a few weeks ago and had a generally positive impression of the installer, but I think it was still unable to detect the existing OS on the drive. It was fine because I was wiping it anyway, but I definitely got the impression that it's mainly designed for more simple use cases.

  • Steam is a ticking time bomb
  • macOS 10.14 has been EOL for more than 2 years now and basically every Mac released since 2012 is compatible with 10.15. Valve also didn't actively flip a switch and disable functionality; they're just no longer providing updates. I don't think Valve shoulders any blame in this specific case - it's unreasonable to expect any company to indefinitely support platforms that are effectively obsolete.

  • 6 Massachusetts teens charged in racial bullying incident with mock slave auction on Snapchat
  • Had this exact thought as well. The article is so vague that it doesn't actually describe what they seem to be getting charged with, so unless the DA is completely overstepping bounds (possible but unlikely) there has to be more to it.

  • Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit
  • Ugh, not this again. I'm very adamantly against piracy and I've personally dumped every one of my Switch ROMs from games I physically own, but these kinds of stunts make me want to pirate Nintendo games purely out of spite. Hopefully this gets thrown out or otherwise resolved quickly. The issue of clean room emulators has been tested before and found to be fair use and to my knowledge there's no legal precedent for Nintendo's claims.

  • Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth?
  • The trouble is that "2 AM" now means radically different things depending on where in the world you are, and you lose any ability to be able to intuitively reason about the time in other parts of the world from you.

  • Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth?
  • So You Want To Abolish Time Zones

    In a nutshell:

    Before abolishing time zones:

    I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?

    Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there.

    It's probably best not to call right now.


    After abolishing time zones:

    I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?

    It is 04:25 ("four twenty-five") there, same as it is here.

    Does that mean I can call him?

    I don't know.

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