Personally, I would be interested in a different type of Steam Machine: A shrouded motherboard as a sort of LEGO base, into which you place modular blocks or cartridges that contain the PSU, CPU, USB, RAM, Wi-Fi, audio, drives, and graphics. Each block can have rails, to provide connections for power and signals, so that users don’t need to futz around with wires. Just plonk a brick down onto the rails below it, and you are good for that part.

Would it actually work from an engineering perspective? No idea. All I know is that I would replace parts of my PC more often, if I didn’t have to worry about screwing up in some fashion.

Mhm. Can’t say I enjoyed Dishonored much, myself. I prefer Thief 1-3, probably because they are slower paced and have less combat.

I live on benefits, about $1,200 a month, and have the good fortune to only be obligated to pay for internet, fuel, some services like VPN+Email+Anti-virus, and food. For most of the past decade I was able to squirrel away about $200 to $300 a month into an ABLE account, but the last few years that has become increasingly difficult. In fact, I don’t think that I saved any money at all for this year.

My game ‘plan’ was to just let my ABLE collect interest and use that for my annual computer after a new AMD socket has been released, buying the best endgame gear for the prior standard. I spend most of my time on my PC, so I figure a expensive computer would be my ‘big ticket’ item every decade. Never once I have had a vacation to see new things or do stuff beyond the house, because it felt incredibly wasteful for my situation. I would have to cut more of my food budget if I want to save up for the next PC in 2030. This assumes that things like buying new tires doesn’t come up, or medical issues.

I don’t feel good about the future. My circle of possibilities shrinks every year.

Fascism and prosperity gospel, both are a circle on the Venn diagram.

I am hoping that Gabe someday creates a PayValve service, to let perverts and LGBTQ+ customers to have a True Neutral transaction processor. Just a 1% fee would let Valve get a little bit of profit from everyone who doesn’t use MasterVisa - including competing game stores, or other markets.

Trump is going to have a penny turn-in program to add them to his library, then personally sell off the copper to other nations after the American Dollar (and society) collapses.

/s. I hope.

I expect that ICE will escort such convicts to the polls.

This is a big reason why I would prefer a SteamOS Desktop over Cachy and friends. Also, documentation that is designed for people who don’t have an interest in becoming masters of the terminal. My general impression of Linux as an intermediate user, is a Tower of Babel situation, everyone having different procedures for how to resolve the same issue.

Oh, it is. Whoever masters Chat Control, gets to decide whom they can blackmail and rendezvous. Especially the underaged.

Police and triple-letter agencies abuse information all the time to stalk their lovers or to get ahead in life. I bet this will be more of the same.

Hopefully, this means an official release of SteamOS Desktop. I want to switch away from Windows 11 IoT, if I can get a flavor of Linux with official backing from an 800lb gaming gorilla. While I can try out Bazzite or Cachy, I would prefer to have only one Linux for the rest of my PC’s life.

Would have stuck with Windows, if it weren’t for the fact that Microsoft has been channeling the spirit of an overly controlling parent.

I think the Democratic leadership is now certain to follow the Whigs into the Home for Infinite Losers, alongside the Republicans too. That situation sounds VERY familiar. “They flip-flopped, then they caved.”

The Whigs Collapse! | Why Slavery Killed the Age of Jackson

Hopefully, we can build a better one.

I am hoping that they decide to fund their own weather stations as a coalition.

I don’t think Democrat leadership has a dick. Or a vage. They lack hardness, depth, and warmth.

They are the Barbie dolls of the political world, and have become the Turdpublican’s playthings.

This is how a party dies.

My guess: the test grounds are New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Portland. Maybe with a bit of Ontario and Mexico City as a treat?

…as ever with this regime, I am not sure if I am joking. A lot of precedents and norms are dead, and the beating of the live horse will continue until it has been reduced into glue.

It is worse than that. The shadow docket is pretty much the judicial version of “neener-neener, I can’t hear you!”

If I do what he wants, I will still be sent to RFK’s plantations. If my life is over, I might as well give them a black eye on the way out.

The ‘elite’ of America has willfully lead my nation to dark and stupid places. They can watch the people, from a basket.