Ah, the wonders of FOSS gaming :)

Get a bigscreen beyond then? (And embrace the burn-in?)

Considering the Steam Deck has an easily replaceable battery this might just be an increased design complexity for hot swapping = more cost, so they made it “enthusiast” tier to have separate pricing.

It’s a great feature either way though, I’d use it for sure.

Nice job, devs! :)

The lines drawn by the agreement hardened into borders, but the actual control of the territories by Britain and France never came into actual effect due to the decolonization after WWII (and in the post-WWI era).

So in a sense, yes, the Sykes-Picot agreement did not come into effect as intended, but the lines those men drew did, and their consequences persist to the present.

This does not exonerate the various atrocities and actions committed by the various parties involved since then, of course. Lines on a map will be difficult to modify in the modern era no matter who drew them.

Technically you could go all the way back to the Sykes-Picot agreement never giving them a defined state and thus shattering them across multiple borders only relevant to long dead empires. Things really only keep getting worse as history marched on, since the nation-states in each of the countries that the Kurds reside within have political- or resource-based incentives to not allow the Kurds to form a genuine independent state combining their existing communities (and resolving the conflict they have with their respective “home countries”).

From a logical/ethical standpoint, it should be simple to allocate a state to right a historical wrong inflicted by an Englishman and Frenchman who didn’t consult any of the residing population, but it’s more valuable to the current nations presently involved in the middle east to keep them around to be exploited as pawns or scapegoats. Just dangle the carrot on the stick that is Kurdish autonomy/independence every few years or so.

As an individual not analyzing the circumstances from the nations’ perspective however, this is fucking horrible diplomacy and I do not blame the Kurdish people at all for being distrustful of anyone who worked with them in the past.

They kind of already went through the ringer with people accusing the pals of being AI generated pokemon (which was disproven by their lead artist).

More power to you - but you are a portion of Apple’s userbase that will not receive the same level of support or adoption as the mainstream userbase, and largely not emblematic of the “average MacOS customer”.

I do agree with your reasoning though (and I’d probably be much more cheerful in helping someone like you compared to the rest of my IT clientele who used Apple products as-is).

Isn’t that a Firefox fork, not a productivity suite?

Edit: realized you meant FOSS software that didn’t retain mainstream telemetry/ads

As someone who lives and works in Silicon Valley, the amount of coworkers and colleagues in my experience in engineering using non-default MacOS configurations is nonexistent. There are things like Asahi Linux (which is an amazing project, don’t get me wrong), but let’s not pretend that the people who use open source software on MacOS are not fractions of a percent compared to the general userbase.

In fact, my experience working in IT professionally and assisting friends and family personally has only underscored that view - those who were actually using Linux and FOSS software professionally were not on Apple hardware (and knew what went wrong and what assistance was needed). Those who I had to assist with Apple hardware… were different strains of “technically inept” who managed to break their experiences despite using default settings (kind of impressive I suppose).

These are Mac users we’re talking about here - they’re terrified of anything not produced by a corpo.

Man’s justified

Anonymous replacement/workaround being cooked up in 3, 2, 1…

Hostile infrastructure to cyclists and pedestrians is commonplace outside of a few nations.

Phone plans are far more expensive compared to VOIP/messaging platforms, and snail mail? Where’d you get that idea, dinosaur?

Face to face conversations are very uncommon outside of events which require peers (work, education), so unlike, say, a group message chat, far more coordination is needed for something that may not be possible for all participants.

Community centers are dead, at least in north america, and sports are gatekept.

I could go on, but online third spaces are my generation’s escape from the horrible reality we find ourselves in. Sorry we don’t live in the 90s or earlier anymore, dino.

If you need some joy in your day, please enjoy this video about the “salmon cannon”.

Thank goodness online adaptations allow people to play without having to consider the identity of their opponent (because I don’t mind who I play against).

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The majority of software/hardware components? Absolutely.

However, I wouldn’t be surprised if some things are gatekept for as long as possible so the “owners” can rent-seek their copyrights/patents.

Ah so that’s where those headaches are coming from.