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But not really. The Settings menu has never been as useful as Control Panel and there's still a ton of functionality that can only be accessed from the Control Panel. This and many other moves by MS recently are why Windows 10 is the last version of Windows I'll be using. With the work Valve has done to support SteamDeck I can finally go 100% Linux.

SteamOS is based on Arch with customization by Valve to make it immutable and a few other tweaks. In theory Valve will release SteamOS Holo (the version used on SteamDeck) for usage on Desktop at some point, but that hasn't happened yet. In the meantime you can achieve very similar results to SteamOS a variety of ways. Depending on if you care about immutability or not there's a number of non-Arch distros and even a install script (astOS) that can install Arch configured in an immutable fashion similar to what SteamOS does. There's also a number of non-immutable gaming focused distros the most prominent of them being Manjaro. Any of them once you install Steam will function very similar to each other and SteamOS.

For now. If enough of the market shifts to Linux those companies will support Linux. Particularly since the CrowdStrike fiasco has spurred Microsoft to crack down on kernel level access which means the days of anti-cheat rootkits are numbered. It's not going to be long before there's no functional difference between gaming on Windows and gaming on Linux.

It's debatable if D-Wave is actually a quantum computer at least in the sense most people use the term. There's a lot of unanswered questions still on exactly how to use and design a quantum computer and we're not likely to get those answers until we can reliably produce and run systems with at least 8 qubits. Maybe DARPA and the military/CIA has such systems, but I don't think anyone else does.

Quantum computers are still mostly theoretical. We have some of the building blocks of one, but there's still a few critical pieces missing. Quantum computers are in about the same place as fusion reactors are. Theoretically possible but not currently producible in a form that's useful without a few more technological breakthroughs.

No, I think he's arguing for the exact opposite. Just because Republicans are terrible doesn't mean Democrats are immune to criticism (not that you'd know it from this thread, apparently saying Biden is too old to hold office is the worst thing ever).

Biden was always a shit candidate which is why it's incredibly fortunate that we have a much better one now. Harris isn't the best possible choice but she's certainly the best one we've actually been given. Trump is almost literally the worst presidential candidate in the history of the US. Trump was the worst president in the history of the US. It might be possible to come up with someone worse than Trump (I'm certainly not going to challenge Republicans to do so they certainly would), but I'm having trouble thinking of one (maybe Elon Musk).

Just because the other option is literally the worst possible option doesn't mean we have to pretend that the better option is some kind of perfect saint. Everyone needs to go vote for Harris and for literally anyone but Republicans in this upcoming election, but we also aren't obligated to claim sun shines out of her ass and certainly not act like Biden whose not even running anymore doesn't have anything wrong with him.

Our country has turned into a gerontocracy and it's well past the point we should do something about that. We should be pushing for age limits on all elected positions. We have an age of retirement, we should enforce that on political (and maybe judicial) offices as well.

Do you have any idea how little that narrows things down?

I’ve learned how powerful the unelected bureaucracy is. You have to win in November … you have to dismantle the leftist state … they are devious, they are ruthless and they are out to get you.

Those are called voters.

Just wait. At the rate they're going it won't be long before you're forced to sit through a 30 second full screen ad in order to even open the start menu.

Further reason, the physical button isn't always in a location that's convenient to push. Sure it's usually accessible, but sometimes it's under a desk or behind a monitor or some other awkward location. Mouse and keyboard by their nature are always located in a conveniently accessible location.

Surprise 3rd option, Egypt. Safe bet is Russia though, he has a long standing relationship there and the MAGAts haven't realized yet that the moment they aren't useful to Putler anymore they'll be tossed in a gulag.

Seems to be a combination of students too distracted playing on their phones and difficulty policing behavior on social media bleeding into school time. They give an example of students filming a student being bullied on school grounds and the video being uploaded and shared on social media. I'm not sure banning smart phones during school hours is the right solution, but it's certainly a tricky problem to deal with.