It kinda is, isn’t it? Apt isn’t super stable.

Python is really good too!

This.

The Pop_os team accepted that behaviour (installing steam uninstalls the DE) as a bug and it was fixed subsequently.

They also fixed the whole thing with the error message to make it more difficult to accidentally delete critical system components by installing software entirely unrelated to said system component.

It’s all of it. He takes too much for the services he offers. He gives too little to his employees. He isn’t taxed enough for what remains.

It makes sense that people can earn a few multiples over the median for working hard and maybe also for taking risks.

It makes no sense that people can earn a million time as much as the median by not working hard and never facing actual risks.

Strange. Ok, can you make a snorting sound at the front of your nose? If you can, try to make a knocking sound with your nose. For that, build up pressure inside your nose using your tongue and release the sound by opening your nose.

It’s similar to what you do when you have to sneeze and try to suppress it.

Basically what happens when you look at your nose. But it’s also possible to e.g. only move one inwards while keeping the other straight. It’s not difficult, but there are people who can’t do it.

This happens so often. The new version of the framework our frontend developers use has massive performance problems, which meant that our FE devs couldn’t test their changes locally, they had to upload a release to the cloud to test every single change. That reduces productivity to close to 0. A developer isn’t cheap, so you’d think the company would be quick to issue macbooks that we are also allowed to have so that they can work again.

Nope, it took 3 months for our manager to convince the helpdesk that they can get macbooks. Helpdesk originally said they’d have to wait for 2 years for the scheduled replacement of the laptops.

This is exactly it. If you buy a €20 SSD you’ll be disappointed as well.

They could pay their employees double. Or even quadruple.

But they don’t because Gabe needs another yacht.

Epic only takes 12%, and they too have cloud saves.

If they could take 15% while being a multibillion dollar company, then taking 30% is by definition overcharging.

And that many others also overcharge doesn’t change that fact.

Steam takes 30% cut while e.g. Epic takes 12%.

No you don’t get in trouble for unfair competition if you don’t overcharge.

Might be, but all of these are things I was not able to do at some point and that I conciously learned. So while having the “wrong” genetics might preclude you from doing them, you still need to learn these things if you have the “right” genetics.

At least not in my case. If I blow out a candle, my nose passage closes.

Maybe try the following:

• Start with the motion of blowing out a candle.
• While doing so, close your mouth, so that no air escapes through your mouth or nose, still holding the pressure of blowing.
• Release your nose and feel the air popping out right at your nose.

It’s not the bottom end of the nose, but the top end of it. It’s certainly not the laryinx, at least not for me.

Try blowing out a candle. Feel how your nose feels while doing that. Try to replicate the same movement in your nose without blowing.

There’s a ton of face muscles that you can learn to control with a bit of practice:

• Wiggling your ears
• Moving your eyes inwards
• Clicking your ear channels (like the click you hear when swallowing)
• Creating a humming noise in your ears by flexing a muscle inside your ear channels
• Plugging your nose from the inside
• Rolling your tounge
• Individual motion of your brows
• “Vibrating” your eyes super fast left and right

Probably a few more that I didn’t think of right now.

We are so used to billionaires being obnoxious assholes that one that isn’t obnoxious about their billions feels like one of the good ones, I guess.

He made his money (like any other billionaire) by overcharging and underpaying. He wastes his money on useless bullshit like any other billionaire. But he’s not obnoxious about it, which causes people to just ignore the part about billionaires that’s actually bad (the way they became billionaires).

Depends on what metric you look at.

• Lifetime when stored on a shelf: HDD wins
• Lifetime while powered: SSD wins
• Lifetime while constantly writing: HDD wins
• Lifetime when used in a mobile device that gets thrown around: SSD wins

Mining hardware is shortlived. These things get outdated real fast and need to be replaced frequently. So what they do is when a mining rig is up for replacement, they just swap it out for an AI rig.

The real asset for mining is the infrastructure: rack space, access to cheap electricity, data centers. All of that is very useful for AI as well.

There are quite a few office jobs that benefit from a decent CPU. Anything to do with images/photos/video/rendering for example.

It can’t be a loss leader.

The steam machine is, hardware-wise, just a regular Mini-PC. Valve even lets you put whatever OS you want on there. So if this was a loss leader, that would mean that non-gamers and even small businesses would buy these, would install Windows on them and use them as office PCs, with Steam probably not even installed on the PC.

With the Steam Deck, the form factor made it impractical or at least really weird to use them as office PCs. The steam machine doesn’t have that issue.

Because Cloud is cool or something. You know, now that the US is beconing more and more unreliable and untrustworthy, it’s exactly the right time for a large European corporation that provides critical services to move over to an US product hosted on US servers outside of our control.