Within any given tier of gaming hardware*, the main advantage of consoles is not price, but simplicity: They’re convenient and easy. They consume very little extra space (no dedicated monitor/speakers/keyboard/mouse) and require practically no technical knowledge or setup/tuning/troubleshooting effort.

But PC gamers get value for their efforts. The vastly larger pool of games and greater variety in hardware options are part of that value, but there is also the total cost of ownership: PC games tend to go on sale for lower prices, and hardware upgrades can be done incrementally (ship of theseus style). Over the course of 10 years or so, that translates to either more fun or more money left to spend on other things. Or both.

Perhaps this decade’s painful rise in hardware costs is making more people willing to invest a bit of effort in exchange for a gaming PC’s better long-term value compared to a console.

*(I mention hardware tiers because it doesn’t make sense to compare a Nintendo Wii to a high-end Radeon or GeForce PC, of course.)

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https://web.archive.org/web/20260516071155/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/he-doesn-t-even-understand-xi-made-trump-look-like-a-complete-fool-to-his-face-and-smiled-fans-who-zoomed-in-on-the-video-are-losing-it/ar-AA23f9BW

It reportedly worked outside of Steam, but only as a basic gaming controller and separate keyboard/mouse devices. This is unsurprising, since there isn’t really a standard interface for a device like the Steam Controller.

Exposing it as a coherent device via SDL makes sense.

The problem is not data representation. Yes, you could build fancy display features into an app that understands email, and define a data format for representing those features in email attachments/parts. They could then display just fine in your Onlinepersona app. (Or you could just use HTML email, which already has partial support in some user agents, though it is not universal.) You could even go so far as to define a reply protocol for your app to share data edits via email attachments. Those replies would be useful to other people on a mailing list who run your app.

But at that point, what you’re using is not a mailing list. It’s an Onlinepersona app that happens to use a mailing list as a transport for your overlay protocol. To everyone on the list who doesn’t use your app, its traffic would be noise.

In other words, the problem is not data representation, but adoption. Good luck getting all the world’s email software to support your niche extensions. I think the most you can realistically hope for is to convince the members of your favorite mailing lists to either use your app or tolerate the noise it generates.

If you’re confident that your app is wanted by enough people to make its development worthwhile, then go for it. Just realise that it won’t be an email client; it will be an Onlinepersona client.

If you hate having information delivered as text, you are never going to love mailing lists. They are not applications, and most likely never will be, since that would break the universal interoperability that makes email valuable.

However, email does support threading, and it is possible to find user agents (clients) that support it. Perhaps someone who has compared them recently can offer suggestions for whatever platform you use. (I can’t, since I’ve been using a proprietary one for ages and don’t know what else is out there these days.)

Also, you might find that some are better than others at formatting text to your liking.

Renouncing? Won’t that make it harder for the others to vote better leaders into office?

Isn’t this what Trump wants?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl

McMahon also pushes back on the government’s argument that “there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPT’s doing, rather than the Government’s:”

There is no distinction to be drawn here between the Government and ChatGPT. ChatGPT was the Government’s chosen instrument for purposes of this project, and DOGE’s use of AI to identify DEI-related material neither excuses presumptively unconstitutional conduct nor gives the Government carte blanche to engage in it.

Honest and sensible reasoning is in such short supply lately that it’s a breath of fresh air when it occasionally shows up in government.

I wish some of that light would shine upon Constitutional law circumvention programs like Five Eyes.

Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature.

I probably would have chosen it even if licensing wasn’t a concern. It’s good.

The headline Go Away Microsoft is amusing, because Forgejo is written in Go.

Just about anything in The Criterion Collection might qualify.

Here’s a convenient list, starting with The Pillar of Fire (1899):

https://letterboxd.com/davidblakeslee/list/the-complete-criterion-chronology-1/

Good news: That spare RAM will become disk buffer cache on Linux, so it’s not useless after all.

This is part of why modern games claiming to need an SSD will often run pretty well from a slow mechanical hard drive on Linux.

It wasn’t snark, but mild confusion.

In that case, I’m sorry for misunderstanding.

I hope you can understand that at least nine times out of ten, a response like yours (instead of simply answering or ignoring the question) turns out to be from someone looking for a fight. I’m glad to find that the last sentence of my reply turned out to be warranted, at first. Lashing out really wasn’t necessary.

Whatever. This is pointless. Chao.

Fair enough. Ciao.

Then try to imagine that some people do exactly that, and the rest of us don’t know you or commenting habits.

My question was therefore reasonable. It was also informative, by letting other readers know they can avoid that kind of paywall without revealing their interests to the dodgy archive site.

Your response reads like snark, which doesn’t help anyone. I’ll try convince myself that you didn’t mean it that way.

I wonder if that detail is true, or yet another lie from the Trump administration.

Is there a paywall on the original? I don’t see one, but I have scripts disabled.

This is the opposite of uplifting.

For those who are unfamiliar with it:

NetHack is a bit like Diablo, but turn-based, single-player, very light on graphics, harder, and far more complex in game mechanics. People who have played it for decades are still discovering new things.

For future reference:

!giveaways@piefed.ca
!freegames@feddit.uk

Also, when giving away game keys, it’s best to have interested people direct-message you and then pick a random winner after some time. (A day or three works well.) That mitigates harvesting by bots and hoarders.

If I understand correctly, this could be exploited to escape linux namespaces, which which are the foundation of containers like Flatpak and Docker. Those were never very good security boundaries, but running untrusted code in them is now especially dangerous, until your kernel is patched.