… as long as the giant corpos paying through the nose for the data centers continue to vastly underprice their products in order to make us all dependent on them.

Just wait till everyone’s using it and the prices will skyrocket.

If you think people will pay for AI slop, you must be young or deeply cynical

The vast vast vast majority of artists create art with neither expectations of payment nor the ability to do it full time, yes.

There was one other time, when he cursed a tree because he didn’t like its fruit, but yeah in general he disliked the nascent forms of capitalism and money people that he encountered.

Close. RFK Jr.

They aren’t right wing, at the global level.

This story is a follow-up to reports that the “Gen-Z” rebellion in Mexico in particular seems to mostly consist of older people, like Gen X and Boomers.

So, it’s an astroturf movement by the right.

If you don’t upgrade the RAM, go with Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. If you do upgrade to 8GB RAM, probably LMDE? You don’t need to be on a bleeding edge kernel with a Windows 8 era laptop, modern optimizations will not affect perf much.

Bigger than ever in post industrial society, maybe. Pre-industrial times almost everyone shared almost everything. The ones who didn’t share were rich, and even they often would invite guests to stay for a whole season semi-regularly because of their ridiculously big houses and desire for entertainment.

Jellyfin, my one true platform

If it’s built as well as the deck, it should be great

FSR4 only runs on RDNA 4. The Steam Machine has RDNA 3, so FSR3 is the limit

1080p can look bad on a 1440p display though, since it doesn’t go evenly in and you’ll need good upscaling.

And that’s why it’s better to use 720p in the cases where you can’t do native 1440p.

There are currently 2 third party handhelds that are officially supported by SteamOS, so at least 2 manufacterers have taken them up on it so far.

Yes

If they keep it shut down I suspect individual states will split off as their own nations eventually.

Hey, so, I know those words sound really satisfying in that combination, but “objectively and factually” there’s no single system of morality nor metric of quality for fatherhood that anyone could judge by, so “objectively and factually”, your thesis is an opinion statement and by its very nature cannot be a fact or objective truth.

He was a sorcerer who was well spoken so he came across as wizard-y.

Yeah, the player got kicked out for a drug problem, I heard.

Well yeah, they exist at the extremes of society and push almost exclusively for their own further empowerment.

Meh, Great Cleave combined with improved critical and some other stuff could lead to some crazy slot machine combo turns

Yes, but also Fighters are just way cooler in either edition of Pathfinder