I don't think the idea of it is terrible, I can see it's use cases, but I think it being implemented in MySQL directly is extremely silly. Imagine having to have all the instances of your database server running on some beefy hardware to handle the prompts, just do the actual processing on a separate machine with the appropriate hardware then shove it into the database with another query when it's done.

I've also been working on a software rasterizer for 9! Maybe I'll post some screenshots here after I polish it up a bit more, lol. I got inspired after porting Quake 1 (I'm aware a port already exists, but I was bored and wanted to reinvent the wheel as a learning experience) and realizing how well it ran. Like, the Quake software renderer is seriously cool tech, way way ahead of it's time!

That screenshot was actually taken running on bare metal (an old laptop)! Everything works great as long as you don't need a modern web browser or WiFi for anything. I've also gotten it running on a bunch of other random hardware I've had laying around, it's very portable and works fairly well on everything I've messed around with so far. I'm also currently waiting for my 10 gig NIC to arrive so I can use an old machine running 9 I have laying around as a router!

I've never used Telegram, but from what I can see public Matrix groups could most likely take it's place? Maybe there's some features I'm unaware of but

I know this is a joke, but... NetBSD has a Dreamcast port so it's definitely not out of the realm of possibility that you could make a Hexbear post on a Dreamcast using a terminal-based web browser or some bare bones HTTP client if you have one of those expansion cards that lets you connect to the internet.

X.org server on NetBSD/dreamcast 9.1

The East German Robotron PC 1715 also goes hard

The DMV here is actually pretty good, I've never had issues with them (besides the whole gender marker thing, but that's a state law problem and out of their control) and they're pretty quick most of the time.

Instead of manually enabling Proton for specific games, you can just enable it globally. Click Steam at the top left -> Settings -> Compatibility -> and check "Enable Steam Play for supported titles" and if you want to enable for all games, even if they haven't been verified as working with Proton, you can check "Enable Steam Play for all other titles".

For the distribution itself, I usually recommend Linux Mint to most people just jumping into Linux for the first time, it's easy to use, has a familiar(ish) layout, and should work on just about everything out of the box. Fedora is another choice, but I try to stay away from corporate backed distributions.

And for the software side of things:

1. Matrix / Element for decentralized, and end-to-end encrypted communication
2. Firefox w/ uBlock Origin & Arkenfox's user.js for web browsing
3. LibreOffice for an office suite
4. Spotube as an open-source alternative to Spotify's proprietary client if you use Spotify
5. VLC media player for playing multimedia files & streaming videos
6. qBittorrent for torrenting
7. KeePassXC for local encrypted password storage, no cloud services needed

That should have you covered for most day to day browsing and content consumption!

Louder for the people in the back!

Damn, was really excited for this, their trailed looked awesome.

It prevents people from messing with your secure boot keys for example, which is useful to make sure things haven't been tampered with software wise.