Windows 11 has pretty good x86 emulation, both 32 and 64bit - imo better than what macos does with rosetta. Windows 10 for arm is just a pretty broken tech preview, though.

That's bullshit. Microsoft wanted to force others to use an API, while keep using kernel level access for Defender (which for enterprise use is a paid product). That's text book anti competitive. Nobody ever had a problem of Microsoft rolling out and enforcing an API for that if they restrict their own security products to that API as well.

Maps also has gone to shit. Complex routing including public transport is pretty much the only thing it still is useful for. For using maps as maps openstreetmap has been better for a long time, even before Google decided to dumb down their maps. For bicycle routing osm also is better nowadays as Google is missing most of the small paths.

I guess that explains why I'm not seeing it - my workstation has 64 threads and more than enough memory, and on my notebook I'm scheduling load intensive stuff to not interfere with interactive device usage.

low profile

that is a problem

easy to type on quickly

not really, doesn't have a clear pressure point, so leads to keys not registering surprisingly often. I also get pain in my hands if I'm working on it for several hours.

I only can do something like 70-80 WPM on that, on a proper keyboard I'm doing slightly above 100.

lights up

Don't care about that.

Additionally half the useful keys (pgup/pgdown/end/home/insert/delete/...) are hidden behind FN combinations.

A few years before Ubuntu quite a few companies tried doing their own distributions. Back then it still was common to sell them in a proper software box - CDs or DVDs, manuals and some swag, at minimum stickers, but quite often also pins or some other stuff.

On exhibitions they'd often give away full boxes to get people to try - sometimes the current version, sometimes the last release. I still have a bunch of those in the garage - I think Corel (yes, the painting program guys) should be one of them.

Der relevante Teil ist eher "wer nicht eingezogen werden will kann das ohne Flucht aus Russland tun" - was auch heisst dass wir in Europa nur in Ausnahmefaellen russischen Wehrdienstverweigerern Asyl gewaehren sollten.

Das wurde schon mehrfach heiss diskutiert - und ich seh auch aus meiner russischen Verwandtschaft dass das kein Problem ist. Wer nicht mit dem Krieg einverstanden war oder eben einfach nicht selber mitmachen wollte hatte sofort nachdem die Mobilisierungsgeruechte kamen einen systemrelevanten Zweitjob. Wollen viele hier halt nicht glauben dass der Grund fuer russische Wehrdienstverweigerer die in die EU kommen in den meisten Faellen nicht die Sicherheit vor Verfolgung in Russland ist.

(Das gerade gesagte trifft jetzt nicht auf diverse arme Gegenden weit im Osten zu - aber die haetten eh praktisch keine Chance es nach Europa zu schaffen, wenn sie denn ueberhaupt wuessten dass das eine Moeglichkeit waere, und sind daher fuer diese Diskussion irrelevant)

Many years ago I bought some old DOS game where Linux runtimes using the original files exists on GOG. What I expected was a disk image or a zip containing the files - what I got was some exe containing the files. Why would I ever try to buy something from someone fucking up something that simple again?

I might buy some indie games from a developer directly - but with a middleman steam is the only option.

Do you work in a metal shop?

Not that I'm aware of.

Physical education is usually a mandatory part of US schools through high school

In Germany the same - but swimming classes are mandated by law from grade 3 onwards, though we started going from grade 1 back then.

I just stripped half the screw head in my steam deck because none of my bits would fit just exactly right. I'd have been thrilled about finding torx there.

Applies the other way as well: A decade ago ended up not signing the contract after initially accepting the position at a major US chip makers EU office - with managers in the US - as it became clear during the process to get to that point there'll be cultural compatibility issue for my spoiled EU citizen ass, even though the office was in the EU, and they're forced to follow our labour laws.