Yes, people choose to make it and people choose to use it. But, like... stop those people, right?

Twenty years ago I was in university and had a Debian install on a cheap-ass Acer laptop and I managed to get exactly two and a half games working under Wine: the first two Fallouts and about three hours of Civ IV before crash. Getting games to run at all was A THING so a podcast for that makes a lot of sense.

Today I have a full-time job and deleted the Windows partition from my expensive PC about three years ago... pretty much every game I've ever wanted to play since then has just WORKED. Better than on modern Windows, even. Not a lot to talk about there, I guess.

One thing I wish is that Valve could publish a 'Proton spec' that people could build against to ensure compatibility, but I imagine that that this would be an IP nightmare.

Choose one.

In fact, don't. Just build a new power plant and plug it into the grid. Go on, I could do with a laugh.

The "last-ever" penny will not be minted until that final coin has been minted by:

The United Kingdom

Gibraltar

Man

St Helena & Ascension Island

Guernsey

The Falklands

and probably a good few of others I've forgotten. Like Jersey.

For a start, the article does not mention any other database. I don't know how you can say something is read or write heavy without comparing it to something else. It doesn't even compare different queries on the same database. Like, they just wrote a query and it does a lot of reads - so what? There's nothing here. Am I going mad? Why does this article exist?

Last week I was trying to `find` something in some directories, failed, `cd`d to my home directory and instinctively hit up-arrow+return to run the search again. At some time prior to this, Atuin had stopped recording new entries without my notice. Want to guess the last entry that Atuin did record?

Go on. Guess.

Yep.

`rm -rf *`

In my home directory.

Luckily I have backups of everything important and didn't actually lose anything, and I'm mainly posting this here as a funny anecdote. But - still - after getting myself set up again I have yet to reinstall Atuin.

From the official website:

> Does Raspberry Pi 5 need active cooling?

> Raspberry Pi 5 is faster and more powerful than prior-generation Raspberry Pis, and like most general-purpose computers, it will perform best with active cooling.

Agreed. No true Scotsman would use the tool this way.

I don't want to speak for the person you replied to, but I think that their main point is... are they?

I see lots of articles about huge increases in productivity, but I think it's fair to argue that we've yet to see the huge increases in useful products that would surely (we hope) result from that if it were true.

Then I left Linux for about 5 years and, by the time I got back, Systemd had taken over. I heard a few bad things about it, but eventually learned to recognise that so many of those arguments were in such bad faith that I don't even know what the real ones are any more. Currently I run a couple of services on Pi Zeros streaming camera and temperature data from the vivarium of our bearded dragon, and it was so very easy to set them up using systemd. And I could use it to run emacsd on my main OpenSuse desktop. And a google-drive Fuse solution on my work laptop. "having something standard is good, actually", I guess.

I've not really thought about it so deeply until right exactly now (thanks, all!), but I think doing so might have led me to a very unpopular opinion - I might be prepared to say that this problem can't be solved in an anonymous environment. Unless you have a reputation to ruin (or, say, an xbox account to lose), then being outed as a cheater costs you nothing. Again, this is incompatible with a lot of current multiplayer modes - and most of what I love about PC gaming - but, ultimately, I'd rather be judged by my peers than a rootkit.

It seems so, and I think your example underlines this:

> Lamar Jackson doesn't get to choose who he plays against in the NFL; if he wants to win the Super Bowl he has to play against Joe Burrow. If Joe Burrow cheats by deflating some footballs, there has to be a system in place which catches him and doles out appropriate punishment.

I don't know who those people are, but I'll assume that this is a reasonable pairing of NFL players. Are you saying that there is no system in place to catch cheating in the NFL? Because I'm pretty sure that there is - it is just made out of people, rather than software.

Software anti-cheat seeks to stop everyone cheating everywhere, and this is clearly impossible. Using current anti-cheat methods in IRL sports, then in a game with as many involved participants as NFL a cheater might get away with it for a bit, but I'm sure if it turned out if the Steelberg Bunglers were deflating their balls every game, then this would be a massive scandal that makes national television. They would probably have to be audited (install anti-cheat) for a season or two before people would trust them to play a clean game for a while.