Ideally, sandboxes should be like Vegas - what happens in the sandbox stays in the sandbox.

(I'm just speaking hypothetically here, I'm not knowledgeable about OpenBSD or it's sandboxes)

Once upon a time I was a paying customer (like in the early early aughts). Glad to see them still doing their thing.

- Borderlands 4 was basically unplayable on my hardware (9800 X3D, 3080 TI) - though I didn't care enough to try and fix it.

- Dune Awakening was decent, but noticeably less performant, stuttery, etc. Probably fixable with some settings tweaks and other stuff, but the experience was markedly worse than windows out of the box.

- ARC Raiders runs fantastic - but even still, it had noticeable visual issues particularly with shadows

General issues:

- It seems to vary by desktop environment how confused steam and/or the games were as to which monitor to play the game on

- Steam itself required some futzing to get big picture to use hardware rendering (software rendering is very laggy)

- Multiple games seemed confused what my native resolution was

- Mouse issues with multi-monitor setup in several games (though sometimes this is an issue in windows too)

Linux still is not a great daily driver for video games in many circumstances, unless you're on a specialized device like the steam deck that gets extra attention to smooth out the rough bits.

On my gaming PC I haven't found a single game that runs noticeably faster in Linux. Most run considerably worse often while suffering various glitches (sometimes game-breaking).

Sometimes, with work (different versions of proton, startup options, configs, or even new kernels or compositors, etc) you can get around those problems, but... it takes work. Work that you just don't have to do on Windows.

What a great way to describe it.

But the hyper-focus can be magical when it targets the task you need to do!

You manage to pry them apart, but it goes flying through the air and only to get stuck on an even stronger magnet still. And on it goes, over and over, until the magnet is stuck on the biggest, strongest magnet.

Your attention is constantly being repelled from less engaging activities to more highly engaging activities, and eventually you land on whatever the most engaging activity is nearby. Sometimes without even realizing it

I write plenty of code at my job, and generally don't have the desire to write more code as a hobby, except in rare cases when the mood really strikes.

Slop is starting to dominate uploads to some music services, so I think it will only get worse from here

The US badly needs to reform these elements, but it's those elements that really make reform nearly impossible at this point.

Electoral college reform, gerrymandering reform, increasing the size of the house or some kind of proportional representation, etc

That being said, democracies are about generating consensus between factions with otherwise irreconcilable differences.

There should be overlap on many fronts - that's kind of a feature, not a bug - at least in many cases.

There was massive public backlash and real organized resistance, especially in the streets of Minneapolis. People literally put their lives on the line, communities banded together to help migrants who were afraid to go to work or leave their homes, and they ultimately forced the government to retreat and change tactics. And it resulted in the firing of a cabinet secretary and the border patrol commander that was the face of the whole thing. And plummeting public approval that has only declined further since

A somewhat similar campaign occurred in Hong Kong, but the resistance sadly was not able to fare as well against China tyranny

Liberal democracies have moral high ground over authoritarian dictatorships (at least along that one dimension)

The US is backsliding tragically (and stupidly) and may lose that moral high ground, but the rest of the western democracies will still have it

https://youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?t=4629

Owners only really get screwed if their home value goes down and they need to sell for some reason.

Prices are usually going up (at least on a long enough time frame), so most owners make out pretty well when selling even with little home equity.

The most sane reason for "why now" would be because Iran was in a relatively weak position (domestic unrest, severely weakened proxies due to Israel) and the hawks saw an opening

That and Trump was more easily moved now that he's developed a taste for military shows of force after the Maduro thing. He probably thought it would make great content.

The Iran hawks and Netanyahu probably didn't have to push him very hard

You should beware of bad utilitarian arguments though, which is where you often get the real "gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette" kind of arguments that justify all manners of atrocity in service of some narrow hypothetical future good.

Like when Marc Andreessen says we should consider anyone who would do something to slow down or regulate AI advancement murderers of future humans. Bad utilitarianism right there.

Proper utilitarians are concerned with the net difference between all positive and negative consequences of actions.