As a result, I can open Spotify in the background and have it play music while I game, from the primary SteamOS interface.

Having an existing 3d printer is a bit “draw the rest of the owl” for this, but being able to extend and modify a device like a pen plotter is pretty nice.

Perhaps we need to make a diagram to decide.

It's frustrating to be at a train station where every wall is an ad for something, and the actual information concerning the trains themselves is either tucked away on a much smaller, much lower quality screen in the corner, or worse, not working at all.

Basically I'd like to see some solutions to the problem that I'm generally being shown ads at the expense of the public service I'm trying to use.

I’d like to see that plotted against average consumer debt

I wonder how much he banked from the sold access in the middle.

I’m also personally torn on how much we want giant private companies controlling more and more of the core compute infrastructure and software.

In an ideal world, the code and software itself would be automatically analyzed for malicious use cases in release and deployment pipelines, but that’s a magic hand wavy kind of ask of a huge magnitude and complexity.

Haven’t nation state actors openly infiltrated high level companies? This would provide a false sense of security imo. If anything, we need better testing and behavior heuristics for incoming code.