That has to be a reason to not use an iThing, right?

Heh

This is a silly take. People are less likely to say no on the phone than they are to click no on a survey opt-in popup. And I am not even sure that Steam does a pop-up, users may have to go find the option to join the survey.

So there absolutely is a sampling bias. How significant it is and how/if Valve attempt to control for it doesn’t seem to be public information but it is definitely there.

My first reaction to reading that line was that Linux numbers are likely inflated by sampling bias.

I’m using tumbleweed and getting my NVIDIA card to work was some effort but only because I was an idiot and didn’t run the SUSE update tool that would have fixed everything for me :-/

I think most people would be ok with “AI” that actually did something useful and perhaps wasn’t an unsustainable resource hog. The problem is that the current thing called AI doesn’t do anything useful.

It’s ok to be ignorant. It’s not so great to defend rather than remedy your ignorance.

I think you’re quite confused about what an operating system actually is.

A desktop environment is not a prerequisite for an operating system.

It’s kill-o-meter or (literally!) kilo-meter. It is not ko-lom-o-tor.

Noone says cen-tom-o-tor or mo-lom-o-tor so why are you pronouncing kilometre like a halfwit?

Cauliflower cake with spinach added is awesome.

I used to run Mumble for my Battlefield crew (probably Bad Company 2 I think) on a Nokia n810.

Your laptop will definitely handle it.

Don’t spend iPhone money on an Android. Definitely don’t on a Samsung unless you like having both Google and Samsung’s versions of basic applications such as phone, messages, calendar, browser etc.

Motorola do a very minimally customised Android .

Australians are largely unbothered by being mistaken for Kiwis. Not so much the other way so if in doubt ask if they’re from New Zealand.

We recently elected a government led by a wannabe 1%er so worse than Australia but better than the US.

In much of the world most houses will have existing electrical wiring but no network cabling.

Driving is largely a chore. Now you’re qualified to perform the chore. I think your feel is completely understandable.

It’s usually called hydroelectric and implemented with dams and turbines.

We would have no way of knowing what the time factor is but I think 1:1 seems highly unlikely. Much more likely that we’re running very slowly due to limits on available processing power or very fast so a civilisation can rise and fall within the observer’s lifetime.

I’ve been using the same set of cheap hair clippers on head and beard for almost 10 years.

No razors, no paying for haircuts, no shaving cream, no cuts, no razor burn.