I suspect if they repeat the challange today, it would be a night and day difference.

The whole reason it broke for him in the first place was due to a bug in PopOS, so yes.

Hell no, I switched back to Arch so my system would stop breaking!

Was this the transition from the (so-called) bazzite-arch distrobox to layering Steam into the image?

It likely was. Can’t remember the details unfortunately.

One of the breakages was caused by an expired signature or something from Universal Blue, which hit all users. I’m surprised that one doesn’t get talked about more. One of them was caused by Bazzite changing how Steam itself is handled and not transitioning my system over properly. Can’t remember what the third one was caused by.

I’ve had Bazzite break its own update utility such that it needed manual intervention at least 3 times now. I see no point in a “just works” distro that doesn’t actually just work.

I don’t think there’s an industry on earth where it’s normal for the low-level workers to be paid directly when the customer buys something. It being filtered through a bunch of business stuff is the norm everywhere I’m afraid.

Yes, but do you think they’d buy the shows from those production committees and other organizations if people weren’t interested in paying subscriptions to watch them? That’s like saying Bandai doesn’t get money when I buy gunpla from a store like usagunplastore just because usagunplastore already bought the gunpla from Bandai months ago and Bandai isn’t getting more money from that particular purchase.

Animators being horribly underpaid is a different topic entirely.

That’s without even discussing the fact that not a single penny users give them will end up in the hands of any of the exploited artists who actually made the shows

That’s quite the assertion. How exactly do you suggest they’re buying the rights to distribute the shows then?

given that there are still plenty of passionate fans who would have done it for free

I’d imagine this is a non-starter from a corporate standpoint. I know if I were in charge I’d be terrified of the idea of just trusting community-submitted subtitles to not have random slurs or something inserted. That said I still think it would be super cool if they’d let people source and use their own subtitle files; I now it’s possible because I have a tampermonkey script that lets me do just that.

Yeah but in Bazzite’s case one of those issues (the one from about a year ago) hit over 99% of their users. I really think that all these people talking about how great Bazzite is either haven’t been using it for long enough for the devs to have fucked up or they just haven’t noticed that their system hasn’t been updating for the past year.

The problem with using Bazzite as the solution to new users bricking their Linux installs is I’ve had Bazzite’s update utility break itself 3 times now. I couldn’t possibly recommend this distro to someone after that. I literally switched my desktop back to Arch for reliability reasons. Ridiculous.

Well I’m not aware of any Arch-based immutable distro besides SteamOS so it’s kinda hard to give a perfect answer.

you can just permanently connect your headphones to your dongle

No. Fuck that. My PC has a headphone jack, and I use it. I don’t have a bunch of extra USB-C ports on the front of my computer. Modern phones have plenty of spaces for headphone jacks. They could put it there, they just don’t want to.

That’s great and all but I’m not switching to Bluetooth headphones and I’m definitely not going to fiddle around with dongles every time I switch between listening on my phone and my PC. Phones are gigantic anyways; let my have my headphone jack. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that all these smartphone manufacturers that ditched the old standard will happily sell you shiny expensive disposable wireless earbuds.

With how many things I log into on my phone I think I’d rather have no phone at all than one that’s too old to receive security updates.

Even in the page given as an example here there are two speech bubbles that are pushing their boundaries.

The problem is if the user asks the AI a question about the language they’re learning they’ll often get confident bullshit as the response and they won’t know it’s wrong because they’re still learning.

Yeah I dropped that one entirely.

Eh. I haven’t listened so much lately anyways since Chris started obsessing over Crypto.

It’s important to not allow “perfect” to become the enemy of “good”.