Saved monitor brightness: GNOME now remembers your monitor’s brightness level across reboots and HDR toggling.

I don’t have an HDR monitor, but I guess it’s there…?

According to WHOIS and ICANN, they’re a relatively young Cloudflare customer (just registered this year). Consequently, Cloudflare has an abuse number you can call…

Disagree. It was a marginal tax rate for income over $400k. There were relatively few millionaires back then, so with the current runaway class income divide, it would assuredly do something regarding modern multimillionaires and beyond.

The solution would have to be twofold: tax the wealthy properly and close the loopholes (like taxing unrealized gains).

Though in general, I’m not a huge fan of this solution, because it’s still pro-capitalism, but it would be a step in the right direction at the very least.

If the US would fix its tax system, such that the wealthy paid 90% after a certain amount again (as they did under Eisenhower) without all these loopholes, the wealthy wouldn’t be so dangerous.

They could easily be rendered toothless before even worrying about how much time they deserve behind bars (which is still a lot).

100% agree, in no small part because the billionaires controlling things need to keep up the appearance of progress as long as possible. “Fake it 'til you make it,” as they say.

I think it’s shortsighted. The Linux gaming market is growing, and anyone with business foresight would be putting systems in place to capture that market. Apple is bound and determined not to be compatible with anyone, and Microsoft is not doing gamers any real favors lately, so it’s likely to continue to grow even further as people look for alternative(s) to both.

Been a minute since I heard that name

Tbh, I don’t see replacement of people in general as a feasible goal for two reasons:

1. AI is hemorrhaging money. It eventually needs to make money for its investors, and so subscription costs will rise for businesses. Businesses themselves are not seeing a meaningful ROI, so an unknown number will inevitably drop out entirely, leading to further price hikes.
2. AI needs human input to remain useful. It has no awareness of reality, and you can’t just play “pass the hallucination” between models.

To be clear, I believe you are talking about kernel-level anticheat?

I once read that kernel anticheat is the lazy option. Devs can supposedly combat cheating without that, but it takes effort (meaning $$$).

So Fortnite could come to Linux, but Epic would have to fundamentally change how they deal with cheating, and the CEO doesn’t seem the type to give a shit about that.

The fact that boomer shooters and low-poly indie games are seeing a surge in popularity is proof that chasing high-fidelity graphics is a fool’s errand.

Bruh, I already wasn’t gonna buy another one of your Nvidia cards, in no small part because of what you’ve done to ruin the hobby of PC building. You don’t have to keep trying to convince me to stay away.

That’s the core problem. The wealthy capitalists both own and drive the development of ML right now. I agree that machine learning algorithms (AI) in a vacuum aren’t inherently a problem, but that’s just a hypothetical position versus the material reality we all face every day.

Maybe we’ll get global Socialism or Communism someday, but trying to convince people that AI is fundamentally good underneath it all is putting the cart before the horse; AI as it stands is a symbol of Capitalism and the problems it embodies.

Worry about the nuances of AI after you’ve dealt with the rot.

And paying for the capitalists’ tools is no protection from their practices.

Probably just a waiting game, then. Epic is bringing their client to Linux (supposedly), but it’s unknown when.

As a second option, have you considered dual booting, with Linux as the default? Then you/he can still have the benefit of Linux most of the time with Windows as a backup for the problematic games.

It should be a huge red flag to everyone that he seems to identify with the bad guys in stories. And yes, I include the aforementioned “imaginary friends.”

1. I wonder if Noctalia 5 already has a desktop widget for this
2. I wonder how hard it would be to write one, if not

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I think they might mean that Windows is ultimately a dead end. I agree that its far from dead, but Valve really got the ball rolling with Proton.

Now that there’s a bunch of bigger influencers “trying Linux” as a daily driver and often having a good experience, coupled with Windows/Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot every other month, I think we’re seeing a shift in people’s perception (at least regarding what their possible options are). That said, Linux still has a ways to go until it even breaks 10% desktop share, and I don’t think it will be a threat even to Apple until Linux hits 15%.

Is this some new money laundering thing? Are companies “buying in” to hobnob with other wealthy people? Is this just the latest Country Club or whatever?

I seriously don’t understand why all these companies are throwing money at a project that is almost assuredly going to “mismanage” it.

Fair. Getting harder to distinguish the two anymore