But 99% of the problems can be avoided if you just don’t do stupid things.

Or a phone.

A simple note-taking app on a phone easily replaces the notepad, and you probably already have one next to your bed and in your pocket almost everywhere you go.

the point is that they will be locked into a walled garden with minimally-powerful hardware. Can such a device even really be considered a PC anymore?

My main laptop is an ancient chromebook that I jailbroke and put Linux on.

While they’re locked down, I wouldn’t really consider them to be a PC. But if you can unlock them…

Yes. Not because Linux PCs become so much more common, but because Windows PCs become much less common.

More and more people (normies) don’t own a desktop and only use tablets or phones. As the percentage of normies who own a desktop decreases, it will become more of just a nerd thing to have an actual desktop PC … and those kinds of people are much more likely to run Linux.

I don’t care what they do … I just really hope that a decent Subnautica sequel comes out of it.

“You’re supposed to block us, not try to engage with us.”

That’s one hell of a take, sure.

to make more people vegetarian

You don’t necessarily need people to go full vegetarian. Just eating less meat is a much easier sell. If 2 people eat 1/2 as much meat as they otherwise would, that’s just as good as 1 person going full vegetarian.

The type of meat also matters. Beef is much higher in greenhouse gas emissions than any other type of meat. So if you just switch beef for, say, chicken or pork, you’re already doing a lot better.

Yeah, yeah. Only mostly untouchable.

There’s still time for them to, you know, actually do their jobs.

Impeach, prosecute, and imprison Trump and his cronies, pass a universal healthcare bill, end this stupid war, and about 50 other things, and they might even earn my vote in the midterms.

“It’s time for the country to heal and come together.”

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Definitely one of the big examples there.

my $10,000 steam library

That’s honestly horrifying.

Filmmaking works best as a collaborative medium.

When one guy is in charge of the film and everybody working with them is so in awe of them (or financially beholden to them) that they’re afraid to say no, afraid to tell him his ideas are dumb … then his dumb ideas will make it into the film and make it worse.

You also often see it with really big-name directors. Their early films are amazing, but once they have their huge reputation and people are afraid to push back on their bad ideas, their later films can end up being bad, or at least weird.

Have fun with that, out on your ranch

That actually does sound fun, though.

But a car can’t make more cars if you have two of them.

Wouldn’t be that hard to develop and build a sea drone that is a mine.

A drone with a heavy explosive payload that could be remotely piloted into the desired position, then submerged just under the water and hold that position, waiting to trigger.

It would need to come in two pieces: a flotation/propulsion/payload upper segment and an anchor/ballast lower segment. Lower segment is basically a big hollow anchor filled with air. When filled with air, the whole thing is easily buoyant enough to float freely and move around. When ready to deploy, fill the anchor segment with water, making it much heavier and sinking it to the bottom. Have a cable on a winch connecting the two sections. Once the anchor hits the sea floor, reel in the winch until the upper segment begins to sink. Stop the winch when the upper segment reaches the desired depth. The upper segment needs to be buoyant, but not buoyant enough to lift the anchor off the bottom. Once in place, you can shut off most of the electronics and only have a vibration/magnetic/mechanical/whatever trigger waiting to detonate the payload. (If you want to be more elegant and ethical about it, also have it operate the winch to resurface on a regular basis to expose its antenna and listen for a disarm signal.)

because now everyone knows where the safe route is.

Have the safe route come within convenient range of heavily entrenched shore-based artillery.

Eh, even if they did, though. Fair’s fair. Perfectly legit to respond to a country bombing you by bombing them back.

Neither. While violent resistance to Israel’s abuses is very understandable and maybe even commendable, deliberately targeting civilians is not the way.

I’m also under no illusion that Hamas would be any less abusive if they were the ones with the power. If they had the ability to do so, they’d gladly commit genocide as well.

They’re also, to some degree, themselves a tool of Israel, propped up by Netanyahu’s regime in order to justify Israel’s continued aggression, oppression, and war.