BlackLaZoR

You mean the old debian based version? True, but the steam machines concept was a major misfire. This is not the case with steam deck and its version of SteamOS

I have really high hopes about SteamOS for PC. Not because linux, but because Linux + good support

Is this is where hacker named 4chan lives?

We’re not going to significantly reduce datacenter energy use just by rewriting everything in C.

We would however introduce a lot of bugs in the critical systems

For example, I could pay off my mortgage if I wanted to - but I won’t, because the average yearly return from stocks is around 7%, whereas the interest on my mortgage is 4.452%. The returns from my investments outweigh the cost of my debt.

I wonder why bank lends you mortgage money, if they could just buy stocks?

One reason is that maybe your friend has a large stable income, and bank expects to be able to collect from that.

Other reason is that maybe he has an assets he can borrow against, like stocks, land, home, and so on.

The sad part is that they’re going to buy the next apple gimmick anyway

I hope they don’t assemble it ‘The Verge Way’

For minecraft? The fastest one

The wording is a bit annoying.

If this is the case, it’s not annoying but straight out misleading

Only in USA: Cyclist breaks the law, and then sues state for getting a ticket.

Mr Esparza took the case to court and it was chucked out by a judge, leading to this lawsuit now hoping to stop NYPD fining cyclists over such incidents for good.

In other words, cyclist broken the law, got ticket, disputed it in court, and court decided ticket was issued correctly, so cyclist sues again. Lol

That’s not fast enough. One thing I used to use SBC for was minecraft server - and Raspberry pi level CPU is barely enough.

How good is that CPU?

I think I need to pick a “distro”, right? Based on the above, which distro may work best for me?

Noone will tell you the major differences, so I’ll do it:

Debian: So called “Stable distribution” They have twisted concept of “Stability” which is “If it’s broken it stays broken” - their libraries tend to be extremely outdated causing issues for normal users.

Ubuntu: Debian based distro. Somewhat less outdated. Had bad experience with it. Very popular for some reason. Ubuntu LTS basically follows the debian philosophy - broken stuff stays broken, only security fixes are applied.

PopOS: Debian based, but optimised for gaming. Graphics drivers are updated more often + other tweaks

Arch Linux: Power user oriented rolling distro, meaning Everything is updated to the most recent version as quickly as reasonably possible. Rolling distros are recommended if you update your hardware often. Patches tend to be huge

Manjaro: Arch based rolling distro (using it since few years myself), tuned more towards mainstream user - less terminal more GUI.

Gentoo: Compile everything from source code. EVREYTHING

Fedora: Linux by large corpo - REDhat. Well supported and sane maintenance schedule.

Now, while in Windows you get always the same user interface, in linux you can install whatever you want - systems are modular, and usually distro intaller will ask what desktop environment you want.

Two most popular ones are KDE and GNOME. I Really, really recommend KDE because it follows user experience philosophy from windows 7. Gnome reinvented the wheel, and you’ll have a bad time readjusting to it coming from windows.

Two more tips at the end:

• Almost none of linux distros mount non system drives by default at the system startup. Which is stupid as fuck, you can change it via KDE settings without editing config files or terminal (look for drives and cameras in settings)
• Remove Plymouth package. it provides pretty loading screen during system startup but on some configurations it interferes with display detection - the issue surfaces gradually over the years and noone will ever help you fix it. It’s unfixed bug since many years. Save yourself time, life and frustration

Also, if you’re looking for file explorer to open your drive and look at the files, it’s called “Dolphin” or “Nautilus”. Obviously… /s

Trivial answer is there - They raised voltage to whooping 1kV (compared to 480V in tesla chargers) - but that creates a whole bunch of new issues

Tesla chargers are already using liquid cooling to keep the charging cord from overheating. I don’t even want to know how overengineered this thing must be

In principle yes it does - in case of TCP based protocols, without forwarded ports incoming connections aren’t possible. In the context of the main Torrent protocol this means you can only connect to peers that have ports forwarded. This is largely solved by uTP protocol that uses UDP hole punching method to circumvent this.

So the sort answer is no this doesn’t matter unless you’re using very feature poor torrent client.

I don’t see that where I live - some ISPs offer port forwarding, some don’t. Some just give you IPv6 with ports unlocked manually in router config

As US citizen you’re on the hook for US income tax. No matter where you live

Concord!