Her other series are great. Tower and the Hive, Acorna, and the Tales of the Barque Cats. One of my favorite authors.

I haven’t had any issues yet with performance. Though I’ve been running it at 1080p and heaviest I’ve ran on it so far is Cats Quest 3.

Sure.

I have a cheap $250 AMD APU based mini pc I bought off Amazon running SteamOS. I just used the Steam Deck restore USB image to install it. I imagine you could use the Steam Machine image the same way when its available.

Forced Labor is just a euphemism for enslavement.

There’s also the No AI version, that only contains a little AI. https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

The subscription without Copilot only leaves off the extra charge for their Copilot subscription. It does not change their data harvesting tools being built into their applications.

Microsoft makes it very difficult with a constantly moving target to block the Copilot integrations from being installed and collecting your data. They are now pushing for people to use their personal subscriptions on business systems to bypass IT restrictions.

So… Snake with better graphics. neat

They are compensated with salaries, socialized medicine, discounts, and educational grants that are unavailable to non-military citizens and government workers.

They don’t deserve to be thanked just for being in the military.

Normal setup for IPv6 is to use public IPs everywhere, and use the firewall to block traffic to your internal systems.

https://desantolo.com/2021/02/ipv6-lan-network-address-translation-nat-on-opnsense/

This article has instructions for configuring NAT6 outbound in OPNSense. It makes the IPv6 work similar to IPv4. Local DHCP routed through single external IPv6 address.

D.C. is a federal district. Their National Guard is under the President’s authority, not the Mayor’s. Their Metro Police under emergencies can be federalized under the President’s authority for limited periods.

Of all time?

Galaxian - I have an antique table top arcade version my aunt gave me about 20ish years ago that I enjoy.

Civilization - Hot seat multiplayer was awesome. Pikeman as active borders for your country.

Doom - Soundtrack alone is worth the experience

Not being used as an excuse to steal massive amounts of data.

Fully open source, trained on non-stolen data, running completely locally and offline.

Would block avatars if I could, don’t want to see people’s vanity, just the words.

Microsoft Terminal supports tabs and custom profiles. It can host Azure CLI, PowerShell, CMD.exe, and Bash.
Windows ships with openssh that is usable in any of the supported cli.

I use it all the time for work to ssh into systems.

Getting it up and running was as simple as swapping my AMD RX580 for the Intel Arc A770. The drivers are open source and built into the kernel and Mesa. It picked up and started working without issues.

Its ran every game I have smoothly at max settings. I haven’t had to turn down the graphics settings on a game yet. Though to be fair, the most graphic intensive game I play is No Man’s Sky.

Only issue I encountered was when I first got it I had to tell No Man’s Sky to use the Xe Vulkan support, instead of trying to use the old Intel HD version. Since then I’ve reinstalled No Man’s Sky a few times. Newer updates properly detect the Vulkan support.

I was impressed enough with its performance that I bought a second to upgrade my wife’s computer. She has been using that system to do modeling in Blender and hasn’t had any issues with it that I’ve heard of.

I have been quite happy with the Intel Arc card. If they are still making them when I do my next upgrade I will likely get another.

For Linux I would recommend AMD or Intel GPUs. They are less hassle getting up and running.

I’m currently running an Intel Arc A770 and its been running great. Was a lot more affordable than recent AMD or Nvidia cards.

Yeah, in 2025 doing encrypted email is a painful process. Every option is a hack on top of a 43 year old protocol.

Here is a howto from Mozilla on pgp with Thunderbird. It isn’t a pleasant process.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq

Communication between the email servers is normally encrypted with TLS. The email files themselves are rarely encrypted. Most providers that do encryption of email are using local server managed encryption, so the email providers would still be able to access it.

For proper end to end protection you would want to setup PGP between you and your recipients, and encrypt the email before its sent.

No thanks, I’m good with my Analogue Pocket and Steamdeck.

Reported in Apple Maps as incorrect name. Won’t change anything, but it needed to be done.