Classy Hatter

It’s even harder to praise the actions of USA’s government.

I expect nothing more from them. Although, calling it “Temu something something” is an insult to Chinese goods.

How long will it take until they turn Minority Report into reality? “The AI said you were going to commit an act of terrorism/murder/robbery, so we’ll jail you before you cause any harm”

Good. No-one else can use it now.

As I understood it, there can be specifically crafted links in Markdown documents, which, when clicked, will download a file and then execute it.

This is the official Linux Mint installation guide: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/

Windows 11 market share went from 55% on October 2025 to 62% on January 2026. That’s an increase of 7 percentage units, not a drop of 5 percentage units.

The cloud is just the name for someone else’s Linux computer

Fixed that for you.

I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

Lots of venture capital money behind it.

It already began.

Doctorow wrote a blog post about this. It has the video and a transcription of it, so you can either watch it, read it or both.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

He also has a book on this topic, called Enshittification (I haven’t read it, yet). I believe this talk was part of his book tour for the book. You can buy it DRM-free from his webpage: https://craphound.com/shop/

Are you asking them to release an… Orange Box?

It is indeed 17:00 UTC. Europe is still using summer time, so it’s +1 for each European time zone. UK’s current time zone is British Summer Time which is UTC+1.

The upcoming macOS Tahoe still supports some Intel Macs from 2019.

Arch’s version number is so large, it cannot be shown.

E: Good thing I didn’t put any money into this, as it seems I was wrong about this study.

I am willing to bet that this study is one of the many that interpret the so called J-curve as meaning “moderate use is healthy”. These studies fail to take in consideration that some/many of those who don’t use alcohol at all or use very little, have some kind of medical condition that prevents them from consuming alcohol, but also increases their risk of death. This group of people skews the data to look like a J-curve. Handle this group correctly in the data and you get a straight line.

Meditation is one way to lower stress. 5 minutes a day is better than nothing, and it costs €0.00 / second and has no negative side effects.

I played WOW under Linux since open beta of WOW 1.0 until the first expansion, after which I quit it. The performance probably wasn’t on bar with Windows, but besides some problems after some of the patches, the stability was rock solid even in 25-man raids.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/ has some statistics from the Steam Survey. Somewhat interesting bit is that if you only take users who use English as the language in Steam, the Linux market share is 6.3%.

Hackintosh is a thing (or at least used to be), but it’s against the EULA.

Pretty much this. If you have bought games from GOG or Epic, you can use Heroic Launcher to install and play them.

There has been some talking that Microsoft might remove third-party applications, like anti-cheats, away from the kernel. If that happens some day, it would probably help Linux gamers with some of those multiplayer games. But, there are already many multiplayer games that work just fine on Linux.