This was my exact journey, though I eventually landed on immutable Fedora with KDE. Zorin is a great OS but it’s in a weird space because it’s probably already too simple for anyone who knows what Linux is.

everybody needs to be on their best behavior for the next few weeks ok

I would put Duck Tails 2, but still- why are they so dang replayable??

Steamroller is a great name. I built a similar SFFPC with Bazzite a few years ago but if I was in the market I would probably choose this over the Steam Machine (as cool as it is).

Fedora has two immutable distros KDE (Kinoite) and GNOME (Silverblue) and both are excellent and very stable.

Only if you’ve never bought a game on Steam before. I don’t think I’ve paid over $10 for anything.

“I am sure this overpriced plastic trinket will fill the meaningless void in your finite life” 🤣

Shit I think I may need to go play through the Portal games again.

(HL3 tease at the end)

ALSO WHAT

When they priced the controller at $99 I immediately suspected it would be part of a bundle deal for “a $99 value!”

Also WOW that cube is so much more than just a dbrand skin. That’s amazing.

Even at double the cost of a normal console, once you factor in the cost of games it comes out ahead. And hopefully the RAMpocalypse will end eventually.

I think this is pretty clever, kind of like the old Popcorn Time app for YouTube.

ShelfMark is the go-to option now. It’s also far better than Readarr was and works seamlessly with both Prowlarr and Anna’s Archive.

I think CWA is the most robust option out there. BookLore was vibecoded and behaved in the typical weird/unexpectedly way vibecoded apps tend to. I haven’t tried the Fork of it, but CWA checks nearly all the boxes and is actively developed.

IIRC those updates were a series of bugfixes after a major update, which seems to be how they prefer to work.

Your vent was good and justified

No love lost for IBM but I still wouldn’t expect to see casually mentioned alongside Palantir.

Wow I went to fact check that claim and it’s actually no exaggeration. Here is the AP article.

Google and Amazon provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli military under “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021, when Israel first tested out its in-house AI-powered targeting systems. The IDF has used Cisco and Dell server farms or data centers. Red Hat, an independent IBM subsidiary, also has provided cloud computing technologies to the Israeli military, while Palantir Technologies, a Microsoft partner in U.S. defense contracts, has a “strategic partnership” providing AI systems to help Israel’s war efforts.

Crazy to see Palantir, Google, Microsoft mentioned alongside …Red Hat.

I have an adjacent vent and that is I hate how companies put so little effort into the UX of their mobile web pages. Privacy concerns aside, I would still prefer not to have 100 apps on my phone and just use web pages; but my bank’s web page suuuuucks and so well, I have the app.

IDK I think we’ll continue to see incremental gains for a long time, especially as normies abandon desktops/laptops entirely and the entire market shrinks. Windows will probably continue to dominate in enterprise for long past when it’s fashionable.

It’s crazy because Apple had every reason to be FAR ahead in that game.