You should explain that to the few Steam games I have that work just fine on Mint, right out of the box.

It’s hit or miss and depends on the game, and OP didn’t really give us much detail. There’s just no absolutes is ultimately the lesson to learn, which is why a dual boot option might suit them best.

You can always do a dual boot. I’ve had a dual boot Linux Mint and Win 11 for maybe 18 months and I’m finally getting around to purging Windows out for good. The Mint installer sets it all up shockingly easily. I ended up so rarely using Windows that at this point I would rather have the space back.

Admittedly, I do very little coding or gaming, so YMMV, but I’m also basically trashing PS Elements and MS Office Home because I know GIMP and LibreOffice do the job anyway. It was that $250 that kept me holding on for this long.

The eternal metric of a good show hitting a point in season 3 or 4 where every episode opens 20 more questions than it answers, making me wonder if its going to Do a Lost on me and just fall apart. (ahem-Yellowjackets&Severance-ahem)

Yeah, rushed is part of it as well for a full 120+min movie.

And, I should say, I also loved the movie and was disappointed to see mostly negative reviews afterward, but I get it. I initially loved the fact that 87North, the director’s own production company, is both listed in the opening credits and is the company making the movie in the movie. But as the final (contrived to look awesome, which is the point, not the actual plot points) moments wrap up, it felt like it was as much an industry commercial for the director’s own production company as it was a movie just being a movie. Maybe that’s a selling feature and I overthought it, but it sort of took me out of it.

The Fall Guy. The show had a very simple premise (stunt crew moonlights as bounty hunters) that really couldn’t hold up after multiple seasons. The movie just floundered trying to do too much, and ended up far too inside baseball for normal viewers to really identify with.

I love this. I hadn’t ever considered something like Tor and added friction as dividing the wheat from the chaff readers.

The problem with this period in time is that it’s awash in low effort shit. This is like placing your own book of philosophy in the library.

Because it’s so much better when they’re charismatic assholes?

An app where all you end up recording is “Bro! Bro! Bro! Broseeeeph! Let’s gooooooo, Bro!”

Vibecoding games about cats in HTML. All retro style, easy to play type stuff.

Up to 5 so far.

It’s been a topic of conferences, books, podcasts, and new laws for almost a decade. They have it all in plain sight. Lol, made it up.

Curtis Yarvin has his Butterfly Revolution, which Thiel is all in about. Therefore Musk as well. Of the five pillars of Yarvin’s guide to authoritarianism, the EO about forcing university accreditation to heel is the last one needed to hit them all. Well documented, and the Nerd Reich had a post recently about how Yarvin is mad at how incompetent Trump and Musk are because they’re literally not gasing people to death by now.

A guy named Balaji wrote a book called the Network State that outlines the government that should replace democraticly electing people. Also a podcast, also conferences with folks like the creator of Etherium backing it. He’s been pushing countries to recognize DAOs as legal entities. Wyoming is on board, and Palau and the Marshall Islands have also been receptive as nation level test cases. Network city-states are in the mix as well.

This is the stuff that makes Project 2025 look like quaint kids’ games. However, where they both agree is the idea of repealing the social gains of the 20th century. Civil rights, women’s rights, gone. The goal is techno-fascist fifedoms built around crypto and AI, like Thiel’s investment in Praxis, where broligarchs don’t just have money, they control the force and violence of the state, which is something that money can’t just buy.

Y’all, one of the far-reaching Broligarchy ideas they’re hoping emerges from the ashes of the United States is the DAO, decentralized autonomous organization.

Every action in the block chain. They facilitate, and are predicated on, the idea of treating every aspect of life as a social network. Everything you do is recorded. So daily life ends up incentived toward constant, persistent, corralled engagement. The Network State is the term.

The difference is that you can’t build a society on the mechanics of the tobacco industry. But you can on a human reaction industry.

That’s exactly the problem.

However, o4 is actually “o4 mini-high” while o3 is now just o3 now. The full release, no “mini” or other limitations. At this point o3 in its full form is better than a limited o4.

But, none of that matters while Claude 3.7 exists.

Yeah, I think that workarounds with o3 is where we’re at until Altman figures out that just saying the latest oX mini high is “great at coding” is bad marketing when it can’t accomplish the task.

Can confirm. o4 seems objectively far worse at coding than o3, which wasn’t super great to begin with. It latches on to a hallucination before anything else and rides it until the wheels come off.

OK, well, when that happens you let me know. This is honestly such an unlikely thing.

Mutually assured destruction.

The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated. Which is why there’s a nice diplomatic line at Dulles, and no CBP officer would mess with a diplomatic passport holder from any county.

But hey, anything’s possible anymore.

Yes, and the Vienna Convention is what outlines that Swiss or any other country’s diplomatic officials don’t have to do that with work devices.

The concern is that even encrypted communicatons, intercepted via the heavily Chinese-tapped US telecommunications company networks, can be used to gain access to other systems. Unencrypted data, sure, that’s a legit concern. China can likely read every SMS sent to any US phone number and no one seems to care at all. Things like downgrade attacks, other man-in-the-middle attacks, and skimming SMS 2FA codes are likely possible with poorly defended systems.

If the data it’s encrypted, then it’s more about the paranoia that China is collecting everything and planning to decrypt later with quantum processors. Not exactly a huge and urgent worry, but one day they will crack how to decrypt what they collect and will have a record of everything said online.

Not exactly a huge surprise as Switzerland is not part of the EU. I bet they don’t follow India or Australia’s government policies either! Such savages.

Switzerland has no shortage of cyber professionals, so either hardened and encrypted devices, or no one traveling with direct access to confidential data via their devices, likely both, is the obvious situation here.

Thank you for the only based take.

IP law is so fractured that individual US states have different laws that can have international implications. It’s a massive hodgepodge that need to be aligned and nationalized.