Well, mac was doing the "you aren't allowed to upgrade the OS on this hardware. Please buy new hardware. thx" thing WAY before Microsoft. And since apple hardware tends to be... not cheap, there's probably more than a few tech literates under the age of 65 that simply told apple to fuck themselves thrown in. I personally know a few (hell, I'd probably be one if the power supply in my last mac didn't die)

1:) Install one of the 50 Arch distros with plasma as the DE
2:) Have Steam launch on start-up
3:) In Steam prefs, check "launch in 'big picture' mode"

Viola! You just made a diy steamOS that's identical to the actual steamOS

Commonly known as 'ropers'. The practice really took off with faro (since faro is so easy to fix), but yeah, probably existed on a less wide-spread level long before that.

Yeah, esoteric situations like blocking alphabet's own ads.

That's the entire rub. Google wants you to block ads. All of them, except theirs. I think there's a word for that.

Came here to post "what mac user would use notepad++ over bbedit???"

Never lose your sense of humor, Tim

Yeah, I drove a (pretty short) burn-and-turn route, and a 500 mile range may have juuuuussst made it. AND if you read the article, that 500 miles battery is a special option. The standard is 325, which is just completely worthless

I mean, if you search "CachyOS" on wikipedia, it redirects to Arch. So now were saying distros based on another distro are completely different distros? Oy vey... It's going to become like techno where if you take a drum and bass song and add or subtract a hi-hat hit, it's suddenly this completely other genre of techno that's has nothing to do with the genre it's derived from.

The first one? In 2011. I think he got his third (and final) 2011 pizza box in like 2016-17. Just a terrible design with cheap parts. But it's a 'budget' model, right?? What do you expect? (Except you could get a lenovo with a smaller form, more ports, similar--if not better--specs since apple ran the same specs for 10 years, for $200 less. I got one in 2016 or so, fits in my back pocket and still runs. The power brick shit the bed in '21 or so, but I got a new one for $30)

I worked for a guy who was firmly a 'mac person'. He bought a 2011 'pizza-box' mini, and in three years the power supply died. Normally not a big deal, except the power supply was soldered to the motherboard and the whole thing needed to be thrown out. He bought exactly the same mini at exactly the same price three years later. This one lasted two years before the power supply fried, and again, it was donated to the dumpster. He then bought exactly the same mini at exactly the same price now five years later (after two had failed in the dumbest manner possible). I got another job, but an inside source told me that one made it a little over three years before... well, you know. Thankfully, Apple had finally introduced a new mini by this point, saving him from buying the same model at the same price a fourth time. Unsurprisingly, the new model has it's power supply soldered to the motherboard...

The moral I learned? 'Mac people' don't give a shit and apple knows it

...existence consists of "get as much attention/validation as possible at all times", modern philosophers are forced to bark up some pretty weird trees in order to make their nut.

I'll chalk this up as one of them.

While there are very definite law about cars riding down the sidewalk and striking pedestrians, unfortunately, not so much for e-bikes.
As a pedestrians who worked on a college campus last year, I feel secure in declaring: FUCK E-BIKES

The gig was about 9-10 weeks long, which puts me at an average of being struck once per week. Ranging from torn-clothing scrapes, to full-on linebacker hits onto concrete.
Furthermore, I was privy to the scene when the students left for summer. Dead e-bikes ditched in the middle of the sidewalk everywhere. In the middle of crosswalks! Who cares? If they want one for the fall, they'll just throw $300 more on mom and pop's credit card.

So much better for the environment than public transpo...

Yeah, I've never bought into the "uh... I'm way to old to be doing anything like that" when they're 42. I'm ten years older than that and still cook part-time on the weekends (and if all else fails, I'll move to full-time). I do 200 covers a shift minimum, and can keep pace with dudes half my age without a problem.

You're supposed to be highly-skilled, college-educated, big-brained, white-collar people. Are you telling me the concept of working smart rather than hard is beyond your grasp?

While Steam Decks keep selling, the number will keep increasing. Just saying.

Bored out of their skulls. "Maybe I'll try to run that linux thing on dad's old laptop and see if I can play CoD on it"

There's been an uptick every December for the past few years, and usually sinks again in January.