Who would?

An idiot would.

That said, if I can get this gadget, hook it up at home, and look-up the results on WebMD, I might do it.

I’m aware of the WebMD effect, but I’m not immune to it.

Also, Gimli is a Corgi and I love their owners so much for this.

We all love their owners, now. That is delightful.

wonder if my phone carrier would be ok if i show up with a phone with a new OS they haven’t heard about

For what one data point is worth, I do it to my phone carrier all the time.

Hopefully they have people skills.

Yes. For the job interviews they’re doing, to kivk this stupid employer out of their lives.

Is there a good way to figure out what games do and don’t work on Linux beyond just playing them?

I finally bought a SteamDeck to address this. Now I just use the “SteamDeck Verified” badge on Steam.

It is worth adding that I have found Valve to be very conservative with giving out “playable” and “verified” bages. (I have had to wait for a Nintendo Switch game to get a required emergency patch more times than I have had any issue with a “SteamDeck Verified” game on SteamDeck.)

With “Playable” your mileage may vary. A large number of “SteamDeck Playable” games would be fine on Linux Desktop, but are awkward on the SteamDeck smaller screen and need a hunch of controller mapping done.

But I happily play many games on my SteamDeck that are only badged as “playable”.

I guess my recommendation is what I did:

1. buy a SteamDeck
2. Try various games I care about on the SteamDeck
3. Satisfied, throw out my last copy of Windows
4. Mostly forget that desktop gaming is a thing, because I’m busy and my SteamDeck let’s me play on the go and from my recliner.
5. …?..
6. Declare this the year of the Linux Desktop Gaming to my friends.

Haha. But this is funny, but also some ableist bullshit.

Not feeling daily agony can be habit forming, but it doesn’t make someone into a rastafarian. It would be cool if it did. But it doesn’t.

Just doing my part to fight misinformemetion.

I used to override that setting.

I…uh…learned some uses for it.

They just get endless redirects now.

Beautiful. The thought of all those robots.txt ignoring theft bots running in circles made me smile. Thank you.

At lest my speling is gue enuf too write “Facebook is shit”.

edit, actually, it might have been on the back…it’s been forever since I touched one

It was along the right side. I remember it helped to sit a little bit to the right, or angle the keyboard a bit, when playing a two player game, so that the leftmost player’s joystick cord would reach.

TURBO!!!

I can also use cartridges!

Well, I could use cartridges…before I loaded a custom ROM via the cartridge slot, and it does almost everything faster, but now I cannot function without it.

And I have the option to spin cotton off-road on rugged terrain…so there’s that…

…and then we can grind all the code ever created by human kind into a fine paste, and write a clever algorithm to regurgitate it as a squishy code slurry in response to questions about problems that the standard libraries already solved.

I pass the time ignoring the dangerous substance I’m handling untrained by thinking about how we stopped employing a specialists so that someone’s quarterly profits could go up a bit more.

CLI first here too, for the same reason.

I’m not above using an editor plugin if it’s simple and reliable and right there waiting, like VSCodium.

The Windows team has been looking for ways to remove the deeper hooks ever since the CrowdStrike outage last year.

Here’s Creating a bootable Linux USB stick

And

Debian guide to Surface Laptop

Oh, the data center? Yes. That, too.

I’ve had a “Harfam” Day, today. Could be worse.