Can say from experience, its a lot smoother while docked. That said, performance in handheld mode isn’t problematic, it’s just (unsurprisingly) less smooth.

Yes and no. Depending on your client I believe you can tweak the settings to avoid slow seeders if others are available (especially if you have a set max connections per torrent)

Of course some people go too far. I think a lot of folks on here grossly overestimate / overstate their threat model, but I think the discussions are good for the limited few who really do need to cover their asses.

Me personally, I hate the idea of companies bidding for my attention without my consent, so I try and make it as hard as possible for them to get it. This just so happens to overlap nicely with the goals of the privacy community much of the time.

I think SD card failure rates are way overblown if you’re buying from reputable manufacturers (Sandisk, Samsung). I’m sure they do occasionally fail, but I’ve never experienced one.

You’re right, for really intensive tasks the costs can climb, but I see people asking for ideas for what to do with a junk laptop and the top suggestion is always something like pi-hole or a bookmark manager that could run on a potato.

Like with most things in life, it depends.

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/sound-speed-solids-d_713.html

Can’t sound transfer through the casing even if it’s not vibrating air in the process?

Laptop performance when closed is quite variable, but depending on where you live, each 10W of idle consumption 24/7/365 could cost you somewhere around $20/yr (assumes @$0.20/kWh, YMMV). This isn’t overwhelming on it’s own, but it is “cost difference between a junked laptop and a Raspberry Pi” kinda money.

Should be FMAGA

They’re always good for a sequel

Probably wouldn’t hold my breath for a third one though.

Ooh kinky, I like it.

The formatting on my PhD dissertation was flawless. Fonts, colors, layout, immaculate.

Sure, I never finished it, but the 3 months I spent dialing in every setting in every buried menu of MS Word was time well spent.

Next stop, spyware!

Blasphemy.

Not everyone wants to play a game that relies on responding to cues.

Overuse of one mechanic can make it unappealing.

I feel the same about games that rely on reactions during cutscenes or climbing. On the one hand having to be on edge all the time is annoying, but on the other, the absence of interaction can hamper suspense.

For example, I’ve been playing Horizon Forbidden West lately - There’s a lot of climbing, and the devs love to throw a mid-climb “post you’re hanging on starts to fall” gag, but with no reaction mechanic, it’s pretty much always harmless and kinda feels “why bother”

Several people, including children, suffered “health complaints, such as dizziness” after eating sweets from three 1kg packs

I’d provably be dizzy too if I’d just eaten 3kg of sweets.

There’s a reason why I never use Bing

Instead of Firefox we need hundreds of stripped down browsers some first year CS students cobbled together in their basement for browsing the web.

Or something like that, I didn’t quite follow either.

“By last year we technically meant there were 25 days last year in which that wasn’t the official conclusion of the ICJ”

Yep.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1227078791/icj-israel-genocide-gaza-palestinians-south-africa

Just built a new PC literally this weekend. WiFi mouse and Bluetooth drivers did not work out of the box. I had to spend hours searching through what little info exists out there tangentially related to my problem to find:

WiFi drivers were fixed in kernel 6.10, which fortunately Mint let’s you upgrade to 6.11 at this time with relative ease.

Bluetooth drivers do not appear to have been fixed, but I might have a shot if I switch over to a rolling release distro and relearn everything I’m used to from using Debian-based distros for years. Dongle is on order, but I don’t love having to have 2 bluetooth devices.

It’s unclear if mouse drivers have been fixed in the kernel, but I was able to find a nice set of drivers/controller on github which fixed some mouse problems but only if i used their experimental branch and it did not work with my wireless adapter. Very fortunately I had an old wireless adapter from a mouse from the same brand that was able to close the loop, but that was just dumb luck.

By EOD today I should have everything I want working, but it wasn’t “30s” of searching - to your point, 60-70% of problems may be solvable that way, but having 1/3 of your problems require technical expertise is not going to bring Linux out of the hobbyist domain.

Note: this is not a complaint against Linux, just a statement of fact. These things have gotten a lot better over the years, and things get easier to find as the community grows and these struggles get discussed more openly, but there’s still lots of challenges out there that take more than a 30s search.