This idea keeps coming up and while it sounds great it has the slight problem that states doing pay taxes, people do. Basically your suggestion is then that people living in blue states should stop paying their taxes. Now, the majority of those taxes are collected for them by the companies they work for. You can reduce (maybe eliminate I’m not actually sure if you can opt into 0% withholding) how much is collected by your employer by filing out a new W-4 form, if they let you. But even setting that aside there’s the problem that none of that will matter in the slightest when the IRS comes for you with an arrest warrant for unpaid taxes. Or they might just start garnishing your wages, I’m honestly not 100% sure how that would play out. I just know that number 1 rule is you don’t fuck with the IRS.

That would be incredibly unlikely. As a general rule the US military does not use foreign made gear, particularly anything from China. More likely it’s human error, someone fucked up the maintenance.

It’s very popular to the point where multiple other distros are starting to offer its patched kernel on their distro. It’s very focused on gaming performance, particularly around Steam and Proton.

Yeah that should be completely fine then. Try dual boot, if you don’t have any issues you can always go 100% Linux at some point in the future and in the meantime the old Windows partition can provide some amount of reassurance if something does go wrong.

Is it a newer Nvidia GPU? If so I believe it pretty much works the same these days. It was mostly the older Nvidia GPUs that seemed to have a lot of problems.

So the standard setup these days. The regulation won’t be used to actually regulate the industry but instead will be used to set up a series of roadblocks that protect the major incumbent players from any smaller competition.

Cachyos seems like the general recommendation. Haven’t used it myself, but I’ve used its kernel so I guess that counts for something.

They don’t even know how to use a gamepad nevermind a keyboard and mouse. If it doesn’t have a touchscreen and big shiny icons it’s too complicated for them. One step closer to Idiocracy.

I wonder if this is a single cell bacteria in the process of becoming a virus? This could be an important evolutionary link to how viruses come about.

So I looked it up and title 10 is all the rules that govern the US armed forces. The president of the United States can trivially be shown to not have plenary authority by the simple fact that the constitution exists. That is in fact the entire point of the constitution, it ensures nobody in the United States has plenary authority. Even title 10 disproves that as it sets out the rules that US armed forces must operate under.

Seems like a lot of the early LTT crew were chaffing a bit under the LTT contract for a variety of reasons and opted to leave and start their own channels. I hope most of them succeed because honestly I always liked the other hosts on LTT far more than Linus who usually came off as more comic relief than actual tech news. As the old technical crew left I’ve found myself watching Linus Drop Tips very rarely.

Should start a crowd funding campaign to make an even bigger version out of something hard to damage like steel. Make it a regularly scheduled display throughout his entire term.

And unfortunately this will change absolutely nothing. Trump and his administration will just ignore it like everything else and nobody is willing to take the steps that would be necessary to actually enforce anything like throwing anyone who ignores these orders in jail up to and including Trump himself.

They have not even begun to dark pattern. Be prepared for free mobile game levels of bullshit in $80 “premium” releases. “Micro” transactions on literally everything. Ads crammed into every available inch of screen realestate including unskippable ads that have to be watched in order to use certain game features. Egregious time gates that you have to pay to skip. Multi-layered battle passes and season passes. Limited time bundles and skins. Lootboxes. Rigged match making that makes sure to pair under geared free players with a player who recently purchased a bunch of OP equipment (in order to allow them to easily stomp a bunch of people with their shiny new gear). Pre-release exclusive items that are locked behind a confusing array of premium editions that only the most expensive $200+ bundle will include everything. Massive chunks of what should be basic functionality sliced off and put into day 1 “DLC”. Intrusive kernel level anti-cheat that somehow doesn’t actually stop cheaters but does conveniently conflict with their competitors games. And the cherry on top, everything is a live service game where anything that under performs their arbitrary sales metrics gets axed in under a year, and even the successful games get shut down after a couple years so they can launch essentially the same game again as a sequel.

And all of this will of course be vibe coded and use AI art assets so it will crash constantly and when it actually does run it will stutter and lag on anything less than Nvidias latest $4000 GPU even with DLSS on and cranked to the maximum.

Fully expecting chip makers to just manufacture a bunch of cheap garbage here that eventually ends up in a landfill in order to avoid the tariffs on their expensive chips. With a 100% tariff and prices per-chip in the $300+ range if they can make a chip for less than $300 even if they immediately chuck it in the garbage they’re saving money. Imagine a whole tray of cheap 500nm chips that are full of defects because they were made with wafers that failed QA. They manufacture them, document that they exist, dump them in a bin in a warehouse, then just throw the bin away in a year as unsold inventory and write it off as a business loss.

It’s a problem anywhere Rupert Murdoch runs a media company, so the UK also. There’s even a very small minority of Canada that’s suffering from the same delusion. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

Reported view counts are also important for sponsorships as sponsored video payouts are often tied to hitting specific view counts, and even getting sponsorships and their rates are also typically conditional on view counts. So yes, even though it doesn’t directly impact ad revenue it still directly impacts total channel revenue for anyone that accepts sponsorships.

All that said, Google caused this entire mess by bundling their view counting in with their telemetry. If they just reported the raw download stats for the streams instead of trying to determine every last detail of who is watching the video (for all that juicy advertising data) this problem wouldn’t have happened in the first place.

Basically Youtube instead of counting views via actual requests for the videos instead uses a separate call that essentially says “hey, someone watched this video”. All the ad blockers rather than use a hard coded list of URLs to block which would quickly go stale instead use one of a couple different 3rd party lists the most popular of which is EasyList. EasyList decided to block the URL that youtube uses to register views on the principal that it was a privacy violation because it not only registers “hey someone watched this” but also captures exactly who watched it which allows Google to track your viewing habits.

Literally the only reason old school gamers play on CRTs is because old games were designed for the blurry low resolution displays they provided and so look kind of bad on modern crisp displays. You could just smear vasoline on a modern LCD and get roughly the same effect, but using a CRT is less messy.

It’s also utter garbage. We abandoned CRTs because they sucked. They’re heavy, waste tons of space, guzzle power, and have terrible resolution. Even the best CRT ever made is absolutely destroyed by the worst of modern LCDs. The only advantage you could possibly come up with is that in an emergency you could beat someone to death with a CRT. Well, that and the resolution was so garbage they had a natural form of antialiasing, but that’s a really optimistic way of saying they were blurry as shit.