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A month of Mullvad is $5. Even without a 30-day return policy (which, as others have pointed out, they have), it's not exactly break the bank kind of experiment money.

"Traditional" depends on where you're from. If OP's family is from the US South, they probably consider traditional chili to be chili con carne.

I’m on fedora 41 and gaming is almost perfect on it, the final hurdles are some VRR

Variable Refresh Rate - synchronizing your monitor's refresh rate with your computer's output, yielding a potentially smoother image and, for portable gamers, better battery life. This is a key feature of "Freesync" monitors, etc.

refinements and HDR.

High Dynamic Range - increase in the variability of light levels achievable in a scene, allowing monitors to better approach the dynamic light levels one would experience IRL (In Real Life). This is a key feature of most new displays, especially higher-end OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diodes, a type of display technology where pixels are individually lit)

These are supposedly coming in f42

Fedora 42 - the 42ndiest version of Fedora.

so I’d rather not wait god knows how long on Debian for these features to show up. However once the features arrive and I run into issues with F42,

Fedora 42 - the 42ndiest version of Fedora.

I’ll consider Deb.

Not an acronym, but abbreviation for Debian. Or perhaps OP lives in a Hallmark movie and Deb is the girl who has always been by their side, but they've never considered as a romantic partner... Until now...

I think you missed the entire premise of the article you linked - the "stealer logs" mean someone logged into your account on a system that had been breached (infected with malware), and the "stealer" "logged" those credentials.

Also, SteamDB and Steam are two very different things. SteamDB is an independent third party offering that just tracks Steam data via their API.

It makes sense, he clearly worked ~8000x harder than I did. For each hour I limped through labor on my job that absolute unit was doing the equivalent of a year's worth of work with no breaks or sleep.

Oh wait, no he didn't, fuck that rich asshole.

Ehh, I mean if you were gonna buy it from CVS/Walgreen's, they aren't exactly an altruistic alternative...

I agree, best to avoid the wealthy oligarchs, but sometimes you need medicated allergy eye drops and Bob's Corner Store doesn't have them.

But the XKCD mentions kWh/day specifically, in theory the times can cancel out, leaving you with kW

But instantaneous and average kW are very different, and it would take more time to describe that distinction than to use kWh/day.

The one employee in the entire store is busy at checkout. I'm just gonna order it on Amazon.

Ehh, I think it'll be a looong time before machine learning can make meaningful character interactions.

It may be able to make maps faster, slightly better versions of something like No Man's Sky or Minecraft (both already sporting functionally "infinite" procedural generation), or fill a city like Cyberpunk 2077's with slightly less mindless wandering NPCs, but I don't think it'll help make story-based RPGs bigger in a useful way

The NPCs that stand out in an RPG do so because they typically have a well-crafted, and finite, story arch which is incredibly difficult to do with machine learning and trying to make things more procedurally generated.

Except I just uninstalled Mint's default Firefox because whatever additional theming they did to my boy fucked up the right click context menu. FF is now flatpak.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/12/palisades-fire-origin-new-years-eve-fire/

Okay, now what do we do with this information?

How is PoE2? And have they given any indication how long it'll be in "Early Access"?