Knowing how important the site is to the fandom, I’d be surprised if anyone lets it go under.

That being said, as a precaution, a PixelFed instance attached to pawb.fun and pawb.social might be nice to have.

The one way a company can avoid that is to not go publicly traded in the first place. Problem is there’s a huge a mount of incentive to go publicly traded - specifically, it’s a huge boost to cash-on-hand, which can be crucial for expanding a business - so most corporations will basically do so without batting an eyelash at it. It’s a lot slower to build a company solely from net profits and private investors. But the cost of faster growth is a loss of control of the company.

From a technological point, yes. That being said, there are some complications. The US runs double-stacked intermodal freight so clearance is a concern, first of all. It’s doable, in fact India has many electrified lines that allow for double-stacked intermodal freight, but it does add a little to the cost and effort. The second issue is, unfortunately, cost, but not because it’s outright “too expensive”. Rather, it would eat too much into the short-term quarterlies of the various publicly traded rail companies that own a vast majority of the US’s rail lines during the installation. And as publicly traded companies, even if one of the major rail companies wanted to spend the money to electrify, they would get sued by their shareholders for doing so because there’s no immediate return on profits. And the final issue? NIMBYs already hate rail as-is, they’d hate the overhead lines even more.

So, yeah, a lot of challenges to electrification unique to the US, almost all of them political in nature. It would be really nice to put in electrified rail again (late PRR and New Haven were almost fully electrified but most of that was ripped out after the Penn Central merger. Seriously, everyone likes to rag on New Haven for screwing that up but honestly the evidence all points to the New York Central’s management team being the real culprits).

Oh good. An AI search bot replaces… an AI search bot. 😒

Well, at least SearchGPT is open source. And the fact that it’s operated by a nonprofit org rather than a big corporate entity could be the kicker here, there’s no incentive to favor business partners or advertising clients. So I guess we might actually see an improvement here.

They’re tightly controlled corporate environments, but the people controlling them aren’t always smart.

This is really interesting, as it also has implications for life elsewhere in the solar system. Scientists have been debating back and forth whether life could exist in Europa’s oceans below its icy surface. Things had been leaning towards “unlikely” due to the reduced light being that far out from the sun, but if non-photosynthetic biological oxygen production is possible on Earth, it could also be possible on Europa.

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Yes

Could be something as simple as computers just being screwy sometimes. Or something as unlikely but still precedented as a bit-flip caused by an excited electron causing something important to actually be affected.

Question is, are they running the 9x branch or the NT branch?

But what about forcing the computer to do something via bootable ASM?

Doesn’t hurt that Microsoft’s official answer to “what if my computer doesn’t meet the required specs to run Windows 11 or later” is literally “switch to Linux”.

It’s always big data, isn’t it?

I’m opposed to #4 on principle. ANY action taken against an account should ALWAYS be done by a person after direct review. It doesn’t matter if it can be fixed afterwards or not, you’re still potentially subjecting people to unfair treatment and profiling. You can have it notify moderators but the moderators should be the ones actually making the decision whether to limit an account for further investigation, not the auto-mod bot.

If you implement #4 as-is, I’m just flat-out not going to stick around.

EDIT: Also, I ran into an infinite loading bug when submitting this post.

Well, I guess that’s it for Voyager 1. I doubt they even have a backup of its flight data to send back at this point. NASA wasn’t keen on keeping records on old projects like this.

To be fair, if Metaverse did integrate something like this they would definitely record telemetry data “for development purposes”.

Fair, but at that point you’re arguing a technicality that most people don’t really care about.

And if you want to argue technicalities, then I CAN give you a game that was released for the Steam Deck by YOUR definition. Aperture Desk Job. Yes, it can be played by PCs as well, but it was developed with the intent of it being a showcase of the Steam Deck’s controls. You can’t argue it “wasn’t a Steam Deck” game if your definition of whether a game was for a certain platform is based on whether it was intended for that platform.

Not going to downvote you this time because you actually explained your position. Though your tone VERY much tempted me to do so anyway.

Well, if you’re not trying to say something along the lines of “the Steamdeck plays PC games” then what are you trying to say?

Again, you’re missing the point. Yes, they are PC games. No, not all PC games work on the Steam Deck.

The point was that not every game was confirmed to work. For a PC game to work on the Steamdeck, it needs to meet two criteria:

1. Work on Linux, either natively or through Proton.

2. Have controller support and/or be playable with a touchscreen.

Not every PC game meets this criteria. Some games still don’t play well in a cross-OS runtime environment like Proton or WINE. Others are designed specifically for mouse and keyboard, or keyboard alone.

One game I can definitely say is not Steamdeck compatible is SimCity 4. The UI doesn’t really work with touch screens well, the game has no native controller support, and it originally released with SecuROM so a physical copy won’t even work on modern Windows, let alone Linux.