I WoL my second computer to turn it on, even though it’s at an arm’s reach (but I’d have to stretch a bit to reach it)

I’ve tried both wet and dry cat food. The wet food was very bad, but still relatively edible. It was also the one I expected to be good (it was one of those really expensive and premium brands). The dry food, however, tasted exactly like fried anchovies. It wasn’t bad, honestly.

Edit: I’ve also tried dog cookies. Most of them are bland, because their main ingredient is actually ash. I don’t know how healthy that is. They’re also pretty hard. However, there’s a specific kind that is actually very tasty, and I liked it. It’s way cheaper than actual human cookies, so I still buy them every once in a while, as a treat. I still don’t know if they’re super healthy to eat, but I’ve never felt sick after eating them.

Wind turbines don’t make infrasound like datacenters. While they do make some infrasound, it’s less loud than datacenters, and most impostantly, doesn’t get transmitted really far (air is pretty inefficient at transmitting infrasound).

However, datacenters are louder, and have better mechanical connection with the ground. The ground is very good at transmitting infrasound, and it can even vibrate an entire building if the structure resonates. This effect is not new, and we’ve also seen it with other industrial buildings with heavy machinery. Furthermore, due to regulations, you can’t build as close to a wind farm as you can to a datacenter.

Gamers Nexus released a parts list with better performance for cheaper. And it’s more upgradable than the Steam Machine. And it doesn’t suffer from high temps.

The sad reality is that this product is not competitive in today’s expensive market. The original leaked price range ($550-$750) would have been competitive, and a price hike to $850 would have been reasonable after the AI hardware price hikes. But Valve is a company that can make use of the economy of scale, and it shouldn’t have developed a PC that has issues and still turns out to be more expensive than a DIY PC with similar specs.

And before anyone mentions it, yes, I wanted this product to succeed. Valve has been bringing a lot of gamers to the Linux world, and that could be good for us. If the price was good, I was even thinking about buying a steam machine myself, because my system is getting old. I’m still hyped for the steam frame, but the steam machine is not it. Not at this price, at least.

This sounds a lot like suicidal empathy, a right wing ultra nationalist and racist dog whistle used to justify discrimination against minorities.

The Arch repos only host the latest version of a package, so usually you can’t install older versions of a software. There are some exceptions (like with PHP or Python, where you may require a specific version of the framework), but there’s not that many of them. You’ll see that it’s usually not a problem, as it’s still recommended to run the latest version of every software, for the security patches.

If you update your system constantly, there shouldn’t be any compatibility issues with the updates. The official repos are carefully managed so that, at any given point, every package works with every other package. If a common library is updated, all the packages that depend on it are recompiled and updated to use the newer version.

If you stop updating your system, everything that you already have installed will keep working as it was.

For a while, installing new apps without updating will work flawlessly. But after a while, the new apps will start becoming incompatible with your system, due to outdated libraries and missing dependencies. In that case, you’ll need to update the system so that everything is up to date again and it works. The package manager will prevent you from messing things up, so don’t worry that much about it.

Arch is a rolling release, so it’s designed to be constantly updated. That’s the way I recommend people use it, especially if they’re new to the distro. But if you don’t inatall new software, it’s also perfectly stable without updating (and you can also install new software without necessarily updating everything, if you know what you’re doing).

Same thing stands. I run Arch daily on a 10 year old mid-range laptop, and I used to run it on a 20 year old core 2 duo laptop.

It won’t become noticeably slower with time, that’s a Windows and MacOS thing.

Arch will update all your software to the latest version, but it will still not add anything. Updating your software can even make it faster. Of course, things like web browsers will get slower the more stuff they add, but that will be the same in any Linux distro or OS.

You can also just not update, it won’t suddenly stop working. I still recommend updating for the security patches, but if you won’t connect the machine to the internet, it’s perfectly fine to not update it.

“Let’s generate the icon and banner of the anarchist community using a hyper-centralized service created with stolen labour that makes billionaires richer”

I’m glad it doesn’t inconvenience you, but some people aren’t that lucky. Wheelchair users, for example, often need to use the ramps at the ends of crosswalks. People who park like this are inconsiderate assholes that don’t care about anyone else, and the outrage is justified.

Arch doesn’t come with the AUR “installed”. The AUR is a repository of user scripts that exists on the internet. The user chooses to download the scripts, or install an AUR helper to download them automatically. There aren’t even AUR helpers in the official Arch repos, so you need to go out of your way to install them.

Let’s not take one out of Apple’s playbook and limit what a user can do for “their owm safety” and because most people “don’t know what’s best for them”.