I've seen some reports that it works with Windows too, although the syntax for setting it is slightly different. I'm guessing it was intended as an exception for the Steam Deck as offline mode not working on a handheld is more of an issue than a desktop.

I understand that trucks and SUVs are more dangerous to pedestrians due to increases in hood height and reduction in curvature (along with reduced visibility). Is this not correct?

As someone who already has a Deck, I'm more keen on this. The Index was very expensive and only had a limited run. Mind you, the Index is expensive in general and I hope they aim for Quest level prices this time around.

I'm not holding my breath but hopefully it increases youth turnout of women. Which is a group that is much more progressive than young men, but both have poor turnout compared to older people.

This is regarding the NZ government's plan to introduce higher speed limits. Unsurprisingly, the conservative party is in power at the moment.

The game can be played offline on the Steam Deck. You might also do the same on desktop Linux with:

steamdeck=1 %command% in the launch options for the game.

Although I haven't tested it myself, and reports are mixed.

paperless-ngx, after having to turn my apartment upside down to find some paper documents.

I’m honestly not sure how I feel about that reasoning.

It's the drug dealers' defense. Which has also been used for justifying the continued export of coal.

Probably about this British woman who got a Trump face tattoo.

Developed countries typically have lower birth rates than undeveloped countries.

That is more to do with education and women's liberation (including contraception), than finances. Which I suspect is still the predominant reason that birth rates are dropping, with finances just a secondary reason.

The NoDerivatives part is concerning. Is he trying to prevent forks?

I'm not sure how this helps Trump. He's not some upstart like in 2016 where people didn't know that much about him and the publicity benefited him. All this is doing is solidifying the racist vote, which he already had locked in. The increasing craziness and utter stupidity is going to continue to peel off the slightly more reasonable, and the Democrats can sit back and let the Republicans tear themselves apart.

Unsurprisingly, a former candidate for the Liberal (conservative) party: https://web.archive.org/web/20220518064350/https://cityofsydneyliberals.webflow.io/candidate/sam-danieli

Perhaps he was too crazy even for them.

and a French study which found that scalp hair tends to whorl in a clockwise direction, though less so in the southern hemisphere.

We better get the preeminent scientist, Bart Simpson, to actually confirm this.

Online scam artists tend to do it, along with random emphasis. It just makes the person using it seem illiterate to me, but we're not the target market.

Think dick pills, pick up artists, conspiracy theorists, and so on.

We've got hearsay and conjecture. Those are "kinds" of evidence.

I only learned to touch type properly because I was bored one summer and went cold turkey and learned Colemak. Before that, I had this weird pseudo touch typing technique with some keys being touch typed and others not, and because of the muscle memory, it was difficult to change.

Batteries are likely to degrade over time, meaning you’ll eventually end up with a worthless ear bud on the left or right and the only solution will be to throw them out. These things are often pretty bad scoring on repairability metrics, and I can’t even blame the companies producing them here because they’re so small.

I'm hoping these start getting recycled for their batteries, like the EU has plans to do.

Anyway, I feel full size wireless headphones are somewhat less problematic as they have bigger batteries, and you can always fall back to wired use (in most cases). But the proprietary app concerns are definitely valid.

An e-bike might be a better option if you have many hills and are carrying a lot of weight, if not a proper e-cargo bike. But for the former you need to be careful about how adaptable it is to racks and fenders etc, since some are not great.

I don't want to look like a weirdo! I'll just go with the muumuu Trump cape.

if you aren’t American you can agitate and tell people “don’t vote, voting for the lesser evil means you end up with slightly less evil and that’s bad, instead you should not vote or ignore mathematics existing and vote third party which is a fancy way of not voting” and then suffer no consequences.

The entire planet suffers the consequences when Trump undoes all climate action and destabilises the world.

Userbenchmark have a long running grudge against AMD. I'm not sure why, but they therefore aren't a trustworthy source.

The point is to harm people that have less power than you do. There's a whole political ideology based around that idea.

A major improvement already happened in 5.2+ but few devices support it yet (LE Audio with LC3 codec).

LDAC is a very inefficient codec, and isn't lossless even at its highest bitrate. But they are all close to perceptually lossless even at relatively low bitrates so it's a much of muchness.

Someone among Linda Reynolds’ advisors should have had the courage to tell her that persisting with this defamation trial, especially in the wake of the Bruce Lehrmann trial, is really shitty optics.

She seems to have the hubris of Lehrmann, as Christrian Porter had before them. Something about being in the Liberal party makes you believe that normal rules don't apply.

You can also connect rural towns by cycling routes. Some parts of Australia are doing this by adding cycling tracks to long-abandoned rail links (would be nice if some of these were used as rail again but that's another story). Yes, not everyone is going to be willing and able to use these but it's great for tourism, and even getting a small amount of people out of their cars now and then is a win.

The characters were just 2D sprites from what I recall. And the isometric camera kind of gave it a 2D feel even if it wasn't actually 2D.

Anyway, hopefully this isn't a Switch exclusive as that would be lame.

When conservatives say "fiscal responsibility" they mean cutting social spending so they can inflict as much harm on poor people as possible. If you look at everything they say through that lens, it all makes sense.

A couple of things:

• Biden was still the candidate, and a lot of young people were angry with him at the time
• Younger people are less likely to identify or register with any party (but will still likely vote in one particular direction). So focusing on the results by party identification isn't that useful.

No official Linux support, which means no Steam Deck support as well. Yes, there's Legendary but I shouldn't have to jump through those hoops.

They’re not going to be defended by the soy boys who want to feed the monsters.

He really is just the typical, always online, alt-right loser. Same as Steven Cheung accusing people of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" during the ongoing Arlington scandal.

Beyond moderation, Phoronix is a case study in why downvotes are a good thing. Those idiots going on dumb tangents would continue, while the rest of us can read the actual worthwhile comments (which does happen, given AMD employees and the like comment there sometimes).

they have to de-MAGA the whole party, then they’ll be in good shape.

Hopefully not because conservatism itself is a morally and intellectually bankrupt position. So I'd be much happier if they burn themselves to the ground, and/or conservatism becomes unpalatable to the vast majority.

nixos-anywhere also works well for this use case.

He may be a liar, an idiot, a fascist, a weirdo, but he is NOT a porn star!

Good, but I wish they'd stop pandering to conservatives in the first place, and now they'll get the whole "flip-flopper" routine from the press.

Reminds me of this Simpsons bit. But yeah, a lot of well off people (even those that are well meaning) are just completely out of touch on how many people actually live.

Ooh can't forget the mints!

This view only works in a world where the right and left have a common view of reality and a common agreement on what the outcome should be, they just disagree on how to get there.

Which is why being centre-left or centre-right makes logical sense, since the positions and policies within those halves are consistent with their perception of reality and desired outcomes. And being unbiased about which position to pick within those ideologies is perfectly reasonable.

But being a centrist between the left and right doesn't make sense, as the view of reality and goals is entirely distinct. There's no middle ground between "cutting social services for the poor because you believe poor people deserve to be poor, and that hierarchical societies are inherently right", and that "we should increase social spending to help those that are less fortunate because an equal society is inherently just".