Agreed, it’s really unbelievable. My mom bought an Avalon limited new in 08 and it is now my sister’s. >400k miles and nothing but regular maintenance and some rodent repair. They still get >30mpg if they take it easy on the highway too.

I think this is the right answer.

If the drive isn’t ext4 formatted, steam os won’t automatically mount.

Here’s a tool that seems to be able to do it for any drive: https://github.com/scawp/Steam-Deck.Mount-External-Drive

There were decorations for sale at Costco in California in late August. Decorative gourd season decorations hadn’t even shown up yet.

I saw this 11-12 years ago and it was amazing!

Sadly it has ended where I saw it in Minnesota.

Definitely recommend it if you can find a production near you!

Absolutely.

This irony, however, is delicious.

And here’s a link to a local source:

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11/13/80324388/harrell-concedes-the-mayors-race-and-wilson-takes-her-victory-lap

Public radio said 400 pages of Alan Dershowitz’s autobiography was included in the dump. It actually made me laugh out loud in traffic. Guess he can’t make money on that anymore. Maybe he can sue the Republicans.

For sure.

I am excited to see more arm-based Linux devices for consumers. And the Snapdragon-based VR is exciting on that front.

It definitely won’t change anything for tomorrow or next year, but it does make me hopeful that better support is in the relatively near future.

It’s beautiful!

Missed opportunity for jazz.

I run Bazzite and Garuda (with the cachyos kernel). Only the Garuda box is Nvidia and has been great since kde+Wayland+Nvidia stabilized a year or so ago.

I think any of them (including cachyos) is a good choice. Optimization is diminishing returns, so I’d be looking for a distro with the default settings and tools I like as a much higher priority.

For example, I like Garuda’s btrfs with automatic checkpoints on upgrade so I can just send a garuda update (which is pacman Syu with bells and whistles) and almost ignore the output even when I get lazy and don’t update for a month. Don’t take this as a recommendation to ignore updates on an arch-based distro. There will eventually be consequences.

With bazzite, updates really are in the same class because of the immutable base. But I’m also deep into containers and have no issue with the ergonomics of layering and management, which are improving, but definitely not very newbie friendly.

Anyway, give them test drives. You’d be surprised how much changing a package manager can impact your ability to do things for a while if you aren’t familiar.

Companies lay people off when the stock doesn’t grow the right way, even when they’re highly profitable.

The Jack Welch playbook has fucked the concept of business success so hard we can’t even recognize what a huge pile of shit it has become. It needs a reset.

Just from the top of my head:

• Permanent tax on corporations that layoff people until they rehire to the same level.
• An exise tax on AI use by businesses.

Both of these would of course get me labeled an antichrist by Peter Thiel. And since AI is propping up the world economy right now, has 0 chance of happening.

While that is true, Democrats get to campaign against Republicans using it. They can say things like “we fought for you last year and Republicans finally gave in; now they’re taking it away for good.”

Granted, without actually feeling the pain, and knowing it was Democrats that proposed the new end date, it rings a bit hollow, but I’m no political marketing person.

Love it.

Using fancy whiskey for simple cocktails is way underrated.

They mentioned it at the bottom of the blog: works ok Linux and macos. And they want you to enable it because there a bug they’re trying to reproduce.

Thank God for Mississippi.

I usually prefer “soggy flesh sack”, but I do admit the “meat mech” angle has me intrigued.

Oh thank goodness.

Same.

We’re quickly spiraling into a Star Trek evil timeline origin.