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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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:
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Work on Linux, either natively or through Proton.
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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.
Yeah, it has to stay GPL. So Simple Mobile Tools selling to a for-profit company doesn't really change all that much. Worst case scenario, the original apps get screwed over but someone releases forks of them. Best case scenario, ZipoApps doesn't actually change anything and just acts as a host for the projects.
Chromium as a whole or just Chrome specifically?
shrug I think I might have used wordpad maybe once in my entire life. Once Microsoft Office moved to a subscription model I just switched to OpenOffice, then Apache OpenOffice, and then LibreOffice.
A fursona is also free (technically. Getting art of them can be expensive, but there are a few various "paper doll" style tools you can use to draft out a basic concept for free), is priceless in value, and doesn't fluctuate in its value based on arbitrary economics.
For a biomechanical designer species of space explorers meant to travel to all sorts of planets, you'd think waterproofing would have been a standard feature rather than something exclusive to aquatic protogens.
Ok, here me out. Maybe, just maybe, they turn into a dog.
1600s if I could be a pirate captain. Although I would go for maintaining a relatively low profile and a reputation as the captain of a mysterious vessel that shows up out of nowhere, sometimes to "acquire" goods needed by the crew, other times to help those in need, depending on the circumstances. And I'd vet my crew to ensure they hold the same or similar values. Being seen as a deadly and fearsome swashbuckler may make it easier to take what you want, but it also puts a huge target on your back and I'd rather avoid that. The thing with pirates of that era is that while they were criminals, they also generally had a code of conduct, and the main goal of many crews was to simply live free of the various martime empires that were in power at the time. Of course, the whole "women aboard a ship are bad luck" bullshit is definitely going to have to go - I'd be an equal-opportunity recruiter.
Otherwise, I'd go back by exactly 1 minute.
SloanTheServal
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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).