very cool. don't see a license, though. no open source license => not open source.

I just opened up Google Earth in Firefox to see what would happen. It's buttery smooth with basically zero lag on loading assets, and zero lag zooming and dragging around on my 240Hz display.

I have a 1gbps symmetric fiber connection and I'm running NixOS. my Firefox Nix Home Manager config is here:

https://github.com/thejevans/nix-config/blob/main/homeManagerModules/gui-applications/firefox/default.nix

The game has functionality that does not work on the Steam Deck. Valve is completely in the right here. If the developers wanted it to get a rubber stamp from Valve, then they shouldn't have made part of the game broken on Linux.

What you're asking for is fairly unrealistic. The only way this could work sustainably would be for something to exist where you host your own tile server and routing service and patch that into OSM. Otherwise, even if the app itself is open source, the backend will cost money to run and will be proprietary.

The reason that OSM is able to be fully open source is because you host the tiles on your phone and do the routing calculations locally.

The article explains that, yes, they did plan to move...in April. The Taliban government did, in fact, shut them down ahead of that schedule.

I just got rid of my last Windows installation, and I got rid of all my Apple devices a couple years ago. The Linux life is so nice!

On the other hand, I just setup a Windows gaming machine for a friend (I would have pushed Linux, but I live far away and can't commit to being tech support). There were so many hoops to jump through to cut through all the crap:

• I had to set the region to somewhere in the EU so that my friend can uninstall Edge sometime in March, 2024 without breaking other functionality
• I had to run a hidden script at a specific point during the install to allow me to not have to use a Microsoft account
• I had to disconnect the non-boot drive and reinstall because the Windows installer uses motherboard drive ordering instead of UUID to decide which drive to put the boot partition on.
• I had to run Win Debloat Tools to get rid of all the crap Microsoft adds to their OS
• I had to find a 3rd party driver update tool because the motherboard manufacturer's software is terrible and installs a bunch of extra crap.
• I had to install a 3rd party Nvidia driver update tool because their official one requires making an account and gives a bunch of unwanted ads as notifications.

It's seriously bonkers. It makes you really appreciate Linux as a whole and package managers in particular.

Injury danger in a crash is roughly proportional to mass as well, and a car is going to be 20x heavier than a bike or more. A fast bike can be a problem, but not nearly as much as a car.

Another great example of why proprietary connectors are stupid as hell. I'm going to be upset when my 2DS XL charger breaks and I can't get an easy replacement.

Whenever I see people complain about protest methods, it reminds me of this quote:

First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

--Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963 in a jail cell in Birmingham Alabama.

Or maybe Texas could get its grid connected to the nearby grids so that dips like this are less of an issue.

It's worth noting that the top picture in the article is of a kid on a $4400 Sur-ron X, which is strictly not road legal and is capable of up to 45mph and can accelerate to 30mph in 3.5 seconds.

I have a framework 12th gen. It's great. Fantastic build quality and when I want to upgrade, I don't need a whole new laptop, just the necessary internal components. I can even switch to AMD!

Coreboot is cool, and I can't wait to see the new system76 laptop that is being built in-house, but until that comes out, I don't think I would ever consider the current lineup of system76 computers.

My main motivations are repairability, upgradability, and specificity of components, and system76 just doesn't offer that. They don't tell you what ram or SSD models go into your laptop, they don't sell replacement parts, and there is no upgrade path.