Windows and DOS games started working well later, as WINE and DOS emulator were evolving.

But Linux had a thriving gaming scene of its own:

• You’ve already mentioned Loki who made native ports.
• Another type of “ports” were game engines made from scratch that used the level files of the original, games like Doom, Transport Tycoon, Caesar III, Panzer General, Stunts, ReVolt etc. You had to own the game files but the executable was FOSS.
• There were lots of cool native games, many shooters (Warsow , Nexuiz, Cube, Tremulous), strategy games, cool arcade games (Tux Racer, Atomic Worm, H-Craft, Droid Assault), the rogue genre which debuted on UNIX and had tons of variants and so on.

I’m only a casual gamer so this is just stuff I ran across occasionally, there was probably more.

Yeah that’s about what I had figured too, 400-600 kWh/mo per house during summer. Double that is more likely to be estimated capacity rather than actual use.

I still have Loki’s port of Rune around somewhere.

For me, educational stuff was all windows with a small amount of macs and I don’t think I ever saw a Linux system in actual use anywhere.

Linux systems started being common in CompSci schools around mid-90s, around the time LAMP took off (fun fact, Apache, MySQL and PHP were all launched in 1995).

Previously in CompSci you’d get to use all kinds of UNIX servers. My uni still had Solaris servers with dumb terminals, and I got my first sysadmin certification on SCO.UNIX / OpenServer.

They patch stuff like this fast because it’s a remote exploit. Local privilege escalation exploits are fixed much slower.

See if it’s the swap, disable zram and/or add a swap file.

Doesn’t have to be a swap partition, you can create a file, format it as swap and assign it in /etc/fstab.

Btw when you say you don’t have swap do you mean you don’t have regular swap file/partition (because you have zram swap) or you don’t have swap at all?

Um, why does the average Chinese home consume 1 MWh/mo? Or do they mean the battery capacity would account for one home consuming up to 1 MWh?

I am still hoping it will hit 10% market share within my life time.

Do we really want that?

We have it pretty good right now. I would actually say we’re living in a golden age of desktop Linux: there’s constant innovation, good support, you get to do pretty much everything you need, while flying under the radar.

Linux has won the majority of the industry (servers, mobile etc.) so it’s not like it has anything left to prove.

If it starts getting noticeable on the desktop I fear we’re just gonna get negative attention. Users who take and not contribute, because Windows had taught them to be entitled. Unwanted attention from Microsoft, who I bet are not going to be doing nice things once they start getting paranoid about it.

I really don’t think that large companies like Adobe will care about Linux even at 10% and even if they did, they are a super toxic company nowadays, the least we get to interact with them the better.

Last I read about it it required connecting for 6-7 hours continuously on 32bit systems, and it’s unknown how long it would take on 64bit.

You can get a small Bluetooth keyboard. They make them really tiny, for this exact use case (smartphones and tablets).

Since this is a Surface you can probably find one that’s been specifically designed to integrate with it (act as a cover).

glib2-devel is available in Manjaro.

glib2-devel is present on all Manjaro branches.

glib2-devel is a core package and pacman should be able to install it directly. Have you updated your package mirrors and upgraded the system since you installed the machine?

It’s not. Series X and series S use native Bluetooth and work with xpadneo. Older controllers use their own proprietary receiver that needs to be plugged into the machine and work with regular xpad.

Probably a better idea would be to leave it archived. Whoever wants to take over can fork it and prove themselves by showing their work.

The xz debacle has shown that there are risk involved in an established developer endorsing an unknown one.

Just a note, the US military completed the phase-out of floppy disks in 2019.

Bold of you to assume Ubuntu was a recent version.

Don’t worry, Ubuntu was probably Lucid. 🤭

Medical environments are notorious for inept tech skills and slow technology adoption.

SIMs are standalone embedded computers (they run Java!) that handle the cellular connections one their own and communicate with the phone over a standard pin-out and protocol.

This way the phones are somewhat insulated from advances in cellular technology and it’s one of the reasons mobile phones have been able to evolve so smoothly from feature phones to smart phones.

There are muxing apps that can do that.