I’ve been missing that

Hmmm… Not a fan. Any new box should have at least ML upscaling, ML ray reconstruction, and support for cooperative vectors. RDNA3 is PS5-level tech. Hope Valve picks either RDNA4 or UDNA for the gpu of whatever comes next

Pretty much. Maybe someone at the 8bitdo HQ got an SD and discovered that the controllers all worked great?

Corrupt government does what corrupt governments do? Shocking.

Don’t you pay income tax in the country where you are resident, regardless of where you work? I don’t understand this. Sounds like a badly thought out deal.

The EU? Acting decisively? That’s hopeful.

Eh. Flattery works particularly well on Trump, I believe. So I think Rutte is doing a good job here. It’s sad that it’s necessary and that it works, but I don’t blame Rutte for the election of Trump.

I applaud your optimism, and I think in theory you’re right. I just don’t think the odds are in the favor of anyone taking your advice.

Is it democracy that has a problem, or is it humans? Take the housing crisis, for example. We want low rents without lotteries, except we also want beautiful cities without commieblocks or even high-rises, and the significant proportion of voters who own their own homes want home values to always increase. And god forbid property taxes forces a retired old person out of a home that’s far larger than what they need. There is just no solution that satisfies all constraints. So we muddle through, mumbling something about “damn foreigners” and “eat the rich”. If we all actually agreed the housing crisis is a problem we’re willing to make sacrifices to solve, then we’d solve it in an instant. But no. Only mimimi.

The left runs on vibes and the right doesn’t want to fix anything. That’s not the fault of political parties, but just how different kinds of people think and operate. I don’t have a solution, really. The best I can come up with is: If you don’t like the laws where you live, see if anywhere else has a system you like. If you find something, consider moving there. If you don’t find what you’re dreaming of anywhere in the world then it is probably not (politically?) possible and you’ll just have to cope.

The most extremist-proof voting system I know of is approval voting. Proportional representation is unfortunately not really great at preventing extremism.

The word “idiot” was originally conceived to mean someone apolitical. Its meaning drifted for a reason.

The government is liberal, not lefty. Very different. But they seem like reasonable politicians. Boring. Normal. Not like this disaster.

MPL for libraries, AGPL for applications.

I’m a big fan of open source, but I just don’t think so. Companies and governments want to outsource hosting, cloud, and other IT work to big full-service corporations like Microsoft. If the EU wants digital sovereignty, it’s going to need one or more Microsoft-like corporations capable of delivering full-service solutions. The alternative is to contract with consultancies like Accenture to set up and administer Linux desktops, Libreoffice, cloud storage, and so on. That’s doable, but companies and governments just don’t want it. They want low-risk common solutions with predictable billing (i.e. not Accenture).

Possibly. Issue is the kind of reactors that are typically employed in submarines and on aircraft carriers are not necessarily the ones we want for civilian uses, but the temptation to use the civilian program as a training ground for military stuff is huge, for economic reasons. I think nuclear energy would be far more advanced if it wasn’t shackled to the pressurized water designs.

After the Russo-Ukrainian war began the Greens have really done a 180 on this sort of stuff, so I wouldn’t count on it.

The headline says Germany is replacing the US as security guarantor. Clearly it’s more nuanced, as you point out.

No nukes - no guarantees.

A lot. So much European investment has been flowing into the USA for the last couple of decades because that’s where the best returns are.