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And the definition of curvature features second-order derivatives so is a fair bit more advanced.

These auto-completions are dependent on having the corresponding completions information installed and enabled. Which it is with most modern distros, but more bare-bones setups won’t have it.

That is worth it for more complicated things like, “I want all commands that started with git and contained ‘foo’”

In casual conversation (such as on an internet forum) “addiction” can also mean “physiological dependence to something not ordinarily necessary”.

Caffeine creates very strong physiological dependence.

In addition, due to its ubiquity, the actual harms of caffeine go unrecognised: people who are caffeine dependent are more tired and irritable when they haven’t had any than if they were not dependent, and also tends to cause headaches and stomach problems.

In KDE I type in “tor” and “factorio” appears above “tor browser”

I believe you can disable the dumb search providers.

And edible plants can be (botanical) fruits or vegetables.

Poisonous is a general term that also covers venomous.

Being pedantic about it is on the same level as being pedantic about tomatoes tEchNIcAlLY being a fruit and bananas AcKShuALlY being berries.

Yeah that’s more likely. I do think though that plenty of those people are also not being aggressive and are just impatient or incompetent.

Ah yes, a one car-length gap, the suitable gap to leave when stationary!

That does happen but they then usually blast past you as soon as there’s an opportunity, rather than just hanging out back there.

They also don’t think about the situation when the vehicle in front spots something happening late (that they themselves can’t see because the closer you are, the less you can see around the sides of the vehicle in front) then swerves out of the way at the last moment, revealing it to following traffic with no time to react at all.

I firmly believe that the vast majority of tailgaters, and in fact drivers just don’t know what correct following distance at speed looks like. It’s not so much anger as incompetence.

Especially in the US where almost noone leaves a good gap.

Passing on the right is also… Not that big a deal. The only thing that supposedly makes it worse than passing on the left is that supposedly people don’t check when moving right. Realistically, the people who don’t check when moving right are also mostly not checking when moving left.

Imagine that all other drivers are late for something super important, stressed, and lost.

WTF, are you not allowed to skate when Queen?!

Yes. And then someone pointed out that 6×9 = 42 in base 13. To which DNA replied, “I may be a sorry case, but I don’t write jokes in base 13.”

Guess you agree that this isn’t something the law should be involved with. Cool chat.

The only thing I have to fuck around with like that is the setting for Windows Update itself. It’s pretty annoying but also pretty different from an AI feature (because the modification I want to make delays updates, which is less secure). Maybe you’re thinking of something specific?

Anyway, yes, if they add an AI agent that you can’t turn off without hacks, that would be bad. But given that they haven’t done that, complaining about the law (without saying what the law is lacking) is silly. What would the law say - “don’t add features to software if any user doesn’t want it?” there is no way to make what the commenter above said make sense.

But the Steam Machine is also likely to be positioned as a console competitor on some level, just like the Steam Deck - sure the Deck is just a PC in a handheld form factor, but it’s designed to be a handheld console.

“Those who care about the freedom PC gaming affords” surely aren’t in the market for a pre-built machine whose main attractiveness will be convenience and support, either. I play PC games because it’s what I grew up playing, where I’m most comfortable, and it gives me better access to a wide variety of games at good prices than console games do. I can play in higher fidelity than an equivalent-generation console, and I can play games which are poorly suited to controllers (ironically: like Call of Duty. Which I haven’t played since Black Ops 4, but I have played other games with restrictive anti-cheat) For me, it’s not about some abstract concept of freedom at all. I also use Linux for everything except gaming for concrete reasons.

Saying the Steam Machine sucks because of this is idiotic. But saying it will limit its reach, or is a reason to not buy it, or whatever, is totally legit. My PC plays as broad a gamut of games as possible, and while I’ll look into it, I’ll take a lot of convincing to potentially have to put up with the Linux desktop issues I put up with routinely on my main (non-gaming) computer. Not being able to play my friends’ flavour of the month would be a big red flag.