This bubba thing is making my day.

Nothing even remotely incriminating in this email on its own. Even if “penetrating insights” and “stimulation” sound funny in the current context.

I love the fact that Ubuntu, Redhat and SUSE are competing for long term enterprise support. The philosophy “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” rings true, Linux enterprise deployment business make more revenue and the update backports and security backport fixes help the wider community too.

I wonder if Trump will personally investigate the One Big Beautiful Bill package once again.

Oh boy I also hope this comes with the login queue battle royale mechanic (video) as well. Couldn’t call it a modern AAAA experience without one.

Right, but the difference is that foreign language translators are putting their own reputation on the line on representing the original speaker’s words accurately, because local media will use the translator’s account to make the story. When the original speaker is incoherent, translators have to convey what they are saying in a short time, otherwise they will sound stupid.

“You know, the press is always on me because I say this,” Trump began. “Has anyone seen Silence of the Lambs? The late great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner. That’s insane asylums, they’re emptying out their insane asylums.”

My translation: 「記者らはいつもこれに追いかけてる、」トランプは述べた。「誰かは羊たちの沈黙をみたか？昔あの偉大だったハンニバル•レクター。夕食に誘ってくれる人だ。病院から狂人を全員放り出してる。」

Leaving aside that the sentences are barely relevant to one another, you can’t even begin get in the translation that Trump doesn’t appear to understand the difference between an insane asylum and a refugee claim of asylum. So translators just have to say: they’re letting out insane people from institutions.

They don’t reply if you write to them unfortunately.

Not in my experience. I got an email reply from my MP on C-2 that directly addressed what I was talking about, albeit two months later after the summer break!

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20250924/k00/00m/030/024000c

I don’t have tabs on Spanish, but I can confirm, the Japanese language has a tough time conveying how batshit insane Trump’s speeches are. It means they end up sanewashing him all the time. This article is about Trump’s UN ramble this year.

Title reads: “Trump strongly criticizes UN, says climate change measures are ‘fraudulent’ in his general debate speech”

It’s been a long time problem since his first term: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-interpreters-donald-trump-translate-struggle-us-president-white-house-speech-talking-style-a7596986.html

To chop vegetables.

Wisconsin’s bill defines “harmful to minors” much more broadly. It applies to materials that merely describe sex or feature descriptions/depictions of human anatomy.

I tried it out and challenged myself not to touch the terminal to fix anything for as long as I could, to see if it is a truly ready-out-of-the-box experience.

It is actually very intuitive for gaming, what makes it feel more suited than most distros for me is that flatpak apps that you don’t have installed show up in the start menu, ready to add if you need them. Other OSs are leaner and cleaner but you’d have to know the package name.

I managed to get everything started, games and stuff including minor tweaks, and the first time I needed to use the terminal was to work out how to get some fan control working. I didn’t succeed in setting it up. So I took away from that experience that low level hardware OS tasks are harder to access in Bazzite.

HSR should give this guy bus driver training!

I’ve done all of that on my Nintendo 3DS… I’m being obtuse with that, but what you listed is not the Steam Deck’s primary intended purposes either, gaming is its primary use and Valve’s not being nefarious omitting secondary uses.

As a converse example: the fact you could play games on a Tesla vehicle, doesn’t mean Elon Musk has to call it a games console car.

1.5V Li-ion batteries in AA size that can be charged by USB-C are now available. For stuff like TV remotes, flashlights, little toys and gadgets anything more seems overpowered than needed.

If not a games console, what is the Steam Deck? Calling it just any ol’ personal computer would be ignoring the two halves of a gaming controller fused to either side of it.

I wonder if their Fex software will be extensible to other devices and open sourced.

Alright, the VR set I’ve been waiting for!

What I love about Valve is you can tell they are clearly taking stuff they learned from their earlier products (Deck, Index, Controller, Machine) to combine it and make it better.

Luckily I have several email accounts, and my most important one has not been added yet.

I think much of the gatekeeping is over concern that if you mess up, you could unknowingly be allowing a sophisticated hacker to access all the data on your network, without any obvious signs. And maybe some people don’t want to field noob questions like “I clicked something and now the GUI gives a 😕 and doesn’t work anymore, what do I do?”.

There is a skill floor, I would say similarly that you wouldn’t be ready to install Linux yourself if you don’t get suspicious when a .iso download gives you a .exe file instead.

I think Yunohost is a decent solution for beginners that avoids as much of the nitty-gritty as possible. Louis Rossman has made a massive guide that’s about as close as an IKEA step-by-step as you can get with this stuff. We should be encouraging people to learn, but there is a sense of reticence to have people get too in over their heads due to cybersecurity reasons.

Edit: linked the guide

See the following from https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence

In mammals like humans, the gases come from two sources: swallowed air (for example, while eating, talking or drinking) and gases naturally created by bacteria in the body during digestion.