Absolutely anything to avoid the metric system! If we, as Americans, has to measure in quotation marks, we damn sure will!

Given they are such a small country, they can certainly produce some things locally. Obvious choices are small arms, artillery, and MRAPs. Anything beyond that they could probably pick one thing to specialize in, such as anti-air missile production or destroyer production, then export these to other countries. They currently export F-35 components, among other things.

However, expanding past that would be too inefficient for their size. Everything else they will need to buy from a partner. This will almost certainly include production from other European countries as well as the US.

My first thought was: why have I never heard of this? The answer seems to be: 2" x 3" photo paper costs $0.41/ea.

Mail-order professional photo prints are quite a bit cheaper than that. So, the main thing this contends with is other instant photo creation methods. Which are pretty niche ever since digital cameras became good.

2% of GDP has been the NATO suggested ask for awhile now. And with Russia invading European countries, they need to be doing more than the minimum ask.

Edit: I just realized you meant the 1.6% of GDP is also just the increase. That is a damn respectable increase.

Making sure they run well with Wine is probably what many game devs are dong who specifically want to support Linux. Right now the vast majority of games run out of the box on Wine, so there probably isn’t much a dev has to do if they want to make sure it runs great.

Why would you give up games to move to Linux? Been enjoying Cyberpunk and Guild Wars lately, and many games before that the last year. Honestly, at this point I don’t even check if games work with Linux, I just assume they do unless proven otherwise.

Check out Proton DB. Gives reports on how well things run. Anything Gold or higher is going to be a non-concern to play.

It was because developers historically were familiar with Windows and would just default to making a Windows product. You want a POS interface? Your developer is probably going to hand you a .exe and not a .deb. Then your next move is to tell the hardware division to put that .exe into production systems, at which it is too late for the hardware division to argue you just chose the more expensive option without thinking.

This is changing, particularly as many platforms make it trivial to compile for different OSes.

In addition to what the other guy said, Mint is also more focused on desktop. A bunch of apps are pre-installed that one would expect on a desktop OS. Additionally, the default Mint UI, Cinnamon, feels very familiar to a Windows user. It has a start menu, task bar, tray, etc.

Debian is in the same family, and is more oriented for servers. It is super minimal out of the box, which is perfect when you want it to sit in the other room and perform specific tasks. However, you can install all the same programs, even the Cinnamon UI on Debian.

Really the difference is the out of box experience, but they are otherwise pretty similar.

Framework laptops can come with optionally no OS if you choose, and I can attest to their build quality being quite good.

I know there are some brands that will have Linux pre-installed, but I don’t know enough about them to comment.

Writing code is easier than understanding and reviewing another’s code. There is good reason code reviewers aren’t the interns and new hires.

My question to others is, why would you want to turn into a code reviewer for AI code? It’s a shitload harder. And if the goal is anything but a weekend project, you damn well better be understanding and reviewing it critically, otherwise one is shitting up the code base and forcing others to clean up your mess.

ASRock is my go-to now. Funnily enough they split off of ASUS a while ago. One continually got better, and the other worse.

Edit: I was wrong about that last part. I thought they had split off, but apparently they are a subsidiary. Well, either way, they seem better.

Seconding Framework, they make great laptops.

Highly recommend getting one with an AMD processor, as AMD drivers are built into the Linux kernel updates. Driver updates will just work without you having to think about them.

The amount of damage a newbie programmer without a tight leash can do to a code base/product is immense. Once something is out in production, that is something you have to deal with forever. That temporary fix they push is going to be still used in a decade and if you break it, now you have to explain to the customer why the thing that’s been working for them for years is gone and what you plan to do to remedy the situation.

A newbie without a leash just pushing whatever an AI hands them into production. O, boy, are senior programmers going to be sad for a long, long time.

If you don’t have enough money to pay for delivery, you need to be picking it up yourself or, even better, cooking it yourself. DoorDash is horrendously expensive.

Honestly, Mint works well for games too. Been running it for the last year. :)

Depending on what VPN software you use, they may already have a linux version. All of the big-name ones do, as well as a good chunk of the smaller ones.

For anti-virus, you don’t need one in Linux. Even for Windows I would recommend using the built-in AV, rather than Norton.

Edit: I see you use Norton VPN. That one doesn’t have a linux version. Check out Mullvlad or Nord VPN.

Yep! In steam, Add Game > Add Non-Steam Game > Select the Game. Then in the game’s properties, go to the compatibility section and choose “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool”, which will then run the game under Proton.

That said, I actually run a number of games under Wine. The Heroic Launcher covers GOG, Epic, and Prime games, and will install them with Wine enabled for them by default.

it’s long since outlived its usefulness as a concept

It is the critical basis on why all diets work. One can eat as healthy as they want, but if they eat more calories than they expend, they will gain weight. Tossing aside such a fundamental concept is fraught. Instead, build upon it.

OP wants to design a diet that has the following requirements: reduce body fat, vegan, high-protein. Vegan limits it to plants, and high-protein further limits it to things like beans and tofu. Now, OP needs to figure out how much beans and tofu he can eat to achieve his goal, and this is where calories in - calories out becomes critical. Eat the right amount and the diet works.

CaloriesIn - CaloriesOut = WeightChange

Fat forms using spare calories. Any diet that involves eating fewer calories than what you burn will reduce your body fat.

As long as you have that part right, you are free to add any other requirements on your diet you wish.

Less about people being too stupid and more about people just not seeing the point. The average person touches the AC/Heat switch only a few times a year.

I personally love the days where it’s cool enough at night to open the windows and get the house temperature down. Means the AC the next day doesn’t have to do nearly as much (and thus my electric bill isn’t as high).