The Steam Deck is not a Nintendo device. There's a big difference between buying something to play cross platform games (leaving aside a few platform exclusives) and buying a Nintendo device. There's a reason many people have *both* a Steam Deck and a Switch.

For me, soon to be two Switches since the Switch 2 came out. I'll look good next to my Steam Deck which has very fundamentally different games on it.

So you don't like Nintendo DRM and go to Steam DRM instead? There's no less DRM on Steam. DRM is decided by the people who create the games. The fact that Proton supports running Denuvo protected games actually means the Steam Deck has some of the *worst DRM titles in existence*.

Buying a console for altruism is stupid. It's a device to provide fleeting entertainment. You buy it for the games you like to play. If you want to say you don't want to play games and instead want to hack on a portable Linux machine, say that. The reality is no one interested in gaming chooses their platform based on DRM. They choose it for the games.

The entire Bakerloo line fleet has been refurbished twice since then. The only thing from 1972 on that line is the frame and maybe some of the glass on the rolling stock.

Also that line is part of the 2024 rolling stock replacement, so welcome to my point: The London Underground's old stuff is periodically replaced.

Also what's my lifespan? Certainly it predates 1972. Not much of an insult there buddy.

That's a truly perfect analogy. The difference between gangrape and an orgy is the willingness of the participants. No one is being gangraped, you just can't tell that people are fine with the situation. If it's not for you then don't do it. Just don't gaslight others.

:-) Honestly I thought you may have been, but there's been so many seriously dumb takes on Slashdot the past couple of years that it is really REALLY hard to tell.

Have a great weekend :-)

FFS You've so often wrong about your own country how about you get that right first before you talk about mine. Australia has had a 2 party system since 1943 when the United party dissolved and folded into the Liberal Party. But I'll excuse you for thinking otherwise, you probably did a quick google and saw three major parties being in government since the war without realising the Liberals and Nationals are the same ballot.

Since 1943 there has been two parties in power. The Australian Labor Party, or the Liberal National Party. The prime minister will always be one of those two. The fact that Katter has his own party and wins a single seat doesn't make the system of government any less a 2-party system. We even have a term for any time one of the two parties doesn't have a clear and outright majority in the government, we call that a "hung parliament".

By the way see that link you sent, notice how the info graphic on the top lists the "Government" and "The Opposition" separately from a few irrelevant independents? That's a two party system. Those are the two parties.

Though I'll throw you a bone: The LNP broke up 3 weeks ago after being together for 80 years, so technically there are currently 3 parties again.

Being a thing is not the same as being a market. I remember being the only kid at school with a laptop, and removing the CD drive to make space for a second battery so I could use it for a few hours. Power efficiency wasn't on anyone's radar because we had space. There was no expectation for thin small devices, and we could have decent sized heatsinks. Anything smaller than a bulky brick of a laptop back in that day didn't need the power of a desktop processor. Transmeta weren't targeting handheld gadgets they were targeting low power high end computing. That wasn't a market that existed.

Heck that market didn't exist until 3 years later when Intel started launching a dedicated line of mobile processors, and given the success of early Pentium Ms with most laptops not using them I would say the actual market didn't adopt the idea of low power computing until around 2006 with Yonah.

That was also an issue of timing. This is one problem that Intel found in its Itanium systems too. You need software compiled for it. Back in the early 2000s it was unthinkable. Heck it was unthinkable the first 3 times that Microsoft attempted to build ARM for Windows.

These days things are looking a bit different from a market perspective. We see more and more platform specific software available.

Please turn your brain on. There's no IoT here - just a stupid media buzzword association. This seatbelt works the same as any other system in the car, locally with sensors.

In any case you're wrong about that. Having a correctly positioned and tensioned seatbelt makes a world of difference in injuries. Too many people have no idea that seatbelts in the car are even adjustable.

Volvo's entire brand is built almost exclusively on safety, so you're wrong about that too.

It doesn't matter, an IP address doesn't identify you. And yeah I don't live in America, my ISP does not sell this information because they would get get ass-fucked by the regulator if they did.

Yes, virtually all of them. Carrier locking has zero to do with it. That's how phones work, they come with popular stuff pre-installed unless you get an Apple "we decide what is popular" phone, a Google "only Google apps here" phone, or a Chinese "Meta? What's that? Ask on WeChat for the answer" phone. That said they aren't fully installed, it's more like a placeholder that installs on first launch.

No, you're talking out of ignorance. There's nothing "solved" about this issue. Canada and Australia can't supply much of the world (the latter doesn't even want to as opening more uranium mining is politically toxic in Australia). For countries who see Russia and the -stans as a threat, the security of nuclear fuel is a big topic on their risk management agenda.

No, this is politics. Showstoppers doesn't stop anything. It merely fuels a marketing campaign leading to spectacularly stupid ideas being taken to elections and projects and decisions delayed over and over again. Case in point: SMRs. They don't exist. That is a show stopper. You can't will something into existence, and yet the world over governments are promising to build them today.

The oldest equipment in the London Underground line has rolling stock from 2001 and a safety and control system from 2014. And that line is being upgraded now meaning by the end of this year the oldest London Underground will have equipment from 2006 (different line). And rails are repairable on an as needs basis, unlike a nuclear reactor.

No the London underground doesn't keep going until gods know when. They also suffer from the concept of end of life, and it only has about half the life of a nuclear power plant.

Precisely zero people are talking about, nor give a shit about IP address tracking. IP address tracking is useless to the people who use your information to profit.

Anonymity is preserved in the context. An IP address does not identify a person, it identifies a network endpoint. Knowing my IP address does not identify me, only my ISP can do that.
Privacy is not an arbitrary concept, it's a sliding scale. The fact you can be tracked by IP doesn't mean you should just give up. Case in point, I'm not posting this as an Anonymous Coward, but neither have I used my full name to register my Slashdot account. Go on, tell us all your full name. After all privacy and anonymity don't exist since you're using the internet.

40% of the market has a completely open ecosystem with no restrictions on side loading what so ever, and they are doing just fine.

Hint: A poor argument is built around whataboutism. But a really shitty argument is off topic. Tracking pixels and breaking out of sandboxes has nothing to do with sideloading, and in fact the effort that people go hacking around restrictions in the OS despite sideloading existing not only makes your off topic argument shitty, but it actually works against you since you're postulating that sideloading is somehow some easy vector into people's devices.

In the future try to argue for your case, not against it.

Blink twice if someone is holding a gun to your head forcing you to sideload an app, we'll send help.