Ah OK, thanks! Thought it odd, and Gentoo seems like the one OS that would have full support for x32 (and potentially could be less bothered by ix86 support) so I thought I'd ask!

Because GNU/Linux being better at running Windows games than Windows is is fantastic news and not something most people are aware of?

Isn't x32 a different system from ix86? I was under the impression x32 was basically "Use the amd64 ISA, but with 32 bit addresses to save memory and memory bandwidth." (Needless to say this ABI isn't compatible with Steam, Win32 binaries, or anything else that needs ix86 instructions)

That seems to be confirmed by this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... But it could be Gentoo is using it to refer to ix86-32?

To be honest, exchanging files with people is less important than it was 10 years ago. I suspect that any inevitable incompatibilities between the formats will not actually be of any importance. It's not as if you care how well it prints.

There are always periods where some manufacturers are better than others.

That said, I suspect that 90% of car models fit into the category of "Will run for 10 years without major issues, then the next 10 years is iffy, then after that you'll be spending far more than car payments on regular repairs." And that, with the exception of the notorious 1960s-early 1990s period where the big names were notoriously crap, this has always been the case.

It's odd, but of the three cars I felt had run their course and had to give up because of mounting yearly repair costs and unfixable issues, every single one of them was nearly 20 years past their manufacturing date. Ford and Honda... seems to be a pattern.

I would imagine the time between the widespread standardization on 1080p and the widespread availability of cheap 4K monitors was, for most Slashdotters (who are Gen X and older), the time about which our eyes all turned to shit (45-50 years old.)

So you're probably not wrong. But that said, more monitors, larger monitors, and better colour, are all things we should appreciate even with crappy eyes.

You think American healthcare isn't crippled by bureaucracy? It most certainly is. Every healthcare provider ends up spending a small fortune on managing the entire process of dealing with multiple insurers and multiple insurance plans, with doing the appropriate coding, etc, and it still ends up being broken at the end of the day with most claims, in my experience, being screwed up.

Service isn't good, last minute cancellations, hour or two delays between your appointment date and being seen is normal, you get fined if you're the one who walks out. Additionally Doctors here pretend to be able to treat things they can't until it becomes blatantly obvious. There's a national doctor shortage nobody wants to fix. And healthcare is literally unaffordable for most of the population, with $70-80 being a typical copay for just seeing a doctor. Yes, that's WITH insurance.

I had to give up on trying to get my GERD fixed because we had debts after getting our first child, and it had cost me over a thousand dollars already to be told "Well, that's not the cause!" This is doing real time damage to my throat and teeth, it is literally taking years off of my life.

No, America's healthcare system is not better than Canada's, unless you're a billionaire.

Brit in America here:

Only anecdotally, but while Brits love to complain about the quality of NHS healthcare, American healthcare has always been worse in my experience. Doctors are lousier. Waiting lists are absurd (9 months to register with a new doctor!) The forced rationing of healthcare by cost resulting in a reluctance to even use it until it's too late.

The reality is American healthcare is subpar. It has some positives, you can get treatment for a lot of obscure conditions you can't anywhere else in the world, but something as simple as a bone infection can result in months of expensive, poor, wrong headed doctors pretending the symptoms are within their ballpark and pocketing the money as a result rather than referring to a doctor that can help.

I never experienced anything remotely as terrible as in the UK despite all the complaints. People complain in the UK because it's actually effective, politicians know they're on the hook if a constituent cannot get healthcare, so they do something about it.

The key thing is his predecessors listened to the experts.

There's no foul in someone managing a department without the same skills as his underlings. The issue with RFK Jr is he thinks he knows more than they do, while using the "Hey, I don't know" shrug as a get-out.

No matter what your political persuasion, virtually everyone on Slashdot has experience of bosses that listened to them, and who were successful, and bosses who tried to impose some ideological twaddle on them, refused to listen, and made everyone miserable and caused direct harm to their employers. RFK Jr is the idiot who claims we shouldn't have a predictable release schedule and should rush everything at the last minute to make for an arbitrary release date.

I don't know if they've added the relevant features to HDMI but for DisplayPort one of the reasons they upped the speed was so that you could drive multiple monitors from one cable.

Personally while I like that this is putting pressure on the DP group to not sit on their laurels (it'd be nice to drive 4 4K monitors from one cable...) I don't really care what the HDMI group says. The term is synonymous with royalties and unnecessarily expensive cables. DisplayPort, which is at least free and open, seems to both be the more innovative standard and the free-er one.

I love the fact you think that's some kind of gotcha. Those of us on the left, together with those who sit somewhere in the middle of American politics, do indeed get ourselves and our children vaccinated. As a results we're not the ones getting Measles, and when we do get things like Flu or COVID it's usually less frequently than right wingers, and is rarely as bad.

If I were a psychopath I would encourage you to not vaccinate, to cull your herd, but I'm not, I'd love you to have the benefits too even if I can't stand your politics, and there's a selfish reason for me wanting you to vaccinate to which is herd immunity: if 90% of a population are vaccinated, it's tough for any disease vaccinated against to spread at all, while if 50% are, the disease will spread, and impact not just the intentionally-by-choice unvaccinated, but those who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons, or who tried but the vaccine failed for whatever reason to take effect.

Go get your shots. Like we do.

Medicare focuses on the elderly, it's not really a great metric for how much healthcare should cost. The VA system also swings towards the elderly, and also supports a minority much, much, more likely to be suffering serious health problems than average. Which leaves Medicaid, which has multiple levels of bureaucracy (often corrupt) in addition to the normal levels you'd expect because it's a combination federal and state program.

There's no real reason to suppose single payer would cost more than regular private insurance, and a lot of good reasons to suppose it would cut costs. The amount of absurd bureaucratic hell inherent in private insurance is staggering, which is duplicated across multiple insurance companies. Healthcare costs in the US for alike treatment is staggeringly out of whack with the rest of the world.

It also gives government incentives to promote other solutions that would help. We need way more doctors, our system is fundamentally under capacity, which is why it has to be rationed using copays. The government has no incentive to fix that because it's not its problem. The healthcare industry has no incentive to fix it because doctors like being paid more money. The insurance industry has no incentive to fix it because it applies to all insurance companies, so no insurance company gains an advantage by starting programs to train more doctors. You can only fix this by giving one entity an incentive to fix it.

Obviously, despite a single payer system costing less than a multiple insurance for-profit system, it'll require tax rises, but if those tax rises for the vast majority of people are lower than the cost of their insurance premiums, it'll obviously balance out. That is a point advocates need to hammer home though.

He's a nutjob that most right wingers appear to agree with on the issues he's a nutjob about.

I mean, I hate to point out the obvious, but in addition to vaccinations, a form of healthcare where people don't have to worry about the costs would also make America healthy again. It's entirely normal, it's supported across the political spectrum in Europe, for example, in Canada, in pretty much every Western Democracy, just not the US.

Has our glorious Health Secretary actually at any point since he ran for election promoted the idea of universal healthcare?

Yeah it was more a rhetorical question. They've abused monopoly situations in the past, even spying on their marketplace sellers (who are customers of their's) and using the figures to go into competition with them.

I guess the real question is to what degree will they be able to. If there are wild price disparities between places within 20 miles of a Walmart, and places that aren't, it'd be too obvious to regulators and lawmakers. And given the Democrats are happy to regulate abusive companies regardless of the victim's political leanings, and the Republicans see "Rural voters" as their people... well, actually I wouldn't count on the latter resulting in action by the Republicans as a group, but certainly the Democrats would support action, and I suspect enough Republicans would to make a difference.

WTF am I reading?

Were you trying to make a point? What aspect of what I said were you trying to challenge? Can you try writing in English rather than just filling a post with arbitrary links, none of which have to do with battery prices?