I got app-emulation/proton-ge-custom-bin from the kzd overlay. The overlay is in the eselect repository list.

For stereo, TOSLINK is fine. But so is the copper port right next to it. I removed it because it’s basically unused fluff for more than 99.9% of all users. I used that port (on a dedicated sound card) once to connect a DTS 5.1 active speaker system (marketed at gamers like me) back in the 00s. It doesn’t really have enough bandwidth for 5.1. But I’m no audiophile, so it was fine. Thing is: Just plugging in the copper cables works as well and provides the full bandwidth.\

And motherboard-integrated DACs are pretty good now. Even audiophiles can’t hear the improvement in stereo in blind tests (they probably can hear copper sounding better in 5.1 though).
It’s basically the Betamax of audio connection standards. Technically better, but market adoption is negligible.

If you actually need a car, this one is the most important cost saving measure:

• Drive a reasonably sized car which isn’t optimized to exploit laws made for trucks.

It’s Microslop. The people who had any resemblance of work ethics left a long time ago. No one still working there gives any shits about QA - especially not the management.

Actually:

The on-board video ports are for emergencies when your actual GPU isn’t working. One of each type is plenty.
That 2.5 Gb Ethernet isn’t giving me any actual benefits in practice as no other component in the network supports it anyway. If you need more speed, go all the way to 10 Gb.
No one really has toslink equipment anymore and the optical standard on that connector is shit anyway. You literally get better audio from the analog ports.
Get rid of the fancy special USB ports as well as the legacy low-speed ports. Just give only the normal super-speed ports which always work well without odd hardware quirks or driver issues. And 4 are actually plenty. I connect at least one hub anyway.
Also don’t waste precious PCIe lanes for useless bling like six SATA ports, multiple NICs, or Wireless. Just route the unused PCIe lanes to the PCIe slots. Maybe I want to add an AI accelerator later.

Yeah, Gentoo isn’t exactly an out-of-the-box gaming distro. But having all the gaming stuff (including GE Proton and Steam) managed by Portage is pretty neat.
And don’t worry: When you are done hopping, Gentoo will always be there to accept you back without any judgment. It’s all about choice after all…

Trump already won that war 20 times. So it’s probably all fine.

It’s called entry-level for a reason. Back in my days, you could start such a position without any formal education as long as you were willing to acquire the required skills and knowledge without needing a nanny. We had to go to the library or actually buy the books for knowledge. Now they can just use the internet.
The actual requirement for doing the job never changed. And it’s not knowledge.

Nah, AI isn’t that good. When you don’t properly review every single line twice, you get the most absurd bullshit you’ve ever seen.
I use Claude Code Opus daily btw.

Sounds just like the usual crazy to me. Better stay away. It’s not worth it if you aren’t also crazy yourself.

Nah, Linux isn’t made by Apple.

Distros basically are OSes. You get some choices of kernel with some choices of userland and some choices of desktop environment. Additionally, you get some update mechanism and optionally some customized looks, tools, and/or sets of settings. That’s all what an OS really is.

To be fair, I did recommend Window 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, and Windows 7 to random people. It somehow stopped.
I play on Gentoo, btw.

The owner of Valve and therefore Steam. Steam is a typical middle man business taking 30% (unsuccessful games) to 20% (extremely successful games) from the overwhelming majority of all PC game purchases. Not selling on Steam is basically financial suicide for game devs because Steam is a quasi monopoly. Most PC gamers only buy there (rather than on a dev’s own site, GOG, Itch or anywhere else). So game devs pay the Gabe toll - just like almost all phone app devs pay the Apple and Google tolls.

Big media calling her a communist is all it needs to destroy a candidate in Murica.

They literally have a direct railway to North Korea. So if they can fit it on a flatbed wagon, they can send it per rail (oddly enough, they don’t seem to have a road connection).
Guess, it didn’t fit or is some old thing, the Russians really don’t care much about.

There are a lot of more or less covert operations going on against shipping right now. Someone even decapitated Iran’s government and since then the Strait of Hormuz is sort-of closed…

Computing was never as great as it is now. Never before did we have so much free open source software at such a high level of quality to use and tinker with. Never before was it this easy to find help for the most obscure problems. Never before was playing on Linux a viable option.

But online and offline social networking really got enshittified a lot. 3rd spaces online like offline are fully commercialized. Online, everything is remembered and if it can be used against you, it will be used against you either by the government or some rando just because they can.
But you can use a VPN and as many pseudonyms as you need to properly separate your community-specific personas. And if you live in a city of religious fanatics, the internet also is a great to find like-minded people. There are communities for everything.

Some of the illegal streaming sites still have search, sorting, and filtering.

Every picture taken after the first is also an “after” picture.

You can tell them, that Communism is long dead and no one in Iran gives any shits about it. They don’t want communism. They want religious and cultural identity with full-scale nationalism. They could have long joined the Russian or Chinese bloc by now. They already had their working civilian fission reactors by now if they did. But they are too proud to be a vassal. They want to be their own bloc.