Thiel’s Antichrist scenario is one in which a unified government suppresses technology to impose order, or armageddon, wherein AI takes over and ushers in the end of the world.
Another attendee said the talk revealed a less well-known, more scholarly side of Thiel.
Scholarly, lol. What is it that makes people think that billionaires are more intelligent than they really are, while those billionaires are actually going off the deep end?
Who knew that the Twitch CEO was actually the blonde bearded guy from the memes? TIL
Thanks!
I thought this may be a consideration too, but I would expect it to be a minority of websites that would do this, no?
Out of genuine curiosity, what is the reasoning for using the Win user agent?
I know! This article kind of addresses that with this line: “although we can’t be certain of the exact numbers, Linux is clearly growing”.
Interestingly enough, reading through again, the 6% figure is from US government sites, but the growth numbers in the line I quoted in the post is actually global. Here’s the graph they’re referring to:
I hadn’t noticed that dip in 2025 until I looked at this graph more closely!
I believe I’ve heard that you can use the Nix configuration tool that gives this functionality on any distro? But yes, I’ve also avoided it so far because it seems complicated. Perhaps in the future, when I’m more versed on Linux.
I’m not sure about the 5% story, but this 6% one is specifically about US government sites. Sorry I didn’t mention that in the post.
The 5% story was published yesterday. This new article from today says that they trust the government site figures more than StatCounter which was cited on yesterday’s story.
Thankfully I have some requirements for laptops that very significantly narrow my options:
That only leaves Thinkpads for me to consider.
Good to know, thanks. I had heard of syncthing but didnt realize there were ios clients.
You could also restructure your workflow slightly. Instead of downloading from iCloud, there are good options to sync directly from your phone to your PC. I use an app called PhotoSync. It allows you wirelessly offload photos from phone to PC at the touch of a button, or even automatically, I believe. It’s a one-time purchase too, not subscription. It also supports Linux targets via open protocols.
Awesome post, thank you! I’m a huge fan of rally in general and bought Art of Rally pretty much when it was released. Here are some other cool driving and rally games that come to mind:
GeneRally 2: top-down arcade racer in early access, sequel to a popular freeware game from the early 2000s. It has a track editor and probably nice arcade physics like its precursor.
Driver: retro Playstation 2 title that lets you be the badass getaway driver of 70s movies. If you haven’t heard of this, it’s so good in terms of emulating those types of movie scenes.
Rally Trophy: retro rally sim that focuses on historic rally cars from the 60s and 70s, i.e., mostly 2WD and RWD.
Mobil 1 Rally Championship: retro rally sim that was known from what I recall for having realistic full-length stages of the real British Rally Championship. We’re talking 20, 30+ minute stages from what I remember reading. I think that this is really cool and wish that there would be more games like this. There used to be mods that fixed issues with some aspects of the physics on it.
Xpand Rally: it seems that one unique feature of this retro rally game was that it included a track editor so that you could edit the game’s stages or design brand new ones.
Finally, a game that’s not about driving at all, but about being a rally mechanic: Rally Mechanic Simulator. I just discovered this recently and it looks interesting.
Note: this thread is on the Steam Deck community but I’m not sure about the compatibility of any of these games with that. Check before buying.
I see, thanks for explaining!
Why not the Windows native version on the Windows machines?
Haha, great name, thanks for the link!
You definitely have a good point!
Cool to see a Linux smartphone, but holy moly, what a terrible name!
I don’t have an answer for your first two questions, but I hear you on your comic book take.