I tracked down a comparison video, and... well, it's worth consideration, imho.

$5 billion in damages is laughable, but this is pretty clearly a deceptive edit of the speech. He's doing enough treasonous shit to not need to edit things creatively like this.

Yes, but of course you'd expect Valve's SteamOS to work very well on Valve hardware.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but I wonder about that, too. SteamOS is primarily focused on Valve hardware, right? vs. something like CachyOS is Arch-based (so gets live updates/improvements ASAP) or Bazzite (immutable, so hard to break) and both are designed for general PC gaming, so likely have more attention to broad hardware/software/firmware compatibility.

If I were OP, I'd try live booting CachyOS to see if it works better.

To add to the other comment, also if you're a web dev and care about device averages.

ikr? But with billions of devices using this junk connector, we're never changing.

Not sure how you got that from my comment... I said that it's completely unreliable and can't be trusted to do even basic tasks, like not deleting the live server (in my example).

I'm guessing I didn't explain that well in my advice post? But it sounds like I mostly agree with you.

(I think saying they "do what they're told" is a bit too strong of a statement, but I think I get what you're saying.)

Said by someone who, presumably, has never tried to program something technical because LLMs are terrible at it.

I'm using AI quite a bit to help me write code, for work, but I need to review its output so carefully. While cheerfully reporting that it was operating on a test instance, and that no destructive operations would touch live servers, it never toggled to use the test server variables at all. Even worse, it had hard coded using the live server, but only for the delete operations. That would have been a disaster if I was slop coding it, instead of using it as an AI assistant, and very carefully reviewing every line it wrote.

Totally agreed — sorry, I thought it was clear that I understood you were poking fun at them. I was leaning into your sarcasm, but it sounds like I missed conveying that tone!

I mean... You're not wrong. Earth will be fine. It's already had global heating cycles beyond the scale of what we're looking at.

The small, teensy, insignificant problem is that the last time it happened was one of the Great Extinction events that wiped out most live on the planet.

And the heating also happened about 100-1000× more slowly, iirc—over the timescale of millennia, not decades.

But life will survive. And new species will eventually evolve to fill the sparsely populated planet left behind by the disaster.

The Great Filter is coming for us.

It's also illegal. Treaty Rights predate and, thus, supercede the Constitution. (As ruled by the Supreme Court.)

AFAIK, variable interest rate mortgages only require payment increases if rates rise high enough to no longer cover interest payments.

Anyway, I hope you're right. As confident as I am in a pending financial disaster, it would be great for everyone if that doesn't happen!

He also did $hundreds of labour to convert the kit.

Not to detract from what he did—it's genuinely awesome, but it's not practical at scale.