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Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey
  • If you can swing it, keep the old PC parts around and put Linux on the old stuff and build up confidence there. I used synergy to move my mouse between windows and Linux and slowly got to the point I felt good enough to jump all in.

  • What's the biggest room in the world?
  • I went looking but couldn't find a reference. US Air Force Plant 4 in Fort Worth (where the F-35 is assembled) was at one point the longest length building without internal support columns. I've been told that there is a twin building somewhere else, but the one in Texas is 25 feet longer. I just can't find a source with the number!

  • What's a great buy it once Android app?
  • I've got some that pulls the picture from Bing and the picture from NASA and set them to my wall paper and lock screen back grounds.

    I've got another one that silences my phone when I'm at work or church and not connected to my car blue tooth. I used something similar in college to silence my phone when a calendar event was happening. My phone never made a peep during a lecture! It resets volumes to normal levels after the silent period is done.

  • What's the strangest thing you've brought home from the bar?
  • Not from a bar directly, but on the walk back from the bars. I picked up a brick paver. They had just finished laying everything down in the courtyard of a new building and there was 1 brick sitting there. I looked for spot to drop that brick into close by, but I didn't see a spot. So I carried it home!

  • What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?
  • I've been very happy with a couple of indexers that I have paid for. I haven't needed to really jump into the invite only world. There really is A LOT of content available easily. I'm sure more niche content might need more select access, but for me I haven't gotten there. There was one Charlie Brown I have on VHS that took forever to find a better copy of, but I did eventually get a better version.

  • Trump says he would withhold California fire aid unless Newsom 'signs those papers'
  • That's because California (like the majority of other states) assigns all of their EC votes to the winner of the popular vote within state. Only Nebraska and Maine split their delegates right now.

    The popular vote compact is not in effect yet. They don't have the 270 votes needed to do it. The last sentence of the first paragraph in the Wikipedia article you linked to says so.

  • Taylor Swift Drove Nearly 338K People to Vote.gov With Kamala Harris Endorsement Post
  • Oh shit there are! Wow! /s

    If one of them could get to the 5% popular vote...yada yada. Yeah I know. 2016 was the closest they got in a long time. I voted 3rd party then because I'm in a deeply red state so it wasn't a throw away vote or preventing the Dems from winning. They didn't get there. I'm am very convinced at this point you must fix the voting system before 3rd parties have any viability. FPTP is outdated at this point and the added layer of the EC is doing more harm than good now. It was a good idea for a different time, but today is different and the system should evolve. RCV/IRV has shown very clear benefits to enable more than 2 options to be viable on a ballot.

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