It is, but I suspect they’re trying to mount the NTFS from Steam Big Picture mode. Also, Bazzite is immutable, so there may be something funky there.

Plug them into a non-gaming Linux distro like Fedora. It’ll read them no problem unless they’re Bitlocker encrypted. Then reformat them in Bazzite so you can use them for storage.

Probably they hate XP because it introduced Windows Activation Services for the first time.

That said, XP did suck. Windows 7 and Windows 2000 were the best editions of Windows IMHO.

Vista was OK, once it had its bugs worked out with UAC. XP had tons of security problems. Windows 8 actively hated people who had keyboards and mice for some reason. Windows 10 was shoved full of telemetry, which Windows 11 has taken to the max, plus added AI slop.

If you share it from certain browsers or the Google search app, Google injects a redirect link to basically track your activity and who you share it with. More marketing and user tracking bullshit.

TBF this project started decades ago before proton and a lot of compatibility layers became mainstream.

Also, ReactOS is closely tied to helping WINE and always has been, so it’s not a complete waste. It’ll just never actually emulate Windows in any stable way.

For sure and fair enough.

I just feel the need to remind people when they mention degradation as a concern, that a degraded battery after a decade doesn’t just turn into a paperweight. It just goes slightly less far.

Unless you’re travelling 200+ miles every day and assuming a 20% reduction in range after 8-10 years, most EVs start with ~225-250 miles of range, so at 80%, which is pretty much the realistic worst case scenario, that’s still around 180-200 miles of range.

Plus, they don’t need oil changes/spark plugs/coils/etc., electric is cheaper than gas per mile by usually 2-4x, they don’t need brakes or calipers hardly because of regen braking, and so much more.

Ioniq 5 and 6 also suffer from ICCU failures like crazy and other gremlins in their high voltage system. I was going to buy an Ioniq 5, but this steered me clear of the brand for now.

The Kia Soul EV seems fine, but isn’t it super range limited like the Nissan Leaf used to be? I haven’t looked at them in a while, but last I knew their Soul EV only got ~120-150 miles of range.

Diesels don’t run for shit anymore. All of the DPF and EGR systems kill them after 150-200k max. Gone are the days of the 7.3L Ford or 5.9 Cummins that were bulletproof. I still drive around my gasser 7.5L in my 95 F250, but it’s a gas guzzling beast.

As for range loss on cold, that’s true for LFP batteries. Not NMC, which is what most cars use. Range loss in the winter is mostly from climate control, but unless your car is using a resistive heater, this isn’t hardly any range loss.

Batteries don’t usually just “die” though. You don’t have to even think about replacing it. Even if a 250 mile EV loses 30% of its capacity after 8-10 years (which is higher than most besides older gen Nissan Leafs), that means it can still drive 175 miles.

The reason Americans don’t buy EVs is because all EVs sold in America are:

1. More expensive than their ICE equivalents initially
2. Are made by idiots like GM who make their cars only pre-2023 or for one year in 2026 (seriously GM just make the fucking Bolt)
3. Nissan…who just FINALLY got it through their fucking heads that air cooled batteries and Chademo are bad ideas as they’re about to go bankrupt
4. Are Tesla and financially supports the trillionaire neo-nazi.

There are very few basic, cheap EVs on the American market. Tesla is really the only one and most of us refuse to support that prick.

I just bought a used 2023 Bolt EUV a few months ago. Absolutely love the thing. I got it for $15.5k and it still has 5 years of warranty. And GM decided “hey…you know that car you love? We’re going to stop making it because it doesn’t have the margins our big boi SUV gas guzzlers have. Sorry and fuck you”.

That wasn’t really the Jedi council’s fault. Sidious put them in an impossible situation asking Anakin to be his “person on the Jedi council”. They were doing their best to appease the Chancellor, not knowing at the time he was a Sith playing them.

The council were a bunch of fucking idiots (Windu especially), but this was one of those times they actually chose the best, worst option.

Supposedly Apple claims to encrypt it at rest and in transit.

While I loathe AI bullshit, Apple is at least prioritizing local, on-device AI and end-to-end encryption with their cloud AI services.

I’ll still be passing on any of this bullshit, but I appreciate that they tried to make a less problematic version.

I prefer dedotated wam

Toys for Bob is making this game, the people who made the original trilogy remake. It’ll probably be done well. They seem to get it.

Indie Devs: Allow us to introduce ourselves

Indie Devs: Allow us to introduce ourselves

Interesting looking game. Hopefully it’s good. I remember loving the more “horror focused” missions on Elite Force 2.

If your networking gear isn’t running open source and/or non-cloud connected software, it isn’t yours.