Hey mild necro after a week, but it seems to be happening already. The new beta is 64bit! https://lemmy.ca/post/55858408

If you still have an MBR you have bigger issues. Working with ESPs in a GPT partitioned disk is much more stable.

Ah yes it looks like they did say that support for 32bit Windows is stopping soon:

• The Verge - Steam is dropping Windows 32-bit support in 2026
• Tom’s Hardware - Valve to drop Steam support for 32-bit Windows versions next year
• Valve FAQ - Windows 32-bit OS Support

Thanks I had missed this completely!

I assume this is the first step for them to move the client itself to being a 64bit executable later.

That’s a good sign, that Valve is moving at least the runtimes to 64bit only. Maybe that means the client is under similar scrutiny internally. Recently when Fedora was discussing dropping more 32bit libraries Steam came up as a big issue.

I thought “the one that got away” means “the crush you never got together with”?

The bad config file is somewhere in the middle of the chain of causality.

They changed database permissions, revealing a dormant bug in a database query, leading to config files being generated badly with duplicate lines, making them too large for intake by the bot detection service, which didn’t have good input validation and made the process panic instead, ruining the service.

But that’s exactly the lesson. You help the weak supressed civilians against the powerful authoritarian racist military.

Religion is not the part that mattered in the Holocaust.

Hope he doesn’t get the Kashoggi treatment. After all “things happen”, according to Trump.

“Video Background Play Fix” is also nice if you are a YouTube user. Background playing of Videos without the need for Premium.

shaped to look like a bone

I hope you mean wing otherwise that makes even less sense to me

I thought Deep Rock Galactic was PvE anyway

It may act on the whole market, but it doesn’t have the same impact on every OEM.

It’s a bigger issue for Valve than the console competition, who have established supply chains potentially with fixed prices for certain terms or at least more significant volume discounts, and proprietary compatibility hurdles binding their customers, so they can sell hardware at a loss if they want to.

If Valve sells the computers at a loss they run the risk of people buying them for other uses, without generating corresponding Steam profits.

Damn! I live close to Zürich, Switzerland which usually ranks high for most expensive places globally, so I thought I knew what high costs of living were, but paycheck to paycheck on 250k USD, that’s insane. And with that much of a commute too!

I originally thought the Steam Deck would be enough for that, but it appears not yet. Maybe the combined share can move the needle

I would have thought a good job with high education in biotech would be lucrative. Do you not earn enough of is your cost of living that high?

Probably like 30 out of the 200. It really is a ridiculously common name.

Edit: I just looked it up, 20% of South Koreans are called Kim.

I reckon it works a bit like Unix.

But seriously unless you’re a systems engineer with 15 years of experience you probably don’t know how any popular OS works (note, I’m not either, I don’t know shit). They are huge beasts with astonishing complexity.

I spent a semester writing a microkernel OS with three other students. We got the init sequence working, memory management working, a shell accessible over UART, FAT32 on an SD card, a little bit of network, and a minimal HTTP server for the demo. And this was considered a big accomplishment worthy of top grades.

And that’s only the scratching the surface of what makes an OS, just think of all the other things you need. Journaling filesystems, user and rights management, hundreds of drivers for devices and buses* full networking support, with dual stack, DNS, tunneling, wifi, then things like hibernation, sleep, power management in general, container and virtualization support, NUMA support, DMA support, graphical output, clocks and time sync, cryptography primitives and TPM support, etc etc

*I did USB only for mass storage once, that also took me a semester, and I bet PCIe is much harder.

I must have a weird sample then. My uncle specifically wants that because he doesn’t want to have a separate phone. So he has a Galaxy Tablet. And a colleague at work recently inquired how she would log in to the phone company website to charge the prepaid plan if she can’t get the login SMS.

MacBooks are pretty practical. ARM laptops like MacBooks have genuinely ridiculously good battery life; I was genuinely shocked the first time I used one.

Yeah agreed, have one at work. I just really dislike their software.

iPads cant even send SMS or make calls. The most gimped of tablets.

The rest of your list seems reasonable