NaibofTabr

The Alt key is Alt. Why would it need another label?

poor Explorer-chan

78% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

I am you and you are me.

Second, that reincarnation frameworks usually also include a structure where it’s not random what you reincarnate as next time around. Karma doesn’t usually boot people back down to bacterium right after human. It’s usually more of a leveling up in order to experience deeper and more meaningful lifetimes. But YMMV.

That sounds extraordinarily arbitrary. Who decides what counts as a “level up”? Does that mean if you start as a bacteria you’re stuck like that for a few thousand or million cycles? How would you earn enough karma points to level up from being a bacteria? What counts as “deeper and more meaningful lifetimes” if you are a bacteria?

Well, OK, let me ask this a different way then…

How could they possibly distribute a device that was end-user ready with any less control?

They went out of their way to make the Deck user-repairable and partnered with iFixIt to make replacement parts and documentation easily available. They built in a simple way to switch to the Arch desktop so the user could easily access non-Steam applications or take control of the OS if desired. I don’t see how the device could be more open to end-user control and still ready-to-use out of the box.

I got yer accent right here buddy…

American English
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American English (actually this one’s probably its own language)

Er, why would you expect the software on this to be any more restricted than the Deck’s? Have you seen some information to that effect?

Also platformed independent game developers.

Also, Chinese tourists everywhere.

And god forbid you ever have to be near any of the Saudi royal family.

All the rules are written in blood.

I went down to the beach and saw Kiki…

Seriously, fuck Pearson. Garbage company.

The other leg is AWS. If both go down, it’s stone knives and bearskins.

*edit: somebody beat me to it

The statement in your posted image frames the interaction in question (“small talk”) as purely transactional. I am working inside that context. You seem to be drawing “understanding” from some external context which has not been presented here.

people who value small talk assume every stranger is someone to value and attempt to connect with

Strictly based on OP, people who value small talk assume every stranger is someone who needs to be assessed as a possible threat, and must “prove that we can get along”. They might be someone to value and attempt to connect with, but that is indeterminate until tested. The small talk is the test.

So… if you don’t live your life automatically assuming that every stranger is a threat, you don’t waste time and effort with small talk.

supagreen

There are definitely at least 9 circles of emacs filled with tormented souls.

What could possibly go wrong?