> The majority of the games do not support multiplayer on Linux, due to dependency on Windows-specific anticheat software.
Definitely not majority. Maybe majority of the top 10-20 most popular/most cheated games? The very long tail of games works with multiplayer splendidly
> Many, many of the games themselves aren't totally stable on Linux.
https://www.protondb.com/ is a great database to check on the stability of games. Many, many games are very stable. Games that I happen to play regularly are more stable than Windows (especially with alt-tab and such).
I wouldn't oversell protondb since it's based on user submitted reports. I've tried multiple games that were rated platinum, but wouldn't launch or had other graphical issues that made them unplayable. Luckily the issues usually present themselves before you reach the 2 hour refund time limit.
Those linters won't catch everything. There are cases that will slip by. Rust's error handling, as well as exceptions are both strictly superior to golang's error handling.
My collection of 20+ year old T-shirts does not support this hypothesis. my experience has been the agitator in the washer is what causes the most damage.
Lower quality towels have a very loose weave that easily comes apart both in the washing and in the drying. Some of the very worst, in my case Eastern European, towels are so bad that they show near bald spots after just 3 washing cycles.
I can't see any problems with this; those are tiny fibers and they don't make a big difference except over years. It doesn't affect the weave that much.
What causes the most damage to my old T-shirts is deodorant stains. :(
For shirts I run through the dryer, they don't seem to have suffered much by it. But I don't run printed designs through the dryer, because they take serious damage that way.
Most of my T-shirts survive this (and I love having things come right out nice and dry) but there are 100% cotton and 100% wool clothes that shrink. I try the lower temperatures but the only real sustainable way I found was to lose weight continuously so I can fit in them. The others I just send to the laundry guys. Don't know what they do but it usually comes back nice.
Considering how popular synthetics are these days, I suspect it's because they use small combo washer/dryers in Europe. Certainly my British washer/dryer combo did a good job.
Damage of clothes through the washing/drying cycle is mostly the result of the kinetic energy they are exposed to in the process. Keeping a lower net weight load, and reducing the rpms in the spin cycle can have a large impact on longevity.
Love it. By far the best fully cross-platform experience (including Linux) of any alternative, with great independent self-hosted server implementations.
I appreciate the good things Google does for me; they are many. But I don't think protecting my privacy, much less securing my data even from themselves, is their priority.
Funnily, I don't think there is any other company that protects users private data better than Google. Not military, not Apple, none of them come closer to it.
Google are good at preventing people hacking their servers, but they also broadcast your private data to thousands of third parties every time you open a webpage. Facebook and Google's approach to data security is lock it down so only they and their partners can access it. It does nothing for your privacy.
Nearly 100% of people spend some time in a hospital in their lives.
Unless you're claiming that hospitals only gouge some tiny subset of people and are benevolently generous to everyone else, that number is going to be much closer to 100% than 0.1%.
When I lived in the US, I have personally experienced this, even with top-tier insurance--from both ends: I've had insurance decline claims arbitrarily and pass on five-figure costs to me, and I've had hospitals misclaim things. In both cases, I had to spend dozens of hours on the phone to resolve it.
Most people in the US are far less privileged: Their insurance is not as good, and they don't have the luxury of spending dozens of hours on the phone.
It's just a matter of time until you experience this.
> Unless you're claiming that hospitals only gouge some tiny subset of people and are benevolently generous to everyone else, that number is going to be much closer to 100% than 0.1%.
Actually, yes. Doctors and hospitals have relationships. When a hospital is aware that a good referral source referred them a patient, they will try to keep the patient happy to maintain that source of business.
They're very selective about who they try to screw.
Now if you walk in with no referral and no family doctor, then you're their source of profits and the party they'll try to milk.
Though, actually, the one time I've been referred to the ER by a doctor (he called ahead and everything), the billing was still a shitshow. Insurance delayed paying for months while they tried to work out a way to claim it was a pre-existing condition (this was pre-Obamacare), until the hospital gave up and tried to send me directly to collections for upwards of a quarter million dollars.
Given that most private practices (around here, anyway) usually have lucrative hospital affiliations, the incentive to keep doctors happy by keeping patients happy really doesn't exist.
> If you are able to pay, American healthcare can be higher quality and more timely than Canadian care. Especially the hospitals and doctors in and around Seattle. That's why wealthy Canadians come to the US for some treatments.
It's unlikely you'll find higher quality or more timely care in the US than Canada for anything that would be triaged as urgent (such as a cancer scare). The entire ethos of the Canadian healthcare system is that there should be a single tier system regardless if you're wealthy or poor--everyone gets the same quality of care. This means triaging happens based on urgency of treatment instead who has the most money.
You will certainly be able to bypass any triaging in the US for elective or non-urgent matters, for a sufficient premium (effectively a bribe).
If you're comparing quality with Seattle specifically, then compare against Toronto which has some of the best cancer treatment facilities and doctors.
> Google and a Google Analytics customer may link information about your activity from that site with activity from other sites that use our ad services.
To clarify: Linking your Google Analytics account with your Google Ads account is an explicit feature that the property owner can do to get a fuller view of the conversion funnel.
As far as I know (having worked on that team several years ago),
> they claim that Google doesn't use any data they get from analytics for ads targeting.
was otherwise factual. (That is, Google didn't willynilly take GA data and use it for its own purposes, or even cross-contaminate it in any way.)
Though don't know what might have changed in recent years.
This [1] happened in 2016. Google can change its privacy policy, but your data is still on their servers. The problem is not just a matter of what Google says about privacy, but a matter of trust, and Google has broken that many times already.
Definitely not majority. Maybe majority of the top 10-20 most popular/most cheated games? The very long tail of games works with multiplayer splendidly
There have been reports that Valve is collaborating with EAC to improve Proton support: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/apparently-valve-are-...
> Many, many of the games themselves aren't totally stable on Linux.
https://www.protondb.com/ is a great database to check on the stability of games. Many, many games are very stable. Games that I happen to play regularly are more stable than Windows (especially with alt-tab and such).