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Distrobox is also a good option for installing stuff without flatpak.

Yeah, I had mostly stayed away from arch based distros after having a really bad time with Manjaro. But hearing the Steam Deck's version of SteamOS was switching to an Arch base got me to try Endeavour on my desktop, and I've been using it ever since.

https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SteamOS-Waydroid-Installer

Not disagreeing with your point, but at least for waydroid there's a specific SteamOS installer available.

As some others have said, the problem is probably that windows still has the drive locked. When windows "shuts down", it actually is only closing your programs and going into hibernation. This leaves the drive in a read only state, which will prevent you from being able to resize the partition.

To do a full shutdown, you can hold shift while pressing the shutdown button on the start menu. Alternatively run shutdown /s /f /t 0 in a administrative command prompt.

Personally I would have preferred them to say it more explicitly, but I'm assuming their idea is people provide the knowledge for wikipedia, and AI should help smooth out the other necessary parts (moderation/editing/translation/etc) so that contributors can focus more on the knowledge part.

Desktop experience is just KDE, only part that I'm worried will trip people up is it being immutable. Usually that's fine, but occasionally you run into an issue where something doesn't work because of flatpak sandboxing, and it can be confusing how to overcome it.

It's working, I know people who don't even own a steam deck who are considering swapping to SteamOS once it's available for desktops.

I've told them they don't need to wait and can get a similar or better experience with distros that are already available, but steam's name is gold for a lot of people and it seems like the only option they're really interested in.

I just recently bought a dryer. When I first got my printer, I was printing pretty constantly and didn't really have an issue with wet filament. But these days I've slowed down my printing frequency a lot, and I've definitely noticed that the print quality gets worse the longer I've had the roll unsealed.

Yes, that's right.

What I was mostly referring to was

posts bumped threads to the top

The controversial threads get more posts, so usually they get bumped to the top over and over until the hit the post cap. Being on top also attracts more posts, but seemingly the easiest way to get a newly created thread to succeed and attract posts is by posting something controversial first.

For example if I wanted to talk about Morrowind, and I think that overall most users there like Morrowind, I'd be more likely to have a successful thread/discussion by making a first post that was something like "I can't believe I fell for the meme that this was actually a good game". I'll get more intial responses of people disagreeing with me, and that will help the thread get started. After that the discussion can move on to other things about the game.

There used to be a dozen sites like 4chan. I don't know if any of them are still around, but I'm willing to bet that if 4chan doesn't come back there will be a new website that takes its place.

4chan is a pretty unique experience. Most of the internet is forming into echo chambers, where having a different opinion than the "correct" opinion for that community will get you downvoted or banned. My understanding with 4chan is that post popularity is determined by replies, and frequently controversial opinions/etc get the most replies. So posting stuff that most people will agree will result in a less popular thread than posting something controversial, offensive, or wrong.

I think this leads to a lot of the negative things you've heard about 4chan, but encouraging disagreements between its members keeps it from becoming a full echo chamber like a lot of social media. They still have some dominant community opinions, but those opinions can't really smother all the other opinions like on most sites.

To be clear, 4chan is a cesspool. But for all it's flaws it does offer something unique that's largely missing on other websites.

Japan in general has weird copyright/patent laws. For example the whole palworld patent lawsuits.

Good news is it probably won't affect people outside of Japan, except that it will stunt games/etc made in Japan.

Communities organizing themselves into squads to handle criminals and undesirables is also how we ended up with the KKK. Also the kinds of people who volunteer for unpaid security work tend to be pretty conservative in my experience.