I don’t understand. Boxes are physical.

You can buy a boxed copy?

30 USD is the lowest price it has been on Steam so far. The summer and winter sales usually have the best prices, so if you wait another six days, you’re likely to see a price at least that low; maybe lower.

I would wait.

For what it’s worth, I found RDR1 a lot less interesting than RDR2, which is often on sale for half that price.

We’re discussing things purchased at retail, as stated in the first sentence of the article and indicated in my comment by the word scalping. Not wholesale markets.

I found this in US Code Title 15 Subtitle B Chapter VII Subchapter E Part 791 Subpart A § 791.4:

§ 791.4 Determination of foreign adversaries.

(a) The Secretary has determined that the following foreign governments or foreign non-government persons have engaged in a long-term pattern or serious instances of conduct significantly adverse to the national security of the United States or security and safety of United States persons and, therefore, constitute foreign adversaries solely for the purposes of the Executive Order, this rule, and any subsequent rule:

(1) The People’s Republic of China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macau Special Administrative Region (China);

It looks like the determination of this “long-term pattern” was put on the books no later than 2024. Since Title 15 is about Commerce and Foreign Trade, it seems reasonable to think that hostilities being considered by the US are not just physical hostility, but also economic hostility.

I imagine there’s also political hostility to consider. I haven’t been following election interference news, but wikipedia has an article about it, so I suppose it’s at least a concern these days.

Just as Padilla took to the Senate floor to deliver an emotional speech, New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested in a courthouse after demanding to see a judicial warrant for an immigrant federal officials were attempting to detain.

How about we make scalping of anything illegal everywhere, with a mandatory punishment of community service hours, valued at minimum wage, until the scalper pays back double their cumulative scalping profits?

To me, the most interesting thing about Zed is the GUI framework they’re building along with it, called GPUI. Its approach to text rendering seems like it would do a much better job than any other newish GUI framework that I’ve seen at preserving the look of a windowing system’s native glyphs.

AFAIK, they don’t plan to generalize it for use by other projects, at least for now. But if their approach to this stuff ends up working as well as it seems on paper, I could see it leading to a new cross-platform GUI toolkit capable of rivaling Qt in certain areas where there are vanishingly few good options.

https://zed.dev/blog/videogame#text-rendering

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/gpui

https://www.gpui.rs/

It’s not clear who wrote the agenda. No committee chairperson has been named and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not comment.

Who in their right mind would accept and follow such an agenda?

It was more than a few years ago when I switched my desktop systems from Windows XP to Linux. I was already familiar with the new environment (having already used various unixes for years) so the transition was mostly a matter of replacing my favorite apps and wrangling Wine into running my games. Both those tasks are pretty easy these days.

More importantly, Microsoft’s adware, spyware, and hardware demands at that time were nothing compared to now. If I were to make the switch today, I imagine it would be not just a breath of fresh air, but more like being instantly cured of debilitating asthma. What a relief.

To people planning to switch with no prior experience: Please be patient. Like moving to a foreign country with different language and culture, it will be awkward and possibly frustrating at first. You will master it over time, though, and end up with control of your computer and data again. Well worth the investment, IMHO.

Meanwhile, Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” spending and tax bill would direct $168 billion towards immigration and border enforcement. But that increased spending and other immigration-related costs could cost the U.S. an estimated $1.4 trillion over the next decade.

I also love how the characters age, develop, and eventually retire.

They can also turn up again in later campaigns. This lends well to both the story and team-building aspects of the game, and is one of the things that sets Wildermyth apart from superficially similar games.

Neat idea.

One of the problems caused by certain litigious corporations is that a lot of community-developed knowledge about game/emulator compatibility is lost when an emulator project is forcibly shut down. A separate repository for that knowledge, like this one, could help preserve the information.

I’m disappointed that it doesn’t show game details unless the browser allows off-site images, and doesn’t show any information at all unless the browser allows javascript. This requires users to expose themselves to security and privacy risks in order to use the site. I would consider contributing if they fix this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire

the first thing was install FreeBSD. I have always been intrigued by it, a UNIX like OS that was by design meant to replace UNIX

FreeBSD descends from the Berkeley Software Distribution, a descendant of Bell Labs Unix. As it is very much a pedigreed Unix, you don’t have to say “UNIX like”. :)

Fun fact: The network sockets API that is (or was originally) used by every major OS for internet protocol support came from BSD.

Edit: You might enjoy these Unix family trees…

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_history-simple.svg

https://eylenburg.github.io/os_familytree.htm

I used to like Klei games. Too bad they sold out to Tencent.

I wonder if someone could upload a snapshot of it to the Internet Archive.

Pussy Riot: 5 Russian Words You’ll Need to Know in Trump’s America (2017)

(Thanks to archive.org for saving this video, which was recently removed from YouTube.)

1. Likely, yes. The mounting holes and rear connectors on any ATX motherboard should line up with the standoffs and slots on any ATX case. Just make sure the new board isn’t too large for the case. Plan ahead for the size of your new CPU cooler, too.
2. For the most part, yes. Pay attention to the new motherboard’s power connector and that of your old power supply. If they don’t match, you might want to get a more modern power supply (even if it’s a used one).
3. It depends on the prices you find. Bear in mind that if you go for a new motherboard, it doesn’t have to be the latest generation. A socket AM4 motherboard might make sense, since new CPUs are still being made for them, and they’re likely to be cheaper than latest-generation stuff.

The Ryzen 5 5500X3D’s Latin American exclusivity sets it apart from its higher-end counterparts, being the only Ryzen chip exclusive to that geographic area.