Not everywhere in the USA is bad, especially in metro areas. I’ve got 10Gbps symmetric for US$40 where I live (San Francisco Bay Area, via Sonic.com), and there’s a few providers throughout the country (mainly smaller ones) that have similar price points. Some cities are lucky and have municipal internet, where the city provides the internet as a non-profit.

This is the type of content I need in my life at the moment.

we’ll have to create a new SSN system and everyone will need new SSN’s after spending our whole lives remembering the same one.

Hopefully the new one would have proper security features, rather than having one single number that every bank, lender, employer, etc has. It desperately needs the ability to revoke access for just a single entity, which is impossible if they all share the same number.

I see that in some cases on Linux, for example JetBrains IDEs use paths like $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/JetBrains/Rider2024.1. I agree that it’s more common on Windows though!

I usually use the “scaled” feed sorting algorithm instead of the default “active” one. It does a better job of showing a larger variety of posts, including posts from small communities.

This isn’t strictly true because most games do still have a playable version on the disk

At least on my Xbox, there’s games where it wouldn’t let me play them unless some updates were installed. “day one patches” are very common in the video game industry these days.

legally transferable due to doctrine of first sale as I understand it.

The first sale doctrine applies to physical goods. The game companies are moving towards the games always being digital goods, and the disc simply being a physical license key for the digital games. I’m not sure if the doctrine would apply in the same way in this case.

The only difference between a physical and digital copy of a video game is the format of the license key (on disc vs attached to your account). In either case, you’re buying a license key that can be revoked by the manufacturer at any time. A playable game isn’t even on the disc any more, since games aren’t finished by the master date any more (so you need to have internet access regardless of if it’s a disc or digital copy)

At least California is doing something and forcing stores to make it clearer that you’re only getting a revokable license rather than actually buying the product: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24254922/california-digital-purchase-disclosure-law-ab-2426

Often they were created before the XDG spec was widespread, and haven’t been changed for backwards compatibility reasons or because nobody’s been willing to change it.

Windows developers trying to follow best-practice-like-Microsoft-does

I think the best practices on Windows are pretty similar to Linux, other than Windows usually using title case whereas Linux usually using lowercase. There’s bad developers on both platforms :)

Windows equivalent to XDG_CONFIG_DIR is %appdata%, which is the roaming AppData directory.

This is a reason why people should feel safer taking a plane or train, which is my point.

Even if flying gets a bit less safe, there would have to be far, far more plane crashes (at least three orders of magnitude more) for it to become anywhere near as dangerous as driving.

Of course they’re pre 2025… It’s only February so there’s no full year stats for 2025 yet.

Flying is still the safest form of transport.

There’s 1.17 deaths and 42 injuries per 100 million miles travelled by car in the USA. In comparison, there’s only 0.007 injuries per 100 million miles flown in commercial planes in the USA. Even trains are more dangerous at 0.1 injuries per 100 million miles.

You’re far, far more likely to be in a car crash on your way to the airport compared to being involved in a plane crash.

Too bad the California high-speed rail project is being threatened by President Musk.

I can never seem to get used to that 10,000ft standard.

The standard is 8,000 feet, not 10,000. Some planes, like the Boeing 787, are pressurized to 6,000ft instead.