if they already have a local central heating system (extremely cool, never heard of that before), then why the heck not?

back when they were trying to do steam machines, i was saying that’s what they needed. even if it was just a limited time exclusive, like hl3 comes out on linux in june, and on windows in december, it could’ve done a lot to solidify their os and hardware scheme. now though? idk if there’s enough hype remaining around the idea of hl3, and steamOS is already a success due to handhelds, and proton has made it way more appealing to do games from linux in general, so i don’t think it’d be so dramatic of an effect, and they’d probably lose out on sales to people who’re really into windows.

all that said, exclusives are usually the deciding factor when choosing between systems. linux has never really had a ‘killer app’. nobody wants to develop a program exclusively for linux because of its small market share, and it stays at a small market share because its competitors have important exclusives that folks can’t bear to go without.

wow, there are some really steaming takes on anarchism in the comments here.

what makes their office software so much better than, say, libreoffice? i don’t work an office job, and haven’t had the misfortune of running windows since i dropped windows 7, but when i did switch, the programs seemed basically the same. office software seemed like a solved problem by then. what new features has microsoft added and convinced people they need that foss options don’t have?

makes me think of the loopholes christian teenagers come up with to claim they’re totally not having premarital sex.

if you can forget why you ever loved your family, couldn’t you also forget the things you’ve done and seen and approach them with new wonder and never get bored?

that’s quite besides the point though. i feel like you’re focusing too much on the ‘forever’ aspect. obviously, if you really feel like you’ve 100%ed reality and want to, you can choose to die, but i don’t think you’d be likely to reach that point because the universe is not a static place. the world is constantly changing, so by the time you’d seen ‘everything’ that same everything would be different.

also, i’ve found that relationships can certainly wither even within a normal human lifespan, if not maintained, but if they are, you’ll be reminded of why you love each other regularly enough to not forget.

i know they aren’t mutually exclusive claims, they just seem unrelated, which is why your shift in topic seemed unexpected to me. maybe they’re not for you? do you want to die eventually because you think you have to anyway? is this a general policy of not wanting things that seem difficult to get? personally, there’s loads of things i’d like that are currently anywhere from difficult to impossible to achieve.

i just can’t bring myself to see the prospect of everyone i know and love withering away and ceasing to exist within a century as anything other than a horrible tragedy. maybe it’s unavoidable (though i have some hope that it isn’t), but that doesn’t mean i have to like it.

do you want your kid to die someday as well? what if your quality of life didn’t have to become bad? immortalists such as myself (that is, people who don’t want people to have to die, and support scientific efforts to make that a reality) don’t want people to just, like, persist in a state of unending geriatric decrepitude, we want folks to be able to live as long and healthy lives as possible.

i feel like you’ve shifted the goalposts, here. previously, you said you didn’t want to live forever, now you’re just saying you can’t live forever.

also, we absolutely do have genetic engineering. it’s been a thing since the 70s. the covid-19 vaccine, for instance, was a feat of genetic engineering. furthermore, techniques such as gene therapy can indeed modify the genetic information of adults.

P.S. i assumed you meant physically, rather than psychically, but if you did mean the latter, then i have no idea what you’re talking about.

usually, calibre’s ebook editor, but that’s cause most of my html writing and editing is to make epubs.

if you don’t want to die now, and you don’t want to live forever, is there some specific age/time you would like to die, if you didn’t have to?

pushing off dying as long as possible, if done successfully, is living forever though? do you not see the contradiction in what you wrote?

i think most people don’t really want to die. and they like living for all sorts of reasons. i hope you can think of at least a few reasons you’d like to go on living as well.

i didn’t get any prompts, and read the article, so i’ll quickly answer.

1. the guy is obsessed with penile behaviour as a measure of overall health, for some reason, and measured the nocturnal boners of himself, as well as his 19 year old son, as a point of comparison.
2. the son shared his dick metrics himself. seems he’s well and fully invested in his father’s phallocentric longevity scheme.

what’s the association of noodles?

i don’t think we ought to be implying that colonization is cool.

maybe something derived from dekotora? it has most of the same associations as the term we’re looking to replace while not having racist or pejorative origins. deko?

hopefully by then it’ll all be sorted by whatever fix they implemented before 2038.

i don’t see how that’s much more incriminating than just having the gun. it’s not like there’s any evidence or any charges that she had plans to use it or anything. she literally just served time for bringing the gun.

why would he do that?

he stands to make “several million dollars” due to Trump’s continued use of the song.

oh, right.