“the department put out a request seeking the public’s help to find the knife”

Translation: “We’d love someone to come forward with a knife and claim it’s from the crime scene, so we can cover our asses.”

The police don’t want you to know this, but the knives at crime scenes are free. You can take them home with you. I have 458 knives.

Hi - I’m a Linux newbie.

I don’t tell other Linux users that I use linux because it almost always leads to a bunch of questions that I don’t know the answer to. So let me assure you, that awkwardness is on both sides of that conversation you’re describing.

Yeah I mean, the towtruck owner was not without fault by all I’ve read but even so, the guy stole a truck and caused a lot of property damage and that’s a jailable offense no matter the circumstances.

I feel like maybe you aren’t actually familiar with the issue you’re commenting about here. Maybe you should read the article and watch the video before defending this guy.

Simmons (the woman who murdered the guy) was not the one he had the relationship with. Her trauma (as described in the article) was that she believed her stepfather (whom she stabbed 5 years ago) abused her daughter. As far as the article covers, she had no involvement with the guy she shot and dismembered at all. He had a warrant for failing to register as a sex offender; Simmons apparently saw that and, because of her “disdain for pedophiles”, murdered him.

Whatever your feelings on the guy, we simply can’t condone extrajudicial killings. I know it feels good sometimes to think “Yeah, that guy deserved it!”, and in some cases, maybe they do, but it doesn’t matter - it’s still vigilantism.

In this case, it seems that she’s just a violent woman. If I’m reading it right, she stabbed one person, and murdered two (three separate unrelated incidents) so she deserves the life sentence she got, however you slice it.

Seriously, I’d say there’s a zero percent chance this takes off, but luxury fashion is baffling to me, so who knows. If people will spend $500+ for a zip tie, maybe they’ll spend it for this, too.

“Is my freezer the problem? No, it’s every ice cream manufacturer that’s wrong.”

I’ve bought Target’s store brand ice cream fairly recently and it was a perfectly normal consistency, for what it’s worth. Maybe it’s regional?

Ah! You are correct; I completely missed that.

I… don’t think it did? Are we reading the same article? Heh

“This day has been a long time coming. I am relieved and humbled to help correct this injustice,” said Dallas County Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot.

The guy’s 59, he’s been in prison for most of his adult life. He likely has no house, no savings, no family. While it’s obviously great that he was released, he ought to be given a sizable pension for the rest of his life at the very least… I don’t know what actually happens in cases like this, but if he’s just released without being given some kind of major compensation for the wrongful imprisonment, the injustice isn’t being corrected at all.

The US flag code literally calls for the flag to be burned when it’s no longer fit to display:

The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

Game is Arco.

I haven’t ever heard of it; maybe they should focus more on ‘How do we market this’…

What’s even your point here? You’re suggesting the person you’re originally replying to is part of the demographic that seems to enjoy a game, so their enjoyment of that game is cheapened in some way? If anything that makes them more qualified to talk about it than you are.

Seriously, just let people enjoy things.

I’m not knowledgeable enough about Chinese mythology (popular or not) to be able to comment on that, but it does seem to be very under-explored as a genre; it’s neat that it’s getting a spotlight. I don’t have strong feelings one way or the other about the game personally, but it’s always cool to see a studio try something new - even if it’s only new in theming - and be successful with it. I’d much rather Wukong be wildly successful than another Call of Duty game or whatever.

This seems to be mostly driven by Chinese gamers wanting to play it for the Chinese mythology theme; I wonder if we’ll see a huge influx of other Chinese mythology related games in the coming months, trying to capitalize on this.

So naturally they’re going to collect a shitload of money from them and the landlords using this scheme and use it to reimburse all of the people who were negatively affected by this illegal practice, right?

…right?

Oh, we can see post / comment count, but that’s a meaningless statistic, no? The whole point of karma - the whole thing that makes karma toxic - is that it’s based on farming upvotes; it’s why Reddit is a cesspool of low-effort meme comments that’re engineered to gather those upvotes. Post / comment numbers can’t really be hidden anyway, unless you’re also proposing hiding a user’s comment history… you could get a quick rough total just by checking how many pages of posts and comments there were and doing some quick multiplication.

This might just be a feature specific to the app you’re using; it isn’t displayed publicly on web, at least on any instance I have an account with.

The only things I’ve found that just straight up don’t work on the deck are things with draconian anti-cheat (which don’t work on Linux in general, not just the deck), and very old titles that have weirdly restrictive resolutions or control schemes or whathaveyou. Some games require some tweaking (mostly around controls, occasionally changing the Proton version, which is very easy to do within Steam), but generally that’s been minor. The things that don’t work well are typically things you wouldn’t expect to work anyway.

It’s worth noting that it makes it very easy to remap controls, even for games that don’t natively support controllers or don’t let you remap the controls at all normally. You can also invoke an onscreen keyboard as needed (for e.g. typing names). The controller mapping is very strong; it’s not limited only to single buttons; you can create custom contextual radial menus, for instance, so even games that need many more unique controls than the Deck has buttons work fine with some tweaking. You can also view / download / rate other users’ control mappings for any game that has them, so you don’t even need to do the work yourself.

It’s a fantastic piece of hardware for gaming. Looks great, feels great. It’s a bit large (won’t fit in a pocket, obviously), but that shouldn’t be a problem for anyone who would reasonably want a handheld gaming PC. It’s not a phone or a Gameboy.

I was without a desktop PC for a week or so due to a hardware failure, and was able to do everything I needed to do on the Steam Deck (with a USB mouse/keyboard, plugged into a monitor via a dock). So it’s a great piece of hardware even for that.