I mean. Having dealt with my black cats, I’m pretty confident that void cat was saying “PICK ME UP! MY GOD, WHY IS IT TAKING YOU SO LONG TO PICK ME UP”
The market share thing is real though. Computing is like 1% actually making hardware and software and 99% about getting the humans to agree with each other about how the hardware and software is meant to work, how pieces cooperate, and what it is meant to mean when any given piece does any given thing.
Proton et al. are amazing, but swapping out the whole system underneath a program for one it was never tested on, to provide APIs that are not actually expected to vary in their implementation details, and using GPU drivers that weren’t extensively tested by the manufacturer in exactly these circumstances and individually tweaked to do specific things for that specific workload, is necessarily going to get you a worse result than doing it the way the program authors expected.
And you don’t need very precise numbers to know that Linux is much less used on the desktop.
Maybe with developers targeting and testing on Steam Deck the situation will change, but trying to get two things to work together when only one of them is willing to change for it is extremely hard and I understand why one might compromise principles to avoid having to do it.
I did when I had a job where I had to run around and write quick notes all night! Turns out it’s faster. Same with a curved, capital E etc. Any letter you could write in one or as few strokes as possible.
Nah, into our airplane seats! See, if we're all in claw machine seats, they don't need aisles so we can get crammed in even closer together. No more wasting time with overhead bins: when you're in the terminal, you put your carry-on in the bin under your seat, close the lid, and sit down. Then the claw machine scans your ticket, picks you and your seat up and deposits you in the right slot - no more wasting the airline's time holding up the line while someone tries to steal your seat or misreads a row number or fumbles with the overhead bins.
Once you land, they empty the plane by running a full-row claw machine, and then the entire plane is an empty shell, making it easy to clean. The empty seats themselves can be cleaned in the terminals between flights - hell, they can probably set up some kind of conveyor belt autoclean system.
I wonder how much it would cost to bribe the FAA and NTSB to sign off on this concept? .....
The King James Tiberius Kirk Version is a better translation than most. Even keeps the line about beating bat’leths into ploughshares with the original context to show it as a shameful act.
It’s not that you misquoted a line or something like that. The dictionary quote is an extremely well known saying that originated in the Bible. Zapp’s line in futurama is literally parodying that saying. By thinking the dictionary is in any way referencing the Futurama scene, you have revealed that you didn’t even get the joke in the first place.
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