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Ed's got a podcast called Better Offline as well.

Right. We all know Steam Deck is running on Arch. And also that Steam previously did publicly release SteamOS for awhile (Debian based). So hopefully one day soon they get ballsy enough to push a new/modern official linux build and profit. They haven't even taken the old links to the SteamOS builds down. I mean c'mon!

For anyone on this thread who doesn't know who Ken Klip is, please check out his free Substack (and subscribe if you can). I wasn't on Twitter very long (maybe 1.5 years before Elmong took over) but one of the people I value that I ran into on that platform is Ken Klippenstein and I've been following him since. He's amazing at filing thousands of FOIA requests and doing the digging into them that no mainstream journalist does anymore. He also recently quit The Intercept because they were enshittifying far more than he was comfortable with, which for a writer is a huge thing to leave the umbrella of a company like that and a paycheck behind. Writers going out on their own in this climate is the only way we'll stay even remotely unfucked in the post-information (or misinformation) age.

Klip fuckin rules. Please give him some due.

Admit to not reading the whole article but does this mean they're finally going to officially release SteamOS 3 for desktops? Or am I stuck with hacky ports from the Steam Deck?

Well you're kinda right. I've lived in BC and the Yukon where it's fully legal for women to go topless and I know quite a few who have, for shorter events like naked bike ride etc. But most of them intelligently choose not to at public beaches and whatnot because of the ick factor.

I know one lady who did choose to go topless on a hot summer day in a fairly major downtown center and was accosted by cops whom she had to argue with (gladly, and loudly) for over an hour to explain to them that she was breaking no laws. They were trying to pressure her to re-robe because they were getting complaints, but again it's true that she was breaking no laws at all. They couldn't in the end do anything about it, and rightly so.

Yeah caught that. Appropriately apologetic for even trying to use a calculator. I'm a HS dropout, what can I say 😂

Thanks for fact-checking.

Yeah caught that. Appropriately apologetic for even trying to use a calculator. I'm a HS dropout, what can I say 😂

Thanks for fact-checking.

Yeah I got the memo. Disclaimer above that I am not a math guy and shouldn't have ever attempted it. 🤷

Well yeah... you wouldn't have to use foreign services if a domestic alternative existed. One doesn't for northern residents, yet. So here we are like many times in the past (like for getting northern people online, or getting them clean water to drink) talking about future, possible, great idea measures that will take place at some point instead of just doing the fucking thing.

I don't love Starlink or Musk. However, I do own a Starlink dish and I have used it for the past couple of years for work. I know lots of other people who live in very remote areas who have been using it since it became available to them. Starlink took off in central and northern areas of Canada very quickly because it was the only (good) option for highspeed internet, and still is. And while it would be dope if a canadian competitor came along and made good on their potential, we're still falling back into the fact that at best a canadian LEO internet company would have to launch their sats in the north for a total of 120k customers. Starlink has the Alaskan market which is upwards of 750k people, already. The canadian customers are just a bonus for them in that region, at that scale.

Why can't we get northern people online now as well as develop a domestic solution? I don't think it's a stretch to say Telesat looks like another XPlore-net type solution (i.e. half-assed, at best, and maybe will never happen at this point). I've worked in tech for 4 years now. Currently for a fully private company, zero public or private/VC funding. But the first company I worked for took an obscene amount of public funding (lockdown subsidies which in fact is how I got hired) and a fuckton of tax breaks before and since. Sadly, they've also done a lot of screaming about the suggestion that they should pay their fair share of corporate tax. Not super relevant to this convo, but I do understand in some ways what's at stake when a company takes public money (and still treats locals like shit). There are lots of examples of this going wrong, so I wouldn't wanna see it be the only option on the table for any reason.

At any rate I think we agree that folks should probably have clean drinking water first anyhow.

I'm with you on that. I really am. However I'm also for people in the north getting online effectively before another decades passes. The government (and that's not just the libs) have been promising this shit since the early oughts, and throwing money at it that seldom seems to do any good.

NP! It's a great app, the dev updates it really frequently and I've never had any functional issue with it. I keep meaning to drop onto their git issues board and make a couple of small quality of life suggestions for the UI/UX as I use it dozens of times per day for work (there are some processes that currently take 5 clicks/per that could be reduced to 1 or 2 max) but that is a very small and nice problem to have.

This is an interesting scenario with the entire military might of the US sitting in Alaska at this moment literally there to prevent this exact thing from happening. I mean, fun to think about, but not happening any time soon. Especially by the year 2030.