Because China supposedly used Nvidia cards to train DeepSeek, which blew all of the US AI out of the water. And apparently that raised some eyebrows, because Nvidia wasn’t supposed to be selling to China (free market, right?). Since China was eating big tech’s lunch, they cried to republicans (and gave them a bunch of reelection money) and now we have this bill. The point is to be able to remotely disable cards if they’re outside of their sale region.
If you’re looking for a desktop version of SteamOS and are used to using Windows, your best bet is likely Bazzite with the KDE desktop environment. There are mixed feelings among Linux users about immutable distros, (many of the more advanced users feel it is too limiting), but there’s no denying the Bazzite is the most straightforward way to get things like Nvidia drivers and HDR.
The best cutting boards use end-grain for this exact reason. It’s not just a decorative thing. The direction of the wood grain directly determines how quickly the board will dull your knife. Wood is made of two main parts: A hard fiber, and a soft filler in between each fiber. The hard fiber is what dulls your knife when you cut.
Imagine cutting on a tightly packed bundle of really tiny straws. If you cut across the bundle, your knife will be cutting into each straw, dulling in the process. But if you cut on the end of the bundle, the knife blade will slide between the straws instead of cutting them.
The straws will last longer when you’re cutting on the end (because you’re not cutting them) and your blade will last longer (because it isn’t cutting the straws). And an end grain cutting board is essentially cutting on the end of the straw bundle.
I’d include a santoku in there, and probably some scissors. Sometimes you just need the straight edge of a santoku, instead of the curved edge of a chef’s knife.
And sometimes serration is necessary. You’ll blunt your chefs knife on certain sourdough crusts, or crush softer breads, but a bread knife will glide right through.
Yeah, because saying “6.25mm cubes” is so much more efficient /s
Some people regularly wipe down their counters, or just fucking disinfect their work surfaces before they start cooking. Non-toxic disinfectants like Mean Green will work in 2 minutes, and you can spray it before you start pulling out your pots and pans. Then just wipe the counters really quick, and you’re good to go.
My ex used to play that game religiously. Something about weapon swapping, butterflies, double butterflies, etc…
Yeah, my “Public Transit” option on google maps is entirely greyed out. This is my daily commute to work:
It’s always entertaining to see the Europeans go “lol just ditch your car, it has to start somewhere” like it wouldn’t require me to move my entire family across town, (and pay 3x as much rent to live in the city…) Like I don’t even have the option of taking public transit, because there are no connecting lines between my home and my job. Literally none. The nearest bus stop is almost as far away as my job, and it’s in the opposite direction.
And to be clear, that 2+ hour walk would be on a highway with no sidewalk. I’d be dead on day 1. If I wanted to avoid the highway, the walk would be closer to 4.5 hours; The highway is the only direct path.
Yeah, this is what a lot of people don’t initially understand about eldritch horror. The horror isn’t in seeing something scary. The horror is that seeing that thing teaches you things that you can’t even comprehend.
Imagine if there was a living, breathing, real two dimensional creature. It’s a stick figure on a piece of paper. All it knows is is up, down, left, and right. As far as it is concerned, the infinite X/Y plane is the entire universe. And then one day, you rip it off of that sheet of paper and drop it into our 3D world. And it can’t even begin to comprehend what it is experiencing. It literally doesn’t have the right sensory organs to experience 3D life. It struggles to understand anything. And after letting it experience 3D life momentarily, you simply stick it right back onto the paper where it came from. The stick figure screams, for it knows the universe is much larger than any of their friends believe… But it doesn’t even have the right words to describe what that larger universe is, because it doesn’t even understand it in the first place.
That is where the mind-melting horror comes from. To an eldritch being, teaching us anything is like teaching calculus to an ant. Anything it tries to teach us is just going to be useless, because we won’t even have the ability to process the information after we’re dropped back into our current existence. Even if it’s not trying to teach us anything, the simple fact that we encountered it is enough for us to start seeing things we can’t even comprehend. But we’ll know it exists. We’ll know it’s out there somewhere.
It has a decent community, yes. It’s basically the go-to gaming distro for many people.