Metric is perfectly relatable for anyone growing up using it. This is just you outing yourself as USAmerican.
P.S. We would use Litres, which everyone has a concept of (Everyone has seen a 1 litre carton of milk) and is easily converted to/ from cubic cm (1000 cm^3 = 1 L = 1000 mL).
I was a bit gloomy going into this Nextfest because of all the AI doomerism surrounding it, but it turned out to be one of the better ones I’ve experienced tbh.
Some games I appreciated:
ROBIN: Chill tile-laying deckbuilder.
Ballistic.exe: “ARMA without the fun”, interesting and strongly stylised ballistics simulator / gun building game.
Kopernicus: Incremental Suffering: Surrealist horror-game. Check it out if you like surrealist titles like Hylics or Brutal Orchestra (/ anything else Talia Mair has worked on)
Probably Stolen: You run a stall in a Cyberpunk dystopia, would recommend.
Dungeons & Dynasties: Meta-DnD, you run an adventurers guild in a simulated world based on DnD (had performance issues in this one on Linux)
As opposed to the previous trend of getty greedily monopolising the industry, stealing images that they don’t own copyright for and using their lawyers to mute smaller competitors they steal from? In this case AI is the lesser of two evils. If you don’t hate getty, you simply don’t know enough about them.
Instructions can be copywritten just like recipes can.
Code is just a recipe for computer brains
“My name is John Smith and my favourite food is pizza” ass take
I consider this argument irrelevant in 2026. The average “full” distro is pretty much plug and play, Ive done nothing but install Steam on my Fedora install and game extensively.
This was not the case even 5 years ago, which is when “gaming” distros were an ok idea and these distros started. By now, the niche they aimed to serve has been largely closed by legacy distros.
No in the sense of convenience, optimization, out-of-the-box features etc.
Because installing Steam (which bundles proton) is soooo inconvenient…
CachyOS is greatly optimized and truly does increase your FPS compared to other distros (and by quite a lot, like 10-15% on average from what I’ve experienced!)
…which distros and games are you comparing because this is not a universal experience… It strongly depends on the game and personal config, no single distro is better than others fps-wise, as benchmark averages keep proving.
Gamers Nexus made a good video on Linux benchmarks if you feel like learning.
How many use Fedora?
An audio jack is anything but tiny in a mobile phone form factor… Theres just no way to keep it without sacrificing something else.
If waste and efficiency are real concerns you should be against the old headphone jacks. They waste a lot of space and are an entrypoint for water and dust, for redundant functionality that already exists in usbc or lightning
I used to share this opinion but grew out of it tbh.
From an engineering perspective headphone jacks are: a) a huge waste of space for no real functionality as the function is integrated in USB-C or lightning.
b) an unnecessary weak point in water- and dustproofing.
If you need an audio jack, specialised models still have it or a dedicated android audio player (fiio make great ones) will serve you better.
I say this as an audiophile btw.
Between these two, Cachy.
If choice is open: Fedora.
“Gaming” focussed distros are often a worse choice imo, because they offer zero performance benefit, are bloated in an attempt to bundle drivers out of the box, are harder to troubleshoot because worse documentation, and the preinstalled configs can cause headaches.
“Gaming” distros are cringe, ineffective gimmicks.
PC ends up being so much cheaper in the long run… Far better game prices and no subscription cancer
PC also has uncountable choice of affordable games thanks to the indie scene booming. AAA is dying and Im here for it
Honestly, the value for money in the gaming industry is the best its ever been outside of AAA and consoles.
Market spending correlates this, more money than ever is being spent but its focussed on indies, AAA sales have been dropping and big studios are losing money, deservedly.
This is frankly a lazy assessment. AI itself is no more anathema than any other convenience (or plagiarism) tool, it is purely how dissociatively one engages with it that matters.
I’ve used AI as a personal tutor in my chemistry degree and it is an absolute boon for those who cannot afford private tutoring. But one has to actually engage with the content of course, instead of having it do your assignments for you.
I still know the numpad layout by heart, 20 years after having such a phone.
Physical buttons are the only way to type blind though, I still know the numpad layout by heart.
Youre either pretty young and never used numpad texting, or kinda old and never got used to it.
That’s the popular opinion tbh. Even Java devs admit Java kinda sucks.