I had to look up “Panopticon”… What a sick metaphor

Edit: I forgot to even mention, this explaination is for running windows apps on linux with steam (which is a native linux app available in essentially all repositories).

You can run most games (regardless of how you acquired them) directly in steam via proton.

If the app you want to run is a windows executable (.exe or .msi or whatever), you can add it as a “Non-Steam game” (even if it isn’t a game).

If you have trouble getting it started, try changing the compatibility layer in library -> game -> properties -> compatibility -> enable steam play compatibility tool -> choose some version of proton (like proton experimental)

Fair warning: Valve is currently chill about adding games to steam without proof of purchase, but they could change their minds someday.

Also, pro tip, if you really wanna get in the weeds with proton, I recommend proton-tricks. There are very few windows apps you can’t get running with proton and proton-tricks.

Idk about the NRA, but this is the GOAs response.

While I disagree with their statement about immigration, I gotta at least give them credit for not being totally two-faced.

What a day to have a functioning phantasia

A 1w laser will permanently blind you instantly. You can buy/build them very cheaply and easily, but a class 4 laser isn’t a toy.

For perspective, the regular red laser pointers from your local store are like 5mW at most.

A 44w laser is probably an IR fiber laser used for tattoo removal or some industrial application. You can get them cheap, but they are not handheld. Also lasers that powerful tend to be pulsed.

Nichia makes 5w+ 445nm diodes that are small enough to fit in a flashlight

I recommend using a kernel virtual machine.

KVM comes with the Linux kernel.

If you want to set it up manually, you’ll have to look into qemu and virtio.

If you want a more virtualbox-like experience, you can use boxes (also called “gnome boxes”), which gives you a very simple UI for setting up VMs (including windows) with networking/shared drives/hardware pass through/etc.

Distrobox is just a set of shell scripts that controlls Podman under the hood. Not only is it like docker, it literally uses the same container format (ContainerD).

Do they actually produce as much CO2 as carbon plants? Do you have a source for that claim?

In terms of nuclear waste storage, the IAEA claims 390,000 tonnes were generated between 1954 and 2016, and a third has been recycled.

The US EPA claims the US generated 6,340 million metric tons of CO2, and 25% were for the electric power economic sector.

The nuclear waste is stored on site, but I imagine carbon waste is stored mostly in our atmosphere…

The narrative I have heard is that nuclear energy waste is much more manageable than fossil fuel waste, but if nuclear energy has emissions or scaling problems I’m not aware of, I’d be happy to revise my preconceptions about it.