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Before his government service, he was a partner at Soros Fund Management

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent

LOL, you'd think the MAGA types would already be calling for his head based on that.

And:

Bessent has praised Trump's proposal to implement broad tariffs

Aren't you getting exactly what you wanted, Bessent?

• Poor infrastructure in many of these communities, and no way to get to larger towns and cities without a car. So you're stuck with crappy chain stores and terrible quality food, harming your health. And it's boring, because it can't support many kinds of entertainment.

• Smaller communities tend to skew towards conservatives, and there's little way to escape from it (due to the distances and the lack of high speed rail). So expect more religiosity, more discrimination, and politicians that are even shittier than the average.

And Canadian and Australian firefighters have less of an incentive to help out this time, given err recent events.

Yes, shallow and pedantic.

The proton logs are fairly inscrutable, and probably aren't helpful if it's a driver issue.

There's a big discussion on the Proton issue tracker that may include your problem.

It doesn't actually matter. It should have been a landslide in favour of Harris, and if there was cheating it would have just reduced her margin of victory.

The fact it was close enough to work (if it occurred) is an indictment of a significant proportion of the population.

Looking at the specs:

Positives:

• Higher refresh rate (with VRR) and slightly larger screen (so smaller bezel), higher resolution.
• Hall effect joysticks
• Possibly better speakers

Negatives:

• IPS instead of OLED display (but a good quality one at least)
• Only one touchpad, and its tiny
• Seems to be only 2 back buttons instead of 4 on the deck

Neutral / unknown:

• Long term support compared to official Valve devices (hopefully Valve is handling this for third party devices similar to Bazzite).
• Price seems to be the similar to the Deck OLED model (depending on region)

Going by the Verge review of the Windows version of the hardware, it seems the SOC of this isn't that powerful (and may even be outperformed by the Deck when rendering at 720p on both systems with some games): https://www.theverge.com/reviews/617613/lenovo-legion-go-s-review-feels-good-plays-bad

They did see framerates improve with Bazzite, so presumably the Steam OS release will have similar improvements.

And you'd think a self-perceived business genius would be able to significantly increase the value of said purchase, not lose billions.

I think there is some postprocessing but yeah it uses Bing. I simply meant that SearXG uses its results (and Bing too for that matter). So it's layers all the way down.

I'll add that it's a meta-search engine rather than something that does the actual searching itself. That's still useful, but you're limited by the quality of the upstream search engines (including google, duckduckgo, qwant, etc).

The gain from self-hosting is that you have more control over the results, and can do things like redirect social media sites to privacy friendly alternatives, and create your own bangs (or even add your own custom search engines).

Probably not a massive privacy gain though, although if you host the instance behind a privacy VPN queries won't be associated with your IP at least.

Calibre is used as a server all the time, see calibre-web.

calibre-web is technically not Calibre and is written and maintained by different people, although it does use the Calibre database (and I believe it must be created with desktop Calibre initially). But it's a good option and I highly recommend it.

you just load your books from Calibre (or right through USB if you’re hardcore for some reason) and you’re basically off to the races.

There's also an OPDS server option with calibre-web that you can use to load books from if you're using koreader.

You can also use the Kobo server replacement option with calibre-web although I personally couldn't get it to work at the time I tried it. But this will give you a sync option that works like the official Kobo server which is quite nice.