Worth adding that Bazzite has been doing this for a while already, and honestly it's pretty solid if you're on Nvidia and don't want to wait. The Game Mode works well, drivers are pre-installed, and the community behind it is active. Not a perfect replacement for the official SteamOS experience, but close enough that most people won't notice the difference day to day.

**We traded autonomy for convenience**, and the price we paid was our agency over the machines. There is a brutal paradox in modern computing. In the past, the barrier to entry was technical — you had to learn terminal commands, understand what a configuration file was, and resolve hardware conflicts by sheer grit. However, once you overcame that learning curve, the user had absolute control. Today, interfaces have become so spoon-fed that we created an illusion of ease; the result is a generation of users who know how to swipe a screen but don't have the slightest clue how a file system works or where their own data is actually stored. Technology has become an opaque black box. This paradigm shift perfectly reflects **Wirth's Law**, which sums up the tragedy of modern development: software is getting slower faster than hardware is getting faster. It is a technical mockery that the Apollo 11 guidance computer took humanity to the Moon with just $74 KB$ of memory, while today a chat app or a text editor needs Gigabytes of RAM just to run a heavy interface (frequently bloated by frameworks like Electron, which basically run an entire browser in the background to perform simple tasks). The truth is, the computer stopped being a **tool to extend the mind** and transformed into a **value-extraction terminal**. In the past, the machine was passive and silent, awaiting human command to act. Today, it is an active agent dictating user behavior, pushing notifications, collecting telemetry, and forcing updates to feed business models based on engagement and subscriptions. The hardware evolved beautifully, but the philosophy of software drastically decayed.

This hit harder than I expected. I spent 30 years thinking I was the problem in every relationship. Turns out I was just replaying a script I never agreed to follow.

This article touches something real, but I think it stops just short of the most important question: who taught the parents? Most overprotective parents are not failing their children out of ignorance or laziness. They are parenting from their own unhealed wounds. The mother who cannot let her son face conflict at school is often someone who grew up in a home where conflict meant violence, silence, or abandonment. The father who does his daughter's assignments is frequently a man who was told, his entire childhood, that failure was shameful. They are not protecting their children from the world. They are protecting them from what the world once did to them. This matters because the conversation around parenting tends to become a blame exercise very quickly, and blame without context produces guilt, not change. A parent who feels accused shuts down. A parent who feels understood might actually reflect. The cycle does not break through criticism alone. It breaks when someone in the family, usually after a crisis, decides to ask a question that no one before them was brave enough to ask: why do I parent the way I do, and where did I learn it? Therapy helps. But so does having spaces, like this one, where these things are said out loud without the usual social performance of the perfect family. The fact that people are reading and reacting to this article is itself a sign that something is shifting. People are starting to name things that used to stay buried. That, I think, is where real change begins.

The DNS leak section is the most underrated part of this. I've done pentest work where the target was running a paid VPN and we still reconstructed their browsing patterns entirely through DNS. The tunnel was up the whole time. Split tunneling is genuinely dangerous if you don't know exactly what you're doing, and most consumer VPN apps make it feel like a feature rather than a footgun. The iptables approach described here is correct. On Linux I'd add: set `DefaultDNS=` in `/etc/systemd/resolved.conf` to your VPN's resolver and set `DNSOverTLS=yes`. That way even if something slips past the tunnel, it hits an encrypted wall instead of your ISP's resolver in plaintext.

What strikes me most isn't the 42% who want to change — it's the silent majority who won't. Not because they lack skills or opportunity, but because they've confused stability with safety. Those two things stopped being the same a long time ago. When did we agree they were?

I found it interesting that it doesn’t rely on insurance. It kind of exposes how artificially inflated the traditional system is.

This hit me harder than I expected. I grew up watching my parents work two jobs each and still never get ahead, and for the longest time I thought it was just bad luck or the system being rigged against us. And maybe parts of it are. But reading this made me realize that nobody ever sat us down and explained the difference between spending to survive and spending to grow. That conversation simply never happened in our house. We were too busy trying to make it to the next week to think about the next decade. What this article does well is that it doesn't shame anyone for where they are, it just holds up a mirror and asks if you're willing to look. That's rare. Most financial content either talks down to you or sells you a fantasy. This one actually respects your intelligence while challenging your habits, and that combination is exactly what most people need to hear right now.

This is a welcome move, but it comes late. As Daring Fireball aptly pointed out: there's a Reddit thread from 15 years ago with people already complaining about this practice — and Google is only acting now in 2026. From the perspective of someone who works with websites and traffic, there's an important point that goes beyond SEO: back button hijacking always sat in that uncomfortable gray area of the web — widely hated by users, associated with aggressive monetization, and treated as a "bad experience" rather than a formal violation. That has now changed. The most relevant detail for anyone using third-party ad platforms or content widgets is that even if the behavior comes from external scripts, libraries, or ad platforms, Google still holds the site owner responsible — who will need to remove or disable any code causing the issue. In practical terms, this means: if you use ad networks or content recommendation tools on your site, it's worth auditing them now before June.

I like where you’re going with this, especially the distinction between signals that are hard to fake versus those that are performative. That alone already explains a lot of everyday misjudgments. One angle that adds another layer here is the difference between *expressed intelligence* and *latent intelligence*. What the study is really capturing is how well people can detect intelligence when it’s already being externalized through language and structure. But that’s just one slice of the picture. There are plenty of cases where intelligence doesn’t show up as articulate speech, especially across domains or cultures. Also, the point about psychological stability is more important than it seems at first glance. If your internal model of people is biased by insecurity, status anxiety, or even just cognitive laziness, your evaluations won’t be calibrated, no matter how sharp you are technically. So accuracy here might come less from “being smarter” in isolation and more from having a well-tuned mental model of others. Another interesting implication is that this creates a kind of feedback loop. More intelligent individuals are better at recognizing intelligence, which means they’re more likely to correctly identify and engage with other capable people. Over time, that probably compounds into better networks, better conversations, and even sharper judgment. Meanwhile, poor evaluators might systematically miss high-quality interactions without realizing it. So yeah, the uncomfortable takeaway isn’t just about misjudging others. It’s that your ability to recognize value in people is itself a form of intelligence that shapes the kind of world you end up experiencing.

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Sergey Brin's comment goes way beyond "you don't need a degree." The fact that Google hires many self-taught individuals is a symptom of a structural shift: the *signal* for competence has changed. The internet broke the monopoly of formal knowledge. Now, a portfolio, open-source projects, and the ability to learn quickly speak louder than pedigree on a resume. This doesn't devalue university—which still offers structure and networking—but it removes its exclusivity as the only proof of skill. The real barometer now isn't *where* you learned, but *what* you can do and *how* you handle tools that are constantly changing. The ladder didn't disappear, it just became less vertical.

Netflix is truly becoming the "Netflix of companies": with this potential Warner megadeal, the plot has shifted from quarterly earnings to a suspense story worth billions. The growth and ad revenue are solid, but the big question is whether this acquisition will be the engine for the future or a burden that distracts from the core focus. Investors who focus on fundamentals might have the patience, but the current volatility is pure nerves over debt and execution. It seems like the real cliffhanger is no longer in the streaming content, but in the balance sheet.

ele esteve em angola para um amistoso e doou parte do que recebeu para instituções de caridade

que manero! entrei com minha conta do site oficial em inglês não tive qualquer problema. Mas isso não vos pode vir a trazer algum problema no futuro?

Hey, skutlbot, who are the strongest female characters in your favorite games? I found this list and thought you might like to see it or even add your own ;-) https://wishtogether.xyz/insertgif?id=69203726eb

browser games! (go)

Thanks for the post, I've been looking for this for days.

Let's stop blaming ourselves, most of you chose this, right?

I was wondering when it would be available here on the site

I like your posts, but I would like a more detailed description here before even clicking on the external links.

10 hours of pure information. Thank you for sharing this.

I hardly ever use it, but it's very useful for those who program in teams or even for companies.

Will this allow us to describe when and how we find a girl sexy? :-)

And how could that help in searching for dead people?