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Steam On Linux Gaming Finally Cracks 3% For October 2025


Steam on Linux use has hit an all-time high! With the Steam Survey results for October 2025 coming out this evening, Steam on Linux has finally cracked the 3% threshold! A few months back Steam on Linux was close to 3% before stumbling a bit but now it's above that elusive threshold. The only time Steam on Linux use was close to the 3% mark was when Steam on Linux initially debuted a decade ago and at that time the overall Steam user-base was much smaller than it is today. Long story short, thanks to the ongoing success of Valve's Steam Deck and other handhelds plus Steam Play (Proton) working out so well, these October numbers are the best yet.




Europe jumps on the train


cross-posted from: feddit.nl/post/20462014

More and more people are using this form of travel to get around the continent, using high-speed routes and a network of night trains that continues to expand. We traveled from Madrid to Prague and witnessed how the future of European transportation is clean and fast


in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn

is cleaning your son's shoes on a polstered seat or letting your co-travellers smell your used socks normal these days that people let themselves photograph doing that and it doesn't seem strange to them? and the travel bloggers didn't probably think for a second "maybe choose a different photo"?

don't like this

in reply to 14th_cylon

At least in Finland, it has become surprisingly normal to keep your shoes on the train seat.
For the second picture... It does say "two interrail travellers", but that could very well be because those are the only one of the three travelling together that you can see reasonably well on the picture. So, maybe the two know it's okay for the third? Also: Who took this photo, anyway?
in reply to Tuukka R

So, maybe the two know it’s okay for the third?


there are at least two other people in the photo and we can reasonably assume they are not only people in otherwise empty wagon.

Who took this photo, anyway?


samuel aranda, it is right there in the picture ;)

in reply to 14th_cylon

I think your comment is whataboutism. It is as if you don't want the core topic of the article to be discussed.

Edit: Or trolling.

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in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn

the core topic of the article is train travel and i am discussing train travel as shown in the article; with the only person who answered. feel free to join if you wish. i was hoping to get more insight to why these people think the behaviour i am complaining about is normal or how widespread it is. do you have any?

or did you come with some guidelines on how your article should be discussed and what are permitted and forbidden topics and are here to beat everyone to adherence to these guidelines?

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in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn

jesus... you came after i replied to you, ignored what i said and added the words "or trolling" like it changes anything? that is pathetic, how old are you, five?

do you live in a world where everyone hundred percent agrees with you, or they are trolling?

and how the fuck is what i wrote any controversial take? "don't be an asshole and don't clean your shoes on a seat where other people sit" is what normal children learn around the time the young kid in the picture is. unfortunately no one taught his dad, so he will continue the generational assholism and unless someone else steps in, he grows up into the asshole in picture 2.

if you are one of them, i am glad i could have been of service and explain to you that this is really not normal ;)

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in reply to 14th_cylon

Your take on the top pic is absurd and contrary to both the caption and what we can see. In your world, keeping shoes on is a crime, AND taking them off is a crime, regardless of context? Really

You here to boast about the moral/olfactory/hygeine superiority of chopping one's own feet off? Do you have the slightest idea of the difficulties involved in cleaning/maintaining the interface between a stump and a prosthetic? ... or would you eagerly condemn an amputee for taking their prosthetic off or keeping it on in public as well? Get bent.

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in reply to MachineFab812

In your world, keeping shoes on is a crime, AND taking them off is a crime, regardless of context.


no, both highly depends on the context. that context you ostentatiously ignored so you could proceed to blame me for ignoring context.

chopping one’s own feet off
difficulties involved in cleaning/maintaining the interface between a stump and a prosthetic


aaand from spoiled brats we have arrived to bullied amputees. that escalated quickly. and you say my take is absurd? are you high?

Get bent.


yeah, take your own advice

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'Yikes': Shock as new poll shows Dems with 'largest lead for either party' since 2018




ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent




The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP


medium.com/@hrnews1/the-value-… Sixteen percent of GDP. Think about that number.

The United States has tethered 16% of its entire economic output to the fortunes of a single company. Not an industry. Not a sector. One company. NVIDIA.

This isn’t diversification. It’s not even speculation. It’s national self-delusion dressed up as innovation.

America has done this before. We worshiped General Motors until it collapsed. We inflated the dot-com bubble until it burst. We built an entire financial system on subprime mortgages until 2008 taught us otherwise.
We learned nothing….
NVIDIA’s Unchecked Dominance

NVIDIA makes graphics processing units. They’re very good at it. Their chips power AI models, crypto mining operations, and cloud datacenters. The company’s market capitalization has surged to over $5 trillion.

Wall Street cheers. Politicians brag about American technological superiority. NVIDIA’s CEO becomes a rockstar.

But here’s the truth: concentrated market dominance is not strength. It’s fragility masquerading as power.

NVIDIA controls between 80% and 95% of the market for AI chips used for training and deploying models. Their H100 and A100 processors are the gold standard for training large language models. Every major tech company — Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta — depends on their hardware.

This isn’t resilience. It’s a single point of failure with a stock ticker.

Revenue concentration tells the story. NVIDIA’s datacenter segment accounts for over 88% of total revenue. Remove AI hype from the equation and you’re looking at a company propped up by speculative frenzy, not diversified industrial strength.
The Dangerous Over-Leverage of the U.S. Economy

Sixteen percent of GDP.

Let me say it differently: If NVIDIA stumbles, America doesn’t just lose a tech darling. It loses jobs, investments, pension funds, and the entire AI narrative Wall Street has been selling.

The ripple effects would be catastrophic. Tech slowdown. Financial contagion. Investor panic. The kind of systemic shock that makes 2008 look like a practice run.

And what’s America’s backup plan? There isn’t one.

We’ve bet the economy on corporate hubris rather than building diversified industrial capacity. We’ve confused market capitalization with national security. We’ve treated stock prices as a measure of geopolitical strength.
It’s reckless. It’s stupid. And it’s quintessentially American.

No other advanced economy would tolerate this level of concentration. Germany doesn’t pin 16% of its GDP on Siemens. Japan doesn’t hinge its future on Toyota. Even China, for all its centralized planning, spreads risk across multiple state champions.

But America? We put all our chips on one chipmaker and call it genius.
Supply Chain Fragility and Geopolitical Shortsightedness

NVIDIA doesn’t manufacture its own chips. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company does. TSMC produces an estimated 90% of the world’s super-advanced semiconductor chips, and more than 90% of the most advanced chips globally are manufactured in Taiwan.

Taiwan. An island 100 miles from mainland China. A territory Beijing considers its own. The most geopolitically volatile piece of real estate on the planet.

This is where America has decided to anchor its technological future.

TSMC’s most advanced facilities are in Hsinchu and Tainan. If China moves on Taiwan — through blockade, invasion, or economic coercion — those fabs go offline. NVIDIA’s supply chain evaporates. America’s AI ambitions collapse overnight.

And China knows this.

Beijing is pouring resources into semiconductor self-sufficiency. SMIC, Huawei, and other Chinese firms are reverse-engineering NVIDIA’s architecture, with Huawei’s Kirin 9000S processor — produced in SMIC factories — providing tangible proof that China can produce advanced chips locally despite embargoes.

Analysts project China will achieve a true 5nm-based chip by 2025 or 2026. SMIC is approximately a handful of years behind TSMC in process technology.

Five years. That’s the gap between American dominance and Chinese parity.

Export controls won’t save us. Sanctions won’t stop reverse engineering. The U.S. can restrict NVIDIA from selling advanced chips to China, but it can’t prevent Chinese engineers from studying, replicating, and eventually surpassing American designs.

History is littered with technological monopolies that thought they were untouchable. Britain dominated textiles until America stole the designs. America led in consumer electronics until Japan refined the process. Japan ruled semiconductors until Korea and Taiwan built better fabs.

Overconfidence breeds catastrophe. Always has. Always will.
Market Myopia and Investor Complacency

NVIDIA’s price-to-earnings ratio has fluctuated wildly, hitting levels that would make even dot-com speculators blush. At its peak, the company traded at over 70 times earnings.

This isn’t valuation. It’s religion.

Investors assume AI demand is infinite. They believe NVIDIA’s dominance is permanent. They think American tech exceptionalism is a law of nature rather than a temporary advantage.

They’re wrong.

China’s chip industry is advancing faster than Western analysts predicted. Reports indicate Chinese companies are achieving 5nm chip production using deep ultraviolet lithography without access to extreme ultraviolet equipment.

The gap is closing. And when it closes, NVIDIA’s moat disappears.

American investors are complacent. They see NVIDIA’s stock price and assume supremacy. They ignore competitive threats until it’s too late. They confuse market hype with sustainable advantage.

It’s the same myopia that convinced investors pets.com was worth billions. The same delusion that made Enron look invincible. The same arrogance that inflated every bubble in American financial history.

Where is America’s industrial policy? Where’s the strategic planning? Where’s the diversification?

Nowhere.

Washington reacts to crises. It doesn’t prevent them. The CHIPS Act allocated $52 billion for semiconductor manufacturing — a pittance compared to the scale of the problem. It’s a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

Meanwhile, China created the China Integrated Circuit Investment Industry Fund to channel an estimated $150 billion in state funding to support domestic industry. South Korea and Taiwan have invested hundreds of billions more.

America is being outspent, outplanned, and outmaneuvered. And yet, policymakers still assume tech dominance is our birthright.

Anti-trust enforcement is toothless. Strategic planning is non-existent. Industrial diversification is treated as anti-market heresy.

The result? America has a “too-big-to-fail” tech company that nobody wants to regulate, nobody wants to challenge, and everybody assumes will last forever.

We’ve been here before. AT&T. IBM. Microsoft. All seemed invincible until they weren’t.

The difference now? NVIDIA isn’t just a monopoly. It’s a systemic risk. And nobody in Washington seems to care.



I'm going to dip my toe into the bazzite waters on my primary desktop today,


Wish me luck. I'm a little unsure if it'll work well. I have an ancient GPU (Nvidia GTX 970) and hope it'll be compatable.
Processor       AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core (12 CPUs) Processor 3.20 GHz
Installed RAM       32.0 GB
Graphics Card       NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB) (actually 3.5GB due to hardware defect)
BaseBoard Manufacturer  ASRock
BaseBoard Product   AB350 Pro4

This system is getting old; nearly a decade here. Pretty soon I have to start thinking about upgrading. At a minimum, I should try and upgrade the video card when I can.


Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships


cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/31224407

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/31224406
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/31224405
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/31224403
Title: Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

Body:

Hey everyone, I'm looking at phones around the $1000 price point and would love some input. I've been an iOS user for years but I'm seriously considering making the jump to Android this time.

Here's what I'm looking at:

iPhone 17 Pro - The safe choice since I'm already in the ecosystem

Samsung Galaxy S25 - Hearing good things about this generation

Pixel 10 Pro - Probably crossing this one off the list due to the stability issues I've been reading about (the 911 call failures, overheating problems, etc.)

Nothing Phone - The design looks really cool, but I'm not sure if they have anything in this price range

For those who've made the switch from iOS to Android (or vice versa), what would you recommend? Any major gotchas I should know about? And is the Nothing Phone even worth considering as a daily driver at this price point?

Thanks in advance!




Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships


cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/31224405

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/31224403
Title: Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

Body:

Hey everyone, I'm looking at phones around the $1000 price point and would love some input. I've been an iOS user for years but I'm seriously considering making the jump to Android this time.

Here's what I'm looking at:

iPhone 17 Pro - The safe choice since I'm already in the ecosystem

Samsung Galaxy S25 - Hearing good things about this generation

Pixel 10 Pro - Probably crossing this one off the list due to the stability issues I've been reading about (the 911 call failures, overheating problems, etc.)

Nothing Phone - The design looks really cool, but I'm not sure if they have anything in this price range

For those who've made the switch from iOS to Android (or vice versa), what would you recommend? Any major gotchas I should know about? And is the Nothing Phone even worth considering as a daily driver at this price point?

Thanks in advance!





Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships


cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/31224405

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/31224403
Title: Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

Body:

Hey everyone, I'm looking at phones around the $1000 price point and would love some input. I've been an iOS user for years but I'm seriously considering making the jump to Android this time.

Here's what I'm looking at:

iPhone 17 Pro - The safe choice since I'm already in the ecosystem

Samsung Galaxy S25 - Hearing good things about this generation

Pixel 10 Pro - Probably crossing this one off the list due to the stability issues I've been reading about (the 911 call failures, overheating problems, etc.)

Nothing Phone - The design looks really cool, but I'm not sure if they have anything in this price range

For those who've made the switch from iOS to Android (or vice versa), what would you recommend? Any major gotchas I should know about? And is the Nothing Phone even worth considering as a daily driver at this price point?

Thanks in advance!




Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships


cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/31224403

Title: Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

Body:

Hey everyone, I'm looking at phones around the $1000 price point and would love some input. I've been an iOS user for years but I'm seriously considering making the jump to Android this time.

Here's what I'm looking at:

iPhone 17 Pro - The safe choice since I'm already in the ecosystem

Samsung Galaxy S25 - Hearing good things about this generation

Pixel 10 Pro - Probably crossing this one off the list due to the stability issues I've been reading about (the 911 call failures, overheating problems, etc.)

Nothing Phone - The design looks really cool, but I'm not sure if they have anything in this price range

For those who've made the switch from iOS to Android (or vice versa), what would you recommend? Any major gotchas I should know about? And is the Nothing Phone even worth considering as a daily driver at this price point?

Thanks in advance!





Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships


cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/31224403

Title: Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

Body:

Hey everyone, I'm looking at phones around the $1000 price point and would love some input. I've been an iOS user for years but I'm seriously considering making the jump to Android this time.

Here's what I'm looking at:

iPhone 17 Pro - The safe choice since I'm already in the ecosystem

Samsung Galaxy S25 - Hearing good things about this generation

Pixel 10 Pro - Probably crossing this one off the list due to the stability issues I've been reading about (the 911 call failures, overheating problems, etc.)

Nothing Phone - The design looks really cool, but I'm not sure if they have anything in this price range

For those who've made the switch from iOS to Android (or vice versa), what would you recommend? Any major gotchas I should know about? And is the Nothing Phone even worth considering as a daily driver at this price point?

Thanks in advance!



Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships


Title: Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

Body:

Hey everyone, I'm looking at phones around the $1000 price point and would love some input. I've been an iOS user for years but I'm seriously considering making the jump to Android this time.

Here's what I'm looking at:

iPhone 17 Pro - The safe choice since I'm already in the ecosystem

Samsung Galaxy S25 - Hearing good things about this generation

Pixel 10 Pro - Probably crossing this one off the list due to the stability issues I've been reading about (the 911 call failures, overheating problems, etc.)

Nothing Phone - The design looks really cool, but I'm not sure if they have anything in this price range

For those who've made the switch from iOS to Android (or vice versa), what would you recommend? Any major gotchas I should know about? And is the Nothing Phone even worth considering as a daily driver at this price point?

Thanks in advance!




Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships


Title: Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

Body:

Hey everyone, I'm looking at phones around the $1000 price point and would love some input. I've been an iOS user for years but I'm seriously considering making the jump to Android this time.

Here's what I'm looking at:

iPhone 17 Pro - The safe choice since I'm already in the ecosystem

Samsung Galaxy S25 - Hearing good things about this generation

Pixel 10 Pro - Probably crossing this one off the list due to the stability issues I've been reading about (the 911 call failures, overheating problems, etc.)

Nothing Phone - The design looks really cool, but I'm not sure if they have anything in this price range

For those who've made the switch from iOS to Android (or vice versa), what would you recommend? Any major gotchas I should know about? And is the Nothing Phone even worth considering as a daily driver at this price point?

Thanks in advance!



Andrew Cuomo slammed for ‘embarrassing’ AI Halloween attack ad on Zohran Mamdani




The Flawed Aesthetics of Solarpunk


in reply to Dippy

I was only able to get a few minutes in.

The complaint started off with "They like the aesthetic but don't know how to get there or have the engineering to do it!".

Actually, correcting myself, it started with an in-video ad for a computer desk.

After I skipped that nonsense, it got to the complaint, which amounted to "people like the aesthetic of these videos! But there are engineering issues with some of these works of art that aren't actual engineering but instead just movies and videos people like the aesthetics of!"

and that'd be when I stopped watching.

in reply to curbstickle

He goes on to have, what I believe, is a valid complaint: Leftists have ideals which block progression towards our goals.

One example: Instead of building a wind farm, we are arguing about economic impact, and then still stay on coal while we that argument occurs.

I think overall the video misses the point. The complaints are that bureaucracy/red tape/seeking perfection (in states such as CA) prevent society from doing things with impact such as building high speed rail, creating 15 minute communities (Shout out to !15minutecity@slrpnk.net), and providing shelter for all.

This is completely valid, but it has nothing to do with solarpunk.





He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’


For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are being hunted down


Archived version: archive.is/20251102135752/theg…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



in reply to BrikoX

Drogheda isn't in the United Kingdom, although it's close.
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in reply to Flax

Sorry. Got confused and though it was in the Northern Ireland not the Republic of Ireland.



Drones spotted again over Belgian military base as minister readies response


Theo Francken is to present a €50 million anti-drone plan next week


Archived version: archive.is/newest/euractiv.com…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.






Israel to appoint new army lawyer after Palestinian prisoner rape scandal


Suspects in the gang rape of a Palestinian detainee call for the trial to be cancelled after the advocate general admitted to leaking the video


Archived version: archive.is/newest/middleeastey…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

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World Record: Longest non-stop flight is WAY longer than you think


I've been a plane aficionado for as long as I can remember. I'm not exactly a plane "nut," but I think I might know a bit more than the average person who isn't a pilot. Yet somehow, I'd never heard of this story until I stumbled across it at random.
in reply to BrikoX

Those only interested in the answer search for 1959.
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MySafeSpace – whitehouse.gov


We're Democrats in the House and Senate. We love DEI, transgender for everyone, healthcare for illegals and shutting down the government! We couldn't care less if our military gets paid or Americans' safety.
#USA


in reply to silence7

Ginny and Alito can fly their flags upside down, which wasn’t even connected to a decorating holiday.

Also plausible deniability since it could have been the kids.

Why are Republicans so intent on showing how bad they are at critical thinking?

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in reply to lIlIlIlIlIlIl

Why are Republicans so intent on showing how bad they are at critical thinking?


It plays perfectly with their base.



in reply to silence7

Current generations are judging them now and they don’t care.

Even if there are future generations why should leaders care about what they think? The leaders will all be dead by then.

in reply to silence7

Those sociopaths don't even care about the judgement of the present generations.