Neat, thanks!

So what’s the current state of emulation on Linux? I still have both Yuzu and Ryujinx installed, but has either been superseded by a fork?

Ooh, free biometrics!

What kinds of carcinogens a product actually contains can only be determined iff it is submitted for testing. Making the testing mandatory for all out-of-state products would be economic suicide. Assuming yes unless proven otherwise is the safest strategy that gives consumers at least some level of informed choice.

California requires products (I thought it was just foods, guess not) to undergo tests that prove they don’t contain carcinogens; otherwise they must include a warning about potentially containing carcinogens. Most companies don’t bother because the cost of getting a product tested is more than the potential revenue loss from the “may cause cancer” warning.

If the game comes in a physical cartridge, the plastic might contain a carcinogen, or it might be contaminated during manufacturing or packaging.

Proposition 65 requires businesses to provide warnings to Californians about significant exposures to chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Exposure to these chemicals may take place when products are acquired or used. Exposure may also occur in homes, workplaces, or other environments in California. By requiring that this information be provided, Proposition 65 enables Californians to make informed decisions about their exposures to these chemicals.

Or Nintendo itself is the cancer. Whichever version you prefer.

Finally a publisher that knows their audience.

Not, it isn’t. It was most likely a spam filter. Images and longer messages work fine.

“But they did it too!” will not fly with me as a valid defense coming from an adult person. Your behaviour is your own responsibility. If you disagree with something, either respond in a polite manner or downvote and move on. Do not accuse others, either individuals or groups, of having a mental deficiency, brain damage, or aberration; and the fact that you would try to minimize what you said shows that you understand why I have an issue with it.

Be nice, or leave.

You don’t get to speculate about that. Now drop it.

The Smorty situation is CRAZY

Not true. It was most likely a spam filter. Images and longer messages work fine.

We’re adding new, different symbols to the confusing mess of old symbols and keeping both? Neat!

LGA sockets (including AM5) have flat contacts on the CPU and spring-loaded contacts on the motherboard. No pins, no holes. You could take a small tweezer or precision flathead screwdriver and lift the CPU from a corner. As long as you don’t reach in too deep, it won’t damage either side. You should be able to lift it with minimal force.

Find the motherboard’s manual. It will have instructions for installing and removing both the CPU and the cooler. If the CPU uses a PGA socket, removing it might require a little force.

If you’re sure the clip and the retaining frame are released, but can’t/don’t want to lift it by its edges, you could use suction.

• If there’s still some moisture in the thermal compound, you can use a flat piece of glass or plastic. Press it against the CPU’s surface and lift gently. If the thermal compound is dry, apply a little from a new tube.
• A small suction cup might work.
• There are vacuum pens made specifically for this kind of work.

(edit) The MSI B650 uses an AM5 socket, which is an LGA package. The CPU itself doesn’t have any pins that could be damaged, so you can be a bit more forceful. You could even take a small tweezer and pry it out from one of the corners (as long as the retaining frame is off, of course).

The original creator of Wordpress and the owner of a Wordpress hosting site. He’s been having a meltdown for months because Wordpress is being used by WP Engine, a for-profit competitor hosting company, in compliance with the license. Since then, he has:

• Changed the trademark license and retroactively sued WP Engine,
• Disparaged WP Engine every time he had the chance,
• Added a potentially legally binding checkbox to wordpress.com where the user must declare their disassociation with WP Engine (which also locked out actual employees),
• Forcibly taken control of several community-made plugins,
• Acted like an absolute fucking buffoon the innocent little lamb who’s been set upon by the wolves.

Please don’t, this is the best entertainment I’ve had in months!

People have forgotten the simple joy of climbing to the top of a sketchy structure and suffering major contusions and broken bones on the way down.

Yes, it’s best to store them on a separate hard drive. The target partition must be formatted as a Linux filesystem (ext2/3/4 or btrfs) in order to retain file ownership and permissions. I have a 512 GB partition on a hard drive reserved for the last three weekly backups and never ran out of space.

Ext4 is still perfectly fine. It’s a mature technology, and much more stable than btrfs. Your experience will not be any different because of this.

I still recommend using Timeshift. The only downside is that only the Rsync backup method will be available, which creates a full on-disk copy of your system files.