That chart shows what I would interpret as really strong Linux growth. Somewhere around 200% growth in the last 4 years, and seems to be significantly accelerating.

I’m thinking language may be a big factor too, but I was thinking from a different perspective. From what I’m seeing on a brief search, only about 5% of Chinese people speak English. If you consider that much of Linux documentation is a) heavily command line based, b) spread across a multitude of websites, and c) commands would seem to be more prone to being problematic for machine translation, I think that combination would seriously slow down adoption of Linux in China and other countries with low English adoption and perhaps with non-Latin alphabets.

I’d be interested to know why Linux has such bad update in Chinese-speaking regions.

I wonder if language in particular may be a factor hindering Linux adoption there?

1. How does the documentation for Linux (including forums, how-tos, blogs, etc) available in Chinese dialects compare to what is available in English, and how well does machine translation work for translating the English sources?
2. The documentation available online for Linux very often involves the command line. How much of a pain is it for people who only speak Chinese dialects to use an English command line? If the commands are available in Chinese, how well do the machine translations of the English documentation sources work for that purpose.

I feel that there are probably significant language barriers that have an effect here, and effectively create a chicken-and-egg problem for Linux adoption, possibly limiting Linux usage to Chinese people who are relatively proficient in English.

For reference, here’s an article about what proportion of Chinese people speaks English (it seems to be around 5%?): https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/how-many-people-in-china-speak-english

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Sounds dangerous! :)

Glad to hear! You’re welcome!

I also use an email alias service and have dealt with this a handful of times. Here’s how I’ve been able to address most of them, in order of what I tried which worked, meaning that items lower on the list were more rarely required but also more likely to work than items higher on the list:

1. Instead of using the free-tier alias domain names (like freealiasservice.com), I used the paid-tier ones (like paidaliasservice.com).
2. Instead of the common domain names shared by everyone (like aliasservice.com), I used a custom subdomain, (like cricket.aliasservice.com).
3. Instead of either of the above, I used a custom domain name.

So the above is the answer to your first question. The answer to your second is that in my experience the majority of sites that block certain email domains are using a deny-list instead of an allow-list. The answer to your third is that custom domains should work for the vast majority of sites. I think it would be silly for sites to use allow-lists for this, but I’ve heard of some doing it.

One other thing to keep in mind about my list is that it’s also more or less in order of most private/anonymous to least private/anonymous. Item 1 hides you in the crowd, while 2 and 3 can be more easy to associate with you if you have enough of them for someone interested in finding this out to do some matching to determine if you use services a, b, and c, for example.

I hope this helps.

True! I didn’t even think about that. Great movie.

I’ve heard that too! I also remember cartoons where a character would hit the ground with a pick axe and oil would come gushing out.

Later, I calculated that you’d experience 15g at the tip of a typical one.

Sounds like a fun ride to me! /s

I’m with you in thinking that this is not impossible. I think geology is something that can do funny things in some places.

By the way, in some places oil seems to be pretty close to the surface. If you visit the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles sometime, there’s essentially an open lake of oil (tar) that you can visit, and as you walk the grounds around it you’ll see some spots where the tar is seeping out from the ground and you have to watch out not to step on it.

There’s even a museum dedicated to this, including a “replica” of the boat!

Did you see this story a couple days ago? It seems like they’re working on it? https://lemmy.zip/post/53357230

Absolutely!

I’m anxious for those features too. I still have to get started in VR, but I’ve been following the scene relatively closely for the last few years after trying it out.

Thanks for the link, that’s too bad to hear. I hear you that you don’t need this one if you already have other headsets. I’m in the opposite position. I have yet to get my first. I had been considering the Meta Quest 3, but Meta. The Valve Frame will very likely be my first. For someone like me, it’s nearly perfect.

Thanks for your answers. I figure that Valve is highly motivated to get the software sorted out, but we will have to see how quickly they can overcome these issues with hand tracking and WebXR.

About the CPU/GPU, I guess they decided to be practical with all this hardware to keep it relatively affordable. As far as a new VR game, you never know. Didn’t I hear that Alyx was a surprise release with the Index headset?

I’m crossing my fingers too!

Thanks for the correction. Obviously an uninformed opinion on my part. Although I was also thinking they would try to make it price competitive with current consoles.

Decades of working IT in various capacities including a lot of support roles at various levels have led me to usually suspect that anyone coming to to me saying that they can’t get something to work is doing something wrong, regardless if it’s IT or something else completely unrelated.

This is often combined with me trying to suggest possible solutions whenever someone complains or vents. This one drives my wife crazy sometimes and she’s had to teach me that sometimes she just wants emotional support and solidarity rather than possible ways to fix whatever she is venting about.

Good guess. For reference, Xbox series X without optical drive is $600 currently. PS5 Pro without optical drive is $750 currently. The specs on Valve Machine seem more similar to PS5 Pro, I think.

Right. I don’t believe they’re hurting for profits, and at the same time, having Linux and specifically Steam OS become much more widely adopted would greatly benefit them (for breaking out of the Microsoft jail they still find themselves partially in). Also, hardware is not their primary business. It seems that they could sell this to cover their costs and reap all the rewards from that besides immediate profit.