Vantablack is quite fragile and would quickly disintegrate at high speeds

Nothing you just said was an argument against user friendly software. The Windows and Mac hostage situation was created by familiarity and walled gardens, and is solved by Linux becoming easier to use.

Friendlier defaults, graphical package manager included out of the box, some tasks will benefit from packages that can use the instructions on your cpu. I can’t see a single advantage of Endeavour over Cachy.

That said they are both very similar.

That’s not true, network carriers can also run RCS backends independently of Google. Graphene OS is currently working on a new messaging app that supports RCS without Google services. Both the app and the carrier have to support RCS which is why Google made their own backend.

It was never ‘Google locked’, its an open standard developed by the GSM Association that IOS has supported since 2024.

Archuntu

Bless you.

This feels like the opposite to a cheap logitech controller driving a submarine

I think it’s worth exploring; the culture is more important than the tech. What are the societal systems that are driving resistance, how is access to STEAM distributed, how does this affect the lives of ‘normal’ people.

The main reason the the ‘punk’ subgenres coexist is that their technologies form a feedback loop with their cultures which makes them different and allows for different stories. What are the impacts of STEAM on society and how is this different to Cyberpunk with modern tech?

Aesthetic is also important because it captures the imagination and gives the genre staying power. There’s a reason that Cyberpunk and Steampunk are the most popular, while Biopunk hasn’t had the same impact.

Unfortunately for Bethesda these are narrative subgenres as well as aesthetic ones, and modern Bethesda can’t write.

What would be punk about it?

Steampunk is Steam (victorian inspired tech) + Punk (victorian inspired inequality)

Cyberpunk is Cyber (80s inspired tech) + Punk (80s inspired inequality)

Boeing don’t make the engines; this was a CFM-56 engine failure.

David has been drawing the Pepper and Carrot webcomic for well over a decade now and his style has been pretty consistent.

He makes them all in Krita as well.

They draw lots

It’s a subcategory of homelessness, because homelessness takes many forms not all of which involve sleeping on the street.

Most people so rarely need to navigate legislation that Ordinance Survey maps aren’t common. Ordnance Survey maps on the other hand are great for navigating the British countryside.

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hooray my fuser has jammed, my transfer belt has stretched, toner is smeared everywhere, my printer weighs a ton.

Solar and Wind started at 0.06% in 2001. That was 0.75TWh. In 2025 they made 21.83% with 2310.4TWh. That’s a lot of electricity and explains why the other generation methods have gone down proportionally. This doesn’t indicate a transition because the total generation has massively risen too. Hydro over the same period grew from 277.43TWh to 1397.06TWh, but by percentage dropped from 18.74% to 13.2% - I don’t think anyone would argue that China is transitioning away from hydro.

For a transition to occur we would need to see a plateau and reduction in coal generation, not a 5x increase.

That’s by percentage, if you look at absolute generation it looks more like this:

Coal is a smaller percentage of the total mix than in 2000 because they basically weren’t using solar or wind at all back then. They are still increasing their consumption of coal in absolute figures by a significant amount.

China isn’t exactly transitioning, they added 78GW of new coal power plants last year and are building more this year. They installed massive amounts of solar as well because it’s cheap and they need massive amounts of power.