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No, you found the guy with the postholer, who just quit, have fun working harder instead of smarter.

And it is the legal system that determines whether or not a contract has or has not been breached.

Just like it is also the legal system that determines whether or not a company is a harfmul monopoly.

Your opinion is one I agree with, but that isn't how things work, there has to be an official arbiter that agrees with or disagrees with that, and those arbiters are called courts, which are full of lawyers making arguments, and the best lawyers tend to cost the most money.

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Also... what, is Valve going to sue Visa and MC for... Visa and MC choosing not to do business with them?

There is no legal mechanism that forces Visa and MC to do business with Valve, that punishes Visa and MC should they choose not to.

This is like suing a person at a farmer's market for not buying an apple.

Or, that is roughly what Visa and MC's lawyers would argue.

The actual egyptians used wooden sleds, works pretty well on sand.

Of course, these were just for the first and last mile, the vast majority of transit distance was done via boat/barge along the Nile, powered by a combination of sails, rowers, and also drawn by teams of oxen or people on the adjacent shore.

https://ancienthistoryx.com/ancient-egyptian-ships-transport-vessels/

Could be a very large smoothing stone for doing a stage of final shaping of other blocks at the construction site.

Various pyramid constructions show evidence of more rough cut stones being transported to the construction site, and then final shaping would be done on site, with pounding and grinding stones.

In that light, this is like mocking the one guy carrying a postholer to a fence construction site, where everyone else is carrying the fencing.

I may have gotten in a stealth edit addendum right after you actually read that comment, more detail about potentially dual booting Bazz and StmOS

Well, afaik, PopOS! does not have a ... handheld PC oriented flavor, so... you could get it to work, but likely only via a dock, keyboard and mouse and monitor.

It may partially work, to some extent, as a handheld, but it won't be able to... leave desktop mode, basically, unless you manually figure out how to set up everything you need for that game mode transition.

Bazzite on the other hand... comes with all that prebuilt in, is designed around that as a fundamental principle.

https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/FAQ/

https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/Installing_Bazzite_for_Steam_Deck/?h=install

Bazzite does replace SteamOS though.

It keeps the gamemode as a thing you can transition to, but under the hood, its Fedora, not Arch... but you can set the desktop mode up with the same KDE style if you want to, or go with GNOME if you wanna try that.

EDIT: More clarity IRT dual booting SteamOS and Bazzite on a Deck.

You can do this, more easily than either with Windows...

But it'll require some extra configuration.

Basically, the way SteamOS and Bazzite will want to partition your harddrive, your onboard SSD... are fairly different.

IIRC, Bazzite uses BTRFS, and SteamArch is in I think Ext4... and the way they setup paritions for pagefiles or lackthereof is different.

You could get it working, its not impossible, but it might be way easier to just get a microsd card and run a live version or fully install a whole OS to a microsd card and run it from that, on a Deck, as a sort of preview... and then just pick one.

Also, it is totally possible to set up a microsd card with ventoy or just one other os install image... you don't have to use an actual usb thumb drive.

Part 1:

Yep. The Deck and SteamOS have Secure Boot.

I never said they did not.

I said:

The Steam Deck does not officially support Windows Secure boot.

Because...

Basically, Secure Boot means that ... no other OS is allowed to boot.

That's what 'Secure' means, to Windows/MSFT.

Not sure if you struggle with reading comprehension in English, but when you read all of this, together, it is obvious that I am saying that the Windows specific implenentation of Secure Boot is exclusionary, only works with Windows.

This is true, by default, unless you do a bunch of other extra work, which is easy to fuck up and likely to fail at some future point, because the way Windows 'does' Secure Boot is very different from how basically every other OS does, and will constantly change in subtle and esoteric ways that often result in a user being unable to access any other OS than Windows.

Windows Secure Boot is thus functionally a distinct thing, even if Windows/MSFT act otherwise and insist on confusing and obfuscatory terminology... which they have a long track record of doing with basically all of their software and related nomenclature, for decades.

Part 2:

Yep, which is why I described that in layman's terms by saying:

maybe unless you have literally physically distinct harddrives/ssds/microsd/usb drives that each OS lives on?

And then do extra steps to tell your now Windows managed BIOS/UEFI that your linux dual boot OS is also 'safe' for Windows to allow your sysyem to boot?

Yep, you can do some extra bullshit, and it might work for a while, untill a new Windows update of some kind rewrites your UEFI config, requires some new arcane dependency setting or config of some kind, which then will lock out your non Windows OS.

Yep, other Mobos often come with everything preconfigured for Windows and their specific implenentation of Secure Boot.

The Steam Deck doesn't, and that is what we are talking about.

Also, its entirely possible and even common for dual boot and linux users to either intentionally or unintentionally wipe out those Windows EFI files, alter the cryptographic signing process in some other way, and then you run into this same problem on other Mobos.

Or if you just build your own PC, or a linux oriented laptop or PC, Mobo will not come preconfigured for Windows.

My suggestion would be wait for a seasonal sale, I think I got it for like 5 or 10 bucks lol.

Also there is a TitanFall 2 lemmy comm:

titanfall@lemmy.world

... I dunno how to link it right, I'm on mobile lol

No problem!

Yeah, dual booting Win and Lin is... basically a trap at this point, I first tried to do it over a decade now...

There really is no need anymore, beyond very specific uses cases, to run Windows at all.

Linux caught up and has now exceeded it in basically everyway, as Windows has also enshittified.

I would suggest you look into just switching your Deck over to Bazzite.

From a basic user stand point, it is highly functional and performant, harder to break than Arch based SteamOS if you make it not read only, gives you more flexibility and utilities than default SteamOS, and you can even set up a linux container as a dev environment to do linux dev stuff, use Bottles or something if you need something closer to a Windows environment.

Yeah, its still not gonna play those few, super hyped and marketed AAA games... but fuck em, they're evil corpos, stop giving them your time and money.

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And I just made another suggestion to you in another comment:

You want BF style game(play)?

TitanFall 2. Still alive, still alive, got a reverse engineered launcher, server browser and private servers, runs great on linux via Proton.

If you're looking for something fairly close to (and imo arguably better) BF1 and 4...

TitanFall 2.

Got its own custom Proton branch, Northstar and other variants of basically the same thing, wrap around and launch the game, working private servers and mod support, you can run it on Windows or Linux, actually runs really well on a Steam Deck... might have something to do eith using an actually good engine, its basically a fork of the Portal 2 version of Source.

Its a small, but active community.

Best I can say is if medical care is an important need for you, then you will need to look at the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area. Rural areas lack much of the health care you might need. As a retired medic that worked in rural areas, I'm not lying when I say if I were to have a heart attack at home, I'm probably very dead before help can arrive.

Makes sense, I believe you.

My idea is to make the move after I am more mobile, more healed.

At the moment, I am doing PT at home, after getting some inital PT sessions and them giving me printed out worksheets.

No real point in paying for more visits when I just do exactly the same thing at the PT center, as what I do at home.

While Minnesota shows as a mostly blue state, that is because we have one large metropolitan area that dominates the rest of the state. And outside of that metro region, the rural 80% of the state skews from purple to red.

Yep, I've seen the county level voting maps, who runs city governments of Minneapolis, St Paul, Rochester, Winona, Duluth, St Cloud, Brainerd, Bemidji... and I'm originally from the Seattle area, pretty much exact same region political pattern.

Otherwise, plan on long cold winters that can grind some people mentally and what to us is warm and very humid summers. We are an outdoors people that enjoy the 3 months of summer and spend as much of our time outdoors as possible. Preferably on a lake in a boat, we own a LOT of boats. Even in winter we find snowmobiling, skiing, and ice fishing as popular hobbies. We are all about the outdoors for sure.

All sounds amazing to me, again, grew up in the PNW, lots and lotsa outdoorsy culture as well, particularly boating, hiking, hunting.

Though, our winters are nowhere near as harsh generally, but I know what a lot of actual snow is like, the Cascade foothills and towns often get around as much snow as what ya'll just get generally, and I've spent a few winters in 3 to 6 feet of snow up there, know how to dress and drive in snow.

As far as the denizens of the state go, we are Minnesota Nicetm to everyone, but as individuals we are mostly stoic and often wary of outsiders. And the farther you get from the cites, the more that becomes apparent. So it can be difficult to build friendships. You can live in a town for 20 years years and still be considered the "new people". Or you can be accepted and welcomed immediately. YMMV for sure.

And we have the 'Seattle Freeze' or 'Seattle Chill' over in western WA, basically the same thing.

Whole lotta Fins and Swedes and Norweigans seem to be the reason for that, were the first large groups of white people that settled in both MN and western WA, set the sort of cultural norms that largely still persist....

... and I already am that same way too, hahah.

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Not to be too blunt, but geographically, Minnesota basically seems like western WA, but flat, with harsher winters, and a lack of salt water giving that lovely smell... that also corrodes everything metal more quickly.

Plus tornadoes.

Less volcanoes though, less earthquakes.

Roughly same amount of forest fire and smoke either in the area or coming down from Canada.

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If you decide to move here, I wish you luck. As a whole, we are a good and helpful place to live. But there can be bumps on the road of life here also.

I appreciate it, and your rundown here.

Lets just say in terms of moving, all I'd really have to do is ... find an apartment to move into, pack all my shit into a rental uhaul, and drive something like 3-6 hours east on I 90 / north on other highways.

I just have to get to the point where I can physically manage the packing all my shit into a uhaul part.

Well, and/or figure out just some kind of rental situation that'll actually allow me to do a cross state lines, fairly long haul move, that doesn't wipe me out financially.

I come from a right wing family, was unironically raised by a dad who was very, very concerned about Ruby Ridge in the 90s, last time I talked to him before I went no-contact, full on Q-Tard, thinks Tom Hanks' son rapes kills and eats kids for their adrenochrome, had set up his own mini machining shop in his garage to at least attempt to assemble ghost guns, attempt to make them full auto capable.

Everything you say is correct.

These fanatics cannot be reasoned with.

Trust me, I have tried.

Their minds cannot function without a God figure, they don't believe in democracy, they are driven by resentment for being lower on the totem pole, instead of questioning the nature of power and hierarchy, they fundamentally cannot empathize beyond maybe their immediate surroundings, and often cannot manage to do it pretty much at all.