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For me it would be the small size and CEC capability. A custom built PC can't currently use CEC on HDMI to have a seamless experience the entire home theater like a console can.

It has CEC for a more seamless console like experience on the TV. You won't be able to do that with a regular PC.

Custom DNS server? In my experience you can't really lock down the network settings on consoles because anyone playing might need to reconnect to wifi

That could be down to the fact that homeopathic treatments have largely been legal. The studies have been done and showed that a lot of it doesn't work so it isn't offered in traditional medicine. There were a lot of promising studies into the effects of LSD and Psilocybin before they were made illegal. Now with the loosening of restrictions we are able to get more research into the potential uses of psychedelics and there have been a lot of positive results. The research into MDMA for PTSD is really exciting, as well as Ketamine, LSD, and Psilocybin for different forms of depression for example.

They will never be a solution for every problem like some people evangelize but where they work, they give people with these conditions another avenue to try when other "legal" drugs have failed.

The only people I've seen being attacked for their views on Covid are outside the scientific community. People that have no business saying whether it's dangerous or not because they havent done any real research. And of course you have the scientists that are being political. Just like we have scientists that deny climate change for political or monetary reasons.

There was a pretty good reason to get off the gold standard. Going to a type of digital gold standard is just a horrible idea

My physics professor uses flash games to demonstrate the things we are learning. He knows nothing about computers, still runs windows 7, and constantly talks about these programs and how they will always be great learning tools. I don't think he realizes that flash isnt a thing anymore and I'm excited to see how class goes when he tries to open one of his examples.

Oh I agree that corporations shouldn't be able to block speech but right now constitutionally they can so what we really need is a change to the constitution. Those laws were written hundreds of years and meant to change with the times.

So does that mean if I am hosting a dinner at my home on my own private property and someone starts spewing hate at people I have to let him because it's his free speech? No, I'm kicking that asshole off my property and banning him from returning.

It's the same for these tech companies. They are private companies and if you break their ToS for inciting violence or posting illegal shit then they have the right to ban you. You have freedom of speech, not freedom of consequences.

Strange. Of all my computers it is only my 2 windows machines that have trouble sleeping and waking. All of my linux machines sleep no problem and only wake up when I have scheduled it. I even have them set up to receive sleep and wake commands from my phone from anywhere. Windows doesn't play nice with that type of setup either.

My windows computers will wake up less than 5 minutes after going to sleep but I've left my linux systems on sleep for days and sometimes weeks at a time with no problem at all.

Comcast in my area has a 1TB/month limit. When I used their service I hit that limit nearly every month.

KDE is working on a "smart box" software to run on raspberrypi. I believe it's called KDE Bigscreen and even has voice search features through mycroft if you are hosting an instance. The project is available in beta right now but it looks like it has potential