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I have a handed down Surface Go 2 with 4GB of RAM. The thing was damn near unusable with its stock Windows installation. I've put Mint on it now and it's actually a nice little machine.

Ugh, I've run into this as well.

Several times now I've commissioned a professional artist to create posters of D&D/Pathfinder groups I've run campaigns with. I'm in a new campaign that started this month and did an initial look around to begin scouting out an artist for another and my god. Having to sift through all the obvious AI "portfolios" is bad enough, let alone trying to suss out the ones that are using it in less obvious ways. I've settled on filtering my search to only artists for whom I can find works prior to 2023 or so. It's insane.

A lot of food preparation techniques of ancient origin come from efforts to store or preserve food. Pickling, smoking, and salting being among the most obvious.

Bread likely shares a similar lineage. Wheat that has been ground to flour is much easier to store, keeps for a long time, and can be reconstituted into more appealing food in small batches as needed.

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HOT

I don't really disagree, at least in principle. You're absolutely correct that workflows should be clear and developers often do not make good UI/UX. You just didn't really qualify your original statement with any of that and made it an absolute, but you've clarified now and I'm pretty sure we agree.

a UI should offer everything a user can do in a given moment, readily available, nothing hidden behind more than a single menu.

That would be a nightmare for any sufficiently complex software. Can you imagine how dense the UI would need to be for something like Blender or even Excel if literally every possible option of "things available to do right now" had to be at most two clicks away?

Judging whether a person is sufficiently distant for it to be acceptable not to hold the door is a classic Eastern Canadian trial.

It is bizarre to me in a way I find difficult to articulate that they felt the need to treat a bathroom visit in a Target as if it required full operational kit.

People can be busy or tired or anything else. You aren't owed 100% engagement all of the time, even from your friends.

They are in general purpose PCs though. Intel has them taking up die space in a bunch of their recent core ultra processors.

...so it's only half of 150 wasted acres of arable land?

The frame's foveated streaming is a separate thing from foveated rendering. Foveated streaming does nothing to reduce the rendering load on the hardware running the game, it just reduces the network bandwidth required.