I’ve been playing Expedition 33 on desktop Linux, and it’s really great. It really does put a lot of other games to shame. Good to know it works acceptably on the Deck.

This might be the reason for requiring glibc 2.31 and newer:

Security related changes:

CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable during program execution after a security transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.

Apple actually open sourced Swift language, and it’s available for other operating systems as well: https://www.swift.org/

Xcode is the app you need to use, if you want to submit your app to macOS or iOS App Store. You can build macOS apps with other tools, but you can’t distribute them in the App Store. There are developers who sell their apps through their own websites, or through other marketplaces, such as Steam. And while you can build iOS apps with other tools as well, it’s mostly pointless as you can’t distribute them, because iPhone doesn’t support sideloading. Jailbroken iPhones are an exemption to that.

In that case you might be interested of his book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

He also writes non-fiction. You might be familiar with the term “enshittification”. He is the author who coined that term.

Cory Doctorow sells his books DRM-free (e-book and audiobook) on his webpage. Some of them are even pay-what-you-want.

There is 3000 minutes in 50h. You need

• 2220 AIs if you have Intel GPU
• 5670 AIs if you have AMD GPU
• 4470 AIs if you have NVidia GPU

If you can still separate the pieces: Take some big enough flat surface (has to be very flat) and cover it with sandpaper. Sand the pieces until they are completely flat. They will then connect without any gap in between.