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- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 days ago:
I have a reasonable amount of faith in Valve. I think their rising tide lifts Linux as a whole, so that’s good.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 days ago:
I doubt Valve would back of from the openness
Not on the short term, but who knows. If SteamOS becomes a major player in the PC space, at a post-GabeN Valve–
But that will take many more years, if ever it does happen. I do think it is a legitimate reason to be somewhat cautious.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 days ago:
Maybe. As it stands Valve is rather open with their implementation, but who’s to say it will remain indefinitely so.
I do get the desire, though. I’ve gone to Bazzite and Fedora and – even though it’s a lot better than just a year ago – it still requires some commandline tweaking. It isn’t entirely smooth sailing yet.
Will SteamOS be? I do have some doubts. - Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 days ago:
Especially with microsoft seemingly giving up on (gaming) hardware
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 days ago:
Those companies aren’t exactly releasing consumer-facing distro’s, though.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 days ago:
If you want to play just controller games, this one is probably overkill and maybe a bit bulky. I guess the HD haptics are neat.
Then again, it likely won’t be any more expensive than the scam amount of money microsoft charges for their basic, non-HAL effect controllers.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 days ago:
Valve has only made mention of streaming bandwidth, nothing about the game being rendered (like how PSVR2 does it). Maybe there’s some sort of API games will be able to hook into, I seriously hope so.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 week ago:
Not necessarily.
Ubisoft might argue that it will open up another attack vector, with isn’t entirely unreasonable. But they could support it.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 week ago:
I can’t say having to fiddle around with Proton versions is exactly intuitive, though it has gotten better since last I tried it a year or so ago.
It is still not quite as smooth as it is on Windows, and I have tech-normie friends who want to do nothing more than download and press play.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 week ago:
BattlEye supports Linux, Ubisoft doesn’t.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 week ago:
EasyAntiCheat and BattlEye both support Linux/Proton, though not all devs have enabled/updated it.
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 2 weeks ago:
I shall make a donation once again
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 weeks ago:
This blacklist is a pretty neat way to block a good amount of those AI slop results.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 weeks ago:
Search engines will still give Wikipedia results at the top for relevant searches. Heck, you can search Wikipedia itself directly!
Both Ecosia and DuckDuckGo support some form of “bangs”, if I tack
!wonto my search it’ll immediate go through to Wikipedia.
DuckDuckGo has even introduced an AI image filter, which is not perfect but still pretty good. - Comment on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents 4 weeks ago:
It’s because during (boasting?) exaggerated claims are often made, so it’s totally fiiiine and legal!
Consumer protection is such a sham.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 months ago:
I doubt their recent drop is because of that video. Just curious if I should try to watch again, I did enjoy some of their output.
But if Nick leaves it unaddressed I guess I won’t.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 months ago:
Clean your URL’s, please.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 months ago:
I stopped watching Second Wind after Frost’s video.
Did they ever address it?
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 months ago:
That’s from way back when. They shut production for a week, reassessed how they make things, and came back with the promise to be more thorough and not release a video when it’s just not done that day. And they have “missed” some days since.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 4 months ago:
They’ve got to keep their profit margins, or the CEO’s and shareholders might need to take a paycut.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 5 months ago:
That’s not what he said??
- Comment on GPD WIN 4 handheld plans to support Valve's SteamOS in 2025 10 months ago:
GPD has been in the handheld PC game for quite some time. But, unlike Valve who can sell their deck with little revenue thanks to their storefront, they actually need to make a profit on the individual units.
- Comment on Two decades after Enron’s bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm? 10 months ago:
Every other few days there’s “news” of another meme coin rug pull
- Comment on Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer 10 months ago:
AI hallucinates and generates jibberish when you’re asking it to generate text about edge cases and knowledge bases which aren’t commonly talked about.
I’ve had AI give me examples which were could’ve been right but were wrong in the given context. I don’t find it too difficult to believe it could use details from one file format to supplant knowledge for another.
Go ask chat.openai.com
ChatGPT may not be the ai used to generate these articles.
The website that she refers to in her video, and the massively wrong verbiage in the paragraphs proceeding, is definitely not “AI Slop”
That’s may be true for some, but the hourlong podcast ‘discussion’ on the file format was definitely AI generated.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 10 months ago:
According to the company, CMG Local Solutions’ access to advertising data based on voice and other data is collected by third-party platforms and devices “under the terms and conditions provided by those apps and accepted by their users.”
In the since-deleted blog post, CMG Local Solutions discusses whether Active Listening is legal. “We know what you’re thinking. Is this even legal? The short answer is: yes. It is legal for phones and devices to listen to you. When a new app download or update prompts consumers with a multi-page terms of use agreement somewhere in the fine print, Active Listening is often included,” the company said in the post.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 10 months ago:
Except it is also listening. This was a minor scandal back in September. I believe Cox media has since been dropped by Facebook and Google and such, but it happened.
What’s Happening: In a pitch deck that has surfaced since the initial story broke out, Cox Media Group (CMG), a digital marketing outfit based out of Atlanta, Georgia, was spotted touting “the power of voice” in a pitch. In it, they outlined how they can use AI to collect and analyze voice data from users through more than 470 sources.
- Comment on Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for 11 months ago:
I wouldn’t call “what servers/clients?” a particularly broad question. Unless you’re serving the likes of Microsoft or Google, that can be very specific.
And, generally, no need to share unwanted personal details online. - Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 11 months ago:
He also had that one Elden Ring “build” where he was carrying like three shields
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 1 year ago:
At least
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 1 year ago:
Here you were saying the average user isn’t going to use Wake on LAN, but you expect them to disable USB devices waking their computer?
I have my USB’s disabled as well, but I was talking averages here.