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- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 6 hours ago:
You ain’t getting one then lol.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 6 hours ago:
Get ready to pay $200-$300 more than that.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 11 hours ago:
Get ready to be horribly dissapointed…
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 11 hours ago:
300€ ??? My guy, if you think it will be anything even slightly near that price, I want to know what you’re smoking and how I can get some lol!
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 12 hours ago:
A new Steam Deck OLED is $650 right now. Y’all are absolutely delusional if you think Valve is gunna sell the new Steam Machine with 6x the power of a Deck for $600.
Personally, I think $800 is the absolute lowest these things will go for, and that is a stretch. Unless they are planning on cutting the price on Decks by 20-30% which would be ludicrous considering they are already selling them at a loss and making up the difference on the game sales.
Valve has already said they are pricing the Steam Machines as entry level gaming PCs. And Idk what world some people are living in, but this ain’t 2010 anymore. Entry level PCs are $750+ nowadays, unless you are buying some parts used.
I’m not happy about this. I remember back in highschool building some nice entry level gaming rigs for $500, but those days are long past. I probs won’t be getting a Steam Machine, but that’s because I am a tinkerer and I’ll just jank one together for my own use, but for somebody who wants a solid entry-level gaming PC that has a really great ecosystem around it and is no muss no fuss, the Steam Machine is a pretty good option.
My prediction: 512GB Steam Machine will be $800-$900, the 2TB one will be $1,000-$1,200.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
Yeah, but think of the potential shareholder value!
…allowing paying customers to generate solar power, grow crops and replace urban lighting.
What a great idea! There aren’t any other ways to generate or store solar power, grow crops beyond daytime hours, or create good urban lighting…
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 2 weeks ago:
Buying my copy soon!
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 2 weeks ago:
Image Lt. Eva Lee from Red Alert 2. Yeah Tanya was hot too, but something about how Eva talked just made me swoon lol.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 2 weeks ago:
Magic Earth has been great to use 🙂
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 5 weeks ago:
The earth can easily sustain our current population at a 1st world standard of living, but only if we are orders of magnitude more efficient. That means things like no mass car usage, eco-urbanisn, no more single family homes with quarter acre empty lawns, widespread plant-based foods as the norm, and repairable technology that actually lasts decades instead of planned obsolescence and cheap plastic junk that fills up landfills.
You don’t need to be some anarcho-primitivist/Ted Kaczynski wannabe living in a wooden shack with one set of clothes.
Now is that viable in the current societal climate? No, people, especially Americans generally hate much of those eco-urbanist ideas. As long as Capitalism is the default economic system and neo-liberal politics is the default political approach to democracy, we will continue marching towards a consumerist doom.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 month ago:
You mean relying blindly on a statistical prediction engine to produce sophisticated software without any understanding of the underlying principles or concepts doesn’t magically replace years of actual study and real-world experience?
But trust me, bro, the singularity is imminent, LLMs are the future of human evolution, true AGI is nigh!
I can’t wait for this idiotic “AI” bubble to burst.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 month ago:
well, I work in IT. So I am required to use apps like Teams for mobile and DUO 2FA in order to authenticate my laptop sessions.
Now, could I use only SMS/email 2FA? Technically yes. And I could just have Teams on my work laptop and have that nearby all the time, but it would be extremely inconvenient. Navigation would also be a big problem. Due to the nature of my job, I frequently have to visit a large number of different sites around my area. Having to open my laptop each time I need to go somewhere, open up a map site like OSM or Google maps to get the directions, print them off or write them down, the. Follow them manually hoping that I don’t encounter random slowdowns or closures in an area I am not familiar with is basically a non-starter for me.
As for personal use, navigation rears its ugly head again. I often will be traveling with friends or family and we decide on a whim to change our destination for dinner or hangouts after based on times, appetites, budgets, closures, etc. Having a map app on my phone makes that easy to do. It would be impossible to do that without it, unless I had a near exhaustive knowledge of my whole city and surrounding suburbs.
Honestly navigation is the #1 thing. Random other stuff comes up, like my mobile password manager Bitwarden, or my various apps like my City’s bus/metro app, and my city’s parking app. Both of which again, I could make do without, but it would be extremely tough and inconvenient.
I’ve decided that the happy medium for me is to use as much FOSS phone tech as possible. That way at least the tracking and data harvesting is minimized and I am generally not supporting megacorps.
I use GrapheneOS, with mostly FOSS apps. The proprietary apps I do use are isolated with GOS’s special sauce. I use Magic Earth for my navigation, which while not open source, the data sets they use are, and they are not google, and based in the EU, so far better privacy than Google’s trash.
I wish I could switch to a flip phone, I’ve seriously considered it many times over the last several years. But for my lifestyle, it’s just not feasible. The best balance for me is to compute ethically on my mobile. I have thought about going for the weekend with just a dumb phone, that might be possible, but I’ll have to see.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 2 months ago:
Lol at all the conservatives screeching about “socialism” and “communism” and how they will be the downfall of our country, then slurping up Trump nationalizing part of Intel 🤣
They don’t believe in anything, just brain dead simpleton cultists who would happily stick their tongue into a rat trap if Trump told them to do it.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 months ago:
Never been happier to be 100% on Linux.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 2 months ago:
There’s quite a few places that you can host a simple site for free.
Plus, linode’s cheapest Nanode option is $5 bucks a month, you could spin up a very minimal LAMP stack on that.
- Comment on Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System 3 months ago:
Favorite heavyweight Type 1 hypervisor: XCP-ng. It’s open source, runs on a ton of enterprise and consumer-grade hardware, has always been rock stable for me, even when forgetting to update it for like 6 months, still ran everything like a champ.
I need to try ProxMox, has some cool features. XCP-ng is pretty intuitive though, UI makes sense and is cleaner than Proxmox. The integration in Proxmox with the Incus project is pretty cool though, especially being able to run VMs and containers and manage them together. I’ve been thinking of trying that and seeing how it goes.
For containers, I just install Debian and run Docker on there. Stable, simple, nothing fancy. If I need something more up to date, I typically use Ubuntu Server.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 4 months ago:
RustDesk, it’s by far the best remote desktop software I’ve used on any platform.
Tons of great features, open source, self-hostable, easy to install and configure, works on all major platforms including mobile. Cross platform works like a charm.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 5 months ago:
Oh no. You either die the hero, or…
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
Sure as hell feels like it!
- Comment on Basic networking/subnetting question. 7 months ago:
Yeah, and it’s free for a basic account + up to 100 devices, so plenty for most home lab needs.
- Comment on Basic networking/subnetting question. 7 months ago:
Have you looked into Tailscale or an equivalent solution like Netbird?
You could set up a tailnet, make create unique tags for each machine, add both machines to the tailnet, and then set up each machine’s network interface to only go through the tailnet.
Then you just use Tailscale’s ACLs with the tags to isolate those machines, making sure they can only talk to whatever central device(s) or services you want them to, but also stopping them from talking to or even seeing each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Oh wow sounds great, can I get in line now to not use it?
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 8 months ago:
I really hope Brother is telling the truth!
- Comment on Least terrible domain registrars 8 months ago:
I’ve used two, NameCheap, and PorkBun.
Hated Namecheap, would never use them again. Janky pricing, tons of email spam, terrible UI.
Porkbun has been pretty great. Simple, solid prices, easy to use, no issues for about a year and a half.
- Comment on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal' 8 months ago:
I wouldn’t even give that scumbag a quarter.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 8 months ago:
A liar, scam artist, and scumbag.
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 8 months ago:
Check out Neocities, a great community of indie web fans, built in the spirit of the old GeoCities sites.
Some really great sites there, it really captures that late 90’s to early 2000’s internet vibes.
- Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users 8 months ago:
Been using LibreOffice and OnlyOffice since university, well over a decade ago, haven’t once missed MSOffice.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 8 months ago:
Free speech readings, increasing! Liberty levels, maximum! Freedom metrics, exploding!!! IMA BUSSSS!!!..oh nvm, the techno-fascist douchebag was a lying hypocrite the whole time.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Second influx to the Fediverse?
