Natanael
@Natanael@infosec.pub
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 17 hours ago:
The secret trick is that they can do both.
The actual software target is their Steam Linux Runtime container. So all you need to install is the container environment, and if your 3rd party OS does that for you then you’re already done.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 day ago:
They’re literally memeing on the store page about it being based on Arch (by the way)
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 day ago:
There’s some slots for peripherals, so it’s definitely doable
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 day ago:
I heard it from digital foundry
- Comment on Fourier 4 days ago:
The friend she said you shouldn’t worry about gave her a band pass
- Comment on Fourier 4 days ago:
WDYM you’re not just going with
sine wavesvibes - Comment on Fourier 4 days ago:
You’re making it complex
- Comment on Fourier 4 days ago:
He didn’t say 1 of which unit or function
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 4 days ago:
Depends on model. Almost all older ones does (using radiation from the isotope to electrically charge smoke particles that pass through, which then can be detected by a sensor).
Many newer ones are optical.
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 4 days ago:
I’M A POTATO
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 5 days ago:
That was barely a year or two. Bitcoin wasn’t very popular globally speaking when the first ASICs already was in development, and in between the two there was FPGA mining
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 5 days ago:
Not really. Wrong type of math, not practical to reuse to break cryptography. There’s similar techniques that can be used against some algorithms, but not when set up like that.
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 5 days ago:
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The current mainland China gov never had any real claims to it. The argument they use is the same as for why they believe they have the right to enforce Chinese law on Chinese people abroad, including having their own secret police in other countries, etc, they simply don’t accept being anything less than the sole authority and sole representative for everybody they consider to belong to any ethnicity which is “theirs”. The claims on the island doesn’t really have much to do with the island, but that it’s populated with people they consider theirs.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 week ago:
You’re allowed to use independent channels to organize unions, etc, BUT MAKE SURE THEY’RE SECURE
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
The market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 1 week ago:
Official moderation is often worse than in community forums, lol. Overbearing in censored words, while not being active enough against abusive players.
That argument is absolute bullshit.
It’s not like anybody demands Microsoft must protect you from mean words if you connect Outlook to some random mail server. Games are no different.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 week ago:
So the term you want to look your is telescoping controller, when you’ll use it with a foldable.
Something like this one would be perfect with a Razr for DS emulation;
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 week ago:
androidcentral.com/how-turn-your-galaxy-z-fold-3-…
Galaxy Fold running Nintendo DS emulator, with theme
If you have a split game controller, I recommend using that over touchscreen controls. And using a controller like this plays better with a vertically aligned foldable phone (clamshell) rather than the pseudo-tablet sideways foldables, as you fully recreate the original physical controller layout
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 week ago:
Some of the things make sense, but overall I agree.
3D display simply died, everybody did it for a while but so few things used it well that it wasn’t worth the cost (especially since it hurts quality unless you can get the player to use special glasses).
You could use touchscreen compatible stylus, but no extra features connected to it.
Definitely miss analog triggers, which also hurts emulation (GameCube). Something streetpass-like could’ve been put in the mobile app (which also is way too limited and supported by too few games).
Absolutely miss customization too.
Gen 1 Switch should also already have gotten a top side USB C port - with support for accessories like a camera + mic (which wouldn’t have necessarily been built in, but supported).
Switch 2 could benefit so much from better local discovery especially now that it has GameShare, you could have it passively advertise supported games so you could discover opportunities to play even games you don’t have (much like how Download Play used to work on the Nintendo DS and GBA)
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 1 week ago:
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 1 week ago:
3.0 and 2.0 are very different. 3.0 has more pins and gigabit speeds. It’s 3.0 and 3.1 which are essentially equivalent, and USB 3 Gen 1, and whatever else they called it
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 week ago:
The electric motor capacity also accounts for scenarios like a heavily loaded car going uphill with poor weather conditions.
And because it always can dump full power into the wheels instantly, unlike ICE cars (which are forced to burn an insanely wasteful amount of fuel to compete) that means every EV made for normal use has ridiculous acceleration
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 1 week ago:
At least in EU the manufacturer can’t revoke licenses on sold physical products with no cause (can’t expire before EOL either) and can’t remove advertised functionality. If any feature is conditional or temporary it has to be disclosed before sale.
- Comment on sushi delivery 1 week ago:
No, they called it a non-stick non-toxic coating, they didn’t originally claim ceramic.
They claim the new surface is ceramic (and it looks plausible from seeing how damaged pans look in photos)
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 1 week ago:
Nah, copy paste
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 1 week ago:
All my 3 are deliberately linked (spread across servers for redundancy)
- Comment on sushi delivery 1 week ago:
Newer versions of that pan use ceramics, not Teflon
It seems to be slightly less non stick, and more sensitive to quick temperature changes, but otherwise it’s pretty solid and very safe
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 1 week ago:
Same with Matter. Home Assistant has a Matter module too. And, Matter is designed to be open!
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 1 week ago:
Matter is more of a higher level IoT coordination protocol.
Zigbee and Zwave are radio protocols (relatively long range, low energy).
The neat thing here is you can bridge a lot of shit into Matter, and then use almost anything you want to control all the different devices. Everything becomes visible in the same control panel regardless of connection type and manufacturer. Everything becomes available for automation tools too!
If you run the software Home Assistant on a computer at home then it can act as your IoT control server, and giving it radio antennas for Zwave and Zigbee will let it act as a bridge to relay commands to devices that use those protocols (like a ton of small lights and sensors and more).
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 1 week ago:
Which may suck for people who needed it for vacation homes, or worse, to help their old parents or something like it
