Deconceptualist

@Deconceptualist@leminal.space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That quote was the crux of it. IMO Yen was foolishly only looking at the situation through the lens of which party would be less of a barrier to Proton’s business and interests in user privacy. But the community very harshly (and rightfully so IMO) corrected him with regards to the bigger picture of corruption and cronyism and greed rampant in today’s GOP and how shortsighted out would be to trust them.

  Proton as an org was pretty burned and officially walked it back and said they would refrain from allowing individual staff (CEO included) from making those kind of political statements that could be interpreted as representing the business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure toilet water often goes below ground. So that’s where we’re at 😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So our toilets will very soon be smarter than the current US president, got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if you remember from school, energy is defined as the capacity to do work. And if the rising steam does the work of turning a turbine, it’ll have a lot less kinetic energy left afterwards and won’t rise nearly as far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about pumped hydro power. It’s all the excitement of using water to turn turbines(as it’s released to gravity), but none of the boiling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now, we could also use this technology breakthrough to move water from a low elevation to a higher one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My review on the AYN Odin 3⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the GPU in this chipset not also ARM architecture? Genuine question, I’m more of a desktop PC guy and don’t usually follow mobile platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe… Nation Modernization

  But if you call it that, you’ll have to build out some scenarios for the player (either like stages or selectable by difficulty) where they have to solve the problems with your prebuilt nations. Of course you could keep a sandbox/start-from-scratch mode too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My review on the AYN Odin 3⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok serious comment: That’s a damn good review. And a surprisingly good quality device that’s a little ahead of its time.

  I’m impressed that you reached out to devs, contrasted with other handhelds, and tried so many different games. That’s almost everything I’d want to know.

  What kind of battery life does it get with various games? Sorry if I missed that. I expect ARM is a lot less power hungry than x86.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My review on the AYN Odin 3⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyway, you can either follow the link to my full review

  I tried clicking on Link, but he just took me to a bigger picture of Link

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never tried 4K, sorry. I’ve only had a 1080p plasma TV (which recently blew a capacitor so I may have to get something else).

  For control, I use an old Logitech K830 which has a trackpad right on it. It’s a good step up from the K400 series (lithium rechargeable and backlit keys) but sadly appears to be discontinued 😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at a teardown of the Machine, it’s almost all heatsink inside. The remaining space isn’t really a lot bigger than a deck. But the components run much higher wattage (not constrained by battery) and put out a lot more heat, hence the need for the sink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The new Steam Machine is very compact for a gaming PC of its caliber. That took some real engineering to find the right combination of component size, TDP, thermals and noise for such a small box. There’s obviously no screen and battery but otherwise it’s similar design work as on the Deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a tough one. The new Steam Controller will probably let you use the trackpads with an onscreen keyboard (as long as you’re running the Steam app).

  But you generally need some kind of keyboard with a PC. I have a little handheld Rii i4 with a thumb keyboard, maybe that would be better for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1. The top end Steam Deck was like $750 at release. Replace the screen with better CPU and GPU, and there’s your baseline for the Machine. Since it’s “6x” performance, price will probably be a bit higher. People thinking way less are smoking crack.

  2. How many of you have actually had a Linux PC connected to your living room TV? I built one about 13 years ago (and upgraded the guts occasionally) and it’s been awesome. With a regular web browser you can watch YouTube (with uBlock of course), Plex/Jellyfin, or any streaming service, in addition to gaming. Plus I’ve done stuff like vacation planning with my partner, where we can easily bring up maps and hotel listings from our couch without hunching over a laptop or tablet.

  3. While Linux hardware support is quite good these days, there’s still something to be said for buying a machine that you know is fully supported and targeted by game devs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OS does the Batcomputer use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But at least it was easy to launch from the command line using startup.bat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I might still need Windows for a few games.

  You probably don’t, unless it’s for multiplayer anti-cheat. I don’t think I’ve had any significant issues with Linux gaming in 6+months. Basically everything just works now.

  Not a guarantee of course, but in my experience it’s pretty awesome and I don’t miss Windows at all. Dual-booting for a year was dumb, I ignored the Windows partition almost entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. And Dell bought them a long time ago so they would have a ‘gaming’ brand. Just buy a regular Dell machine and save money, it’s about as simple as that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just playing devil’s advocate here. I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but there are some interesting factors at play.

  1. The Steam Machine won’t need a screen or battery, two of the most expensive components on the Deck. So that can go into better CPU/GPU/RAM instead.
  2. Valve proved they can make a successful physical hardware product with the deck. That gives them a lot of negotiating power with AMD to get the best deal they can.
  3. Unlike with the Deck, they’re releasing the new gadgets in almost all major countries simultaneously. That means they’ve may have already started manufacturing months ago, and are benefiting from economy of scale at an entirely new level.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, it’s not speculation if OP is referencing what Valve staff have said literally and unambiguously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that should have maybe been a red flag while dating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could never ever work in that field, it gives me the ick. So I appreciate people who can.

  Also enamel is the hardest substance in your body; AFAIK chemically it is indeed interesting and hard (ha) to emulate with other bio-safe materials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate all three of you lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully I haven’t seen this, but if I did, the feature I’d be inclined to use is called “block sender”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games often have crouch and crawl for stealth but not the much more commonly used tiptoeing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shut up the take my upvote 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games often have crouch and crawl for stealth but not the much more commonly used tiptoeing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In purely game terms, I think it’s just visual shorthand for walking gingerly. Because actually stepping carefully and quietly depends on a lot of factors (surface texture, surrounding environment, footwear, wind conditions, etc) and would be a bitch to fully animate for every permutation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i hate myself and i want to die lol⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a precursor to defending your thesis, right? I don’t mean to discourage, I’ve just been away from academia for a few too many years and my memory is getting rusty on the order of operations.

  Regardless, it’s a massive milestone and I commend your commitment to humanity’s knowledge in the strongest possible terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought I saw elsewhere in the thread that you’re also on Team Quistis. She’s great too 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show your pride⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad to see some bismuth love, but c’mon.

  • “Every single metal element” then calls out copper & gold separately.
  • No respect for chromium, which probably has more colorful compounds than any metal.
  • No cobalt either?
  • Manganese is quite coppery; palladium and ytterbium can be gold-ish.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. I was squarely in that audience but my heart went more toward princess Marle and weirdly attractive blonde cavewoman Ayla. Luca was a cool pal though. And you can’t deny those crits.