I’ve said it before, just… give me a Steam Deck without the screen, and I’ll buy it. I need that layout, it’s the perfect combination of features for me.
If I could be greedy, an extra set of back paddles and some extra “spare” buttons would be nice for flight/space sim games.
Both are up to date. I actually suspect this is an issue caused by the newer firmware, but there is only one firmware version available when I looked into it.
I ended up working around the problem, and just using the old NVME as the OS drive and using hibernate rather than sleep. It seems something about going into standby causes the problem, and the system going “cold” by parking onto the disk doesn’t cause the same issue.
I’ve been having the same problem, and it’s not Linux specific; this happens on both my Linux and Windows partitions. I’ve yet to find a clear cause and no amount of changes to power consumption or boot parameters seems to fix it. In my case, the unit is also the boot/OS drive for both.
I suspect it’s something related to the NVME, since I did not have the problem with my 1TB unit, it only started after replacing it with a 4TB one. Both are WD, though I don’t have the exact model on hand.
I’d love to hear back if you find a fix, because it’s got me stumped.
Hell yeah, I would love this now, and probably would’ve loved it as a kid.
I’m not saying I agree with it, just what I’ve observed in other discussions.
I’m not happy with generative AI in general. It’s worn out the novelty and is very clearly just another tool to extract as much value out of people while giving next to nothing in return.
Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag, and the vast majority of people don’t understand how it works or why it is a problem. Meaning that, not enough people make a fuss, to the point where no action is taken towards legislating against it in a meaningful way.
The end result is games like this, which find a position where it’s not quite objectional enough for most people to make a fuss about it.
I think the reason most people are okay with it is, firstly, because it runs locally, not on some massive datacenter somewhere.
Secondly, the type of AI used is either not generative; for the “smart Zoi”, feature, where it’s basically just an AI driven NPC logic system; you tell them what they should act like in a prompt and it informs what they do and why, taking it a bit further than their basic needs.
Or, where it is generative, it’s within its own ecosystem. It’s generative, but for its own consumption, rather than polluting the general web with garbage content like most generative AI is. If this causes their own ecosystem to be drowned out with garbage, it’s their own problem solve, not ours. They have a financial stake in keeping that ecosystem healthy to engage with, since I believe it’s a source of monetisation?
I’ve played the game for a few hours, but unfortunately I’ve aged-out of enjoying this type of game I guess. I used to be a big Sims fan, but neither that nor Inzoi grab me as it would have 20 years ago.
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The fact that this is normal in the US is incomprehensible to my European brain. I don’t think the fluoride is harmful, I don’t think there’s anything nefarious about it all, I just think it’s weird to add things to the water supply?
Water coming from the tap should just be … water? If you want fluoride in it for better dental health, just add it yourself? Or use fluoride toothpaste?
I feel like if you start doing that, you kinda open the door to mass dosing of other “potentially beneficial” agents. And things we think are safe today, may turn out to be unsafe a few decades from now (see lead, plastics and a number of pharmaceutical compounds that turned out to be unsafe later after decades of use).
At this point there are so many of them, its literally just spam. Also, a lot of the time it’s very NSFW stuff that doesn’t get flagged at all.
Stability, reliability, don’t fix it if it ain’t broke.
Some companies have a need to reinvent them every 6 months to justify some middle Manager’s existence so they can pad their resume for the next overpaid job position.
This Is what it looks like when you don’t have that problem
Also, when developers have lots of cross-team and cross-skillset coordination that needs to happen, you can spend the majority meeting, documenting, and reviewing.
Case in point; my Cloud team spends a significant chunk of time coordinating between backend and frontend, Ops, Firmware/Hardware team and DevOps.
Product Owner wants a feature, specs how the feature should look in the frontend, and what the device needs to do when used. Backend has to spec the cloud logic and API glue between them. A feature might need support from DevOps if infrastructure needs to be updated, and Ops needs to know how the feature works to support customers.
It’s a whole lot of talk and documentation so that the amount of time we spend coding is as little as possible. That’s a good thing. If you’re spending the majority of your time writing code, you’re probably doing something wrong.
Give me the Steam Deck layout sans screen and I’ll buy several.
So fucking fed up being charged out the ass for a few extra buttons and/or shitty build quality.
I went through RMAing SIX god damn Xbox elite 2 controllers before just giving up and getting my CC agency involved to get my money back.
I just want a controller with back pedals and touchpads for mouse emulation. Is that so hard?
I’d consider it if it was SteamOS, since I love the Steam Deck, but it’s performance is just shy of where I’d like it to be.
No SteamOS is a hard pass from me though. I’ve just finished ditching Windows on my gaming PC, I don’t intend to back step back to Windows, especially on a handheld.
I frequently amaze new colleagues when I show them that deploying an update for our backend application is a sub-second affair. Our pipeline keeps track of what git tag was deployed last, diffs between that tag and the new release, and uploads the files to each of the deployment targets. It takes longer for the pipeline agent to spin up from Cold on a Monday morning, than it does to actually deploy.
The core of the application is just php scripts, and those are either immediately up to date whenever the next call is, or swapped out the next time that component finishes a processing cycle.
Docker containers are nice, but nothing beats the cause of a stack trace being fixed, tested and deployed to the acceptance environment within minutes of it arriving.
This is probably controversial, but i always disliked how the Borg seemed to assimilate for the sake of assimilation? It was sometimes explained as their way of growth or achieving perfection, but that always rang a bit hollow as a motivation.
If I could write a longer term direction, it would be interesting as a quasi-justifiable thing; have the Borg be the boogeyman in the dark of space, until we find out its collective drive to assimilate is a way to insulate itself against some greater evil.
I’ve always liked stories of eldritch horrors lurking in the depths of space, so one way you could do this, is for there to be something lurking in subspace; warp drive weakens the fabric of space holding it back, which explains the Borg using transwarp conduite instead. This horror would be able to easily subvert individual minds to its needs, but the collective acting as a whole could resist it.
A “bad guy” doing bad things for an understandable reason is much more interesting that them just being straight-up evil. So in general I would aim for something like that.
This falls in the category of “looks shitty, but could be pretty good”.
I once had a variation of this with devilled eggs with minced chicken cooked in a broth mixed in. It was fantastic, so meat in devilled eggs could probably work?
I think you know the answer: your copy goes poof. It’s up to you to decide if the convenience is worth it.
Steam’s TOS does cover you a bit on the first part; an unlisted game must still be available for previous purchasers, but the publisher or developer is not obligated to keep it functioning. They aren’t allowed to intentionally sabotage the files on the depot though; steam can and has rolled back changes when a developer tries this.
I’m actually fine with this distinction; most games I buy are Indies anyway, and most can easily be backed up outside of Steam. On top of that, nothing lasts forever, even software. Hardware platforms change, dependencies shift, and over time things break.
We should try to preserve games, and not accept them artificially breaking, but we shouldn’t expect things to last forever, for free, either.
Likewise, no online platform lives forever. I quite like Steam, I think it’s been a positive force for players and developers, and I think it will be around for quite some time. Someday, eventually, it will go away. But you have to trust someone, at some point.
If that is a problem for you, buy from a place that gives you more control, like GOG.
I read a bit of fan fiction ages ago that extrapolated on what would have happened if Anakin had, at the pivotal confrontation with Mace and Palpatine, made the choice to support Mace instead.
I liked the interpretation that it would have still resulted in Luke and Leia, since Padma would still have had the twins, but not in secret, and without force fuckery, would’ve survived childbirth.
In this timeline, it results in a new high republic era, Anakin as a master, raising his children and them being his anchor to the light side. The friction in the story came from the politics of the Council disapproving of his attachment to his family, but it is also politically difficult to kick out the person who just saved their hides.
While the story didn’t touch upon Ahsoka’s fate much, I would have loved to see a timeline where Ahsoka raised a family and her kids hanging out with the Skywalker’s.
That alone has so much potential for storylines; there would still be remnant forces of separatists, rogue troopers, the death star plans being out there, and potentially Maul as well.
I mean, for 10 bucks anything is a decent deal. Those specs are pretty decent for a simple home server. I’m not familiar with HP thin clients, but I assume you can install a Disdro of your choice on it? My big reason to avoid HP is their crap software and warranties, both of which are moot here.
I would say relatively light software like tailscale, pihole and such would be fine. Docker containers might be pushing it, but that depends largely on what containers you want to run, same goes for nginx; by itself the requirements are fairly low, it depends on what you want to run on it.
Jellyfin might be a stretch, and as you alluded to, real-time transcoding is probably out. It strongly depends on the decoding capabilities of that chip and wether it does hardware decoding or if it all happens in software. The latter might be too much for it. If it can handle it though, it might be interesting as a media player hooked up to a TV, rather than acting as a transcoding or DLNA-esque server.
Either connect them to a docked Steam Deck by the TV, or my gaming PC, yeah. The Steam Deck is nice, but for an extended session it’s quite a hefty device. Being able to have the same controls while laid back on the couch or reclined in a chair would be more comfortable I think.