Gigachad

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by Gigachad 4mo ago
40gbps is an insane data rate that requires shielding, precision, and testing. There is no way you are getting that for $2. That said, outside of connecting a laptop to your monitor, you don't need a 40gbps cable.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
It's because they are straight up defective. The USB-C spec is pretty clear in that the power pins have 0v until you signal for a voltage. This isn't a failure of USB-C, you should just return defective devices to the OEM. Thankfu
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
Because space inside a phone is at an extreme premium. And this problem is solved by either using magsafe to charge or using an external hub for more ports.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
Batteries are massively more expensive. Thats why the utility companies are just giving consumers free power over building their own grid scale batteries. A tank of water is cheap, it’s just not possible to distribute hot water over the gri
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
I'm so on board for this. It would be kind of fun to wire all my appliances in to home assistant to have the dishwasher / dryer / etc all run during the free hours. I imagine eventually we might end up with some thermal stora
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
What if pedophiles were sent to jail instead of elected. Technical tricks like IPFS can’t prevent even 1% of the damage caused by giving criminals this much power over society.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
The breakdown here doesn’t tell the whole story I feel. Mobile gaming is largely Asian countries hooked on gambling apps. The traditional “gaming” on consoles and PC still exists more than it ever has. It feels like saying game consoles are
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
Nintendo still makes some co op games but you are right it’s an area that has largely died off lately. I think the boom in the board game industry has been a response to the death of co op video games.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
The government is different from a person. I’m ok with cctv being recorded and stored for x days with protocols and laws that restrict who can access it and for what purposes. With audit logs and penalties for misuse.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
I got a steam deck 2 years ago and I haven’t run in to any games like this. They all either skip the launcher or have a controller navigable one. I just had a look at the steam page and valve has listed a long list of usability issues with
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
I really don’t agree. Especially in this day where anyone, or any business could run it all through AI and profile everyone to work out the exact best moment to send you a push notification for a Big Mac or whatever.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
This just illustrates the article point. We have come to the point where a console is just a worse less useful version of a PC. Steam OS will replicate the nice TV UX of consoles but not be locked down.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
Games update on consoles too. I’ve never been unable to play a game on my steamdeck because of an update. It just manages them automatically in the background.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
All I’ve seen is there is literally no programmer smart and careful enough to never create a use after free or out of bounds read in a sufficiently complex codebase. The state of computer security has moved on from the old model of just pat
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
Of course games that don’t have controller support won’t work with controller. The steam store marks this with a label / rating system. If it’s for a green mark then everything will work with a controller.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
What is the definition of a console then? At this point it’s just a pc that runs a locked down OS. Back 20 years ago the distinction was just obvious.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
I don’t think anyone has the steam machine to test this stuff yet but I can’t see any reason it can’t do exactly the same thing.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
>However everything other than the hardware is what makes consoles special. They're a special-purpose device which is specifically designed to only be used with a game pad on a big screen. That means stupid stuff like a pop-up which
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
Valve has essentially fixed this in most aspects. My Steam Deck is as much of a "just works" experience as the switch. In fact I think it just works even easier because it automatically syncs my saves between my gaming desktop and
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
I've also never had a problem with any steam game I've purchased. I know in theory this could change at any time, but it's been 20 years now and it hasn't so they have earned some trust. Trust Playstation and Nintendo do
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
I can accept the waste of having a second much lower power CPU in the phone I use with me every day. But I can't justify having both a gaming pc and a playstation/xbox that's exactly the same thing with a different OS on it.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
The line is far more blurred now. The Steam Machine is a purpose built device streamlined for playing games. Yet without any hardware modifications you can put it on your desk and load windows on it. So it's clearly a PC too. The nitpi
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
I doubt there would be any improvement. What we have seen is traffic is a constant. If you make make the road network higher capacity or faster, people just move further out or drive to further away stores. People have an amount of time the
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
You wouldn't just charge more for driving. You do it in combination with funding public transport, building safer cycling routes, and removing roadblocks from building cheap housing near PT hubs.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
I looked this up and realised it’s the page I’d seen briefly on a range of websites lately. It’s not annoyed me at all. Not nearly as much as having to complete captchas with slow refreshing tiles.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
I'm actually struggling to believe he's done all this stuff. Like it's crazy to see it was possible to fix everything the whole time and all it took was slightly increasing taxes on billionaires and not being corrupt.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
Looks like an AI spam blog
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
Aside from the physical/chemical damage alcohol does to developing brains, alcohol addiction is bad for adults too. We just concede that after childhood you can make your own choice to ruin your life. Phone addiction is harmful to ever
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
At least in my experience, every single game I've launched has worked on Linux. I don't play online shooter games which seems to be the only category that doesn't work.
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by Gigachad 4mo ago
Even under AppleCare this is a $400 service which for an older macbook costs almost as much as the whole thing. And without Applecare it's not worth fixing at all.

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