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by bsimpson 11mo ago
phoronix is blog spam. This ought to be duped to one of the other posts on the front page.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I wonder if this will be a VR trojan horse. The Steam Deck was wildly popular for a non-Nintendo device. It's got Linux up to 3% of total Steam playtime. If this has a similar draw (play every game on Steam without having to buy a TV
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I did catch that the streaming stick for the Valve Frame in the announcement video was plugged into a computer that looked an awful lot like a Mac.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
You can use the Steam Deck recovery image to flash an SSD with SteamOS. It's what those of us on other handhelds do.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Same is true of home video hardware: If you plug a Nintendo system's RCA cables into a modern TV, it will look like garbage. Emulated games on LCDs look pixelated. Those games were designed for a CRT's pixel grid. They don't
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Someone built a CRT case for the Switch 2 [video](youtube.com)
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by bsimpson 1y ago
This might be the worst take I've ever read on this website. I'm a lifetime Mac user who has bought exactly one iPhone (the 3G S) before switching to Android. I'm definitely not in the Jobs reality distortion field. But I do
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Wall St was an actual (medieval) wall until the turn of the 18th century. It's at the very south of Manhattan, a ten minute walk from the tip of the city it was built to protect. NYC's postal names are a mess: Manhattanites can w
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I have to believe that they'll get their shit together before Thanksgiving. If this petty standoff ruins people's holidays, there will (hopefully) be hell to pay at the next election.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Might wanna spell-check the post if you want any credibility on your claim: > worfklows Observable is already open-sourced and well-respected. Bold and ridiculous to claim your random product is "the successor" of a well-known
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by bsimpson 1y ago
The same part of me that is shy to install Chrome extensions is shy to try non-standard terminals. I'd like the thing I type my passwords into to be as trusted as possible. SteamOS comes with Konsole, so that's what I've got
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Fortnite has been attempting to be a platform rather than a game for years now. (Epic Games Store too, so you ridiculously have to launch one then the other before you can pick your game.) Curious to know to what degree the "Creative&
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by bsimpson 1y ago
At the turn of the millennium, they were valuable enough to buy Warner Bros.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
As a lifelong Mac user, I'm mildly tempted to do something like this in SteamOS, but with limited real estate: two panels feels like potentially wasting pixels, and the bottom edge is probably easier to reach on a touchscreen gaming ha
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by bsimpson 1y ago
> It is interesting though how this same conversation doesn't exist in the same way in other areas of computing like video game consoles This is part proprietary pedigree too. You had to buy Nintendo cartridges to play Nintendo game
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by bsimpson 1y ago
EAC is owned by Epic, but they won't enable it on their own games, because they don't want to make it easy for people to use Steam. They want Epic Games to used for more than collecting free games and launching Fortnite.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Appreciate the response! Respectfully, the demos on your page look like impostors on Android. For apps that wouldn't bother supporting Android in the first place, maybe this is an improvement. But for apps that want all customers to
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by bsimpson 1y ago
The most important question for every cross platform framework is what happens to the UI? Adobe products (both the Creative Suite, and their Flex Builder environment for Flash app) had their own design system that felt foreign on every plat
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Virgin America was the best airline in the US and they ruined it by assimilating it into Alaska's kitchyass log cabin motif.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Every flight I've taken in the last year has been a clusterfuck. I've spent damn near as much time in airports as I have in the air. It seriously makes me not want to fly.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I literally had to sprint across LIS airport (past the tax-free refund counter I had business at) to make an alternate flight, after waiting in line for 3 hours. If I didn't run, I would have missed the alternate, and Airfrance would h
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by bsimpson 1y ago
You can also mod your Steam Deck to your heart's content. There's a plugin called Junk Store that will let you use other stores.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
True, but I can see the argument for it. Kinda wild to maintain two different userspaces for Linux, when one is far and away the most popular for smaller-than-computer devices. Plus, it gives Android developers a widescreen demographic to
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I'm curious to see how true that is. Will the Walkabout Mini Golf deployed to Play be meaningfully different than the one from Oculus, or will they include controller support for both ecosystems and ship a single APK to any storefront
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I wonder what the preferred ecosystem for VR will end up being. Seems like there are now ~4 places to buy content (Oculus, Steam, Google Play, Apple App Store). If you buy on Steam, your catalog is reasonably portable over time - you can bu
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by bsimpson 1y ago
You basically got to play Cyberpunk for free and keep one of the most ergonomic controllers ever afterwards.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I think the Pixel C was rumored to be a Chromebook that got Android instead last minute, and then the Pixel Slate did run Android, and now there are all the rumors about ChromeOS being rebased atop Android…
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Earplugs are like condoms: They make a sensual pleasure less pleasurable, and they also protect against life-altering consequences.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I've always been someone who hears high pitched noises that "normal" people don't. I'm also in my 30s, and I'm sure those "teenage alarms" in Japan would work on me. I was the one who would walk up to
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by bsimpson 1y ago
His name was also Robert Paulsen.

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