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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm sure how the government functions on a technological level qualifies for "things hackers might find interesting," but the comments on these Trump/DOGE-reactionary threads are really disappointing. Too many of them a
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by bsimpson 2y ago
You can run Steam Big Picture Mode on Linux, which gives you the UI of SteamOS. You can also run Bazzite, which does this by default and is close enough for many people. The actual image that gets shipped on the Steam Deck is available in
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I wonder what its install base will be like. Tim Sweeney (of Epic/Unreal/Fortnite) is not a reliable narrator, but he's on record saying: > Valve has done an amazing job there; I wish they would get to tens of millions of
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I wonder how they determine an MRI is wasteful. When I got hit by a car in Italy, a CAT scan was a standard part of the triage process. Then I went to the ortho in the US and she was flabbergasted - apparently the bar is much higher to get
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by bsimpson 2y ago
As I recall, studies have looked into this, and the bystander effect in open source is very real. "You can view the source on GitHub" is very different than "A knowledgable person has audited the millions of lines of source c
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Surprised to see this on the frontpage - it's a well known piece of software. It's unfortunate that there are no Google-vended images (e.g. the generic system image) that run on Waydroid. Typing my password into random ROMs from
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've seen some games on Steam that use filters to emulate a CRT to try to make pixel games look more like we remember them. I wonder what a similar endeavor would look like for video. I've been messing with my old Wii this weeken
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've never owned any of those things. I believe both my parents' DVD and Blu Ray players have crapped out over the years. I still had a 24" iMac that would be a great DVD player for its size, but it didn't make the move
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I just moved into a place with no storage, which leaves me wondering what to do about my DVD collection. On the one hand, even finding a DVD player that still works can be an uphill battle, and 480p looks like shit when it gets upscaled by
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It has always pissed me off that the media industry plays it both ways. Out of one side of their mouths, they'll say you only own a license to watch whatever content, not the content itself. Then when a new media format comes out, th
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by bsimpson 2y ago
[meta] why is this the only comment I can't vote on?
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't remember the last time either party called out their colleagues for questionable use of executive orders, but to do so would require principles, and we haven't seen those in decades either.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I met someone who did some high-level work for ByteDance. I asked them what they thought of the worries that TikTok was a CCP spying instrument. They said ByteDance is as disorganized as any other big tech company, and it would be approxim
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It has blown my mind how "free Palestine" has become a meme. That war started with a bunch of terrorists kidnapping/raping/murdering college-age kids at a music festival, and college kids around the world started marchi
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't remember motion controls being a majority of Wii games either. A lot of them were played with a Nunchuk to emulate a classic controller (or attached to the actual Classic Controller or Rock Band instruments to play cross platfo
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's funny to see $500 being expensive for a phone here, because I absolutely remember it being so far above the market that it was rare to see the first generation in the world (and they had a price cut shortly thereafter). There has
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I was traveling through Asia with the original Switch and got a cute girl who didn't speak English to play Mario Kart with me on the ferry. The detachable controllers were pretty magical, modulo the reliability problems.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The Wiimotes were a clear influence on the Joy-Cons. Nintendo still uses motion controls; they just made them portable and more resilient with gyros instead of IR.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The Super Nintendo had totally new controllers and was top-loading. The UX was substantially different than the original Nintendo's VCR-style design.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The last time I tried to use my Switch, I realized that the joy cons are no longer usable separately. Seems the connection to the internal shoulder buttons is broken, and you can't reorient the controllers unless you can hold them bot
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Looks like a new controller attachment system, maybe magnetic, except that doesn't seem robust enough for excited play. I wonder what that means for spare controllers. It's a waste to make people go buy new extra controllers for
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Thanks. I didn't know that, but I only rebuild via SSH anyway (so it's basically the same thing).
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Also: canola oil is a rapeseed oil. You can imagine why a lot of people are more comfortable calling it "canola" than "rapeseed" (and hence why it's written that way on US packaging).
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Easy keyboard access is also a baked in assumption. I found my way to Nix because I wanted to try SteamOS on nicer hardware than the Steam Deck. Bazzite is the recommendation in that space now, but at the time, there were a lot of equally u
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I erred on the side of pithy to try to avoid derailing. I've never voted for him and there's a lot that I dislike about him; however… There's a very credible argument that the DA overcharged the case so people who dislike hi
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I didn't know that happened to Python. It happened to NixOS.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's not surprising that people come to PG's commenting site to comment on PG's writings.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
If you insist on casually calling the guy you voted against a felon, I don't think you're as impartial as you claim.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
There are degrees of good and bad in all of it. Harvey Weinstein preyed on people. Louis CK consensually engaged in his kink with people who later said they didn't mean to consent but were embarrassed because they wanted to curry his f
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I wonder if he knows that his personal blog seems to be hosted in the template for a yoga studio in South Lake.

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