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by bsimpson 2y ago
When Wordpress first came up, PHP was something anyone with $5 could administer, and Python/Ruby required a lot more money and expertise that put them outside the reach of junior hobbyists. This was before the days of PaaS solutions li
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm from a swing state, where you get used to smart people having conflicting opinions. The people I know who don't embrace climate fear, recycling, etc. always cite hypocrisy as their most salient motivation. They see people like
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by bsimpson 2y ago
As someone who grew up on Macs and missed out on games like Alice and Arkham Asylum that weren't released on Mac when they were popular on Windows, I'm kind of shocked to see such enthusiasm for the Mac as a retro gaming platform.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
MacMall accidentally sent my dad a box of Marathon games, probably meant for a store's shelves. Marathon ended up being one of my favorite games from that era. The Windows kids had games like Doom and Quake, but we had Marathon. Mac ma
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by bsimpson 2y ago
"They" is an interesting choice here. Two companies spun out of the wreckage of Microsoft's Nokia takeover: HMD and Jolla. HMD was Nokia's old hardware division, and they're making this device. Jolla was the softwa
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Wireless VR and Stadia are both insanely impressive. Think about how much data you've gotta be moving (and how quickly) to have an 8k video stream feel smooth, or have a game computed in a data center feel local.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's funny that they still call it Big Picture Mode, because the UI makes assumptions about being on a Steam Deck (definitely in Linux, and even in Windows). In fact, my Legion Go counts as a Steam Deck in my Steam Replay stats. (I gue
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Bazzite lifts the same boats as SteamOS. They want you to be able to play (and buy) games from Steam. I doubt they're fussed about whether you're using their official image or a homebrew enthusiast build.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The first game I played in Linux was Arkham Asylum, which would be unexpectedly slow in certain levels (like the botanical garden). I haven't experienced that in other games.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The Lenovo is the only official 3rd party device, but a public beta is coming in the spring for arbitrary devices. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/52983491...
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Part of what's exciting about SteamOS is that Linux on a touchscreen is a disappointing experience otherwise. There are a handful of UI options (GNOME, KDE Plasma Mobile, Phosh, Maui), and they're all works-in-progress to varying
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by bsimpson 2y ago
People who have only seen a Switch also might not realize how big the Deck and its cousins are.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> which wasn't hard You must have used NixOS before, or had hardware that worked perfectly with a default config.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Games get vetted for Proton, which is a DirectX implementation for Linux. More powerful hardware might perform better, but whether or not a game can run correctly is a property of Proton, not of the Steam Deck specifically.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's TBD how it will handle extra buttons. I believe Valve has a kernel module for the Steam Deck controller. Lenovo's current handheld exposes an Xbox controller and a USB device with extra buttons. Handheld Daemon synthesizes
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The Go S appears to only have one rear button on each side. I've played half a dozen games on the original Go, and I don't think I've used more than one rear button. In Half Life, it's more comfortable to hold for crouc
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by bsimpson 2y ago
All the gaming distros market themselves for both. I'm sure people who have HTPCs will put SteamOS on it.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
A particular unknown person getting assassinated is not a safety issue. The only reason it happened in NY is because business happens in NY. Nobody's going to assassinate you, in NY or anywhere else. It feels like you're being den
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by bsimpson 2y ago
There probably isn't a public street in America that could prevent a random assassination. If the guy got shot visiting relatives in Park City, would you suggest that any contemporary public policy in Utah was bad?
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's insane that "don't block the UI thread" is so complicated. I never would have expected half the article to be about an edge case if the user is in a background tab. What's worse is I don't even know how yo
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Dev rel content has always had analogies in it. It's a big assumption that AI made that choice.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Tangential, but: I often wonder how secure these open source projects actually are. I'm curious about using Waydroid in SteamOS, but it looks like it only runs LineageOS (apparently a derivative of CyanogenMod). I know that people cla
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't know how to reason about things like this and the Google's version with Street View recording wifi SSIDs. I wouldn't at all be surprised if these really were just harmless mistakes, but people feel so constantly surv
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The difference is that someone in real life can see your ID without recording it. The internet's history of anonymous-by-default and the taboo that people can still feel viewing pornography are both factors that make ID verification la
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by bsimpson 2y ago
"Sex addiction counselor" sounds like the kind of person who thinks anyone who has ever looked at porn is a pervert if single and an adulterer if partnered, and makes persecuting those people her whole identity. Definitely not som
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Dropbox and Slack are examples of another possible outcome: capture the early adopters and stay a player in the space, but still have your lunch eaten by big tech suites that ship similar products.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's a totally fine and respectable boundary to have: "I'm going to share some stuff I did for free for other people to learn from, but not if I get a bunch of bitchy/pedantic notifications about it."
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> Since the Internet seems to be full of people with way too much time on their hands, I would just like to kindly shoo away any C/C++ pedants out there. Yes, I am sure there are a million different ways to achieve many of the same
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Here's a comparison of asking ChatGPT and Meta AI about actual in-flight movie choices. I pasted the same initial prompts in both, but Meta AI needed more clarification. When ChatGPT found multiple entries with similar titles, it gave
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by bsimpson 2y ago
On coast to coast flights, there's often not a good way of knowing what movies are available until after you've left cell coverage. This makes simple research like checking the IMDb score challenging. Alaska Air has a whitelist o

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