Looking for those games that you may have heard about but never tried until you got a Deck. Or old games on systems you never had that you’re trying for the first time. Or new AAA games that just released in the last year or two that you picked up for the first time specifically to play on Steam Deck and have kept you glued to...
I worry folks are downvoting because they take the title as an endorsement of anti-feminism. This is an explicit statement that this sub is in no way anti-feminist. Read the sidebar.
That’s what I’d assume. My impression is that many Gen-Z might associate the term “Feminism” with J.K. Rowling and such, Trans-Exclusionary feminists as it were. If there were questions that could suss out concern about trans issues, or even LGBT+ issues in general, I suspect the differences between generation might match.
It wouldn’t be terrible, as long as it’s based on an open source foundation. Although that depends on the specific open source license. As long as the engine can be forked, the worst of IE6 should be avoidable.
But yes, with Opera moving to Blink, you’ve got really only two-ish browser engines. KHTML/WebKit/Blink and Gecko. WebKit/Blink are Open Source, but I think mostly BSD, so Apple/Google could migrate to a proprietary license easily.
Gecko is MPL, which IIRC is somewhat Copyleft like the GPL, just a bit less stringent.
With the Apple/Google impasse with WebKit/Blink, I think we should be able to avoid an IE6 situation, but I would feel better with a stronger Copyleft license.
As much as I love Firefox, I think Firefox has less browser share than it did back in the IE6 days.
I work in industrial automation, on the front lines of that automated timekeeping technology for 24 hour operations. The time change sucks and I hate it. It’s pointless, and I’m glad that the average user is insulated from the years of tweaks and changes and bugs in all that automation, but it is frustrating because it is so pointless.
Most of the bugs are mostly ironed out, but they still exist. In the background, more modern devices tend to work in UTC, so internally ignore any time change. HMI displays convert to local time based on time zone. Which is famously straightforward.
You don’t make a blanket longer by cutting a foot off the top and sewing it onto the bottom.
Hah! Missed that one. Steam OS is the Steam Deck’s secret sauce. Even when you have to go into Desktop Mode, it’s okay without a KB+M. I wouldn’t want to use it as a laptop replacement without KB+M and maybe an external monitor mind you, but it’s usable.
I haven’t test driven an ROG Ally, but the though of Windows on a handheld fills me with dread for any interaction that devolves to the desktop.
There were 4,664 new listings of detached, attached and apartment properties last month, a 15.4 per cent increase from a year earlier, as new listings were 4.8 per cent above the 10-year seasonal average.
If they just level out for a long while, it will give wages a chance to catch up… it should only take a couple of centuries, right?
But honestly, I am curious what the math would look like on house prices holding steady, with inflation still acting on everything else, until housing is again affordable.
Did some quick math based on a CTV article. The article claims $347,000 is what would constitute “affordable” with Vancouver’s 2021 median household income. Applying inflation the the “affordable house figure” based on the assumption that all the factors that are used to calculate that figure are being effected proportionally, works out to 60 years for the median house for sale in Vancouver to be considered affordable to the household with the median income.
It’s not just that Steam OS is Linux, is also that Steam OS has put lots of thought into working well on a handheld.
Desktop mode on the Steam Deck is usable, and being able to use Desktop Mode is great, but Game Mode is what makes the SD great.
Now you can do something similar with Windows (q.v. Big Picture mode), but from what I’ve heard about the Asus Ally, it’s a bit clunkier. Asus and Lenovo just don’t have the access to the OS to do a true Game Mode equivalent.
Considering that XBox is apparently “Windows without Windows” under the hood, I’m sure it could be done, it’s just not as easy.
After selling his software business for millions, Marcel Lebrun decided to pour his time and money into an affordable housing project in Fredericton. CBC’s Harry Forestell takes a closer look at the 12 Neighbours community and its impact on the people who live there.
I think it’s a decent solution for some. A small private space. I’ll note though that it is rather inefficient in land use. Many of the residents will need a car as well as they get back on their feet. Building these is closer to suburban sprawl in the form of a mini-mobile home park, which is not terrible, as I said it will be a decent solution for some.
I’d be curious as to the construction costs and land use for 99 of these tiny homes vs. building apartment blocks/condos closer into transit and work. Granted I was curious and a quick Google show $800,000 for 880 ft^2 1 bed, 1 bath condo in Vancouver.
I know that other countries have created knock-off CANDU reactors, but I’m not sure how much different they are.
The initial cost of construction for CANDU reactors is higher because of the heavy water requirements as I understand, and that once built the substantially lower fueling costs do have an eventual ROI. Also, the ability to derive power from raw unrefined Uranium allows heavy water reactors to reuse spent fuel from light water reactors. I think this would alleviate some of the (overblown) nuclear waste problems.
I’ll jump in and offer my (uninformed) opinion. It seems that housing is seen as more of an investment. Developers build higher end houses rather than lower income housing because the profit margins are higher. In this context, reducing the value of housing as an investment by making it harder for owning multiple properties while making it easier for people to own one house could go a long ways to settling out the cost of housing in the mid to long term simply by changing the incentives on what to build.
Short term, just getting some housing supply out of short term rentals and absentee investors hands could put some more housing on the market now.
Is it enough? I doubt it, but we can do more than one thing.
I think the “empty houses” isn’t all or nothing. A house used for an AirBNB results in empty hotel rooms, and is “less full” than a rental that is rented for the whole month. Likewise a large house, with a single occupant is less full than an apartment building on the same land with even a 50% occupancy rate. This is the whole “missing middle density” comes in.
My impression is that developers would rather buy a bunch of land, throw up some upper scale housing, sell it, and move on. You are right that building an apartment building and renting it out is also a viable investment strategy, but it just seems that there are more developers selling houses than landlords building apartment buildings. Granted landlords kind of suck to, so condo’s would be better I would think, but what do I know?
Kitsault keeps appearing on lists of ghost towns. I pretty much guessed from the title. There are some YouTube tours of Kitsault.
It’s a great ghost town because it went from fully occupied to empty pretty much overnight. The mine announced it was closing, and pretty much everyone left. It was pretty effectively mothballed against the day the mine reopened, but here we are 40 years later looking at remarkably well preserved eighties vintage houses.
It’s also remote enough you aren’t going to get random vandals trashing the place. Plus, it was never technically abandoned. It’s owned by somebody, and there are periodically plans around the mines, tourism, resorts, etc. So some maintenance is done.
That’s what I would expect. Basically a fancier RSS.
They’d still need to give some thought to federation management though. They might want to de-federate from instances with incompatible moderation standards.
I’m currently looking for another controller for the deck. Reddit threads and some articles usually mention Dualsense, Dualshock4, 8bitdo Ultimate and XBox controllers....
I’ve got two PDP X-Box controllers and a Power A X-Box controller. I got them from the Wal-Mart clearance rack, presumably returns. They all work great.
The university’s statement, released to the public on Friday, addressed the “serious and ongoing harms caused by [the groups’] statement,” which declares “solidarity with the Palestinian people” against “the settler-colonial apartheid state of so-called Israel.”...
At first, I would take issue with what do they mean by “colonial”? The majority of Israel’s population is of Mizrahi descent, Jews from the Middle East. Jews didn’t leave Lebanon and Libya as part of some colonial project. Without further clarification about how they are using the term, my assumption is that they are attempting to imply that the Jews in Israel are somehow “white settlers” there at the behest of European and American powers, which seems to the a popular narrative, although not accurate.
There’s more, but I’ll start with that. A further point would be what do they consider the consequences of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”? Hamas and Fatah have a pretty clear picture of how that would work, clearly presented in their Arabic media. With the availability of automated translation, are they endorsing that stance? What about the the non-Jewish citizens of Israel? From the SU’s statement, I would assume that they endorse the consequences of Hamas getting their wish.
But whatever, sure. “It’s not antisemetic, it’s antizionist” (while ignoring any obvious and inevitable consequences).
I think it’s kind of a Rorshach Colonialism or Schrödinger’s Colonialism. My impression is that people parroting the “Israel is a colonial country” statement aren’t specifically referring to settlements in the West Bank, but to Israel as a whole. The rationale being one of the following:
Rationale 1
Jews are white¹
Palestinians are dark²
Colonialism is something that whites do to darks
Rationale 2
Israel is more powerful, Palestine is the underdog
In colonial vs. indigenous conflicts, the indigenous people are the underdogs
Therefore the Israelis are the colonialist team and the Palestinians are the indigenous team
It should also be noted that Hamas (and Fatah as well IIRC) explicitly use the colonial framing with themselves as the oppressed indigenous group, so I’m fairly certain that those repeating it uncritically are somewhere along the Hamas propaganda pipeline.
<s> Perhaps in these troubling times, we should remember the words of Nobel Peace Prize winner Yassar Arafat:
We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
In his speech “The Impending Total Collapse of Israel” at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 30, 1996
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¹ Even though most Israelis are approximately as dark (q.v. Mizrahi Jews) or darker (Beta Israel).³
² Palestinians have a lot of Arabic heritage, whereas Mizrahi Jews are more Levantine (even if from Morocco or Iran orginally). This is probably due to historic isolation of minority communities within the Arabic world.³
³ This is all a stupid basis for determining the worth of someone. I’m pretty much a pure “mudblood”, my ancestors were very open minded apparently. Genetic descent studies are kind of interesting for mapping the migrations of people around the planet, but at the end of the day, we are all just people. Also, talk about perpetuating racism, and looking at it through a modern US lens. Way past my level of expertise. Just my impression.
Also in BC. Similar experience. My eldest daughter was in French Immersion though, and it’s served her well. As for myself, I have my high-school French, but also naika tenas kumtuks Chinuk wawa.
Steam Deck Owners: What’s been your favorite game that you first discovered on Steam Deck and now you can’t seem to put down?
Looking for those games that you may have heard about but never tried until you got a Deck. Or old games on systems you never had that you’re trying for the first time. Or new AAA games that just released in the last year or two that you picked up for the first time specifically to play on Steam Deck and have kept you glued to...
Poll finds that fewer Gen Z boys identify as Feminists than Millenials-- and the same % as Gen X. (www.mensjournal.com)
I worry folks are downvoting because they take the title as an endorsement of anti-feminism. This is an explicit statement that this sub is in no way anti-feminist. Read the sidebar.
BitTorrent Pirates Won’t Receive ISP Warnings (It Will Be Something Worse) (torrentfreak.com)
[News] SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' (www.pcgamer.com)
Police investigating shots fired overnight at 2 Jewish schools in Montreal (www.cbc.ca)
Montreal police are investigating after shots were fired at two Jewish schools.
Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit (feddit.de)
Clocks set to ‘fall back’ Sunday as daylight time ends for most Canadians (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
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Grab the Asus ROG Ally for cheaper than ever ahead of Black Friday with $80 price drop (www.pcgamesn.com)
Supply outpacing demand in Vancouver housing market, real estate board says (bc.ctvnews.ca)
There were 4,664 new listings of detached, attached and apartment properties last month, a 15.4 per cent increase from a year earlier, as new listings were 4.8 per cent above the 10-year seasonal average.
Lenovo Legion Go has launched and it could be the most impressive PC gaming handheld to date (www.tweaktown.com)
18+ Pilots of the "Perun Group" found and hit a group of enemy infantry that was moving to storm Ukranian positions. (streamable.com)
Mirror: files.catbox.moe/8stpnj.mp4...
Millionaire builds 99 tiny homes to help his community (www.cbc.ca)
After selling his software business for millions, Marcel Lebrun decided to pour his time and money into an affordable housing project in Fredericton. CBC’s Harry Forestell takes a closer look at the 12 Neighbours community and its impact on the people who live there.
Just over half (55%) of Canadians support using nuclear energy to generate electricity (www.ipsos.com)
Right-Wing ‘Take Back Alberta’ Group Purges Top Organizers As It Plans to Target School Boards Across Canada (pressprogress.ca)
This Airbnb alternative won’t destroy Canada’s housing market (breachmedia.ca)
Fairbnb’s new co-op platform aims to offer short-term rentals without the destructive side effects by Kunal Chaudhary • The Breach
In Northern BC, the Case of the Mummified Mining Town | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
CBC mainly remains off X, citing low traffic six months after scaling back presence (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
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Your favourite (offbrand) controller
I’m currently looking for another controller for the deck. Reddit threads and some articles usually mention Dualsense, Dualshock4, 8bitdo Ultimate and XBox controllers....
York University threatens to revoke student unions' status over Israel-Hamas statements (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
The university’s statement, released to the public on Friday, addressed the “serious and ongoing harms caused by [the groups’] statement,” which declares “solidarity with the Palestinian people” against “the settler-colonial apartheid state of so-called Israel.”...
How bilingual are you?
I was very lucky growing up, and my little middle school in my little village in Nova Scotia offered French Immersion (late, started grade 7)....