JohnEdwa

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JohnEdwa,

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JohnEdwa,

It is accurate. There have been four school shootings in total in the history of Finland - Raumanmeri, Jokela, Kauhajoki and now this.

JohnEdwa,

I use an entirely different browser (vivaldi), that way I can have all the logins and bookmarks and cookies I want and not have to worry about it.

JohnEdwa,

Nobody will freeze to death waiting as temporary shelters are always available for everyone, exactly for that reason.

We do still have around 3500 homeless, around a thousand of who are categorized as “long term” and not just someone that’s couch-surfing at their parents or friends while waiting for an a new apartment, but as everyone in Finland is eligible for enough social assistance that they could always pay rent and buy food, the majority of those 1000 are people who either refuse out of principle or have such bad drug addictions or mental health issues that they spend all that money on those or trash the places they are given and get kicked out.
And for those there isn’t much anyone can do, as unless you commit enough crimes to get jail time you can’t be forced to go to rehab, get treatment, or stop living on the streets either.

Here’s an info page about it in English from the “No Fixed Abode NGO”.

JohnEdwa,

I can read that without any issues whatsoever.

But. If. You. Put. Periods. Between. Each. Word. My brain will force a pause between every single one and I can’t override it.

JohnEdwa,

If it was just about the sound, then you could get the exact same results by recording the vinyl player directly to a lossless format and playing that back, but it wouldn’t be quite the same. Big part of it is just the fact that you are using a vinyl player and these huge fragile disks that makes it an enjoyable experience by itself.

JohnEdwa,

Now that they don’t have to optimize for last gen console hardware anymore, that’s going to be even more rare for any triple-A game. Even a well optimized PS5 game is going to seriously struggle to run on the Deck as even if you reduce the graphical setting, the PS5 essentially has an 8 core version of the 4 core CPU in the Deck.

Combine that with the 15W shared TDP limit and the game would basically have to be able to run using only roughly 25% the CPU load.

JohnEdwa,

This is nothing but a modern spin on “hey internet, what’s wrong with me? WebMD: it’s cancer.”

JohnEdwa,

Neo-Nazi radical Islamists being lead by a “peculiar kind of Jew”, apparently.

JohnEdwa,

We all know how the Russians treat the areas and civilians that they capture though, so they are hoping someone else will protect them from that fate, so they don’t have to. If it ends up that there weren’t enough people to do it, they will end up hoping they’d helped defend it too, but at that point it will be too late.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

jos näkyy kanavilla 21-24 olevat HD versiot, niin toimii jatkossakin. Lähetykset loppuvat DVB-T tekniikalla ja jatkuvat tulevaisuudessa ainoastaan DVB-T2:lla. Wikipediassa on lista mitkä kanavat käyttävät mitäkin.

JohnEdwa,

Apple spending 3 years researching and determining it is not doable due to technical limitations:
We’ve tried nothing and we are all out of ideas.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

There is no limit to when it will charge, you can use a lower power charger to extend your runtime - I use my 9V 2A (18W) Pixel 4a charger all the time while playing. Anything higher than 25w will keep you playing indefinitely, as that’s pretty much the limit for what the deck can draw - 15W TDP and 10W for the screen, but obviously if you draw more than your charger can output eventually you will run out of battery.

But for quite a few lighter titles, 18W still gives you a few watts of net positive.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

That “10W for the screen” includes them all.
When you reach the 15W TDP limit with the screen at max brightness (on the LCD version), the OSD will show you drawing about 25 watts, and it’s measuring it directly from the battery. This also matches what people have reported for the power pass-through mode measuring from the wall outlet - once the battery is fully charged the Deck can power itself directly from the charger, and at full tilt, it’s about 25 watts.
Sure if you really want to start separating them all out there are things like bluetooth, wifi, speaker amplifiers, the SSD etc, but compared to how much the backlight & screen controller draw, they are pretty much drops in the bucket. Well, the SSD might take a watt or two.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

That “10W for the screen” includes them all.

No.

Taken straight from the LCD deck in front of me: With the screen as dim as possible sitting in the home menu, the total power usage of the deck is 4.9 Watts. The GPU is drawing 0.3 Watts. The CPU is drawing 0.3 Watts.
With the screen brightness turned to full but the deck idle, the power draw goes to 7.1 Watts, but the screen stops updating the image after 10 seconds. CPU & GPU are both still at 0.3 watts.
Jiggling the stick every few seconds to keep the screen on, the power draw goes to 9.6 Watts. CPU & GPU are still 0.3W each.

Result: The “rest” of the Steam Deck, minus SSD and cooling fan activity at full screen brightness, uses 9 Watts, at least 4.7 Watts of it being the screen and backlight alone, though I was not able to test how much the draw would be if the screen could be turned completely off, as that isn’t possible in SteamOS.

15W + 9W is 24W, we are a watt shy of 25W.

JohnEdwa,

It’s only a matter of time until they completely ban porn.

JohnEdwa,

They went to gitlab, it was inevitable. And probably planned - what better advertisement for your name than a round of news and articles about the takedown. And now they are on a private git so for the next round, Nintendo has to actually sue them as well.

JohnEdwa,

It’s old by now, but Telltale’s Walking Dead. Loved those games, and loved those characters.

JohnEdwa,

they pitch a “deck that could actually play Fortnite” - game from a company who’s CEO actively hates linux for whatever reason (maybe it kicked his dog, I dunno)

Nah you see, they just don’t have enough programmers. Poor, poor small, 4000+ employee Epic :(((

“Why is Fortnite still not playable on Steam Deck?
If we only had a few more programmers. It’s the Linux problem. I love the Steam Deck hardware. Valve has done an amazing job there; I wish they would get to tens of millions of users, at which point it would actually make sense to support it.”
-Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic.

JohnEdwa,

Don’t worry, in the event of a malfunction you can just detach the cargo, so now you have two apartment building sized things falling from the sky to completely unpredictable random locations squishing anything they land on top of.

Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes (wapo.st)

In particular, know how to identify the common and deadly species (eg: much of the genus Amanita) yourself, and get multiple trustworthy field guides for your part of the world.

JohnEdwa,

You are lumping a whole lot of different things that work in completely different ways under the singular label of AI, and while I can’t really blame you as that is what the industry does as well, image recognition, image generation and large language models like chat-gpt all work entirely differently.
Image recognition especially can be trained to be extremely accurate with a properly restricted scope and a good dataset, but even so it would never be enough for identifying mushrooms because no matter if it’s being done by the perfect AI or an organic meatbag, mushrooms simply cannot be accurately identified from a single picture as they can look literally identical to one another in many ways.

And parrots totally can learn what words mean. Just like how a dog can learn what “Sit”, “Paw” or “Let’s go for a walk” mean, parrots just also have the ability to “talk”.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

LLMs are the current big buzzword and the main ones that “don’t work”, because people assume and expect them to be intelligent and actually know and understand things, which they simply do not. Their purpose is to generate text in a way that a human would and for that they actually work perfectly - get a competent LLM and a human and ask them to write about something, and you are very unlikely to spot which one is the machine unless you can catch them lying, and even then it might just be a clueless human talking about things he kinda understands but isn’t an expert of. Like me.
But they are constantly being used for all kinds of purposes that they really don’t yet fit well, because you can’t actually trust anything they say.

Image generation mainly has issues with hands and fingers so they aren’t bullet proof at making fake realistic imagery, but for many subjects and style they can create images that are pretty much impossible to identify as being generated. Civit.ai is full of examples. Most people think it doesn’t work yet because they mostly see someone throwing simple prompts into midjourney and taking the first thing it generates for an article thumbnail.

And image identification definitely works, but it’s… Quirky. I said it can’t be used to identify mushrooms, because nothing can identify two things that look exactly the same from one another. But give one enough photos of every single hot wheels car that exists, and you can get one that will perfectly recognize which one you have. But it will also tell you that a shoe or a tree is one of them, because it only knows about hot wheels cars.
Making one that is trying to identify absolutely everything from a photo, like Google Lens, will still misidentify some things as the dataset is so enormous, but so would a human. Just that for an AI, “I don’t know” is never an option, it always says the most likely answer it thinks is right.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

Yes, they are correct in that there is no law requiring a banner popup. Functional cookies are always allowed, and you could always default to just not track people so you don’t need their consent either.

But if you want the user to give consent for the tracking cookies, and basically any site with advertisements really wants you to, then the popup is required, because the alternative - a disclaiming saying “by continuing to use you give consent bla bla bla” - has been deemed illegal. You need to get the user to actively opt-in to them and press I accept, and that means you nag at them with a popup. DNT header was a fantastic idea, for the users. Of course they didn’t want to use it, as it would have to also be opt-in (and so default to do not track) and probably 99.9% of browser users never change the default settings.

So while there is no law that says “you need a cookie consent popup”, there also effectively is.

JohnEdwa,

But as most of the companies providing and running ads are very much on the tracking users business, e.g Google/Meta/Amazon/Microsoft etc, I’d imagine they won’t be very willing to provide your site with tracking free ads, and the smaller companies that would, probably can’t provide anywhere as nice of a payout.

So you are left with the people who would be willing to reduce their profits for the benefit of their users, and looking at what a shitshow todays internet is, there’s maybe a dozen of those left.

Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

When you join a Steam Family, you automatically gain access to the shareable games that your family members own and they will also be able to access the shareable titles in your library. The next time you log in to Steam, this new ‘family library’ will appear in the left column as a subsection of your games list. You...

JohnEdwa,

I get you.
Here’s hoping this new thing allows them to make it work better eventually, as the current system is a result of the older family share system - before the owner banning was implemented plenty of games just disabled family sharing entirely as a workaround for ban evasion.

Right now I believe the only workaround would be to use the parental controls to not share those games you care about enough.

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