One thing that helped shift my perspective was to use it for its intended purpose. I have it enabled on my code editor to use for auto-complete instead of traditional code parser or snippet library, it’s honestly very good at that, it still makes a few mistakes and suggests shitty code, but overall I think it mostly works and it’s easier to hit tab and have the full for loop or small function written and correct the variable access it got wrong when it does.

Another thing that has made it very useful to me was in situations where I need to write code using libraries or languages I’m not used to. Having a copilot or Claude tab opened and asking it how to do certain stuff is a lot faster than reading the documentation to figure out the API or syntax. If something doesn’t work you feed it the error and it usually spots the problem. This has made me a lot more productive with for example Jenkins, since it’s a different language from what I use for everything else, and to properly test it you have to commit the code and let the pipeline run, before LLMs this was a very tedious work of reading docs, stack overflow, extrapolating responses, etc. Now it’s still tedious work, but at least I have my first draft much quicker and can then deal with the hallucinations or obsolete APIs it told me to use.

While technically possible it’s far more likely you were using ICQ or IRC back in the 90s. I had MSN when it launched in 99 and no one else was using it.

Pros

I get to own my system. I get to do what I want, if something is not to my liking there’s likely a way to make it work like how I want.

Cons

I have to own my system. If something breaks I have to fix it, if something doesn’t work I need to figure it out.

and what if any do you miss from windows?

Expect things to work. Linux is a minority of users, any manufacturer or dev HAS to make their products work for Windows, so much so that Windows users don’t even consider the possibility that something is not made for Windows.

Salvador may be dangerous and dirty and the hills incredibly steep, but at least

But at least what?

Having lived there for almost a decade: It’s hot all year round, which sounds like a good thing but it gets tiresome very quickly. It is very dangerous and dirty, but it is pretty and the food is one of the best I’ve tried in my life, although I think it’s not for everyone.

It could be Linux exclusive, which for most people outside of the Linux bubble is what PC means. That being said I doubt Valve would do that.

THANK YOU, I always feel I’m the only one who acknowledges that. Don’t get me wrong, I like T2, but it completely broke what was established in T1. I do understand why, you can only do that twist once, after the audience knows time is a loop you can’t add meaningful stories because there are no stakes. But it’s still annoying, that they undid one of the major things of the first movie.

What? So in your head Valve has to be okay with companies using their infrastructure for everything while selling the main access elsewhere just because it’s a bad idea not to have your game in Steam?

Look, if this had been a “you can’t sell the same thing cheaper elsewhere or we delist you” kind of deal I would agree it’s using their power to dictate price. But from what that other commenter said this was the other company selling a cheap launcher on Steam and then selling in-game content for everything inside it. So try were making Valve pay the price to host the full game but only selling some content of it on their store. It’s like saying Epic launcher were to be sold on Steam (except even worse, because it’s a launcher that contains the full game thus forcing Valve to foot the bill for hosting/downloads while the other company takes the profit for the game sale).

There is a fork in the path, if you want to turn right go to commit abd123 if you want to turn right go to commit xyz321

It’s a game that you liked that most people didn’t, Sleeping Dogs was very well received so I don’t think it qualifies.

Huh, that one was different for me, it was:

Un elefante, se columpiaba(n), sobre la tela de una araña

Como veía, que resistía, fue(ron) a llamar a otro elefante

Dos elefantes…

You reminded me of this:

That’s probably old stock, everyplace here and where she lives has it at 30% more expensive than the Deck. Thanks for the info anyways.

You’re correct, I misread as “you can’t overpower technique” to mean good technique triumphs over brute strength. Yeah, her technique was good, I just stood up, she weighs less than half my body weight so no technique needed.

Uh, that’s an interesting update, I’ll give it a look, I use protonup for my “steam machine”, use within steam would be a good feature there.

I’ve trained in lots of martial arts, this is one of those catch phrases people like to throw around a lot there, but it’s only true if you normalize for strength.

I remember a long while back my SiL went to some BJJ classes, and she was going on and on about how it was great because with those techniques strength didn’t mattered and she was learning how to defend herself against much more strong opponents. I told her something among the lines of “that’s great and all, but don’t get overconfident, BJJ only works if the opponent is in a similar weight category, a kick to the nuts is a lot more effective in real life”, she didn’t believe me, so I asked her to get me in something she had learned, she went for an arm lock, I ensured she had grabbed me correctly and then I stood up carrying her up with me. Yeah, BJJ is great and everyone should learn a little bit, but technique doesn’t matter for shit if your opponent can lift you with one arm. Also no, I’m not superman, my SiL is very petite.

I do prefer cli applications, so I think I still prefer mine ;)

So protonup -qt was to comfortable for you to use?

There FTFY

Can you share a link of that laptop? My sister in law needs a new gaming laptop but everything I’m finding is waaaaay more like expensive than that. Granted, she’s doesn’t live in the US so whatever retail you send me won’t work but if the laptop is cheap the same brand/model would probably be cheaper there.

The original game was great, I have played the demos of 2 but it didn’t felt the same.

If you like emotional stories and have a webcam, I STRONGLY recommend Before your eyes, I got emotional playing life is strange, I outright cried playing Before your eyes. I think the gimmick of having to blink to interact makes you more involved as you struggle to keep your eyes open for some scenes.

I mean, no one ever doubted Valve was a for profit company.

They aren’t going to sell a product if they don’t make a profit.

Obvious

They want to make more profit.

O don’t think that’s what’s happening here, RAM prices are ridiculously high, and the Deck has RAM and SSD. We also know they’re selling it close to cost so they wouldn’t have been able to take the hit on those increases, and the price increase seems to be exactly what the components have increased in price.

They have the potential to enshitify at any moment.

That’s also true, and something we should be weary of, but I don’t think it’s warranted on this case.

how is it different than Apple locking its customers in a walled garden?

Because their hardware is not locked. You can do whatever you want with your Deck. Wanna pirate games? Go ahead, wanna install windows in it? Be my guest. That’s part of the reason why Valve can’t sell these cheaper than manufacturing cost like most consoles are, because it’s an open architecture people would just buy it in bulk to do servers and shit like they did with the PS3 before it was locked down for this exact reason.

What happens if they decide to make all the games you bought unavailable for licensing reasons? What happens if they shut down and suddenly all your games are gone What happens if they lock their hardware?

What happens if the government starts abducting children for their secret brainwashing institution? What happens if they shut down all personal own property? What happens if they lock all of the frontier?.. Don’t you think you’re overreacting a little bit to RAM being more expensive and a product that has RAM becoming more expensive too?

The short version is imagine the world has a production capability of X sticks of RAM per day. Up until now it consumed X sticks of RAM and all was good. Suddenly a new player enters the market that requires Y sticks of RAM and is willing to pay a lot more than everyone else, now the total amount of RAM is X-Y (and just to give you an idea of the size of the problem Y is approximately 40% of X). Factories might start working more and try to produce more, and they might increase productivity by Z, but if Z<Y we’re still in a deficit so we have over demand and lack of production. RAM factories are not made overnight, so it takes months if not years to open new ones and bump the amount that’s actually able to be produced.

It will pass, lots of companies are rushing to open more factories, China has started producing RAM too, plus the new player that was buying Y before and signed to do so for months to come is trying to buy less now.