Steam Deck OLED is awesome. Fantastic screen, excellent controls, insane ergonomics, light for long play sessions… even now, with older internal hardware and lessening power versus new games, it’s still the best stream-to-around-the-house device on the market, and it’s not really close.
But I can’t see it still being $789 / $949 USD awesome. My guess is that Valve has decided that they aren’t going to run out of Steam Decks again and have priced these accordingly.
It was also more expensive for companies to issue return to office mandates in bulk, but they did that anyway.
Yet another reason I’m against capital punishment.
They know via physical evidence exonerations that not all convicted murderers are actually guilty. And a dead person can only be exonerated posthumously.
Or, you could just… not execute him. It’s letting him off easy.
He’ll still be as dead at the end of a life sentence than he will be at the end of an execution, but with the latter, you let him skip decades of excruciatingly crappy prison life.
We need a true populist party in the US, but every mechanism that’s currently anchored in place would always work as hard as possible to destroy it. Ngl, it feels kind of bleak.
It’s not computing that is evil necessarily. It’s the corporate privatization of compute that is going to be the issue in the coming years and decades. Like so many things in the modern world, they want you renting it, not owning it.
Keep working to own it yourself, and use it to help fight the battles that need to be fought.
Been summoned once, but I no longer lived in the state / county of summoning at the time it happened. Luckily a family member gave me a heads up regarding the summons and I was able to call and explain before I got to whatever penalty you get for being MIA for a jury duty summon.
we couldn’t reach a verdict because some people couldn’t believe a guard would just do bad things.
That’s wild.
Was the guard human? Yes? Then they are capable. Look at the evidence!
Same here. I was through the sequence and trying to buy by no later than maybe 1:00:10, and tried three different payment methods, all to no avail. I don’t think we had a chance on this go-round.
…And the site just updated to Out of Stock. Grats to those of you who managed to get a payment jammed through.
Have received “There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance.” on all attempts, all payment methods. Looks like it’ll just be fried for a minute.
There are plenty of bullet trains in the US, shootings happen on them… like, all the time.
Oh, wait. You meant… nevermind.
I think most people don’t understand how insanely, mind-mindbogglingly large 52! is.
I’ve received disbelieving replies before after saying that every freshly full-shuffled deck, where that shuffling started from a shuffled state (not new deck order), is in a unique card order never before used by humanity since the invention of the four suit and 52 card deck.
But that statement is absolutely true. The chances of it being false are so microscopically tiny that they are, for all intents and purposes, zero.
Increasingly, portion sizes are starting to come down a bit. The one-two punch of shrinkflation causing the restaurants to serve less, and the spread of GLP-1 drugs starting to help people eat less, are slowly whittling away the issue over time.
I think a lot of us are eventually going to upgrade to stronger systems (steam machine or something else), but it’s going to be a long freaking time in that scenario before I stop streaming to my Deck when I’m home. It’s just the king of comfy, kicked back on the couch or bed gaming.
The only life hack that I use on a regular basis is covering toilet flush sensors with TP. It works pretty reliably to keep them from flushing until you’re actually ready to leave.
Figured that out earlier in life when a certain office toilet would wait until I was exactly 50% done peeing, so that I couldn’t stop or dodge, and then it would power flush and send up a nice germ-ridden uriney mist. Blocking the sensor until I was done totally fixed it.
Pretty much any other life hack that looked interesting to me has been effectively pointless and did not see continued use. I don’t think I’ve ever tried one that was detrimental though… just useless.
I mean, if you just absolutely had to play a Linux-hating kernel anti cheat game, then install a small-as-possible partition for Windows, dual boot, and stay in Steam OS every single moment you’re doing anything else but that game.
But most Windows-on-a-Steam-Deck people I’ve encountered just drive Windows all the time. I will never understand.
I’m thinking about finishing out my career with that kind of transition.
I’ve always done various office work and have been good at it, but I know I’m on borrowed time.
At some point in the next 1-3 years, they’ll automate 90%+ of what I’m doing, and I’ll be out the door. And being late 40s, with the job market being what it is, and admittedly me not skilling up much most of the last decade or so… I have I just don’t have what’s needed to get back to work in favorable conditions once that inevitable canning happens.
Fortunately, I have a friend of the family who’s a long time HVAC guy, and the company he works for has been short handed for quite a while. I figure if I start training up in the very near future, I’ll be able to transition over without too many issues, and If I’m careful, I won’t have to beat myself up too much in the decade or so before I retire.
I think the powers that be have an ultimate goal of combining AI and robotics to automate the trades too, but they are much further away on that… it should be a safe space for long enough.
Oh no! Who could have possibly predicted that starting a new war in the middle east would raise gas prices?
It is and always has been fantastic.
I tend to play stuff in clean, crisp native 720p on my 1440p monitor (with the perfect 4x integer scaling), most commonly using mouse and keyboard… but some games I play with the Deck controls (I have an extra-long docking cord going to the Deck for that purpose). Have a SC reserved, and will just use that instead once I order it.
Eventually I’m going to do power upgrade and get a true 1440 PC… but even though it’ll no longer be docked, I’ll still be happily streaming to my Deck in multiple relax spots in the house.