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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's not a short, by definition.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thing is, you also called it "shorting" the battery. Usually a short is an unintended, unsustainable low resistance path.

While your body may technically close the circuit, calling it a short makes it sound like an actual electricution risk. That combined with the unclear "no issue" usage made it pretty confusing, I thought you had no idea what you were talking about until I saw your reply.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What clients ate people using for Matrix? The ones I've tried are usable but not user friendly enough for me to be able to move my whole community over.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some people in my communities are looking at Root, it lets you directly import a discord server template when creating a server. It has a nicer UI than all the matrix apps and stoat, but isn't as open as those.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The way you worded it makes it sound like it's very easy to short a battery with your body, not that attempting to short a battery will cause "no issue" because it won't actually work.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I would guess it's probably focused on ones are prosecutable as threats. That would be enough for it to not be protected as free speech.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago

Sounds like it comes with a refillable cartridge, but you can also use off the shelf HP cartridges.

And since there's no DRM, 3rd party cartridges will work too.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's definitely more for a specific groups of people, such as those who play old untranslated emulated titles and such.

 

Seems useful at times, I had a game start up in Chinese recently, and had to use Google translate from my phone camera to figure out how to change it back to English.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

People are looking at the price of the steam decks and non-pro versions of consoles.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The m.2 SSD is easily accessible, it comes with a 2230 m.2 (same size as the Steam Deck), but has room to install a full size 2280 m.2. It only has room for 1 though, so while you can upgrade to a larger size you can't add a second. Swapping out the m.2 will require cloning your drive or reinstalling SteamOS to the new drive.

There's also a high speed microSD slot for even easier space upgrades, and microSDs with games can be swapped directly between the Deck and Machine.

For RAM, it uses laptop DDR5. It is user upgradable, but isn't as easy to access as the m.2 drive is.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They were supposedly able to take a loss on the original Steam Decks, at least the lower priced 64GB models. There's also an argument to be made that this device is primarily competing with consoles, where Steam doesn't have a monopoly. Steam also allows games from other stores to be run on their unlocked device, it's not their fault that Epic decided not to make an offical linux launcher.

But I'm not a lawyer, and I'm sure Epic will try to start anti-trust investigations over anything they can.

 

Article discusses the effect of rising hardware prices on the deck.

Some highlights:

How much worse has the pricing situation gotten for Valve since November? Superdata Research founder and SuperJoost newsletter author Joost van Dreunen suggested that the 512GB Steam Machine model would probably run $50 to $75 more than he expected when the Steam Machine was announced, and to expect a price “potentially $100+ above target” for the high-end 2TB model. That would mean a $599 to $629 price at the low-end and $849 to $899 for the high-end model, in his estimation.

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter agreed that, even with the additional component costs, Valve would likely “try to get it out at $599 or so for the 512GB version,” A starting price higher than that would mean “abysmal” sales, he added. “I think $700 is a death sentence and $1,000 is unsellable.”

I'd recommend reading the article though, it has a lot more of value than just those quotes. It goes on to talk about how the price increases will likely hurt valve more than traditional console makers, and how these increases will affect sales.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They posted an update, an official statement said that a victims face was overlaid over the artwork.

So while this probably seemed ridiculous, there was a valid reason.

 

The Steam Machine and Steam Frame are probably delayed, but they still intend to release them in the first half of this year.

They said they planned to have a concrete launch window and pricing by now, but hardware pricing/shortages have made that hard to pin down.

 

To be honest, I expected RAM prices would push back the release date. But AMD would know more about than I would.

 

Also 36% of devs use generative AI, and 52% of companies use generative AI

 

It's really cool to see the shift towards Linux lately.

Options like heroic and mini galaxy are great for GoG support on Linux/Deck, but I'm really happy to see it getting official support too.

 

The plugin brings the excellent CopyParty, which is a file server program. After toggling it on from the Decky plugin, you can go to the provided IP address on any of your devices, enter the password, and access the Deck's files. You can manage files, upload or download files, and more. File transfer speeds are fast and resumable.

Here's the GitHub for the plugin, although for right now it's pretty bare on a description. For details one what all it can do, I'd recommend checking out the CopyParty link up above.

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