u/TheAlbatross

It's AI slop.

Good idea, but not worth the risks

My reservation has come up for one of these. Do y'all recommend one? I currently use a PS4 controller for my pc and steam deck gaming (while docked to the tv)

I do highly recommend it, though I might recommend checking out someone's streams of it if you're unsure. I had watched this dude on YouTube, Quill18, play it for a bit before deciding to get it. It seems like it's a substantially longer game than I expected which is a nice surprise.

Death Stranding 2 has been a delight to play on the Deck, especially after the performance upgrade patches, though I miss the sounds the PlayStation controllers make when playing it on the PC.

Slay the Spire 2, especially the multi-player, has become a nigh daily ritual for me and my partner to play in bed a bit before sleeping and it runs just perfectly on the Steam Deck.

Ale Abbey is an old tycoon style game about running a monastery that makes all different sorts of beer, with a fairly robust and fascinatingly complex mixture of brewing and economic minigames. And while it's obviously meant to be played on the desktop, it works very well on the Steam Deck.

Roommate has one and I didn't like the feel as much as the DS4 and the DS4 is cheaper than the DS5. But I had been considering the DS4 over the 8-bitdo, and this is so minor, but I liked that the DS controllers had the speaker compatibility with Death Stranding 1 and 2 to add some little sound effects to the game. Tho those are the only two games I've seen it work with on the PC so it's so so minor.

Huh???

I keep rebuilding the same DS4 controller as it's ideal as a PC controller, both wired and Bluetooth protocol. But it keeps breaking or wearing down on me and parts keep going up in price and the dang thing is getting beat up. I looked into the 8-bitdo controllers but I didn't care for the only one they had with the DS layout, their retro one.

I'll heavily consider the Steam Controller 2 if the price and quality is right.

Oh snap it's got the Playstation joystick config.... I kinda want this to replace my dying DS4 I've repaired a few times now. I wonder how easy it'll be to reach over those pads and touch the sticks

Have you tried opening it up? Replacing the controller elements _is_ pretty easy. The board is well laid out and everything is clearly labeled. Even replacing the thumbsticks is a piece of cake.

I haven't had an issue with this layer so I'm not sure what to tell you. It gets soft and juicy in the process, but you can keep cooking it if you want it more thoroughly rendered. Just be mindful that there's enough braising liquid in the pan.

Jewish brisket is different from Texas smoked brisket. First of all, it's braised rather than smoked. It's cooked with carrots, celery and onions in a mixture of crushed tomatoes and wine and seasoned relatively simply with salt, garlic, pepper, thyme and bay leaves. While I think the smoked kinds are generally better sliced thin on a sandwich, a braised Jewish brisket is such a core memory of the Passover Sedar (the ceremonial meal described in the Haggadah) that I savor it in its own way. I've made em for Rosh Hashanah as well. All that's to say, your milage may vary and so you might not find it to your liking.

BUT, the method is fairly simple.

Season a whole brisket with salt and pepper, brown it in a large roasting pan. Once browned, remove it and add in your aromatics (onion, carrot, garlic, celery, whatever you want) and brown those slightly too. Deglaze with wine, add in Dr. Pepper or cola, add in tomatoes and ketchup (use less if using soda). Add the brisket back in, your herbs, then roast low and slow at around 275°F to 300°F for 3 to 4 hours, should be fork tender. Once it's cooked, pull it out, let it rest for like a half hour, slice it thin, put it back in the roasting pan with the juices, baste it, cover it, let it sit somewhere warm for another half hour while it soaks up the braising liquid.

Ideally you want a brisket with the deckle, but if you got a first cut brisket, don't trim the fat, you wanna render that out during the cook. You can skim it off the resulting braising liquid after the cook if you'd like.

Also the recipe isn't set in stone. Play with it! It's supposed to be a bit sweet, so I've thrown in figs and apricots, seasoned the top of sumac and pomegranate, za'atar isn't unwelcome here, if atypical.

The... lies of the Haggadah? The book so benign I can get copies published by _ShopRite_? Oh no, he's going to out the dark truth that Pesach was never meant to come with a 4 drink minimum and the secret to singing Chad Gadyah in a round while plastered! What's next? Will he expose the ancient Jewish secret to a good brisket is actually Dr. Pepper?

Edit: Obviously this dude is a dangerous Neo-Nazi and the Earth shouldn't suffer him breathing it's precious oxygen, but we gotta laugh or else we'll cry, right?

Oh, sorry, I conflated those two things. So, if I'm understanding this right, you don't mind if the components were made in China or purchased from Chinese companies, but the seller of the final product cannot be a Chinese company? That's a far easier rule to satisfy.

I didn't think my question was political, but rather about logistics. I just don't know of any video game console, or electronics manufacturer in general, that is promising that none of their components are made in China.

Are there electronic goods on the market that aren't, in some part, made in China?