u/TropicalDingdong

I think many of us are just priced out of the future of technology. I still haven't tried VR.

Seems like they are sacrificing revenue to guarantee they'll be able to execute in the delivery. It's not the highest bar, but it is a bar.

Living their best life

Getting a 128 gb machine earlier this year maybhave been a once in a lifetime purchase.

$100

I added fire fox as a separate non steam app and it works fine, browser extensions and all.

Uh no.

Not the kinds of things I need to be able to do. There simply isn't the support. Taken a ridiculous amount of time to get even basic support to do the kinds of things I need to be able to do on AMD hardware.

Valve phone? I don't really want an arm steam deck. It's important to me I be able to run stuff outside of games on my deck. It's not _**just**_ a handheld, it's a full fledged pc in a handheld body.

But if they want to make a valve phone with a Linux based os....

I'm a big fan of using the thumb pads for games like City Skylines and Civ.

Also you can play cozy games in bed.

Or balatro at the bus stop.

Or.. or.. or.. and.. and.. and..

Ken Klippenstein is a gem.

can confirm.

balatro deck is fire.


I think we're going to need to see a generational shift in compute before we see steam deck two. I have the original deck, and the OLED. Kicked down the original to a friend. Both are great pieces of kit. I've basically survived without a gaming machine for almost 4 years because of these devices. I've experienced almost 0 desegregation on either. Just phenomenal devices.

I've finally bit the bullet on a more serious machine (for both work and pleasure). I've got a Asus ROG Flow Z13 on back order, the 128gb variant. I think this is the direction things are going to go. We just can't make CPU's/ Video cards faster/ more efficient if we keep them separated.

My speculation: the next steam deck is going to take on this design, so long as the stryx halo generation proves itself. It might not be a "full force" variant like I've bought into, but the rub is the temperatures and power to performance relationship. The stryx halo design is the only thing I've seen that would warrant a generation refresh.

Very legal, very cool.


Whatever actual or perceived grievances a person may have (even though merely being born in Europe already constitutes winning the global class lottery) - that only ever causes vulnurability. That person then turning to actively undermining democratic systems and the international community is something that only happens if some con artist uses that vulnurability to convince the person that it constitutes a solution to their problems.

I mean I 100% agree. I'm not justifying them in their perceived grievance, rather, I'm offering a mechanism in "how things come to pass". My assessment is that if you can make the grievances minor/ absurd, you remove any leverage for the conman.

The investment in a social democracy/ social safety it ultimately what is safeguarding Europe, because it precludes the motivations/ grievances which create surface area for misinformation to operate on. Its not that it isn't possible, it just has a much more difficult time taking hold.

The UK is a great example of this, where they seem religiously committed to austerity as the approach for addressing most issues; this gave rise to grievance politics because, well, austerity **does** hurt people; grievance politics gives misinformation something to operate on (its the continents fault); brexxit happens; life gets worse; misinformation gains an even further foothold because now its premise has been validated, and there is even more grievance to operate on.

Grievance is the scar tissue which misinformation operates upon. Misinformation is the bacteria which spread and cause death, but without the wound of grievance, there is nothing to do. Creates strong mechanisms for grievances to be addressed (engaged democratic processes; responsive governance).

Idk, but he seems to be doing pretty well at it. He outplayed Trump, masterfully, who looks dumber by the day with his whole *"you don't have the cards"* trap he thought he laid with that press conference.

Awful lot of cards in this mans hand.

You might be able to shut it down with microwaves.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6XdcWToy2c

It might not be so mobile, but it could easily be carried to the top of a building and then just pointed in the right direction. This depends heavily on the amount of hardening/ effectiveness of the grounding of the system, cone configuration, inverse square law, how big of a magnetron you can get your hands on, how big your testicles and/or ovaries to touch the on switch after a 🤡 like me wires it up, etc. Its also somewhat temporary. They should be able to restart the system and it still work.

Its probably easier to harden yourself against the system with a pair of soft earplugs doubled up with hard plastic ear protection as in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKTBQBugIA

A small team with some plywood/ plastic shields, in combination with ear protection should be able to almost walk up to it.

It seems like Euro's are more concerned with sonic weapons than tear gas/ pepper spray? Its far more common at the actions I've been at for things to get spicy than for sound cannons to be deployed.