u/ysjet

I actually seem to remember that back in ~wrath of the lich king (world of warcraft) Blizzard WASN'T doing this.

While blizzard had enough capacity to handle 12+million people trying to download the update because they prepped for it, the _internet itself_ did not, and I want to say Verizon basically got its backbone DDoS'd and taken down.

Needless to say, Blizzard started breaking out it's updates, using CDNs and cache servers, etc etc because Verizon had some very choice words (possibly coming from their legal department.)

Trust me, we know. Feel free to hit american companies in their pocketbooks though. It's the only way they'll learn. And maybe they'll fuck off and get out of our government too.

Stop making shit up and moving the goalposts.

She literally called it real in Milwaukee.

No problem!

https://www.newsweek.com/2024-election-rigged-donald-trump-elon-musk-2019482

https://apnews.com/article/voting-machines-voting-custodio-elections-philadelphia-f8a6453dc9e211ef20e9412d003511b1

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/voting-experts-warn-of-serious-threats-for-2024-from-election-equipment-software-breaches

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436

etc etc. There's a lot of stuff parroting the company line of 'Oh, well starlink couldn't have done anything to change the vote, these machines aren't online!'

Except we already know they're vulnerable, we already know that if you get into one of the machines, you can spread the malicious to code to offline machines, we know that secure USBs and drives WERE stolen and modified, we know they're online despite countless claims they aren't, we know they were going through starlink, and (while i was no longer able to find proof of it, because they went through and scrubbed their resumes, work history, online presence) last I saw at least one of the DOGE team goons was part of a research group for voting machines. Admittedly, I can no longer find the proof of that, so you may take that as you wish.

Fact is though, computer and security scientists have been desperately crying out for years that these machines are _compromised_ in ways that do not get caught by standard checks.

(sorry for the copy paste, but yeah. This isn't even touching the literal known billions spent on voter suppression, gerrymandering, advertising, concerted media sanewashing, etc etc.)

It's actually looking pretty likely that they didn't actually win. How very odd that Musk is suddenly buddy buddy with Trump, when he oh so very coincidentally has a team of programmer man children who have a number of proof of concept examples for invisibly changing votes on voting machines.

Because none of those emulate current generation systems.

People act weirdly entitled about Nintendo product, throw shitfits when Nintendo reacts exactly like Sony or Microsoft would to them doing the same thing, then act extra hurt that Nintendo did it.

That's not the cause- benchmarks have been done on the matter, as you can see slightly down the comment chain. You've simply attributed the slow load times to what you think is the issue.

I've been told (haven't done it myself) that the ps5 controller pairs extremely well with the steam deck + dock. I would ask around though- I have an actual Steam Controller that I use, myself, but I don't think you can buy those anymore.

Usb-c port, so yes, though you may need an adapter.... And a long cord.

Unless you also grab the dock, but then you also need a controller.

Yep. At some point maybe Valve will change that, but for now, it's a great way to get a steam deck. And even if they do change/fix that later, you're not really missing out on anything- everything will be the same speed it always was for you.

Not to mention you can just toss a 1tb SD card in, with no skills needed and only minimal cost difference.

Yes, accessing your data off an SD card is _marginally_ slower than off an NVME ssd.... but we're talking, iirc, milliseconds. If it _really_ bugs you later down the line, then you can upgrade the SSD.