Hell yea

Let’s be real here.

The entire point of what GE and others similar are doing is to force customers into connecting their devices and creating online accounts to slurp data, when those customers would ordinarily feel no desire to - because it’s an oven and they just want to do oven things, not get online.

GE know this, and so they need to come up with ways to force it.

Regardless of what weasly PR words they may spout, the truth is they DESIGNED the feature specifically and intentionally from the start to be stuck behind an Internet registration gate to force you to comply and go online.

So there’s no point talking about what GE easily could have done, or what the cost for a USB slot is. They wouldn’t have put a USB on there even if it was literally free, because that would let you avoid their ecosystem and that is the one thing they Absolutely Do Not Want.

The conversation to have is about how we don’t buy any products from companies that do this.

The example being Sonic and Knuckles specifically is relevant, because despite being released and marketed as an expansion, that content was originally supposed to be part of Sonic 3 but was cut due to deadlines and development time.

At what point does a twig become a stick? Are all twigs also sticks?

I feel like the difference between twig and stick must be not intrinsic to the stick, but a property of the observer. To a bird, a twig is already a stick, and to a giant, that which we call a stick is surely nothing but a mere twig.

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I just recently started using a JetKVM https://jetkvm.com/

It’s $90 vs $60 but feels very solid, and it’s open source on github.

My bad sorry, I completely misread what your comment was replying to!

On the subject of Minecraft alternatives, I haven’t tried it myelf but Vintage Story seems pretty interesting. Started life many years ago as a Minecraft mod and is now it’s own thing.

I’m not sure I understand you.

Java edition is also developed by Mojang/Microsoft and is basically identical to the bedrock edition in core features.

It was the original Minecraft edition, and if you remember playing Minecraft 10 to 15 years ago it would likely be the Java edition you were doing it on.

Java edition, my friend.

I have been playing Minecraft with a small group of friends on a self-hosted private server on and off for the past 15 years. No ads, no coin shop, no annoyance.

As for the screaming YouTubers, obviously they exist, but there are also some nice chill peeps out there. EthosLab or Bdoubleo100 for example - especially their single player worlds where it’s just them working on projects and building.

The way I interpret it, Chihiro’s parents wouldn’t ordinarily act like that and did so only because the food (which we later know to be cursed) existed specifically to be a trap, and so had some magical lure on it that made it even more seductive and impossible to resist - like how siren song draws sailors to their deaths, even against their better judgement.

Indeed, her parents acting out of character is at least part of why Chihiro is uncomfortable with the situation.

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It doesn’t make as much sense, to me.

Like sure - they could design a Linux phone with their own polished UI, and Proton so it can run Steam games natively, and that would be super cool! But what about the apps?

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that for most people out there a phone is all about apps - in fact, completely synonymous with apps - and the sad truth is that Android and iOS have an absolute stranglehold on the app market.

There have been (and still are) efforts to develop Linux phones, but they are generally seen as rough experiments which for most people require far too much compromise - with one of the most significant compromises being that you give up all your apps.

Valve’s recent hardware successes haven’t come from making experiments for dedicated nerds, but from making polished hardware devices that you can put in the hands of a consumer and just work, and do everything they expect. That’s the strategy.

Now don’t get me wrong - I’d love to see a big-hitter like Valve with some financial clout try to make a phone. But this is an arena where even Microsoft failed, and heavens knows how much money they poured into phones before pulling the plug.

I’d love it, but I don’t think it aligns at all with Valve’s strategy, and I don’t expect to see it.

And yet ‘ship’ is masculine in French, despite even in genderless English being referred to by sailors throughout history as a ‘she’

Could be!

Deciphered:

Fast drying, and writes on any smooth surface without running. Replace the cap tightly after use.

The Z80 part is right, but talking about a flag in the context of the Z80 instruction set it should be quite clear you mean a programming flag not a country flag

Absolutely, for real. It’s smol and cute, and that’s a plus.

Of course, it isn’t like you can’t build yourself a small PC if you want to. I’ve got a build in a Fractal Design Terra with a beefy GPU, and that thing is barely bigger than a shoebox.

But building small is even more daunting for newcomers than building large, so IMO it ties into the same angle of people wanting something that is premade and a product that just works, right down to the SteamOS operating system it ships with.

They can’t, and they won’t.

The way I see it, the people the Steam Machine is meant for are these:

1. People who are sick of the increasingly predatory nature of console gaming and want to switch to PC, but don’t have the confidence or knowledge to build their own

2. People who are similarly sick of Windows bullshit and want to try Linux for gaming, but don’t have the confidence or knowledge to do it themselves

3. People with plenty of cash who fancy an extra gaming PC to put under the TV

4. Valve fans who will buy anything Valve releases, no matter what

IMO it’s not trying to compete against consoles directly, and especially not on price. It’s trying to be an alternative for people who are already fed up with consoles - with lock-in and subscriptions and price-hikes and being advertised to - which is a certainly small but hopefully impactful market.

The difference between the two signs (both visual and textual) got me wondering how official these ones are.

They don’t appear in the list of Japanese road signs on wiki which does have warnings for some animals (but not cats) and so I’m wondering, are local areas allowed to provide supplemental signs at the prefectural or city level?

Or are these actually completely unofficial signs, put up by a village, or neighbourhood group, or even by individual residents?

And if they aren’t official, what’s the legality? In many places in the world, putting up custom signs which mimic the appearance of actual road signs is a definite no-no.

They’re cute signs and I love them, but I’m curious now and I wish I had some answers lol.

Here you go fam