Squid are pretty awesome too. More alien than crabs IMO as well.

Crabs are kinda like big tasty water-spiders.

I’m pretty sure I’m in the camp of people who can smell ants.

I’ve been fairly happy with Alfred locks using ZigBee. There’s still a Bluetooth+App component to those as well for adding choices but you don’t need it to use ZigBee for locking/unlocking or viewing status.

Don’t use the wifi bridge though. I briefly tried that and it connects to some address hosted in AliCloud of all frigging places

Time… for a… victory… nap.

This is actually one thing I’ve been thinking AI and deepfake tech can potentially do good. Let’s say you have an idea and can code… You have an idea for music but no instrumental talent, so the best you can do is hum it. You can’t afford voice actors or other professionals.

Or maybe you’re artist with an idea who can storyboard but not code. Maybe you can make 2d designs but not 3D models, or aren’t great at animate.

But… there is software that can take what you say and change it to a different voice. It can animate a model to match the words. Similarly, software that could generate instrumental sounds from humming is possible. An AI can generate interactive dialog. It could also provide assistance in the generation of music, debugging of code, and eventually more advanced 3D modeling.

A lot of game design software is much more a GUI to an environment/model and triggers etc than stuff like writing hardcore backend C++ code etc. AI could take that even further.

Then add VR. Drop somebody into a blank-slate where they can create a whole world with a word, a gesture, and a great idea.

One day, that might be a reality.

Uhhhh, I hate that you’re technically correct in this

Also, if the spiders get really hungry then there’s an easy lunch nearby

Just do a “RetroPie” install on Linux. It was originally built for Pi’s but works fine on 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu etc

Yeah but if the primary maintainers are in the US it’ll take a bit before a new group can really work on it in a productive manner

I installed it and added to Emudeck with a script that runs it under Proton.

I did notice that there were supposedly some native Linux builds but nothing recent.

Are y’all using the windows build with Proton or a native build?

It’s dumb, but it’s also possible that a combination of those terms hads been adopted by some group distributing CSAM.

At one point, “cheese pizza” was a term they apparently used on YouTube videos etc due to it having the same abbreviation as CP (Child Pornography).

Sick fucks ruining everything for everyone

The same people that would use the “they made the software that was used for infringement” will be the ones stating that “the manufacturer of this firearm is not responsible for it being used in this mass-shooting”.

Kinda funny how the main driving point behind their argument is “does this affect me and my bottom line”

For companies that have a legacy product depending on the old OS, but unpatched vulnerabilities because said OS is EoL, maybe this may one day be an appealing option.

I liked SG-1 but I found that Atlantis did have a bit more long-term direction in some ways.

SG-U… just started a bit too rough for me

Yeah the Docker version hated me, mainly due to it sometimes getting a bit behind on updates and then having schema mismatches if I ran an update in that missed the previous one. No issues with the Snap thus far

There are a ton that have weird fucking usernames. I was confused at first why my Bluetooth was showing BobByJimSmith4345 as the “artist” after telling it to play a song, but yeah they’ll pretty much just look whatever up by name from YouTube and play it.

One thing to consider with that is that the screen size and resolution of the Deck are quite forgiving.

On a PC, you may have beefier hardware but you’re also driving bigger output. My PC rig runs up to 4K@120 on a 32" screen. The Deck - when running on the native display - needs to drive a max 1280x800@60 (90Hz for OLED I suppose). Stuff like massive FSAA is also less necessart/helpful on a smaller screen size and resolution.

That isn’t to say the Deck isn’t great at being what it is. It’s very powerful for a portable while still being able to operate like a desktop when docked. The Steam UI is tailored to the Deck hardware (with a better interface than i.e. on Switch) and the work that’s gone into stuff like Proton is great. Throw in the capability of it being portable like the ability to easily suspend and resume play later and it’s a winning combination.

Overall, I’d say the Deck wins because it’s entirely focused on it’s strengths and being convenient/accessible, while still allowing a lot of other use cases if docked and via desktop mode and tweaking with underlying Linux OS (or even multi-booting windows, if that’s your thing).

IMO, PC gaming and to a good extent console gaming fell off the track some time ago with a focus on the dick-swinging contest of heftier hardware and power while user experience, convenience, and fun kinda ended up playing second-fiddle. So while Deck might be the more beautiful/powerful system for running those games it still wins out in many ways with convenience.

Ditto. Mine has some bleed in the top center’ish edge area but not really anything considerable in the main screen areas

Interesting as I’ve heard mixed things about the performance of BG3 (though to be fair most of the issues I’d heard were earlier into the release and may have been optimized out).

It’s not that unexpected though given that BG3 is one of the more recent AAA titles and the Deck form-factor lends itself well to RPG’s. The FFVII remake played like a dream

I have a little 3D printed housing which I keep my power supply and controller in. Thus far it’s survived 3+ years outdoors with winters hitting below -30°c and summers above 30°c.

Biggest issue I’ve had so far has been the getting the strips to stay in place where they’re tacked under the overhang