“I’m sorry too, Dmitri. I’m very sorry. All right, you’re sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don’t say that you’re the more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry, all right? All right.”

Of the games on this list that I have, they are, indeed great

Now I’m going to look away and pretend to forget, because I do not need to buy more games for my unplayed backlog, today.

Holy title gore, Batman.

But anyway, hooray.

“We have some exciting news to share: our talented developers gave Steam Deck players the option to play Assassin’s Creed Shadows at launch; despite initially announcing we wouldn’t be able to support until later,”

Edit: We just wanted to deny that we’re not not going to do the thing at said we wouldn’t not be able to do.

All swearwords, all the time. Generally puns on the servers purpose.

Ultra wide gaming works fine for Luanti, lol.

(Which has vanilla Minecraft level graphics. I’m just trying to make you laugh with this comment.)

My ultra wide monitor has worked perfectly from day one on Linux.

Currently I’m running an LG and Gnome 42ish, if I recall.

But Linux has had excellent support for ultra wide monitors since before I started being able to afford ultra wide monitors.

I don’t follow either closely enough to make a rank list or anything.

In the same ballpark as some moments that Torvalds has apologized for. Milder than Torvald’s worst, but also unrepentant, as far as I’ve seen.

its lead dev is a bit socially awkward

Heh. You’re being gentle, and that’s good. But that’s maybe understating it a bit.

I’ve seen the GrapheneOS official Mastodon account being an antisocial uncollegial mess.

It’s okay to acknowledge that we wish some of our open source contributors were better community members.

Damn. These kids need to wake up and stop getting ripped off. Salary range in the listing is the law in many states now and much of the world.

It’s basic self respect to expect it in the listing, and ask why it’s not there, when it’s missing.

I agree Valve should do all of this, but realistically I think only the controller (and the price) really makes or breaks the Steam Machine. It needs to be just good enough, and it needs to be available.

I want four good controllers to play some couch co-op out of my SteamDeck Library, so I need to not hear that there’s a waiting list for controllers.

I don’t necessarily need a whole new era of advanced gaming, and I suspect putting crazy nice hardware inside would be a mistake (if it drives the price sky high). Valve can afford to let PlayStation continue to own the high end graphics market, and let Xbox continue to rule over the game of the month club.

Valve just needs to support my never quite getting around to playing all of my impulse-buy indie games, on my TV set and surround sound speakers.

And yeah, if they release a beefier model in about 3 years, I’ll probably upgrade.

Intellectually, I know this is about more than my ability to play Gauntlet:Dark Legacy, again on new hardware.

But in my heart, I suspect the developers are working under a poster of Valkyrie with the words “Do it for her” written across the top.

most evidence suggests that piracy goes down in response to easily accessible and affordable market conditions.

The assholes know this too. We’re about due for another round of deshitifcation, just long enough to restore complacency.

I do not advocate for piracy. I advocate for archiving.

Exactly. And if the assholes make it illegal for librarians, well then yo ho ho.

Salutes

It means that pirates don’t have to wait for release dates, because Netflix didn’t secure their servers.

But it’s a good thing that Netflix serves DRM to my devices through my paid account. We wouldn’t want me watching it later without paying them again!

Good recommendation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb also has a bunch of useful writing on taking risks that applies very well to financial choices like investments and career choice.

Yeah. It honestly blew me away. I switched my personal laptop to Linux, as one often does, primarily to revive some old hardware.

I thought I was giving up streaming from it, but it’s been great.

I tend to run my TVs on non-stadard media devices due to privacy bullshit by vendors, and previously that has meant a lot of Android variant devices.

Looking forward, I’m really looking forward to running my living room TV off of a modified SteamDeck or a Linux media server build that is as close as I can get to one, thanks to the surprisingly good media experience of Firefox on Linux, lately.

“Optimized Multi-Screen Management: Fully leverage multi-screen setups, perfect for Pincabs or dual-screen arcade cabinets, for an immersive and customized gaming experience.”

Exciting!

The ability to stream media from legit paid sources. (Netflix, Comcast, max, disneyplus, prime, I don’t know where the list is currently, but anything that bitches about user agent.)

Agreed, that’s critical. That said, I periodically subscribe to all of those, and all of the ones I’ve tried in the last year on Firefox on Debian, have worked perfectly. If there’s any left that still don’t, I haven’t tried/encountered them.

Yeah. Windows install and Linux install quietly switched which was the difficult shitty experience sometime when I wasn’t watching.