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Quoting: doragasuAnd what about my smart light bulb? Will it have to verify my age to turn on?

Your light bulb will stream the picture to the central server where AI will evaluate your age. If you're <18, The light will automatically turn off at 22:00 so you get a proper rest before school.

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Why doesn't Steam just collect hardware data automatically, are there any legal issues with it? I'd like to see smooth statistics without sampling swings every month.

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1984 was a warning, not a tutorial.

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Somehow some folks manage to make every day a bit more dystopian than the next. You have put it out first that this will come, and here we are - faster than i expected. I have four children, and of course i want to protect them, and yes, i have to bickle about media usage every day with them. But this is not protecting kids - it's cocooning them. And absolutely hate that they use our kids as an excuse to deploy all this.

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What's next, CPU checking your age?

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Ubuntu: California Edition when? 😁

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It's again nonsense brought by people that does not understand technology. How can Archlinux or Gentoo guarantee that the age check exists if the user does not install the corresponding package? What about my router, will it have to verify my age before connecting WiFi? And what about my smart light bulb? Will it have to verify my age to turn on?

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: eggroleI DO blame over consumption.

Sure. Why blame the system when you can blame the ones with no power. You're blaming the addicts, not the pushers. You're blaming the players, not the ones writing and enforcing the rules.

Quoting: eggroleIf you're interested check out Propganda by Bernays for a really easy read and a good look at how this works.

As long as you keep in mind that it's not an objective, much less a critical look. It's written by one of America's leading advocates of propaganda.

The first point is a perspective. You say the consumer has no power while I say they have 99% of the power. If people stop buying, the corpos go broke. If corpos stop selling... the people don't get trinkets?

On the second point, of course it advocates for propaganda. If you want to learn what your enemy thinks, listen to what they say. If you only read books that are critical of things you already disagree with, you'll never expand your understanding. I read almost exclusively books I disagree with now-a-days. (Another book in that regard would be Cybernetics by Weiner).

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: eggrolebut (at least here) we don't have anything close to what Smith or Ricardo described in their seminole works.

The modern "free market" is a market that actively promotes rentiers. Smith would have hated it.

Yes, that is what I was saying. I don't like to argue semantics as people call things capitalist and socialist (or any other -ism or -ists these days) when they have little understanding of the roots of the words. I argue that we don't have capitalism today in the USA (or the west in general) and we have a system much closer to socialism.

Now, I'm not saying socialism is bad. But when I look at the redistribution of wealth today it is astounding. The "problem" is the middle class pays (via taxes and manufactured consumption), the poor get bribed with crumbs, and the wealthy accumulate even more. When the fat cats make bets that go awry, they get bailouts or trading is halted. When the bounce goes the other direction no such guardrails are implemented. If we had anything close to classical capitalism, failure wouldn't get bailed out.

All that said, I feel like we are nearing a period when the "free market" (lol) is going to seize up. As you said the pie is shrinking and more people are getting locked out, so-to-speak, of a future. IMHO so much happening these days (Epstein, now Iran, endless things really) are all to distract from the cumbling global economic system. And, if you'll allow me to don my tinfoil hat, when it finally "crashes" the very people that strangled it to death will be waiting with their Hegelian synthesis. I think this will be bribing people with UBI that allows for even more surveillance and control. But again, I'm a tinfoil maniac. 😁

P.S. I really enjoyed this exchange. I like seeing rational opinions that differ from my own without all the name calling and echo chambering I see elsewhere. Cheers!

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Narf. I even got scammed while trying to buy a used Steam Deck OLED... not fun. Now i have ordered an Anbernic RG 476H and will try to make it a mini-Steamdeck. Will report when it worked.

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Quoting: syylk

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyWhat we need is a solution to the component shortages and the most obvious solution is a new player.

I'm pretty positive that if it was that easy, it would've already been done - long ago.

I suspect kicking off a new fab (lithographic printers, clean rooms, heck PEOPLE barely knowing what they're doing...) even for relatively stupid components, like RAM, would have costs well beyond your or my wildest imagination.

And at that point, the only way to recover them is to sell the products to genAI d/c...

Oh, I'm well aware of the costs involved... Well, at least I have a pretty good idea as much as you or I would, anyway. And yes, it's a big outlay.

But there's still entire segments of the market that has nobody manufacturing components en mass for consumers... The consumer market might only make up for a small portion of the overall tech market, but that's still several hundred billion dollars each year to be made by one or more companies willing to outlay the initial setup costs.

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I heard that inflation hit Japan quite hard so I'm not really surprised 🤔

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Pain, peko.

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Win10 on its way to dethrone win11 lmao

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyWhat we need is a solution to the component shortages and the most obvious solution is a new player.

I'm pretty positive that if it was that easy, it would've already been done - long ago.

I suspect kicking off a new fab (lithographic printers, clean rooms, heck PEOPLE barely knowing what they're doing...) even for relatively stupid components, like RAM, would have costs well beyond your or my wildest imagination.

And at that point, the only way to recover them is to sell the products to genAI d/c...

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Did Steam break through the Great Firewall of China all of a sudden?

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It has been working for a while but you needed an opt-in Beta. Seems you no longer need that.

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Quoting: fenglengshunChinese New Year, as usual.

We do usually see a drop every February, but nothing like this, it's usually quite minor.

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Chinese New Year, as usual.

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I thought that Vermintide 2 doesn't work on Linux because of anti-cheat. At least that was true last time I tried it.

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A friend gifted me Baldurs Gate 3 for birthday, and i just got started, i will try to do it on the deck only. I love it, it seems to run great!

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Quoting: Chrisznix

Quoting: EWGI don't understand games like this. Instead of virtually pretending to do things. I could actually pick up an instrument, book shows, and all the rest. lol

That´s cool, you probably should then. :)
For me, i never stepped above hobby levels and went down the Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS) path of instruments and synthesizers. I know some folks that went that route, and quite well actually, but man is that a tough life. So... i'd rather play Legends of Rock. :)

The [Mod: Dwarf](https://mod.audio/dwarf) solves GAS. It's fully libre and does everything from effects, utilites, amp+cab sim, to loops, metronome, and other stuff. Forget the AxeFX or huge pedalboards that cost in the thousands. lol

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what have you been playing lately?

Of those in the list? I have a few, have a few more wishlisted. Only one I played last month was Slay The Spire.

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Out of everything I played, Dungeons of Dusk and Darkhaven have me the most excited.

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That's funny. I played a whole bunch of demos over a few days, and *none* of them were on the top played list. Apparently my tastes are non-standard.

My list:

Approximately Up (meh)
Besmirch (interesting)
Burden Street Station (brilliant!)
Clicky Islands (pretty good)
Collector's Cove (not my style)
Dungeons of DUSK (slow pacing and navigation sucks)
Dungeon Sweeper (meh)
Garden Ink (pretty good)
Highreach (crashed)
Helix: Descent N Ascent (very good)
Hozy (fun)
Hypnos (confusing for no good reason)
Looking for Fael (very good)
Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth (very good)
Map Map - A Game About Maps (meh)
Nightfall Café (pretty decent)
Pluto (obtuse, didn't like it)
Shanty Town (very good)
Truckful (didn't recognize my controller)

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Vampire Crawlers is pure evil.

That is all.

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On deck nothing. On desktop I've finished up my playthrough of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Amazon Luna. The game was good but the Luna experience was subpar. Mostly due to input lag. And after finishing it I ended my Amazon Prime subscription. That was my last subscription service to bite the dust!

More recently I've been playing Lego City Undercover. More fun than I expected. It's basically Lego GTA3. And the best thing: no need for more ram and my GPU isn't even spinning up its fans. 😀

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Interesting. Ages ago they actually had a previous game with the same title in development for sixth gen consoles. Very different from Postal:

https://www.unseen64.net/2020/12/08/flesh-wire-running-scissors-cancelled/

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I played some shin megami tensei V earlier this month. Last week, my limited gaming time was spent in ets 2 ( the fact that I saw a gorgeous Scania R580 6*4 at work had a lot to do with that). And for the weekend, I played a game called "should I buy resident evil requiem ?"

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Luca

Quoting: ShmerlStill waiting for Debian team to package 6.6.x.

Still waiting for Mint team to package any 6.x!!

Understandably slow for Mint with its long term releases, but I'm talking about the rolling versions of Debian.

I think in Debian it depends on newer Qt, and packaging that is usually a pretty heavy lifting. Not sure how other distros manage to do it so quickly. They might simply ignore all the bugs fallout caused by that, while Debian Qt/KDE team have do that carefully.

They do it like this: https://openqa.opensuse.org/

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I am sure that more testing from users for betas will help reduce that 😇

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