The real NFTs were the AI models we saw in VR along the way.

Ironically Meta’s Llama model that ran well self-hosted. I’m sure Meta will get around to enshittifying it eventually.

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Problem is those same Americans are perfectly happy with deploying the National Guard to cities like Portland, DC, and Chicago.

It is a joke, and it’s funny because it holds a kernel of truth. “We laugh so we do not cry.”

No tears shed for Maduro, but it’s pretty obvious that Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing and doesn’t have a plan.

Staging a secret service raid to kidnap Carney is pretty out there, but then El Presidente Trump just talked about “doing something about Mexico” from the Southern Presidential Palace.

It’s a joke, you should laugh, and you should also remember what the joke is referencing.

Second installing Heroic or Junk Store. Get those Epic freebies, but games in GoG sales as well.

As you are new with the Deck though, using Heroic does involve using desktop mode. If you have Minecraft, you can set up Prism Launcher as well. There’s also EmuDeck for emulating older systems.

This is a bit more involved than just buying Deck verified games on the Steam store though. Get comfortable with it first. Watch some YouTube tutorials.

Those PlayStation supercomputers were wild. I don’t think it’s analogous to the various bits of Steam hardware coming out though, since Valve sells directly through Steam. You can’t order anything by the pallet.

The other thing to consider is that the PS3 was used for clustered computing primarily because of the Cell processor. I have no recollection of why the cell processor performed better on certain types of problems. PS3 wasn’t being used for Excel spreadsheets, it was used for niche academic use and that one Air Force supercomputer. The Steam hardware though uses pretty standard hardware, AMD processor and Radeon graphics card.

Considering the added friction of buying through Steam, i doubt it will have same draw.

Microsoft has been placing Bedrock before Java ever since they named it Java Edition, but Java has survived. I’m sure Bedrock is much more popular now, but I would be worried about Microsoft enshittifying Java further to push players to Bedrock, and any new microtransactions they figure out.

Okanagan Spirits makes “BRBN Bourbon-style whisky”. Bourbon (as you say) is a protected designation of origin product, meaning that it has to be made in the US. It’s not on the PDO list on Wikipedia though, so it appears it is a separate designation, same idea though.

Point being that you can boycott US products and still have Bourbon “style” whisky. Kind of like how some distilleries outside Scotland make Scotch style whisky, which is often very very good.

My Steam Deck is a second wave pre-order 256GB modern, and that is exactly my feeling. Between the internal 256GB and the excellent Steam Deck micro SD utilization, it was good enough that I never opened it up just to change the SSD. When I started to get some stick drift, I finally upgraded the SSD at the same time.

The 256GB is “good enough”, but 512GB is “enough” and 64GB is tight.

I think somewhere close to $500 is around the zone they should target the base model. It’s in the console price zone. At that price, the specs are pretty decent.

Invest in online gaming? Maybe the real gamble was the investments we made along the way.

Outrage! Scandal! When will the developers be held to account for Gestral Volleyball and Only Up?!‽ Never in the history of video games has there been such an affront.

But seriously, great game!

I think I’ve reported 4 different versions of these ads. They look pretty near identical for the little bit I watch before I report, but the advertiser is always different, but also based in Poland.

I think the Reddit blackout did a lot, just not everything. I’m here on Lemmy because of it. Granted I’m still on Reddit as well, and Mastodon, and Xitter…

Just keep plugging along, and every little bit helps.

Monster Green shoppers are likely younger (Gen-Z/Millennial/Gen-X) male, lower income & Caucasian (skews Hispanic).

As an aging member of Gen-X, I appreciate this description.

I think one of the issues is that “meaningful consultation” has been very wishy-washy. In practice though, it works out that every band that might have any right to consultation can tie up anything in interminable lawsuits. In trying to avoid clarifying what constitutes “meaningful consultation” we’ve sleepwalked into this current environment where nothing can be built.

I still remember the mess around the Wet’suwet’en “hereditary” chiefs infighting and vs. the elected band council.It doesn’t matter if you are pro-pipeline, anti-pipeline, whatever. It highlights what a mess “meaningful consultation” is. Who do you consult with? The traditional chiefs successfully ousted 3 traditional chiefs and won a court case saying they had to be consulted as well.

Extrapolate this across the country and it’s a nightmare for any project that wants to respect indigenous rights.

I expect some replies along the lines of “Canada’s an illegitimate country” and such, and good riddance, and there is some truth. Between the Proclamation of King George III, and a good chunk of BC First Nations not having treaties, it’s a bit of a pickle. I don’t know the way out. I like how the Nisga’a Final Agreement finally sorted all this out for the Nisga’a, but there hasn’t been any further agreements along this line since.

Inspiring story, can we be like that again?

So much of the extra costs of building seems to be endless rounds of reviews and revisions. Sure, building things better is… better, but we’ve seen this process hijacked by NIMBY’s (IMHO).

Basically. 99 Percent Invisible did a podcast on this very topic: Episode 468 Alphabetical Order

I think I got mine in the second or third wave or pre-order shipping. The right trackpad is worn smooth in the centre, I’ve replaced the joysticks with the Hall effect ones, not as an upgrade but because the originals finally failed. I upgraded the SSD to a 1TB. It’s been my constant companion for years now.

One day, there will be a Steam Deck 2, and I’ll probably upgrade. In the meantime I’m excited to see the Legion Go, especially the Steam OS version, because it means the market is there.