I confess I haven’t used it but I’ve been wanting to try and get my preferred RSS reader app (Feeder) on my computer - that’s the only one that I want though

Look at the state codes in the column to the left and think like a really shitty computer

I mean, it’s already coming from factories. The new ones just wouldn’t be designed for optimizing animal torture.

The new factories would look a lot like breweries, there’d still be plenty of work to do - maybe a small net loss of headcount per gallon, but from what I understand dairy farming is one of the most difficult farm jobs. As long as there’s help transitioning it’s a net gain for the world to not have people doing that work.

Hot take, I don’t mind it - my drawer of questionably compliant OEM cables is overflowing. Less plastic waste is a win, as long as everyone sticks to USB-C.

AKA why I never ask my in-laws about their day.

We improved our tracking algorithms to more accurately monitor your every move.

We found an unpatched microphone exploit that let’s us listen in on all of your conversations.

Is your favorite color purple?

I’ll take School Shootings and Privatized Healthcare for $100, Trebek.

The list is short because historically it has been hard to designate domestic organizations as terrorists without violating their First Amendment rights (among others, I’m sure).

Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.

Glances nervously at the first amendment

You alright bud?

Link to the game, because someone should do it:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/385380/Planet_Centauri/

Dev promised to bring game to GOG after 1.0 released. Looks like that hasn’t happened yet (probably related to launch struggles) but there is a request page for the game on GOG folks are welcome to spam.

A capacitor has ~1% of the storage capacity of a battery of similar power rating.

Saying its storage performance is better because its holds a larger % of that capacity at low temperatures is nonsense because its storage performance objectively sucks (and not what it’s designed to be good at)

It’s like saying a Tesla is better than a 747 because it can go from 0-60 faster. A technically true statement but a meaningless performance comparison.

Supercapacitors provide ultrafast response times – specified at 0.001 seconds – and maintain over 85% capacity at –40°C, significantly outperforming lithium-ion batteries in extreme cold.

Outperform how? At being a capacitor? That’s their whole point.

On the energy side, 85% of 29 MW-min is 0.41 MWh. Even if the batteries lose 99% of their capacity at -40 °F, last I checked .42 MWh > 0.41 MWh.

These are two different tools for two different purposes, I’m not sure how you compare their “performance” under this metric.

Why “back” of course!! I hear babies got it, so start with them.

I’ll run a backup and restore when moving to a new device, because why not. But regular backups? Meh, the ether can have my messages if my phone dies.

That said, depending on how this new system is rolled out, I may subscribe just to support the Signal foundation.

Frankly I love this, because now we get to watch the conservatives squirm.

Is Bill Clinton a pedo for associating with Epstein? Or are they going to walk back all of their statements and say Clinton did nothing wrong writing a sex trafficker a birthday card?

All the Democrats I know are fine with locking him up if evidence against him surfaces, but boy howdy is it gonna do a number on the conservatives in my life.

You do you - anything is technically possible, and from a purely engineering perspective a Steam Deck is an impressive little piece of hardware.

That said. I would advise against getting it for any sort of productivity. Having to haul out it, a separate keyboard, and mouse, just to take a quick note in class is cumbersome and distracting, even if we assume everything works on the first go every time (it won’t.).

As others have pointed out, Linux is nice until it isn’t - maybe you can partner up with a friend when your chemistry lab needs you to reference their archaic software to find some material property, but its a risk you’re choosing to take on. Will it pair with the campus printers? What if you need to run Solid Works? Ansys? The drivers for a digital microscope? Collaborating on group projects in Microsoft Office (the web apps aren’t the same.)? The list goes on.

Additionally, something like the Steam Deck is built for gaming. Meaning every time you pick it up, it reminds you it’s time to game. As someone with ADHD who struggled to stay on task in college, having a constant reminder of distractions at my fingertips would have been overwhelming.

That’s before we factor in the ‘cool’ factor of being that person in the class.

Get a laptop.

Except the video took 10 whole minutes to get there and probably wasted more than 2 sentences describing the problem.

I hate videos that could just be a 2-minute read.

Maybe, but I’m talking about this fuckerthat you would see at a restaurant:

Ghostly pink on the inside and full of air between thick crunchy dividers. It can fuck right off.

I still hate tomatoes…

…that aren’t ripe heirloom tomatoes. You try to put an unripe, dried out, perfectly red and circular, bland slice of mass market tomato on my burger and I will RAAAGE.