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- Comment on Colorado Governor Jared Polis once again vetoes bill that would make it easier for unions to organize 17 hours ago:
- Comment on Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs 2 days ago:
Thanks! But $500 is still more than I can afford right now. I almost got one when they had the refurbished LCD model for like $280 or whatever it was but I couldn’t even swing that at the time.
- Comment on Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs 2 days ago:
For me the touchpad are one of the big selling points. I see what you mean by the only $200 difference offering an entirely newer processor and screen, but I honestly don’t know why they would’ve done it with only a tiny touchpad on one side.
One question I immediately have though, because it took me a minute to even find the Legion go S and there are apparently two different versions of it (2025 & 2026), is how much is valve style support worth? Even though Lenovo is my go to for prebuilt machines right now, I’m not sure I trust them with $1000 handheld over the amount of time that the steam deck has existed.
- Comment on Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs 2 days ago:
I’m curious what exactly you mean; Like are you saying it’s just too expensive for what it is or too old or what?
- Comment on Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs 2 days ago:
I always wanted one of the white Steam Decks, but I have yet to be able to afford one regardless of color. Now it looks like I never will.
- Comment on Why is America so surprised when they elected Trump? They bitched and moans how all politicians are liars, cheats, money hungry and so on. So now they got exactly that and they are surprised? 3 days ago:
A lot of other commenters have mentioned things that are correct but I would like to add another that I haven’t seen mentioned:
A lot of people didn’t vote thinking that there was no way the people who do would let it happen again. With the exception of 2020, IIRC, the “winner” in pretty much every recent election has been the non voting block. Meaning more people don’t vote than do.
- Comment on I love astronomers so much 3 days ago:
I wonder how old their Wordpress version is…
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 days ago:
Likewise, I’ve been unemployed for 18 months and have watched as several things I would really like to get have become too expensive anyway.
- Comment on Another redundant app 3 days ago:
Bye Felicia!
- Comment on Another redundant app 3 days ago:
You seriously need to calm down.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 1 week ago:
This is correct, lots of places that were 9 to 5 would give people a lunch half hour or a lunch hour that would technically be on the clock. When lunch hours became mandatory employers went well fuck that and made it so you didn’t get paid for your lunch.
- Comment on Mint 1 week ago:
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
The case in the picture looks cool, but it doesn’t have an optical drive. I have a a Fractal case too though, but it was one of the only ones I could find that had an optical drive slot.
- Comment on Dammit! 2 weeks ago:
I once had a job wait until the night before I was supposed to start to tell me that they had decided to go with an internal candidate.
- Comment on gl! 3 weeks ago:
Crouch and jump while running through. 60% of the time it works every time.
- Comment on Boop Snoots 3 weeks ago:
We have been there for decades. Quite famously Princess Fiona in Shrek over 20 years ago had to be stylized because her original model was too uncanny valley.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 3 weeks ago:
Even equipped with the longer bed there’s just no way that’s backed in all the way.
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 1 month ago:
We don’t really have less laws. Just far less enforcement mechanisms. For instance I am supposed to be able to use my own modem, the FCC rules prevent ATT from forcing me to rent a modem. But the FCC hasn’t given a shit about anything since the 80s. So ATT forces me to rent a modem. Laws are only as good as their enforcement.
- Comment on Astronauts are funny 1 month ago:
Don’t forget insanely lucky and well off enough to afford a masters degree before you’re in your 30s.
- Comment on Land where 1 month ago:
Starliner also lands on land, and I believe Dragon has that option or at least was gong to at some point in its design.
- Comment on Lmao 1 month ago:
I get what you are saying, but the Saturn V was never intended to be an ICBM. Depending on what numbers you look at too, they weren’t actually that well funded. Some of the largest estimates that I’ve seen place NASA’s inflation adjusted budget between 1960 and 1973 at just under $600 billion. Or roughly half of what we’re spending in one year on the military currently.
To put it another way, at its absolute peak budget NASA received roughly 4.6% of the current military budget.
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 1 month ago:
Except that Windows 11 is Windows NT.
They quit using the NT number when they switched from waterfall to “agile” releases. But 10 beta had an official release version of 6.4 and then they switched that to 10.0 which they have left alone since for 11 and the latest Server editions.
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 1 month ago:
I get what you are saying. But the difference is more akin to Mint and Ubuntu. Where one started as a fork of the other, which itself was a fork of something else, but at this point in time both are so different from their original source material that they’re all three just considered different distributions of the same thing.
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 1 month ago:
They just announced a partnership with Motorola.
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 1 month ago:
From the article I linked:
“This article is about the passenger rail service in Florida…”
AFAIK the Amtrak route from Seattle only goes to Chicago, you would have to change trains to get to NYC anyway.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like websites nowadays feels very broken compared to apps? Like you try to do transactions on the mobile site (eg: ordering food), and payments mysteriously declines... 1 month ago:
I have a 13 Mini and even Lemmy makes that happen sometimes but it’s gotten way worse for me since the update to iOS 26.
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 1 month ago:
Unless you are being oddly specific with your definition of passenger rail, there absolutely is.
Brightline for instance. - Comment on British cyclist refused £15k payout because thieves ‘weren’t violent enough’ 1 month ago:
When did the back of a van stop counting as a trunk or covered boot? This sounds like typical insurance company bullshit. They are basically saying that they won’t cover it if you can see it though the window.
- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 1 month ago:
But a picture is worth a thousand words!
- Comment on Can't click my app controls! 2 months ago:
Is this Voyager? Is it the Webapp or the App Store App? If it’s the Voyager webapp you may need to tell it you are on Android in the settings.