bryndos
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- Comment on Know your place 10 hours ago:
"If you've done six impossible things today, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways!"
- Comment on The Left is Infighting? At least We Don't Shoot Each Other! 11 hours ago:
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 1 day ago:
If you don't want portability, and do want expandability, then I don't think Steam Deck is a good choice for you.
Much as it is a brilliant devicel it's also a wee bit old now.
And anyone who wants the anti-cheat games is still stuffed.I disagree with any others saying it is openable and repairable. It's better than modern slimline laptops - which is not saying much. I don't think it's as accessible asa Mini PC - and frankly if you want to upgrade, go desktop.
If you can get a used old case with a decent PSU - then buy the rest of the guts - you'll end up with something way better - and you'll be able to make sure you can fully power your GPU and CPU for the things you want to do with it. And far easier to cool it properly and avoid throttling if you're really pulling a load of watts into it. This probably does matter if you want to game at high resolutions with high frame rates for modern games.
If you don't mind dropping to lower resolutions or <=60FPS, or turning off some fancy GFX features, then the mini PC would be fine.
Of course with a desktop you can adapt the components a bit to your budget, and maybe swap in cheap second hand stuff as a stop gap until you upgrade a component.Fair warning - the rest of this post is pro-linux bullshit . . .
For steamdeck - the only reason i could think that remains is if you had a desperate need to get out from under microsoft's thumb - and didn't want to go for a full DIY linux install - then SteamOS is excellent in both gaming and desktop mode. It really shows how user friendly linux can be if you pay full time devs to maintain a distribution with a specific customer group and specific hardware in mind.
And IMHO ( I only use MS at work so maybe I'm a bad source) it actually shows up how fucking awful windows is. SteamDEck really is just turn it on and get on with what you want to do , no bother; games console level usability. I think even computer-illiterate people would find desktop mode pretty easy to get on with.But it's only half-arsed "proper linux", and half-arsed independence from big tech, as you're just substituting Valve as the ones who you rely on to curate your OS for you. And if ever Steam gets bought out you might have to move to something else. So it doesn't have the independence of full open source; though it's a lot closer to that than MS.
It's also quite a lot of money to pay for an old device just to try a different OS. To do that I'd get a cheap real PC and experiment - a used miniPC from 5-10 years ago with some of the retro gaming linux distros are a fun and cheaper way to do that.
... end of pro linux bullshit
- Comment on How It Works: Bunker Buster Bomb 2 days ago:
Call the (US) police.
- Comment on Is a gooner the same thing as a wanker? 2 days ago:
Well it means Arsenal FC supporter.
So there's certainly an overlap, but there are many other wankers out there.
I mean there's all the other types of football fans for a start, for example there's a bunch for whom this type of thing would perfectly normal, habitual even:"My condolences on you recent bereavement.
Sincerely, A.F. Wanker
COYS" - Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 days ago:
A yard of ale is a large beer glass, based on a glass that is quite long probably less than a metre.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 5 days ago:
I do woodworking a bit too, but I normally just do the slanty ruler/tape trick to divide any straight parallel face into n equal lengths.
I hate all forms of mental arithmetic; I also avoid measuring as much as possible too. Maybe that's why everything i make is so shit.I guess if you're mass producing things you can't just manually mark off each and every part though - but even then I'd probably want to work to a template rather than to measure.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 5 days ago:
I think a mile is specified in terms of 'chains' not really feet or yards.
Feet and yards are meant for measuring smaller stuff, like the size of a foot, or a courtyard.The 'chain' was a specific surveyors tool for measuring larger land areas. I imagine defined to be a length of physical chain practically manageable by the surveyor - probably pre-dating optical / triangulation methods before lenses got cheap.
I think an acre was then defined as 10 square chains or something.
But go back in time far enough and different jurisdictions have different lengths of standard chain, so different miles and acres derived from it. But it doesn't really matter because if you were buying land in Scotland, then you'd probably want to use a Scottish surveyor and his big long chain.
The nautical mile is then a whole other kettle of fish.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 5 days ago:
A yard is about 1.4 litres in my book, or 2.1/2 pints - imperial pints mind, not US ones.
I'm not ignoring away that 20% difference; it's bad enough with all the fucking "pint to brim" glasses these days. - Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
That's probably why risc-v is getting quite popular in embedded stuff - smaller companies wanting more supply chain independence.
Hopefully it'll start to get more powerful soon for more serious computing.
Its nice that stuff like debian now has risk-v version too. - Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 weeks ago:
IIRC goruanga was the cheat code in gta. also it came up when you got all the hare krishnas in one and go and gave 1million points.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 weeks ago:
Did you try typing goru@n.ga as your email address?
IRL you don't need an email account to do road violence. Simulator is worse than life.
Matrix, confirmed. - Comment on Llama 2 weeks ago:
Look a unicorn!
- Comment on Does a "SuperTuxKart Remastered" or similar exist? 2 weeks ago:
Love playing SuperTuxKart. I love the ability to change game files to make it my own experience. I love the ability to download custom content through
Sounds like it is not broken, better fix it until it is.
Meh it's open source, fork it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
pigs are filthy cool
- Comment on The Illumin-ate-i 2 weeks ago:
tetraheartgon
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
pigs are the coolest.
- Comment on Have you know???. 2 weeks ago:
That'd need watt hours though. Meme is only showing the instantaneous power required to conjure the image for an infinitesimal amount of time - you cant do any useful 'work' with it unless the time is accounted for.
Watt seconds maybe.What makes me skeptikal of this data though is that the correct sciencing term for a billion watts is the well established 'jiggawatt'. In this context I'd have also accepted the Canadian spelling 'jigglewatt'.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like he wanted to do a 1 man blitz, in order to reverse the outcomes of the actual 'blitz', but thankfully he turned out to be more of a V1 doodlebug.
