I wear a bone conductive headset a lot of the time, and I have it set to read out calls or important messages to me. Smartwatches have a similar use, but goal is to not miss a call while also having the phone on silent.

Yeah my first thought was just keep running dd commands, and sooner or later you’ll have the hdd wiped.

Exploring beginner friendly caves is really cool. But tight passages like this and the nutty putty cave one are absolutely terrifying, and I want nothing to do with it.

I think the issue is that devices with screens are usually meant to be your window to experience something else. When you get immersed in something, you forget about the device and focus on the experience.

I like playing games, and when I get into a game the focus is on the game itself, not the controller/TV/etc. I’ve had dreams about games, but it’s always me experiencing the game directly and not focused at all on the details of how I’m accessing the game.

I think it’s the same with phone use, but the experiences we get on a phone are harder to imagine as a"direct experience". Things like sending a text message don’t convert well to a fully immersive experience, so I think our brain skips over them.

That’s true, and that’s why so many internet censorship it spying bills are officially to counter pedophiles.

Banning tiktok is clearly controversial though, and I honestly don’t think it’s trying to soften people up to the government banning social media.

I think tiktok should probably be banned, but I think that “it’s ok because the chinese government does it” is a pretty flimsy argument.

I mean they’re also banning chinese networking hardware, chinese phone manufacturers, chinese software in cars, considering banning chinese drones, potentially banning tencent games, etc etc

I’m feeling pretty confident that the goal here is banning chinese spying considering all the other bans.

One of the Egypt stories involved men following a woman back to her hotel room, and she had to lock herself inside. They continued to come to her hotel everyday, and bang on her door telling her to let them in. She ended up spending the whole trip stuck in that room, feeling unsafe to leave until she finally got an escort to make it to her flight home.

Unfortunately in cases like that, it really sounds like it goes beyond something you can be adult about and just ignore. I think her main mistake was not doing better research about where it was safe to travel as an unaccompanied woman, as much as I wish that wasn’t a concern.

Yeah I fully get the idea. A lot of racism is ignorance and fear. Humans are bad to take limited experiences of each other and assume that’s the whole experience. When you don’t have your own experiences with a different people, it’s easy to latch onto stories of how bad they can be and form your whole opinion around that. The best counter to that is to have good experiences instead, preferably through friendship.

But some cultures/etc make for a bad travel experience, and that will create or reinforce negative opinions. Living there longer is probably better, but the fact that racism still exists in mixing pot countries like the US proves that living together isn’t enough to make relationships good.

May not work in all cases, seems like everyone that goes to egypt to see the pyramids comes back hating egyptians.

I’ve seen discussions where the topic was something like “Where did you travel to that you would never go back to again”, and the responses there heavily implied that travel can inspire racism.

The game was “The Pale Beyond”

Here was them saying 10% of sales were on Deck.

Later on, after the game had been out awhile and had some sales, the percentage of deck players dropped to a still respectable 5%.

My interpretation of that is that the Deck users were more likely than non-Deck users to pay full price for the game at launch. Considering that deck users only make up 0.6% of players based on Valve’s hardware survey, it would seem like Deck owners buy far more games than the average user.

It’s also possible that the hardware survey is underreporting decks though, significantly more decks have been sold than 0.6% would represent, and I know I get far more valve hardware survey requests on my desktop vs Deck, even though nearly all my playtime is on Deck.

How do we feel about libertarians?

I think part 2 of 3, but I’m not completely sure.

the fact that it sold a lot means it’s a market that it’s probably worth the investment (can’t imagine it’s that much)

Something I’ve heard is that deck users tend to buy more games and more new releases than your average non-deck user (which makes sense considering most of us are financially well off enough to buy a second PC for portable play). So even though the total number of deck users isn’t huge compared to steam as a whole, there’s a much more significant percentage of launch purchases that are being played on deck.

Some indie game reported that 10% of their launch sales went to people playing on Steam Deck, which is a sizable market chunk, and a much higher percentage of players than the the steam hardware survey would suggest to expect.

I love it everytime I see a big company trying to ensure their game runs well on Deck. Companies caring about performance on a linux device at all is wild.

Opening up the controller and cleaning the joysticks directly might have actually made it worse. The joysticks have their own lubrication, if you clean the directly you can remove that and ruin them.

My experience has been that cleaning up the joysticks with the controller closed up is safe and generally fixes any drift or sticking buttons. Opening up the controller and trying to clean it with the same spray can be damaging and isn’t recommended.

And to be clear, the actual stick mechanism can break down and cause drift too. But every case of joycon drift I’ve ever seen between my couple sets and friends’ sets were always fixed by a quick spray of cleaner.

I’m not claiming it’s a standard maintenance practice, most people won’t have the spray, and aren’t accustomed to needing to needing to maintain a joystick like that.

But it is truly a simple, cheap, easy fix for almost all cases of joystick drift (not just on joycons, but all controllers). I really think nintendo should have worked to spread the knowledge, and provided free cleaner to people with issues.

The drift that joycons get is almost always just caused by dirt/gunk under the joystick flaps. If you spray a little electrical cleaner up under the flaps it fixes the drift immediately. Might have to repeat it 1-2 times a year.

It’s always bothered me how big of deal joycon drift is when it has such an easy fix. Obviously it would be better if I didn’t happen at all, but it seems silly that people are throwing away good controllers that only needed a 5 second cleaning. Only thing I’ve ever had to replace any of my joycon controllers over is problems with the rail connections to the switch, where it swaps back and forth between wireless and direct connected. But my original 2016 joycons are still going strong, just stuck as wireless only joycons.

I have this Baseus power bank, which is supposed to have 74 watt-hours. The top review did some testing, and got 62 watt-hours out of it, which is about 83% efficiency.

I’ve been pretty happy with it so far. It also shows what voltage/amperage it’s charging at, which is handy for identifying bad cables.

I was reading about Tetris in a PDF 4 days ago, and wondered if Doom would be possible.