Also this goes to prove again that Steam/Valve is not a monopoly

How does a company announcing a new item for later release disprove its status as a monopoly? How does a game company designing a better product than a bumbling social media company disprove its status as a monopoly? Can you explain?

Some 73% of developers see Steam as a monopoly

Steam satisfies the FTC’s definition of a monopolist

I’m not taking a stance on whether or not valve is a monopoly, but claiming that a press release for upcoming items (that have yet to even hit the market) disproves its monopoly status seems wrong.

The fact that customers enjoy the products that a monopoly makes doesn’t disprove its monopoly status. It just proves there is still some ounce of good engineering winning over shortsighted financial decisions in Valve’s leadership.

Right, like I said, 4k120hz is a very limited market. However, for those of us with living room OLEDs, 4k120hz would be very much appreciated. The couch gaming experience on a 77 inch 4k120hz oled is pretty wicked.

Fair enough. The displayport has limited use though, given how there aren’t many (any?) large 4k120hz televisions with displayport. And let me be clear, that’s no dig against displayport (which is the better standard). As far as I know, certain shady license deals keep hdmi artificially ubiquitous on televisions.

Eh, that’s not really how it works. It all comes down to the HDMI standard. The HDMI 2.0 used by the steam box has a max officially supported output of 4k60hz. You need HDMI 2.1 to get 4k 120hz - regardless of the capability of your machine.

No 4k120Hz. bummer. To be fair, 4k120hz is not a primary market pull.

Heh. Say what you will about Roblox (plenty of stuff), but seems like their infrastructure is on lock.

OOWHUUH

Assuming everyone lives in a city where the weather is mild, the distances to things are short, there is reliable public transportation, and has significant infrastructure in place for walking/biking

Could you elaborate about what you mean here? It appears to me as if the people participating in fuck cars are more bemoaning the lack of these things. The people frequenting that comm will be the first to complain that the vast majority of Americans have abysmal choices for non-automobile transportation.

Also assuming that everyone using a car instead of biking/walking is just being lazy, without spending a second to consider the elderly or infirm

This, I just simply dont see in that comm. I feel like the people in fuck cars comm would be the first ones to argue that the elderly and infirm are oftentimes the first ones to suffer due to lack of good public transportation options. Casting the fuck cars community as ableist and ignorant to the struggles of the disabled seems unfair - given how the mass transit community are some of the primary champions of low floor trams, paratransit, accessible stations with elevators, designated priority seating, etc…

Turns out, skepticism towards the motivation for promoting poor strategy is a real thing that leftists arrive to without being “liberals”.

You understand that the leftist position is similarly that liberals have poor strategy and are naive, right? The difference is that leftists dont think there is a vast conspiracy to astro turf liberal ideas onto an internet forum. As it turns out, people are complicated and arrive to various political ideologies for a whole myriad of different reasons - regardless of whether not it seems rational to you.

It’s still bizarre how the liberals on this site refuse to believe that a particular brand of marxism leninism could be arrived at organically - as millions upon millions of people already have across the globe for the past 100 years.

Why is it that liberals scream “INORGANIC” every time leftists start a discussion that is anywhere to the left of the US State Department’s official stance?

Turns out, principled leftism is a real thing that people arrive to without the help of “Ruzzian bots” or “ccp shills”.

Good work. Might be valuable to add a “allows port forwarding” row.

Edit: whoops, I’m a silly willy. It’s right in front of me! My bad.

Have you since tried Viva New Vegas? It is apparently well supported and stable.

And in my case, using docker solely for pihole. It’s as if my “shipping container” has nothing inside save for a box of kleenex.

I use the frigate plugin in home assistant to make my lights do certain things when persons are detected where they shouldn’t be. Once you’ve got frigate connected to home assistant, your possibilities are endless. With a few zigbee smart switches, you could start pulling off home alone style antics if you really wanted. Think: sprinklers, lights, noises, projectors, video, etc… just dont forget to keep the legal aspect in mind.

I also have home assistant play a sort of alarm on my denon home theater stereo if a person is detected in frigate. It gets very loud.

I haven’t heard of alarmo. It sounds like it fits my use case perfectly. Checking it out.

Well put. Thanks for entertaining my pedantry.

you can learn how to swing a hammer in about thirty seconds

You cant downplay hammer skills, though. There is almost no skill ceiling with hammers. Put any blacksmith up against an amateur, and you’ll quickly see the difference between 30 seconds of training and 30 years.

You realize that China has dominated the smaller consumer drone sector for ages now? And that most countries are beginning to turn to Chinese drones for military applications?

Still a better track record than the F35.

Making my way downtown

Yes… that is not only possible, but likely when n=5…

Please, the original claim was “Chinese people feel coerced”, which is wrong by every metric, and there is no evidence to support this claim.

Although China is certainly not immune from severe social and economic challenges, there is little evidence to support the idea that the CCP is losing legitima- cy in the eyes of its people. In fact, our survey shows that, across a wide variety of metrics, by 2016 the Chi- nese government was more popular than at any point during the previous two decades. On average, Chinese citizens reported that the government’s provision of healthcare, welfare, and other essential public services was far better and more equitable than when the survey began in 2003. Also, in terms of corruption, the drop in satisfaction between 2009 and 2011 was complete- ly erased, and the public appeared generally support- ive of Xi Jinping’s widely-publicized anti-corruption campaign. Even on the issue of the environment, where many citizens expressed dissatisfaction, the majority of respondents expected conditions to improve over the next several years. For each of these issues, China’s poorer, non-coastal residents expressed equal (if not even greater) confidence in the actions of government than more privileged residents. As such, there was no real sign of burgeoning discontent among China’s main demographic groups, casting doubt on the idea that the country was facing a crisis of political legitimacy.

https://rajawali.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf

Let me guess: Harvard is tankie?

Again, asking for any type of source or statistic over anecdotes. Your “observations” go against reputable polling and statistics of people in China.

Was this survey conducted in Taiwan and signed as “China” complying with “one China policy”?

No… in fact this was a Harvard study that started off with “Given how China is an authoritarian nightmare, how widespread is support for the government?”

https://rajawali.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf

They’re in the phase where people are too scared to resist

Source?