What makes me doubt is that it still not possible to transform a PS4 into a Linux PC without exploiting the console at every boot. And this is after years…

Not an indication of what’s going on with PS5 right now.

The people doing the PS5 jailbreaking are making heavy use of current AI tools that are exponentially accelerating their progress.

This wasn’t a thing during the main pushes to jailbreak PS4, and no one’s going to be focusing those current tools on the PS4 because it is obsolete now. So PS4 and PS5 jailbreaking can’t be compared apples to apples.

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And I’ll continue to dynamically price their burgers at $0, through my continuation of not patronizing them

Hetero cis male here. I’ve always personally felt that the stereotypical male macho reaction to homosexuality is pretty odd. But I have a lot of gay people in my friends and family, and was around homosexuality a little more than some people were growing up.

If I had to infuse anything into the mind of someone scared or worried about gay people, it would just be that outside of that one detail, and their own small subculture they’ve embraced, they’re just people, the same as anyone else.

To me it feels similar to fear-driven bigotry based on racism. Outside of a little melanin (or lack thereof) and a slightly different subculture, other “races” are people, just the same as you. But rather than get to know other, some folks find it easier to be scared and ignorant and shield themselves behind hate.

To me, to even qualify as an apocalypse, it has to take out 99.9%+ of the population, and make extendedly staying alive stupidly difficult (and maybe even impossible) for anyone who “lucked into” surviving whatever it was that killed almost everyone else.

So it’s one of those things that is going to be hard to prep for with months and months of notice, let alone three measly days.

Sure. Briefly.

I think that a combination of several things (like less than ideal performance per dollar value for the SM, and the cost of PC components continuing to rapidly climb while SM remains on a who-knows-how-long wait list) pushed quite a few people to other alternatives.

I don’t think all of the regional queues are as low as about a month like OP, but they’re probably all a little shorter than expected.

Which makes me sad. I love mine and wish that everyone had one.

Some people can’t use a urinal. Medical issues.

That being said, they should still be cleaning up after themselves. Leaving the seat a mess for other people is horrendous.

I always thought that if God exists, then God must be practically indistinguishable from science, as far as we’re concerned.

Because you can’t tell me that any practically omnipotent being with a 50,000 IQ would deliberately choose to personally micromanage every cubic nanometer of the entire universe for every single Planck time of the duration of the entire universe that they’re creating.

There’s no way that they would!

As the old saying goes: Work smarter, not harder. This entity is going to create a series of clockwork laws for the universe to run by (physics), and then they’re going to let set laws do their thing, and then they’re going to stay out of the way.

Ergo, to me God and science would be (for all practical purposes) indistinguishable from each other if God exists, just based on how the universe would be started in the first place.

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They lost me at that price point, sadly. And I was really looking forward to this thing launching.

Valve makes damn good products, I’m rocking a Steam Deck and a SC in my personal collection, and love them both.

But my next PC upgrade was looking to be just that… a power upgrade. That was the main focus.

The small form factor, the excellent presentation, and the Valve quality that we all know this is going to have… they would have been nice. But right now I’m looking for equal or better than SM performance regardless of form factor, and I have my sights set on several possible options to get that, all of which are at least a couple of hundred dollars cheaper. Sorry Gabe.

If you’re single, you can more easily downsize your life as much as you need to in order to save money.

I’m in my 40s and not single, but if I were, I’d be minimizing rent and expenses as much as I possibly could to get more money saved and invested.

Hell, people do crazy creative things to avoid rent, like intentional vehicle dwelling, or stealth-staying in storage units due to that being way cheaper than rent. You don’t necessarily have to go that extreme, but most single people have more going out than they realize they do and have some areas they can trim.

To save you time, Nested Desktop can effectively get you into Desktop stuff much more quickly than the standard reboot-to-Desktop sequence.

That is an older post, but all of this still works exactly the same way now as it did then.

It is and always has been fantastic.

I tend to play stuff in clean, crisp native 720p on my 1440p monitor (with the perfect 4x integer scaling), most commonly using mouse and keyboard… but some games I play with the Deck controls (I have an extra-long docking cord going to the Deck for that purpose). Have a SC reserved, and will just use that instead once I order it.

Eventually I’m going to do power upgrade and get a true 1440 PC… but even though it’ll no longer be docked, I’ll still be happily streaming to my Deck in multiple relax spots in the house.

Steam Deck OLED is awesome. Fantastic screen, excellent controls, insane ergonomics, light for long play sessions… even now, with older internal hardware and lessening power versus new games, it’s still the best stream-to-around-the-house device on the market, and it’s not really close.

But I can’t see it still being $789 / $949 USD awesome. My guess is that Valve has decided that they aren’t going to run out of Steam Decks again and have priced these accordingly.

We need a true populist party in the US, but every mechanism that’s currently anchored in place would always work as hard as possible to destroy it. Ngl, it feels kind of bleak.

It’s not computing that is evil necessarily. It’s the corporate privatization of compute that is going to be the issue in the coming years and decades. Like so many things in the modern world, they want you renting it, not owning it.

Keep working to own it yourself, and use it to help fight the battles that need to be fought.

Been summoned once, but I no longer lived in the state / county of summoning at the time it happened. Luckily a family member gave me a heads up regarding the summons and I was able to call and explain before I got to whatever penalty you get for being MIA for a jury duty summon.

we couldn’t reach a verdict because some people couldn’t believe a guard would just do bad things.

That’s wild.

Was the guard human? Yes? Then they are capable. Look at the evidence!