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!

Same here. I was through the sequence and trying to buy by no later than maybe 1:00:10, and tried three different payment methods, all to no avail. I don’t think we had a chance on this go-round.

There are plenty of bullet trains in the US, shootings happen on them… like, all the time.

Oh, wait. You meant… nevermind.

The move isn’t to reject the fandom.

The move is to build the instance with explicit values — pro-trans, pro-queer, progressive moderation, zero tolerance for bigotry.

This feels like building a forum to discuss Mein Kamph, and then saying it’s going to moderated with a focus on inclusion, human rights, and diversity.

With the whole HP thing, there are IMO far too many people fully separating the art and the artist. I just can’t morally do that.

Increasingly, portion sizes are starting to come down a bit. The one-two punch of shrinkflation causing the restaurants to serve less, and the spread of GLP-1 drugs starting to help people eat less, are slowly whittling away the issue over time.

I think a lot of us are eventually going to upgrade to stronger systems (steam machine or something else), but it’s going to be a long freaking time in that scenario before I stop streaming to my Deck when I’m home. It’s just the king of comfy, kicked back on the couch or bed gaming.

The only life hack that I use on a regular basis is covering toilet flush sensors with TP. It works pretty reliably to keep them from flushing until you’re actually ready to leave.

Figured that out earlier in life when a certain office toilet would wait until I was exactly 50% done peeing, so that I couldn’t stop or dodge, and then it would power flush and send up a nice germ-ridden uriney mist. Blocking the sensor until I was done totally fixed it.

Pretty much any other life hack that looked interesting to me has been effectively pointless and did not see continued use. I don’t think I’ve ever tried one that was detrimental though… just useless.

I mean, if you just absolutely had to play a Linux-hating kernel anti cheat game, then install a small-as-possible partition for Windows, dual boot, and stay in Steam OS every single moment you’re doing anything else but that game.

But most Windows-on-a-Steam-Deck people I’ve encountered just drive Windows all the time. I will never understand.

I’m thinking about finishing out my career with that kind of transition.

I’ve always done various office work and have been good at it, but I know I’m on borrowed time.

At some point in the next 1-3 years, they’ll automate 90%+ of what I’m doing, and I’ll be out the door. And being late 40s, with the job market being what it is, and admittedly me not skilling up much most of the last decade or so… I have I just don’t have what’s needed to get back to work in favorable conditions once that inevitable canning happens.

Fortunately, I have a friend of the family who’s a long time HVAC guy, and the company he works for has been short handed for quite a while. I figure if I start training up in the very near future, I’ll be able to transition over without too many issues, and If I’m careful, I won’t have to beat myself up too much in the decade or so before I retire.

I think the powers that be have an ultimate goal of combining AI and robotics to automate the trades too, but they are much further away on that… it should be a safe space for long enough.

Seriously, this is the definition of a “work there for 15 minutes until you find literally anything else” bridge job.