Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
I’m sure you could, if you want.
They’re either using one of those or a similar service.
I don’t think that it’s gonna be all that rewarding, though.
I mean, do you really want to be trying to get in a yelling match with someone else over politics, each trying to drown the other out?
Note that I submitted a San Francisco Chronicle article about this yesterday. One thing that came up during the discussion is that while there may be a lot of people streaming the song on Spotify, at least according to one source, the Billboard chart that was topped was a small-volume one, so it may not be as significant as it sounds.
You could probably put a 400 Wh powerbank in a backpack (search for “power station” on Amazon).
https://www.workableweb.com/_pages/tips_how_to_write_good.htm
All too often, the budding author finds that his tale has run its course and yet he sees no way to satisfactorily end it, or, in literary parlance, “wrap it up.” Observe how easily I resolve this problem:
Suddenly, everyone was run over by a truck.
-the end-If the story happens to be set in England, use the same ending, slightly modified:
Suddenly, everyone was run over by a lorry.
-the end-If set in France:
Soudainement, tout le monde etait écrasé par un camion.
-finis-You’ll be surprised at how many different settings and situations this ending applies to. For instance, if you were writing a story about ants, it would end “Suddenly, everyone was run over by a centipede.” In fact, this is the only ending you ever need use.¹
¹ Warning - if you are writing a story about trucks, do not have the trucks run over by a truck. Have the trucks run over by a mammoth truck.
depending on their sales expectations they could legit make this a loss leader.
I don’t think they will. The problem is that the hardware is open.
Closed-system console vendors can sell at a loss because if you’ve bought the console and don’t buy games from them for it, you’re going to have limited use of it. It’s maybe an expensive Blu-Ray player or something. Not a sensible purchase. You’re gonna buy games for it.
So they can just crank up the price of games and make their return over time from games.
But if the Steam Machine is sold at a loss, then people will also buy it to use it as a regular mini-PC, and Valve doesn’t make a return from them.
Ah, gotcha, so it’s middleman overhead. Thanks.
https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
Thanks, but I don’t think that it’ll do it for me. I’ve tried similar packages before, and the problem is that I also want the ability to input a bunch of Unicode characters and use keys in terminal emulators and so forth. Even Anysoft Keyboard, which I’m presently using, is occasionally lacking, and it’s pretty comprehensive. I’ve considered doing a soft keyboard myself, even, but I just can’t work up the will to go develop for Android with Google slowly closing some stuff. I think that my long-run trajectory is to move what I can to a Linux laptop and hope that GNU/Linux phones eventually become a practical alternative to Android.
That’s the normal mode of operation, but it can apparently also run games locally on the Frame itself, which I guess gives people a portable — if less powerful — gaming option that they can haul around easily if they want.
I think that for running games locally on the Frame, for anything other than games designed specifically to be gentle on a battery — and many games are not, unfortunately — you’re also really going to need to leave it plugged into a powerbank. The internal battery just isn’t that large relative to what the device can draw.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-hardware/steam-frame-specs-availability/
The battery included on the Steam Frame is a 21 Wh model. The Snapdragon system-on-chip gobbles up around 20 W at full power—that’s how much it’ll likely use while playing a game locally in standalone mode. From this, we can expect around an hour of playtime without additional charge.
Someone else in here commented on how it took a while for the Deck to come to his country.
I almost asked him, but since you’re the second one…I mean…wouldn’t you be able to just get a Deck or a Steam Machine or whatever from anywhere and use it?
I’ve seen other people request SteamOS-as-a-general-OS on here too, which also surprised me.
I’m thinking that it’s one of two things:
People just want something that they’re sure is easy to use.
People want an HTPC-oriented configuration.
I have it off on my phone at the moment because my soft keyboard is enaging in shennanigans, and I will say that I didn’t appreciate how many errors that I make on tiny phone keyboards that it fixes until now. I mean, damned if you do, damned if don’t.
The steam machine sounds intriguing but there is already a big market for mini PCs and I don’t know if consumers would go out of their way to buy a steam PC box. I’m most skeptical about this one
You might not be the target audience. I’m comfortable building an HTPC and putting an OS and all on it and configuring it, but the benefit of a console is that someone just gets an all-in-one setup that works out-of-box. Well, and that game developers are specifically testing against.
Like, if it weren’t a barrier, you’d probably just have everyone using PCs instead of consoles in their living room. Might open the gates to let console-only folks do Steam.
stressed
I think maybe based on the rest of your comment, you intended to write “addressed”?
Dang. The new Steam Controller has a D-pad, buttons, thumbsticks, gyros, and trackpads.
And the thumbsticks are TMR (like Hall effect, but nicer).
As long as it’s comfortable to reach all that stuff, that’s gonna be a new bar for PC game controllers.
EDIT: and grip sensors.
EDIT2: and four haptic feedback motors, two in the trackpads.
is a pain in the ass
is dependent on 3rd parties
Well, one of the two, at any rate.
mysterious Picts
The Picts, the descendants of Iron Age tribes, are known for decorating standing stones with intricate carvings and constructing impressive hillforts.
They ruled northern and eastern Scotland for hundreds of years before vanishing from written records about 1,100 years ago, the name of their kingdom disappearing with them.
The Picts are ‘alive and well’ and living in Scotland
TEN per cent of Scottish men are directly descended from the Picts, according to a new discovery by a DNA project.
American tech company Kyndryl
Who the heck is Kyndryl?
kagis
Ah. It looks like IBM split off their IT services division into a separate company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyndryl
Officially formed in late 2021, Kyndryl was created from the spin-off of IBM’s infrastructure services,[4][5] and comprises the bulk of the former IBM Global Technology Services.
In 2022, as ranked by revenue, CRN placed Kyndryl No. 6 on its list of largest IT solution providers in North America.
Focused on IT services for businesses,[20] Kyndryl designs, builds, manages, and modernizes enterprise IT infrastructure systems,[4][17] with capabilities in artificial intelligence as well as data and analytics.[20] In late 2021, Kyndryl listed its six service areas as: cloud; security and resiliency; network and edge computing; digital workplace; core enterprise and zCloud; and applications, data, and AI.
One of the worst spills occurred off Sri Lanka in 2021 when thousands of tonnes of plastic pellets were lost from a stricken cargo ship.
Nurdles coated an 80-kilometre (50-mile) stretch of beach on the island’s western coast, and fishing was prohibited for months.
Huh. I hadn’t followed that when it happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Press_Pearl
According to a 2021 United Nations report, it was the largest recorded plastic spill, releasing about 70–75 billion nurdles that take centuries to degrade.[11]
Also, I think the less interesting question is where it is today and more where it’s going to be in, say, five years, if you figure that development continues.
And might be possible to explore more long-tail stuff if production costs drop, or even do stuff customized to a single listener. I mean, we can’t economically have humans do that.