My Steam Deck is a second wave pre-order 256GB modern, and that is exactly my feeling. Between the internal 256GB and the excellent Steam Deck micro SD utilization, it was good enough that I never opened it up just to change the SSD. When I started to get some stick drift, I finally upgraded the SSD at the same time.
The 256GB is “good enough”, but 512GB is “enough” and 64GB is tight.
I think somewhere close to $500 is around the zone they should target the base model. It’s in the console price zone. At that price, the specs are pretty decent.
Invest in online gaming? Maybe the real gamble was the investments we made along the way.
Outrage! Scandal! When will the developers be held to account for Gestral Volleyball and Only Up?!‽ Never in the history of video games has there been such an affront.
But seriously, great game!
I think I’ve reported 4 different versions of these ads. They look pretty near identical for the little bit I watch before I report, but the advertiser is always different, but also based in Poland.
I think the Reddit blackout did a lot, just not everything. I’m here on Lemmy because of it. Granted I’m still on Reddit as well, and Mastodon, and Xitter…
Just keep plugging along, and every little bit helps.
Monster Green shoppers are likely younger (Gen-Z/Millennial/Gen-X) male, lower income & Caucasian (skews Hispanic).
As an aging member of Gen-X, I appreciate this description.
I think one of the issues is that “meaningful consultation” has been very wishy-washy. In practice though, it works out that every band that might have any right to consultation can tie up anything in interminable lawsuits. In trying to avoid clarifying what constitutes “meaningful consultation” we’ve sleepwalked into this current environment where nothing can be built.
I still remember the mess around the Wet’suwet’en “hereditary” chiefs infighting and vs. the elected band council.It doesn’t matter if you are pro-pipeline, anti-pipeline, whatever. It highlights what a mess “meaningful consultation” is. Who do you consult with? The traditional chiefs successfully ousted 3 traditional chiefs and won a court case saying they had to be consulted as well.
Extrapolate this across the country and it’s a nightmare for any project that wants to respect indigenous rights.
I expect some replies along the lines of “Canada’s an illegitimate country” and such, and good riddance, and there is some truth. Between the Proclamation of King George III, and a good chunk of BC First Nations not having treaties, it’s a bit of a pickle. I don’t know the way out. I like how the Nisga’a Final Agreement finally sorted all this out for the Nisga’a, but there hasn’t been any further agreements along this line since.
Inspiring story, can we be like that again?
So much of the extra costs of building seems to be endless rounds of reviews and revisions. Sure, building things better is… better, but we’ve seen this process hijacked by NIMBY’s (IMHO).
Basically. 99 Percent Invisible did a podcast on this very topic: Episode 468 Alphabetical Order
I think I got mine in the second or third wave or pre-order shipping. The right trackpad is worn smooth in the centre, I’ve replaced the joysticks with the Hall effect ones, not as an upgrade but because the originals finally failed. I upgraded the SSD to a 1TB. It’s been my constant companion for years now.
One day, there will be a Steam Deck 2, and I’ll probably upgrade. In the meantime I’m excited to see the Legion Go, especially the Steam OS version, because it means the market is there.
Hmm, what sort of crimes could I do with an old Okidata dot-matrix printer?
I like CBC’s “About That” analysis.
I think Carney did exactly what he needed to do.
If we had had^1 a RCB since 2015/16, you would have also seen a response in the orientation of political parties. The fracture between the old Reformers and PC in the federal CPC would probably have resulted in a split. Without the spoiler effect welding the party together I can’t see them surviving long.
This also means that Erin O’Toole would probably be leading a more Centre Right PC-style party still, or Carney (who really seems like an old style PC in many ways) would have joined them.
Close to ten years after a potential move to a RCB, the fundamental landscape would likely have shifted.
Generously, Trump put him in a bind. On the one hand around a third of his supporters would be down with being the 51st state, or are at least fans of what Trump is doing. If he came out too hard against Trump, he could have bled support to the PPC,
Ironically, electoral reform would save the Conservative Party. It would probably split back into a more PC style centre-right party and a more populist Reform style party. I think an old Joe Clark style PC leader could have done better, but with ⅓ of the modern CPC Qonvoy supporting Trumpians, I don’t know that they could elect one. If they did, it would be Erin O’Toole all over again.
Four journalists had an opportunity to ask a question and follow-up of Carney. Only two were real journalists, and the difference was telling.
As a fellow pedant, I have to point out that even a simple tic-tac-toe algorithm is “AI”.
The term AI was coined at the Dartmouth College Summer Workshop in 1956. Early AI focused on developing expert systems and things like heuristics.
Most people conflate AI, the technical term for computerized decision making in general with the SciFi concept of super intelligent computers, and there has been a revolution since about 2010, in that computationally intensive neutral networks that were theoretical became more conceivable and practical. But LLMs are just a single family of AI techniques.
This, even bad 90’s game computer AI is just as valid to call AI as the latest OpenAI model. It’s just more primitive. Orders of magnitude more primitive, and no neural networks or LLM.
Mythbusters did this with coffee whitener as I recall. Impressive.
This has also happened to sawmills and flour mills, under less controlled circumstances.
The mad “gold rush” mentality towards AGI is nerve-racking. I’m reminded of Protogen’s attitude towards the Protomolecule in The Expanse.
I figured we still had 5-ish years to figure it out, but the rapid progress against HLE (Humanity’s Last Exam) makes me nervous.
But sure, let’s just rush headlong towards the precipice, how hard can alignment be really? My anxiety about the future and the importance of getting this right are not eased by people scoffing because “just count the fingers!” When the field is changing so fast, looking at what was going on a few years ago isn’t helpful.
Well, past my pay grade.
Okanagan Spirits makes “BRBN Bourbon-style whisky”. Bourbon (as you say) is a protected designation of origin product, meaning that it has to be made in the US. It’s not on the PDO list on Wikipedia though, so it appears it is a separate designation, same idea though.
Point being that you can boycott US products and still have Bourbon “style” whisky. Kind of like how some distilleries outside Scotland make Scotch style whisky, which is often very very good.