It is a joke, and it's funny because it holds a kernel of truth. "We laugh so we do not cry."
No tears shed for Maduro, but it's pretty obvious that Trump doesn't know what he's doing and doesn't have a plan.
Staging a secret service raid to kidnap Carney is pretty out there, but then El Presidente Trump just talked about "doing something about Mexico" from the Southern Presidential Palace.
It's a joke, you should laugh, and you should also remember what the joke is referencing.
Second installing Heroic or Junk Store. Get those Epic freebies, but games in GoG sales as well.
As you are new with the Deck though, using Heroic does involve using desktop mode. If you have Minecraft, you can set up Prism Launcher as well. There's also EmuDeck for emulating older systems.
This is a bit more involved than just buying Deck verified games on the Steam store though. Get comfortable with it first. Watch some YouTube tutorials.
Those PlayStation supercomputers were wild. I don't think it's analogous to the various bits of Steam hardware coming out though, since Valve sells directly through Steam. You can't order anything by the pallet.
The other thing to consider is that the PS3 was used for clustered computing primarily because of the Cell processor. I have no recollection of why the cell processor performed better on certain types of problems. PS3 wasn't being used for Excel spreadsheets, it was used for niche academic use and that one Air Force supercomputer. The Steam hardware though uses pretty standard hardware, AMD processor and Radeon graphics card.
Considering the added friction of buying through Steam, i doubt it will have same draw.
Microsoft has been placing Bedrock before Java ever since they named it Java Edition, but Java has survived. I'm sure Bedrock is much more popular now, but I would be worried about Microsoft enshittifying Java further to push players to Bedrock, and any new microtransactions they figure out.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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