Sometimes videos take like 2-3 seconds to start playing. That’s it.

My best advice is to find an activity you enjoy or think you might enjoy, one that at least puts you in company of others if not requires actual collaboration. E.g. a sport, some sort of class, a club for a hobby you already have… Just something that will get you in public and in regular contact with some people.

Hell, I feel like the Nvidia 1xxx generation & equivalent AMD cards were the last real value GPUs. Every generation since has been incremental improvements in image quality for massive costs in price, heat & energy. Now all the other components are catching up…

Limited models trained on good datasets have limited applications in analysis of similar data.

LLMs are a gigantic soul-sucking scam with no practical usage.

I’ve been using the OG almost exclusively (when I use a controller which is not super often) since it came out. I do want the second thumbstick but even without it I think it’s a better controller than most.

I mean, do you not understand why people would buy controllers at all? It’s an extremely nice one.

All the things you mention are a thing in all three dialects lol. Gaol is just the archaic spelling, thongs does also mean flip-flops, and cunt is more and more socially acceptable in both the US & UK, though nowhere near the casual usage in AUS.

Team vim, but I’ve been using Helix instead for a year or two – it’s like if Neovim and Kakoune had a baby.

Do you mean without steam input? My understanding is that the internals default to sending mouse & keyboard inputs which get translated to controller output in software. I’m sure someone will write an open source driver to get it working without Steam at some point, but if you don’t mind running games through Steam then it’s already working.

Anecdotal RMAs aside, I think the ergonomics are fantastic and they blew every other VR controller I’ve tried out of the water.

Yeah I think anyone who thinks John Wick got worse over time was probably a teenager when the first one came out. They’re all schlocky action films. The fourth one at least has some unique set pieces

It’s still pretty trash. Every update adds new boring activities but the core gameplay loops still get old quickly and the game is an endlessly scaling grind to nowhere. It’s “redemption story” is drastically overrated.

Desert areas can still have rich ecosystems that get severely affected by solar farms.

But why can’t you just remove it? It being mounted into the studs isn’t any different than any other spot, it’s just more secure.

Thanks for the basic lesson in media literacy. I was replying to your comment which implies that this comic is somehow a media critique.

This comic is very explicitly bashing fans not the media.

Yes because they were licensed resellers.

Under many licenses no, you did not. Resale was certainly in the realm of things that license agreements could and often did prohibit. I was probably too blanket in my statement earlier, it was certainly not ubiquitous, but in many cases physically selling the CD did not transfer the license and the purchaser would have been in violation of the terms by using it.

You’re conflating DRM with software licensing. DRM is digital enforcement of license terms. Steam was by no means the first form of DRM, but it is a DRM platform (though there are some DRM-free titles).

I am not too young to remember Steam being a highly controversial topic because it was basically launched as the DRM for Half-Life 2. The backlash against the normalization of DRM led to the creation of Good Old Games, still the premiere DRM-free vendor on the market.

However, software licenses have been in use since the 70s. The practice of selling actual copies of code as opposed to licenses to use the code was already rare by the 90s. If you bought a CD or floppy disks in a store, you were buying a license to use the code on the disks, but you were explicitly denied the rights to resell or copy it, at least for most commercial products. Most people just never read the very long terms of usage.

Again that is a separate issue from the no undercutting clause. Prohibition of resale is ubiquitous in the software world because for decades the ploy has been to sell you a license, not an actual product.

Of course I’d love that to change but it’s a core precept of how digital ownership works and has worked for most of it’s existence. Steam is not the main force behind that.