Yeah. If Valve releases a remotely viable desktop console OS, I’ll immediately build one for my living room. If for no other reason, to keep the rest of the family away from my SteamDeck.

As in if you live in a state with sales tax but down the road is a state without sales tax- why ever shop in your state?

Mostly the states are quite big, so it’s not worth the trouble. But along various state borders, it distorts the shopping experience in odd ways.

I’ve been towns that are missing common retailers entirely, because everyone drives to the next town over (in another state), to avoid a tax.

We also have a rich history of driving across state lines to purchase stuff that’s illegal in our own state. It’s also illegal to bring it back, but the borders aren’t patrolled, so the only way to get caught is to have a traffic violation while doing it.

Or so I’ve heard. I never break any laws, myself.

Cool chart.

It really makes the point to me that the PS1 and PS2, when adjusted for inflation, and for relative compute power, were just such a fantastic deal.

I was recovering from some serious console-purchase fatigue, when I bought my PS1 to replace my garage sale purchased Super NES. It was a big deal to me.

I’ve paid PS5 prices (inflation adjusted) for a game system a few times (my first Switch and SteamDeck), but they’ve been a lot more mind blowing than what appears to be on offer today.

Disclaimer: My favorite game is 8-bit, anyway.

They’re basically Steam Machines tailored more towards retro enthusiasts.

Styled to look like a Sega DreamCast

Priced from around £300.00 to £500.00

It’s fantastic, especially for non-gamers.

There’s a huge library of cozy games, and arcade games, and retro games, and adventure RPGs, exploration games, puzzle games that all run terrific on a SteamDeck.

The average randomly selected game from my Steam Library has run fine for me, on my SteamDeck.

If they ever make a smaller model with a clam shell to protect the screen, it’ll be the perfect game system.

I regularly recommend configurations to peers that are arguably impossible for normal humans. (Not on purpose! Sorry Dave!)

I love to run stuff on Raspberry Pi, and I fear no gcc compile flag. (Ok. That’s a bold faced lie, even I fear a couple of them.) So I frequently forget the bullshit I had to do to get something weird running on a random Pi.

I’ll let you know… If it finishes.

Uhhh…well. that’s…um. sure. Someone could do that.

Yeah!

Wow. That’s going to make my SteamDeck way more fun.

Ironically, I had this issue a lot more often with my official licensed SteamDock than with a random USB C to HDMI adapter I dug out of storage.

I appreciate what BeeHaw brings to the wider community, and particularly appreciate the reminder of the values that power that.

Thank you.

Win10 x64 but considering switching that as well btw

Your don’t have to say that, but it’s appreciated!

Blink twice if the cult of Debian has you locked in a rehabilitation retreat center…

Source: I’m a die hard Debian user and I think we should advertise more, but I’m afraid some of my ideas might have gotten away from me…

Yeah. My journey was similar. I appreciate the philosophy behind Slackware, but I don’t feel like I have the kind of spare time I feel like I would need to run my systems that way.

The real data point here is that Skackware users are happy.

I suspect it’s because they’ve mastered the art of not giving a fuck.

I feel like I’m getting pretty radicalized recently, ugh.

Joking aside, this place is actually pretty central, politically. It’s the rest of the world that went on a capitalist assholes spree.

(Edit: and honestly, I suspect we will learn there’s a lot of billionaire-funded bots making us feel like the world’s opinions changed.)

“Let’s just accept each other’s pronouns while holding billionaires accountable for their actions” shouldn’t be considered radical ideas, at all.

And yeah, fuck all of these investors. They’re effectively suing the real workers who were left holding the bag after the investors “line go up forever” bullshit came to roost.

Yeah. And even the corporations aren’t benefiting. The best Pirates crack that stuff quickly, and the rest of us (not me, obviously, I’m no pirate) just leach off the best Pirates. People trying to give them money are hurt.

Yeah. It’s a legitimate business, where the funders at the top of the pyramid are paid by those that join at the bottom!

Yes. Yes it does.

Look for job listings that require command line Linux skill.

The candidate pool who can get around on a Linux command prompt is growing, but it’s still pretty small. It gives you some advantage toward networking, Cybersecurity, systems administration, and cloud deployment.

Misleading title.

If my thing was public in the past, and I took it private, the old public code is still public.

That’s… How the Internet works anyway.

Edit: See Eager Eagle’s better explanation below.

TL;DR - be careful who you allow to fork your private repos. And if you need to take a public repo, which has forks, private, consider archiving the repo and doing all the new work in a new repo. Which is arguably the reasonable thing to do anyway.

Still a misleading title. This isn’t a way to break into all or even most of your private repositories.

Let’s see how he union negotiations go.

They have plenty of leverage. WoW runs on centralized servers which cannot maintain themselves, and are likely still under constant forms of Cyberattack, waiting for a serious vulnerability.