The matte screen is enticing especially with stylus support but it’s too big for what I’d use a tablet for. The pixel tablet I already have is too big, honestly.

Can they fix all the things that they promised that don’t work for the current gen? Like swapping accounts based on voice commands or fingerprints etc?

It is to some degree. Lots of other new cars have lane keeping assist and automatic braking, BLIS, adaptive cruise control etc, and so on with more capable sensors and can for the most part drive without input from the driver better than the Tesla models with ultrasonic sensors or simply cameras. In fact the ones that rely solely on cameras absolutely do reportedly perform worse in testing. Musk was insistent that they could cheap out on the types of sensors used in order to make more profit and it shows. I don’t think it’s that tech cannot handle self driving currently. I think that it’s a numbers game where the firms attempting it want to do it as cheaply as possible while promising the moon and stars which they can’t deliver on a cheap budget. Vehicles like Ford’s (Blue Cruise) use all kinds of sensors including radar and GPS to allow for handsfree (not self driving) and it does work. The proofs of concept are out there in the world, but the costs to go from something like that to full self driving just doesn’t make it feasible for the average car manufacturer.

Yes. Additionally, videos I watch at work do the same thing without the pihole.

How much of the traffic increase is bots. Because we still don’t have those numbers and I still don’t believe this is anything but bot influx and reddit grifting using ads.

I was able to add techdirt to Feedly too.

I use Bazzite and with the exception of like 4 games (windows only) it works beautifully for gaming. Gaming on Linux is getting better every day and even if you don’t use steam, I think it might be worthwhile to give it a try.

I’m curious how this will affect things like sub-a-thons where people stream for charity and so on.

I am using a pihole and I still have this problem. I’m logged in. I’m seeing videos I watched last week or two months ago. Or yesterday. They are being resuggested and do not show as watched if I go to that channel’s page. It’s infuriating.

Probably not actually, especially in the long term. Crowns and veneers can lead to lots of other dental problems and the thing is, the dog doesn’t have human speech to let handlers know it’s in pain or having a problem right away so if they have a rotting tooth or a cracked one under the cap all kinds of things can go wrong.

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Same for me.

What the fuck. How is this not animal cruelty?

A very good point. Thank you.

They rolled out the fix and then realized it interferes with other popular cosmetics and rolled it back. Will they try again?

https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/statutes/federal-cigarette-labeling-advertising-act

The problem is enforcement rather than legality.

Buying isn’t owning from literally any game company. When you buy digital you own a license to play that game. The license can be revoked at any time.

When you buy a physical game you still only buy a license to play that game, and the license can be revoked at any time. The only difference here is you own the physical disk that media is on, and it’s harder (not impossible) for the owner of that media (the one who sells the license) to revoke the license to that media.

I appreciate that people are pissed about this but it was a thing before digital media took off and the only difference between a steam game and a game from Epic is the inclusion (on Epic) of an offline installer store that allows you to install the game without connecting to the internet.

It’s the same license.

I’m also going to add the PlayStation, Xbox, and even Nintendo have removed titles from people’s libraries when their agreement to license the media to the users lapsed or were removed. So it’s not just Valve.

Yeah and there’s the rub. If other handhelds only come in the steam OS variant people who come in looking for or expecting a Windows variant are still less likely to pick up the steam OS variant. On the other hand, I don’t know that this is true going the other way. People who want to steam OS variant will more be more likely to buy the Windows variant and flash it to what they want because that’s sort of the nature of a lot of Linux users in general.

Kind of wish there was an IA community. I would join that.

I feel like the fact that steam OS wasn’t ready for prime time played a significant part but, still, it doesn’t speak to wanting one or the other OS and not having it readily available. Amazon and other online only retailers would be able to carry stock in both. But brick and mortar stores (even with their online component) don’t always have that option. Converting people to proton/steam is from windows is an ongoing struggle.

To be fair I have invested in a lot of their “niche gimmicks that will never take off”. I’ve owned the steam link and the OG steam controller (my dad still uses that controller to game, he really likes it). I love the steam deck but none of the handhelds have the right ergonomics for my little hands except the Switch, and so I use mine docked. But even then it’s a game changer not needing a huge gaming rig to play games.