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I predict that the Steam Machine base model will cost $799.

I have 0 data to back this up, nor any inside information.

I'd love to be wrong and it be cheaper, but if it's more expensive, a modular ATX PC makes more sense, and people already run SteamOS that way.

Well, I guess if nobody is going to make consumer PC parts anymore, they'll be able to charge as much as they want.

i'm going to argue that chronically online and chronically on phone are two different things actually. the phone internet is different from the real internet and companies are trying desperately to make the real internet more like the phone internet... and they're sadly succeeding. hope this makes sense and if it doesn't oh well

All I'm saying is that I'd be a little bit more supportive of the development of hard AI if all the people funding it weren't doing so with the goal of creating a new type of slavery.

If you need a quick GUI only way to watch a media file sitting on your Linux machine on your phone over your local network, just enable media sharing (upnp/dlna) on your PC, open VLC on your phone and look for your machine under Local Network.

Yes, there are many other ways to accomplish this task, but you shouldn't even need to open your terminal for this one.

i think windows users get a very skewed idea of the quote unquote "difficulty" of using linux based on the fact that many linux users are people who like doing stuff with their computer. there are plenty of solutions out there for people who just want to install an OS and get on with their day and just browse the web or whatever. you can tinker if you like and there are equally as many solutions for people who like to control every part of their OS but that's a hobby, not a requirement for using linux lol

pspspspspspsps linux users please tell me your favorite low-effort linux distros appropriate for a windows user

If you're using Linux and have a cell phone but haven't heard of KDE Connect, you should check it out.

If you're using Gnome as your desktop, the shell extension is called gsconnect.

It allows you to use your phone as a mouse and keyboard, send files, and more over your LAN.

I'm posting this only because I'm down a mouse and didn't want to go out just now. It looks like there's beta Bluetooth support now, too.

So, I'm on a lot of game developer subreddits. The dev of this mermaid cannibalism/corporate management horror game asked for advice on how to get people to click through and play this. People universally started clutching their pearls about "oh no??? cannibalism??? a horror game where you play as the bad guy???"

.... And, uh, I can't speak to the quality of this game, but I told the dev it'd do numbers on Tumblr. Wanna help prove me right?

There are gonna be people who won't like hearing this but if you want to live in a world where mixed marriages, families, and adoptions (particularly POC adopting outside their "race") aren't maligned and discriminated against, then you have got to get more chill about seeing someone partaking in something cultural that you don't think fits the "race" you perceive them as.

It's a vague memory now, it was a vague memory even at the time I made this post, but I think what sparked this was remembering stupid comments I saw about a Chinese-American cookbook that were complaining about it being written by a white woman and then I looked the white woman up and the briefest research showed she was adopted as a child into a Chinese-American family and just....

*pinches nose*

Fellas, is it cultural appropriation to inherit your family's culture but you don't pass the blood quantum test?

All of you are literally just racist. You've come full-circle. You're working under the belief that people are supposed to "keep to their own kind" and that means the socially invented concept of "race", and "race mixing" of any sort is unnatural.

Race is a cultural concept, like gender.

Sometimes I forget how much progress Linux has made in the past 15 years.

If you buy hardware that either lists Linux support or utilises open standards, the days of fiddling with needing to manually edit configuration files just to get things functioning are mostly gone.

Getting people to blame software vendors for lack of support instead of Linux is probably impossible, but that's not really a technical issue with Linux.

And really, if your job needs specific tools, just use them. Using the right tool for the job seems pretty obvious, but what do I know.

Ive been dreaming about switching to Linux... I should do that on my next probably laptop purchase.

If you're scared, do it the other way around.

Once you've fully migrated to expensive new hardware, the perceived risk in experimentation is eliminated. If it works, you reduce a bit of e-waste and have another usable machine. If it fails, you lose nothing, including downtime on other tasks.

You can always change your mind once you're comfortable.

It's hilarious to me that those most insistent on a gender binary immediately start turning it into a spectrum again by adding labels like "alpha" or "beta."

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