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Stealing from walmart also isn't sustainable if many people are doing it. For example there were a ton of walmarts and other stores in the Chicago area that recently closed due to high theft at those locations. Now whole communities there are left without convenient shopping options, which can be a big problem for people with limited transportation options.

Some HOAs are better than others.

Some people prefer CRTs for gaming, there's much less input lag, and differences in the way images are displayed means that you can often run games at lower resolutions than pixel based displays without as much of a decrease in image quality. Here's a DF video talking about some of the advantages.

Also CRTs can be pushed to insanely high frame rates, although this can be limited by how much you reduce the resolution. For example, one guy got his to run at 700hz refresh rate (by dropping resolution to 120p).

Valve is doing a decent job of replacing plugins with stock functionality. Progress is a bit slower there than I would like, but many of my decky plugins have been partially or fully replaced.

Some replaced plugins off the top of my head

• Animation changer (although I still recommend the plugin for easier downloads of community boot videos)
• Vibrant deck
• Decky Recorder
• Bluetooth (let you quickly reconnect to BT devices, but the QAM menu now lists BT devices directly)
• Controller tools (let you see controller battery levels, which is now in QAM)
• That plugin for managing what BLE devices would wake the deck

and probably some more I'm probably forgetting.

I know several privacy focused apps use it for syncing data between multiple clients. For example Google Chrome syncs user data to your Google account, but Brave browser syncs user data using block chain.

I don't know if it's actually the best way to do that, but it's an option.

"A man chooses! A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan, BioShock

In general a lot of Andrew Ryan quotes are captivating, but that one transcends thanks to both the events happening, and the realization of the plot reveal.

I swapped to an OLED deck about a year ago, but I didn't notice any battery degradation on either my original LCD deck or my new OLED deck.

The OLED deck battery is a major improvement over the LCD in highly demanding games. Games like Baldur's Gate and Cyberpunk went from 1.5 hour battery life to 2.5 hours, which is very noticable.

Sweet, well deserved in my opinion.

I wish Sony would just back off. It's clear that they're willing to drag their studios through mud to push PSN and other stupid requirements, and I hope any new studios they try to acquire will be paying attention to that.

Ive actually considered posting about this before, there's been several leaks leading up to this suggesting that two new controllers were in development. Basically there are some people who closely monitor files uploaded to steam, and sometimes assets and files are visible publicly for a short time. The guy who's a source on this has accurately leaked stuff before, and it's my belief we can trust him on this.

I doubt they'll come as hall effect sticks, but hopefully they'll have the same drop in design that the steam deck does, for easy replacement and upgrades.

I started working this job after Obama had already been in office one term, so I was mainly comparing the final 4 years. I'm really glad I was still in college for the first term when the economy was really rough.

Covid did have an undeniable effect on the economy at the start of Biden's term, and I don't consider that his fault or anything. It does feel like we generally haven't really recovered from it though, gas prices finally came back down but everything else is crazy expensive still. For example, I do electrical work, and a 250' roll of 12/2 wire went from $35 in 2019 to $140 today.

Probably unpopular answer, but it's not some clear cut "this political party has better policies for everyone". Republican policies usually are better for people living in rural areas, and Democratic policies are usually better for people in cities. I'm sure people will debate this, but this is the reason why people typically vote depending on where they live. At the very least, they believe that their party has better policies for them and their way of life.

My personal (anecdotal evidence) is that I work for a small business in a rural area, and our main customers are other small business owners (usually self employed or under 5 employees). Over the last 3 presidents, the Obama years were rough for our company, we had explosive growth during the Trump years, and then we've had stagnant growth over the past 4 years. Our largest competitor went out of business this past year, which sent us a lot of new customers, but we've also had a lot of our customers go out of business as well, so we've been pretty stagnant. Being stagnant isn't terrible, we don't have shareholders or anything, but the cost of living has increased and company profit/wages haven't which is a problem. That said I know we're doing pretty well compared to a lot of people here.

Another (once again anecdotal) example is that I have a friend who paints murals full time, for the past 30ish years. He told me that he does well with either Republicans or Democrats in office, but that his customers change. During republican presidents, his customer base is usually local businesses wanting to decorate their stores. During democratic presidents, his customer base is usually towns, state buildings, schools, etc.

But anyways, I'd be very interested to hear from some people living in cities if there's a visible uptick in income/etc when we have a democratic president, or in general what your personal observations are on how which president affects your local businesses/income/prices/etc.

They probably don't mind repost bots. Reposted content is still content, and can be used to attract new users. And the repost bots specifically target popular content, meaning their reposts often do really well.

I recently saw a reddit thread that was a repost, and every comment was a bot reposting the comments from the last time it was posted. And in the middle of that, there was like a single human commenting on it, not realizing he was intruding on a karma farming circle jerk filled with bots.

I'll try embedding the image, if it's too compressed to read I can upload it somewhere else:

That's horrendous.

I think so, but it's been awhile, so I'll try it again.

Honestly, it sounds like you've been spending too much time in some online communities that are doom posting about everything. Do things suck right now? Yes, but they've literally sucked for as long as human society has existed. Things can always be better, or always be worse. However you can't just sit around passively waiting for the times to change, or your life will suck.

The single biggest factor in whether your life is good or not is you and your actions. Don't let things outside of your control convince you to give up. Do the best with what you have, and I promise you that you can find fulfillment and happiness in the life available to you.

I think there's a good chance that we'll see an official sale on Steam Decks for black friday. If you're wanting a good deal on one, I would consider looking at the discontinued LCD models during the next sale.

A bank I used for a mortgage has mandatory text message 2fa if they think you're on a new device (won't allow google auth/etc). And web browsers like firefox/brave block enough cookies/etc that it requires the "new device" authentication everytime I log in.

Problem is, for a couple months there was some delay with their text messages. It would take 10-20 minutes to send your 2fa code, and the code would expire after 5 min, meaning that by the time you got the code it was always expired and unusable.

Made it completely impossible to log in to pay my mortgage payments. Led to some really frustrating talks on the phone about how I didn't want to pay with a credit card over the phone, I wanted them to fix their damn system so I could log in and pay via bank transfer like usual.