bassomitron @ bassomitron @lemmy.world

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In my other comment, I mentioned a Radio Lab episode that discussed it. The main problem is like you say, they take people off the street and offer little to no training. Additionally, they don't offer any mental health resources for their employees. Their pay is also pretty awful. The turnover is extremely high for these and many other reasons.

I hope they win their lawsuit. I listened to a Radio lab episode a few years ago about FB moderators. The shit they have to see day in and day out sound absolutely horrible. Pics and videos of extreme violence and child pornography sounds like it'd give any normal person some major trauma.

Discord has individual volume adjustor per person in chat. With my friends turning me up and me turning my mic volume setting in Windows all the way up, I'm able to talk quietly enough in the next room without bothering my wife if she's sleeping. We also have a white noise sound machine we run at nigh in our bedroom, so I'm sure that helps. White noise is probably your best bet if you're in a smaller living area.

That's super messed. Hope he eventually helped someone who happened to be screen recording and reported him for rating himself without permission.

Because, unfortunately, millions of people still use it. If you're selling a product, it's in your best interest to have as much social media presence as possible.

Also, it's better to have an official presence on those platforms so others can't impersonate you as easily.

That's the circlejerk effect for ya. It's also hard to discern people's tone online, so some people may interpret a genuine question as something insincere. Not like it really matters though, points aren't worth anything haha

Anyway, I wouldn't be so sure he'd fold and backtrack on unpopular policy. He rarely did during his first term, and there were many very unpopular things he did.

Personally, I'm of the view that if Trump is implementing any economic policies like this, it's going to be making him money directly and/or indirectly. So if that's his ulterior motive in this context, he won't care how unpopular it is until he extracts whatever amount of money he wanted out of it. Then, once he or his allies have made their money, they'll roll back the policy and play it off like he had a change of heart and his bullshit PR outlets will spin it as him having some grand plan all along...

Yes, tariffs are much easier for him to implement than building 1000+ miles of wall.

Childhood trauma is the typical root cause 99% of the time.

Source: My wife is a therapist specializing in treating traumatized children.

This law is disgusting and a 10-year-old's brain is barely developed. Putting the same degree of responsibility on them as an adult is abhorrent.

I know it's on the "other" site, but this post from a few months ago has several people saying they got it working quite nicely: https://www.reddit.com/r/cavesofqud/comments/1dcqyym/regarding_qud_on_the_steam_deck/

I don't think anyone believes that anymore besides the MAGA cultists.

The US really set the Iranian people up for failure by playing a key role in the 1953 coup that overthrew Mohammad Mosaddeq. Just imagine how different things there would be today. But nope, CIA had to fuck around and heavily contribute to screwing over an entire population for generations.

Edit: I shouldn't have forgotten Britain's SIS role, either. It was their oil industry that Mohammad was campaigning to nationalize, after all.

I mean, it could be worse? That's definitely pretty obnoxious, though.

Agreed. And I'm not religious, either. I'm not rigidly atheist, but I am highly skeptical of some omniscient, omnipotent being playing some divine version of RimWorld.

Damnit, now I feel like playing some RimWorld...

Does the Bible actually say it's forever? I thought I've read a discussion before where it's implied that one can still repent and be redeemed in the afterlife. I'm not a theologian or an expert in the least bit, so I may be misremembering or it could've just been someone from one of the various more modern, progressive religious sects.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy that the vast majority of crypto's use is from large organizations, corporations, and/or nation states getting around regulations and/or sanctions. Not at all surprising, just crazy.

That's the first description on the website. It says it's a cloud native Linux image that comes pre-installed with all the apps for gaming, e.g. Steam, Lutris, etc. I was asking a question as to why it's better than SteamOS, as when I see cloud native I just assume it's something designed for and around streaming. I may be misunderstanding its purpose, but that's the impression I get from the site.

Ahhh, I misunderstood your earlier comment, my bad. Yeah, if I had a windows handheld, setting it up to boot straight into Steam Big Picture would be a no-brainer for me, just as a minor QOL thing.

As for your other point, I don't remember them saying that, but that's pretty crappy they fell through on delivering on that promise. I'm just hoping as SteamOS/Linux gaming continues growing in popularity that developers just start putting more effort into native support.

What makes Bazzite so much better to use on a Deck versus SteamOS? It doesn't seem any different than just using Remote Play/Moonlight/whatever and streaming from your main gaming rig?

I 100% agree with you on your first 2 paragraphs. I really love my Deck, but God damn is it annoying getting things like Battle.net, GOG, and/or Epic games working inside of it in Game Mode sometimes.

Apps like NonSteamLaunchers or Heroic help a lot, but they don't always work smoothly. Like I had the itch to try out WoW again this week after not playing for numerous years (I'd heard War Within was really good). Getting battle.net installed and working within Game Mode was a major pain in the ass. I'd done it a few months ago for Diablo 4 without much headache, but somehow when I tried launching BNet last night, it wouldn't. NonSteamLauncher's BNet integrator also wasn't working for whatever reason. So I had to do a few workarounds before I got one that worked.

It's scenarios like that where I truly wish Valve would try harder to work with companies like Epic or Blizzard to get better native integration. I know Epic is a competitor, but really it'd be beneficial for both companies to have good integration between each other. I'm much more inclined to buy games on Epic if I can easily play them on my Deck, and I'm more lore inclined to stay within Steam's ecosystem if I'm not constantly encountering these annoying obstacles. It will likely never happen, but I can dream

As for your last paragraph, are you referring to wiping your Deck and just installing Windows? I've been hesitant to do that due to how often I use the sleep mode function in games. I've tried using sleep mode on my desktop PC like that when I can't save a game and I need to stop to do other stuff, and it's really hit or miss if a game will resume without issue after waking. Have you had any problems? Also, how is your battery life impacted? The Deck has crazy good battery life, and I attribute a lot of that to how efficient the underlying OS is with power management, but maybe I'm wrong. Also, do you have issues with drivers? The APU on the Deck is a custom AMD chipset, but have people ported the drivers for it over to Windows now?

It doesn't consider them separately, the article I linked specifically mentions that the GaAs wafers would be impacted and presents a bigger impact. That doesn't take away the core point that China is the main producer because it's not that profitable. Other countries, including the US, can easily step in and begin refining Ga and Ge as necessary.