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I just got my steam deck a month or so ago during the summer sale but I think it’d be an instant upgrade for me.

I love the thing and anything it improves on I’d want. Even better if they make the upgrade/migration seemless so I can just “clone” my existing deck to the new one.

The state AGs are slow on complaints but next time reach for the CFPB, they don’t mess around and you’ll get a call from a human (from Amazon) in a short amount of time.

I spent hours on hold with a company (not Amazon) and they kept giving me the run around. After filing a complaint I got a call back in less than 2 days by someone who immediately fixed the issue.

I mean it makes sense, the Pro 2’s JUST released a little while ago and some people will want to go full USB-C as soon as the iPhone does. In fact I’m a little impressed with Apple, we will see if the Keyboard and Mouse follow suit.

Paprika doesn’t have an official API, like a public one, but they do have a very simple API that you can backwards engineer if you want to integrate with it, which is nice as well.

I left out an important word “left”, as in I get 25-30min into a run and it crashes. I’ll try performance mode!

I sent in logs of my crash to the devs back when it happened.

An actual release and not a shovelware shitty MMO. Look at the release cadence:

• Arena 1994
• Daggerfall 1996 (2 years)
• Morrowind 2002 (6 years)
• Oblivion 2006 (4 years)
• Skyrim 2011 (5 years)
• ???? (12+ years)

Does anyone else have Halls of Tournament regularly crash on their steam deck normally when they’ve got about five minutes or less in a run? It’s like 30-50% of the time for me.

I love the game but the crashing (and loss of progress) sucks. I need to pick up Vampire Survivors since I know it’s similar and look fun.

Manually swapping? Yeah, no thanks. My RoboRock is pretty freaking awesome.

I’ve got nothing against SSR, never have, but CSR or even better SSR+CSR side steps a metric shit ton of issues. I’ve written untold lines of code to render something out in PHP then needed to add jQuery logic to the frontend for UX/UI reasons and then I’ve had to duplicate UI generation in JS/jQuery to match what PHP spits back (think: add a new row to an interface after an Ajax call finishes). It’s hell, you have to keep the two in sync and it’s a bug minefield.

Compare that to CSR where all the DOM is generated though a single codepath. Now take CSR to the next level with SSR+CSR and you’ve got a winning combo. Fast initial render and SEO gains (if you even need that) and only 1 DOM generation pathway.

People want to sound all smug “Oh, back to SSR are we?”, “Uh yeah, we had to CSR first to get to SSR+CSR which is VASTLY superior to SSR alone”.

Tech is circular in that way. See also mainframes, to personal computers, to cloud or any other similar cycle.

I couldn’t agree more, so many people waste their time thinking about things instead of instead trusting how they feel about things. That’s why my favorite word is truthiness.

God I miss Colbert.

As if we needed another sign that ZDnet was trash…

I fucking hate these obviously bullshit articles. “Gen Z is using feature phones”, “Gen Z are using paper maps”, “Gen Z is doing XYZ”.

No, they aren’t. At best some sad excuse for a journalist found a handful of tweets and wrote a whole article on it like it’s a “trend”.

Look, I know “journalists” are being squeezed to produce at an unreasonable rate but if you write drivel like this then you have no business calling yourself a journalist, hell I don’t even think you can call yourself a “writer” or “contributor” either. It barely passes as writing and you are contributing nothing to society.

Instead of throwing the NAND away, which increases electronic waste, the factories recycle them into cheaper products or sell them to local companies, giving rise to obscure SSD brands on the Chinese market.

Ah yes, I’m sure electronic waste is their top concern /s

Reprocessing components for lower-tier products or new products is a regular practice in the hardware world. Companies are always looking to maximize profits.

Ok, at least we touch on the real real eventually (at the very end of the article but fine).

“No RICO, no RICO, you’re the RICO”

• MTG, probably

Twitter developers fall into 1 of 3 categories:

1. H1B Visa holders who are stuck
2. Incompetent devs who can’t find another job
3. True believers (you know, morons)

3.1 gen 1 and gen 2 was when they really jumped the shark.

Within the past few years Apple released a new API to access photos. In the past a developer could ask for full access and you could give it full access OR you could select a few images to give it access to. In both cases the photos you give access to can be read from the app.

The new API allows the app to ask you for a photo without needing to first request permissions. The photo picker that pops up is NOT controlled by the app and it doesn’t have access to it. The app ONLY gets back the image you pick (if you pick one).

A lot of apps that want you to provide a photo only care about that 1 photo and have no desire to have full access to your photos so this new API is great addition and it avoids annoying permission dialogs. There are, of course, legit reasons to want full access but now users have finer grained controls on what they share with apps as full access can revel a LOT of private data about you.

Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/2023.08.18-201148/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/trump-debate-tucker-carlson.html

A “wretched hive of scum and villainy” if you will.

And then, because they can’t help themselves, they came out with 6E. Honestly I think all standards bodies (USB, HDMI, WiFi) just love making stupid sub-versions that make things even more confusing.

Calm down, it’s coming right after infrastructure week!