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I'm using my steam deck right now as a gaming PC while moving across America.
It works really well. I got a dock from Amazon that gives me the ports to plug in my gaming mouse and keyboard. I can do HDMI out to the hotel TV or, better yet, lead out one USB-c cord to a fantastic portable monitor.
I only ran into two minor issues. The first is getting enough juice to the steam deck and heat. Both can be easily solved with a good fast charging station and better air flow (I use this tiny hyper fan and have had zero issues in 90 degree Florida winter weather).
Of note, I dual boot with Windows 11. It's a bloated mess of an operating system, but I want to use certain mods and programs that windows only. Plus, I'm not tied down to only steam games. The addition of being able to run nearly everything that's Windows compatible takes the deck up a level, I feel.
The best way to get the most out of the Windows environment is to run a debloater admin tool, which removes unnecessary programs on Windows 10+ systems. The difference between the performance is shocking, making it pretty much required for usage. It's not too hard to use, too.
The best part of it all is that you still have a stream deck at the end of the day. You don't have to do any hardware mods. You can pick the deck up and walk out of the house and still have the gaming PC with you.
Everyone should be using the Facebook addon "Facebook Purity" if they are still using the platform. I've been using it for over a decade and I can't stand using Facebook without it…
They are always a few steps ahead of Facebook and work well with other blockers.
Not only that, you can block specific parts of Facebook, not just the adverts. You can block the shorts, people you know, groups, keywords, and even whole topics.
You can change settings, like how you see your feed and it will stay changed.
Changing the font size, type, spacing in addition a bunch of color and night mode options are just icing on the cake.
In my professional opinion, it's the only way of working with that platform is not harmful to one's sanity.
The only thing that's stopping me from swapping fully to Firefox is finding a good password manager that will keep the passwords up-to-date between several machines.
Double points if it will let me import the passes from chrome.
You're VERY wrong.
There is difference between the two as they are two completely seperate things.
I am a disability advocate, and I took many courses in college on this subject while getting my doctorate.
Drug dependence is typically defined as what causes tolerance and withdrawal. The physical effects of the need of medicine. Everything from diabetes meds, like insulin, to blood pressure medicine, to even cold medicine could be in that category.
It's why a person shouldn't use nose spray but for 2–3 days as you become dependent on it, causing you to need to consume it to be able to breathe out of your nose. (FYI: It's a VERY bad idea to become dependent on nose spray as it SUCKS for a few days getting off of it.)
Addiction is a mental component. It is a neurological state of being. Some things are more addictive than others, with things that change the neurological state being more addictive than those that don't.
For example, sex, roller coasters, and YouTube shorts can affect your brain chemistry in the same way that METH can!
TL;DR - Addiction is a neurological condition, while dependence is when a body depends on a substance medicinally.
The number of people who suffer horrifically because of the misconceptions of addiction VS dependence is sickening.
We NEED to remove this stigma of taking proper medication to increase the quality of life of the disabled.
Pain medication IS medicine!
There is no point in suffering.
Just because you are dependent on a medicine, does not mean you are an addict.
Those are the only times when it's appropriate to insert a 3 1/2 inch floppy.
I'd never go back to Reddit again if the several game projects I beta test for in my spare time would migrate over to lemmy.
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Jordan, the YouTuber, is a really great follow.
https://www.youtube.com/@jordan_the_stallion8
He's the president of the "fast food secrets club" and has taught the world a lot about everything secret in fast food recipes.
His non food content is great too.
I'd be very interested in your theory.
I thought it had something to do with the distance to the server or ping timeout, but that is more of a guess.
I've not experienced that problem again despite working as a network engineer for 20 years
I have been using WUB, and some other extremely helpful tools that this company makes, for a few years at this point.
The part that I LOVE about WUB is how complete and exhaustive the shut-off is for the ease of use.
There's no editing files, no editing anything, just download and press a button to turn on update blocking (while protecting the services that could mess up by blocking). Press another button to unblock everything as good as a fresh install.
It's as if it was never blocked when updates are toggled on, and it's as if Windows update is completely removed with the blocking is toggled on.
My alts are always on my same name. It helps me not have to remember, but it helps me to compartmentalize.
I have one over on lemmy.world that I made when RiF went down and it pointed to that instance. 'Reddit is Fun' was my trusted app of choice for so long that I figured that I'd go with their recommendation.
That mindset was apparently shared with a lot of people, and lemmy.world became overcrowded and unusable every other day for a while due to traffic. That's when I read that one should get registered at a closer and/or smaller instance in order to have better service.
That's when I moved over to SDF's shockingly fast lemmy instance.
I'd love to see smaller game devs have a federated presence with their content.
Right now, I only use Reddit to keep up with game devs who only post game content and updates on their own subreddit.
Microsoft PowerToys is a fantastic program if you like to tweak your experience with Windows.
It lets you do things like set up individual zones within your monitor that act like picture in picture or another monitor. It has a robust color picker, which helps greatly when it comes to photoshop and template creation. I also use the text extractor very often to extract text from pictures, which it copies to the clipboard.
The best, and technically the worst, is it lets you change settings that you can't normally do in Windows.
While it could get someone YOLO adminning in trouble, thankfully it has a lot of warnings before you mess things up too badly.
Those are the features I use, but there are too many useful features to name in one go.
WUB or Windows Update Blocker.
It's one of the first things I put on a new after the initial Windows update.
It safely turns and completely turns off Windows updating and the services involved with updates.
It's practically a necessity if you use a metered or paid internet connection, or connect your laptop to a cell phone for an internet connection via a hotspot.
Windows doesn't listen to its own settings about metered connections and if it deems something worthy of killing your data plan for the month, it'll do so without your knowledge.
The best part is that when you're ready to download critical updates or something from the Windows store (Whatsapp, Minecraft, Power Tools, etc.) then it's as simple as a button press to reactivate updates without restart.
The longform video format is highly underrated.
Some days I want to watch a 20 hour retrospective on Skyrim.
Other days I want to enjoy 20 hours of an AI voice recapping a Korean manhwa about the world's most powerful necromancer from another world that's like a video game...
YouTube shorts also have their place for micro hits of dopamine.
So long as it makes us happy, it can't be that bad?
Random computer quirks always fascinate me. The strangest one I had involved a computer that shouldn't have existed.
One time in the early aughts I had a patchwork computer that I put together from the junk pile of a local computer store that a buddy of mine ran.
It was barely holding together in a rusty frame, with zip ties and wood glue.
Its modem was temperamental as hell. It would only stay online so long as it was pinging a website via command prompt. It was only some websites, too. Like I could ping Geocities, but not livejournel.
I remember many weekends doing Mephisto runs in Diablo II, praying that my command prompt doesn't bug out anytime I'd get anything worthwhile.
Everyone should be using the Facebook addon "Facebook Purity" if they are still using the platform. I've been using it for over a decade and I can't stand using Facebook without it…
Not only does it work better than most adblocks, but you can completely move, remove, and restyle features.
It's the only way of working with that platform is not harmful to one's sanity.
It's too bad it's not the US mint. It might help inflation.
'Hypnotically Caucasian' sounds like a phrase that a hyper nationalist Ásatrú would use unironically.
All cryptocurrency isn't stiricrly based off of magic and mysterious bitcoin code.
Even if there was code that made the coin erase itself, it would have been found and fixed (or abandoned for a new and better blockchain coin a'la Ethereum or Monero).