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Sometimes it is heavily marked up, but I'll never be able to get it cheaper than Valve in bulk.
To be honest you dont really need high speed or high quality SSD on Steam Deck. Almost 100% of games work just fine from good MicroSD card. Its obviously less reliable, but with read only OS with only occasional writes it will work just fine for decade.
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I hit it accidentally all the time. Any time I have to temporarily one-hand it with my right hand. The sides are rounded and smooth and there are buttons on the back and top of the side. The power button is very sensitive as well and doesn't require a hard press; it responds instantly.
Are we talking about the right button? https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0253/3664/3635/files/641_e... You would have to go out of your way to grip it in a way you could press it. You don't need to move your hand to lift it, it's controller shape after all. Or you can grip it along the bottom edge. And even gripping the top edge I just can't find a way you could accidentally hit it. It's flush. The only time I've acc…
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>The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech Really? Most people I know seem to have found the chatbots tremendously helpful. It's much faster than researching via a bunch of google searches.
Google search is worse because of recent AI tech flooding the internet with misinformation and low quality articles.
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They were a fairly common occurrence in the late 90s. I worked at an OEM at the time and we would stockpile it during gluts for that reason, then make a killing ~6-9 months later.
What should we be doing now if we want to profit?
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>The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech Really? Most people I know seem to have found the chatbots tremendously helpful. It's much faster than researching via a bunch of google searches.
My salary hasn't been increased to pay for this extra helpfullness.
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One pro of the LCDs is that I'm moderately sure they don't flicker (PWM) as (bad) as the OLED ones would. Source: 99% of oleds cause terrible eye strain. Flicker affects people even when they don't realise it (studied for office workers during the CFL era iirc.)
I'm someone who's fairly sensitive to PWM. Have tried and returned iPhones, Pixels, and similar. Steam's OLED doesn't bother me. I think it's the same screen as the Switch OLED which also doesn't bother me. Wish Apple and Google would buy from that supplier. But in general you're correct. When given a choice, I'll generally buy IPS when I can.
Apple and Google could do something about it if they wanted, even without changing supplier. They clearly don't think it's worth it. That's not surprising coming from Google but I admit I am surprised that Apple has no driver option to reduce flicker.
Most Chinese phone makers nowadays offer settings to reduce OLED flicker greatly, usually at the cost of color accuracy and/or a locked framerate.
jeez Steam Deck feels like one of the most disappointing pieces of hardware I have purchased. Def not worth at that price. My main problem with it is that it doesn't have a simple clickable on/off switch, and takes FOREVER to turn on holy shit it's awful and feels unusable almost every time I try to use it I have to leave it on sleep because otherwise it will never turn back on, and it brings me so much ire to intera…
Startup is the one thing that Arch Linux doesn't let you tweak, so I'm not surprised that they didn't manage to get a very fast startup time, which necessitates suspending instead of powering on and off. I installed Artix Linux on my desktop computer, which is basically a branch of Arch Linux but with support for more initialization services, and it starts up a lot faster than my steam deck.
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Thats one hell of a leap you got there. Things have gotten more expensive before. It won't be the last
Have things gotten this much more expensive at the same time that massive datacenters are harmonically distorting power delivery [0] to the point that it degrades the lifetime of your existing devices? The AI datacenters are making things more expensive and at the same time destroying existing electronics. All this is happening at the same time that the major OS vendors are locking down their operating systems and cr…
Brown-outs are arguably more dangerous to your electronics, and those are more common now with more frequent heat waves during the summer, stressing the electric grid and triggering public safety shutoffs on the US west coast.
I also think the concerns in the article are overblown. I grew up in the mountains where the electric grid was notoriously poor quality, especially when buildings would fail over to (often poor-quality) generators. It would make computer monitors misbehave, but rarely did it actually damage anything.
Yes demand is increasing, but I also think something is going on with many currencies. People do not want to hold them.
Additionally USD has really been falling globally.
https://wise.com/us/currency-converter/usd-to-all-rate/chart
~120 --> ~80 high to low past ~4 yrs. a loss of 30%