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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Oh one further side note, gatebox didn’t go under, nor did the service fully discontinue. It just lost the license for Hatsune Miku. So in short it’s only unhappy for the sort of people that actually go all in to the mindset. (IE the guy could go to one that says and does all of the same things as his old one did, but not with the same face and voice, and probably could have avoided the problem if he started with something that was property of gatebox, and not licensed from a game).




  • Right though that’s my point.

    Minimum specs etc… is something PC gamers are more than used to… but also why there’s a large console market that doesn’t game on PCs.

    My fear is bad acting OEMs… playing on user ignorance to assume automatically that the steamOS logo means it can run most games, and shipping out hardware that utterly fails at that use purpose, and as uneducated consumers may think the “runs steamOS”, logo could be some form of endorsement from valve to imply it in fact is suitable for gaming.


  • I’m not even talking linux incompatibility… but lets just say they use a super underpowered graphics card. or very little ram, or hard drives too small to install most games on etc…

    Fact is manufacturers have made comperably stupid decisions. I’ve seen a lot of laptops for sale with windows 10, and 32 GB hard drives that can’t even be updated simply because even with nothing on them windows can’t fit both itself and an update. Generally speaking… when allowed to, manufacturers can release some pretty damn stupid builds that often aren’t designed to run what they are marketed to run.


  • I fully agree that was “a problem”. but I fully hold to the fragmented hardware also being a significant problem. IMO the steam deck still significantly makes gains from being a consistant hardware target for dev’s to base things on, in addition to basically having little to no consumer confusion, if a game says “will run on steam deck”, it’s safe to assume, it will run on a steam deck. This time around valve specifically hasn’t released a steam deck 2, because they want to avoid any hardware confusion.






  • I’m always torn on this topic because, yeah there’s hundreds of biases that can be attributed to this phenominon.

    IE something becomes a popular topic in your area. Meaning more people in the area start searching the topic in that area, thus advertisers start pushing it to that location.

    Obviously ads are also tracking you in 100 ways on what you’ve searched for, looked at etc… which means it could have a good guess of what you are going to talk about, before you do.

    But at the same time, I think everyone can think of a lot of stories of things that just seemed to perfect, to out of the blue. For me the big one was 10 years ago when I walked into an attic, said “man it’s fucking dark up here”, opened my phone, and a big ad for a flashlight app popped up.



  • Namely what the features are and the functionality of it. I mean if you are expecting to use it in a closed controlled area, then for the most part the pass through side isn’t necessary, the screen showing your eyes to outsiders is completely meaningless. So I guess the point is, there isn’t really a defined ideal place to use it. It isn’t super useful in one place, it’s made to be slightly helpful, everywhere.

    Which of course begs the question, where is it intended to be used. when is the ideal time to put it on, and then how long should a session be before you take it off.



  • I suspect they’ll become like OpenWRT routers where the stock firmware is total garbage but you can replace it with something open source to super power the device.

    Honestly I don’t imagine that as likely the case. Bottom line almost every practical use of AR that comes to mind, requires a ton of AI stuff rolling it in the background. Identify what shit is, who people are etc… Without that you are basically just looking at a hands free camera. Guessing with small form factors etc… not much is going to be processed locally so we aren’t looking at much that has value in the independent firmware space.


  • I guess, but even there… I fail to see the target there. IE truth social and xitter at least have a reason alt right extremists need them… IE facebook and old twitter would occasionally ban people or put fact checks on some nazi rhetoric and blatent false stories. To my knowledge no e-mail provider is going to ban you for sending that FW:FW:FW:FW: My dog was infected by my son’s friends covid vaccine, and my hatian neighbor became trans after eating it.