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- Comment on New Steam Deck beta client update: can improve battery life in low power games up to 6% 2 months ago:
Think nes, snes, and Sega game emulation. No reason to run over 30fps. Also any of those click choice games and dating sim games where nothing ever really moves.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida 4 months ago:
Yeah, but if you double a very small percentage, it’s still a very small percentage. That’s the part you don’t seem to grasp. So what if it’s “doubled” when the end result is still only 4%.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida 4 months ago:
I’m not sure if you’re bad at math or just mad you’re wrong.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida 4 months ago:
plannedparenthood.org/…/how-effective-is-withdraw…
plannedparenthood.org/…/how-effective-are-condoms
Summary of the two links above is that when used perfectly, pull out method results in a 4% chance per year for pregnancy, and condoms result in a 2% chance per year for pregnancy. Real world usage (because people usually don’t do things correctly) is 22% per year chance with pull out, and 13% chance with condoms.
So if done correctly, pulling out is 2% more likely than condoms, and if not done correctly it’s 9% more likely than condoms.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida 4 months ago:
Nope. Didn’t work.
Also, it’s a legitimate fact based on plenty of data by reputable sources and governments.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida 4 months ago:
It’s not actually too much less reliable than condoms. Both of which usually fail due to improperly being used.
- Comment on [Discussion] Steam Autumn Sale has started. What are you buying for your Steam Deck? 5 months ago:
It’s also a bit quieter and runs games slightly better.
- Comment on [Discussion] Steam Autumn Sale has started. What are you buying for your Steam Deck? 5 months ago:
I liked my lcd one, but the oled is nicer by a bit (i upgraded right away :-/ ). I’m guessing summer 2026 will be the next deck.
- Comment on [Discussion] Steam Autumn Sale has started. What are you buying for your Steam Deck? 5 months ago:
Fyi: hunter call of the wild does run well on the deck. It’s quasi realistic and quite peaceful hunting game that very gradually unlocks less realistic stuff to make hunting and tracking easier.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 5 months ago:
Looks about the same layout as the steam deck, and it’s great on there. Dunno about the pads not being squared up, though. Dunno that I would like that, even if it would make the pads easier to reach, I still might rather have them squared up.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 5 months ago:
Square pads are where it’s at until you start playing on a round TV screen. Besides, it’s way easier to set up hockey buttons in a square Touch Pad than a round one.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 5 months ago:
You haven’t just been using the TouchPads in desktop mode?
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 5 months ago:
Aside from I don’t think that will actually be an issue, the thumb sticks are likely to have touch sensitivity on top like the steam deck ones have. So they can just disable the TouchPad anytime the thumb stick is being touched.
Again, though. I don’t think it will be an issue with your palms.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 5 months ago:
I’m guessing it probably does. It brings in like $30,000,000,000+ a year. What it actually costs to run is seemingly a closely guarded secret, but I’d probably say it’s a fair amount less than the thirty billion, since they aren’t having to pay a third party company or anything for hosting any of it.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 7 months ago:
Which is all that would happen if third parties decide they don’t like the terms that valve and them agreed to.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 7 months ago:
Valve just doesn’t allow cheaper prices from other storefronts if it’s a steam key being sold, where valve is the one footing the bill for the server costs. There are games for sale on epic all the time that are better deals than what’s on steam. But when you buy a game on epic, you’re using epics servers/bandwidth.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 7 months ago:
Except that’s not really true. Or at least a half truth.
Steam prevents publishers from selling steam keys through other sites and means for less money. Publishers and other distributors are able to sell their games as cheap as they want anywhere they want. They just can’t sell it dirt cheap somewhere and then use valves steam program and bandwidth to download and play the game.
- Comment on Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable 8 months ago:
This fine won’t even be paid. Literally nothing will happen.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 8 months ago:
It’s actually not even that. The apk doesn’t do much except suggest cooking times/temps, for the most part. The cooker 100% works just fine if you never installed the apk at all. All the on and off and times and temps can all be set right on the cooker itself. You don’t need the apk for anything.
- Comment on Dozens injured, pets killed in fires causing Samsung to recall 1.1M stoves 8 months ago:
100% agree. Their appliances suck.
However, this has little to do with anything Samsung specific. The front side “push and turn” types of knows are par for the course across many brands and have existed for a good many decades. Samsungs voluntary recall is a know replacement that you have to squeeze, push, and turn instead of the standard push and turn. Essentially, samsung just made a much safer front knob for a stove than anyone else offers.
It’s still a samsung appliance, though. So it will probably break every other year until you give up and throw it away.
- Comment on If you have DeckHD (Steam Deck Display Mod) will now be officially supported 9 months ago:
I just meant more like the resolution.
Supposedly, the SD didn’t get an oled screen because it was a bit less power efficient. Oled saves power when there’s blacks on the screen, and most games don’t have much black.
- Comment on If you have DeckHD (Steam Deck Display Mod) will now be officially supported 9 months ago:
To me, that is sure evidence that it will be the normal screen in the next deck. I’m guessing a summer 2025 release. Resolution Will make it just perfect enough to make tiny text readable, which is the only thing the current stock screens need. Reading texts in games like witcher 3 are a bit of a pain. Have to set up magnification stuff on the right touch pad.
- Comment on Most played games on Steam Deck for May 2024 - Hades II tops the list 11 months ago:
It’s my main gaming device. I love the thing, and if you take the time to really understand and use the massive amount of control and gyro options it’s crazy how good the controls can be for so many different games. Way better than any console, and often nicer than keyboard/mouse. The borderlands games with gyro aiming is the best way to play, hands down. I’ve also heard high praise on some rts strategy builder games with gyro mouse functions. A genre I didn’t think would work well at all without a keyboard and mouse.
- Comment on Most played games on Steam Deck for May 2024 - Hades II tops the list 11 months ago:
Shit yeah it is. I’m nearing the end of my latest playthrough. I probably only have another 40 hours to go!
- Comment on Do you still use your Steam Deck much? 11 months ago:
My time and ability to game has led me to almost exclusively play on my steam deck, and I now game a lot more than I’ve gotten to in a decade.
For the past couple of years (I upgraded to the OLED) I’ve pretty much only purchased/played games that will play well on the SD.
I like many games that are really only suited to a bigger screen or mouse/keyboard, but not enough to get any of them, because I know I won’t be able to play them consistently enough to even remember what was going on since I’d played last.
- Comment on Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch 11 months ago:
What if you include the switch games it can play? Hehehe
- Comment on FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads must be disclosed 11 months ago:
Disclosed? It shouldn’t be allowed at all.
- Comment on Report: Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Immediately Killed Wireless Price Competition In U.S. 11 months ago:
T-mobile has been profitable every single year since 2013. Well before the merger.
- Comment on Report: Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Immediately Killed Wireless Price Competition In U.S. 11 months ago:
I was on t mo’s “top tier” magenta max plan.
Now, you can’t even get very good deals on a trade in phone with that plan because they created something else to phase out magenta max. I think the only benefit over magenta max is like 10GB more hotspot data. 50 instead of 40.
But you need that plan (which of course, is more expensive) if you want the same types of trade in deals you used to get on Max.
Neither which really affects me too much, because I haven’t gotten a phone through a carrier plan in like a decade. My 4 year old current phone isn’t going away any time soon, either. The last descent phone with a micro sd card slot. Note 20 Ultra.
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs 1 year ago:
I saw that shit a single time before I shut it down. You have far more patience than I.