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- Comment on The Steam Deck OLED's price hikes have killed its status as the best deal in PC games hardware 2 days ago:
Yeah I kinda got the same vibe
“these new prices reflect the current state of component costs and other global logistical challenges across the industry as a whole.” There is, inarguably, some truth to this.
Some truth?
Given Valve’s plan is to aggressively price their hardware to gain market share in the living room, they’re not gonna bump the prices unless they’re forced to; not out of altruism, just because it would fuck up their plans.
Not really quite the level of journalism I expect from RPS tbh
- Comment on Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you 1 week ago:
Well this feels like a complete and egregious breach of GDPR
- Comment on "Roguelike can be anything": Krafton exec is very tired of being pitched "Balatro with different cards" 1 week ago:
Not entirely sure I fully agree with the sentiment, at least with my understanding of the terms.
Roguelike: generally procedurally generated, dungeon crawler with permadeath, meta-progression optional, but not required
Roguelite: generally procedurally generated, non dungeon-crawler game with permadeath, meta-progression becomes a defining aspect of the genre
Balatro is a “Poker Deck-builder Roguelite” if you want to get super specific, all of those words tell you something different about the game
- Comment on What is the aim of all the AI investment? 1 week ago:
I’ve seen this one a few times and it’s puzzled me a bit for a while now, I don’t think anyone in these companies think iterating on an LLM model alone is going to give them AGI
You only have to look at how Claude Code has taken off in the past 6 months. Sure the model is a big factor, but it’s the tooling built on top of it that makes it useful and disruptive. The model is what enabled the utility, when attached to conventionally engineered tooling.
Whenever the first AGI is created, an LLM will 100% be part of the implementation, it’s just more than a one piece puzzle
- Comment on Sony to no longer bring PlayStation narrative single-player games to PC 1 week ago:
Seriously I don’t think there’s any game that I’d want to play enough to just get a console at this point. Plus we know if we wait long enough they’ll decide they want money again
- Comment on Linux security flaws Dirty Frag and Copy Fail are a good reminder to stay up to date 3 weeks ago:
The fixes were supposed to be in place by the originally planned disclosure date in a week, however someone independently released details of the exploit so they were forced to disclose early and now we’ve got this
- Comment on Linux security flaws Dirty Frag and Copy Fail are a good reminder to stay up to date 3 weeks ago:
Basically all running versions of Linux.
Fixed versions (from here):
- 5.10.254
- 5.15.204
- 6.1.170
- 6.6.137
- 6.12.85
- 6.18.22
- 6.19.12
More detail from AWS: aws.amazon.com/security/…/2026-027-aws/
I’m not sure which distros have managed to build and release the new versions of the kernel yet
- Comment on Linux security flaws Dirty Frag and Copy Fail are a good reminder to stay up to date 3 weeks ago:
Yes, always keep your shit updated
But, that wouldn’t help here, this vulnerability was just dropped without fixes released in the past 12h or so
- Comment on Unity AI out in Open Beta to give developers the fabled "make game" button 3 weeks ago:
And in an instant, the last remaining remnants of value you could get from humble bundles are gone.
I don’t see how game bundles like that aren’t going to just end up half slop
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game 1 month ago:
Damn, that’s kinda a holy grail of game storefronts
- Comment on What game had you like this? 1 month ago:
Oh it’s a distant memory now, but I remember the first time I played RimWorld I bailed out again in less than an hour and didn’t touch it again for at least a year
Fast forward to now and I think it’s claimed 1500h of my time
- Comment on Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely 2 months ago:
The NT kernel supports hot patching because restarting running servers is an inconvenient requirement to remain secure
Apparently end users can just run that insecure kernel indefinitely because… arbitrary product feature tiering?
- Comment on New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit 2 months ago:
Funnily enough, people running in Ubuntu do get Firefox in a container by default IIRC as it’s delivered as a snap
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Rocking 64GB on my desktop after an opportunistic upgrade a couple of years ago and barely using 32GB most of the time
- Comment on Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked 3 months ago:
I feel like you misunderstood me on purpose…
Funnily enough I thought you were playing along with the bit, so I guess I misunderstood
Figured “enlightened vim user” was a bit more of a giveaway than it apparently is
- Comment on Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked 3 months ago:
Vim is hardly an IDE unless you have added a shitload of plugins (which is fine if you want to do that, arguably a plus to have the option)
Notepad++ is way too bloated for a “simple notepad replacement” and often lacking when you need something more serious than that
Although I guess vim never shipped with malware, so I guess it’s lacking in that particular notepad++ feature
- Comment on Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked 3 months ago:
All of this would have been easily avoided by its users if they had just listened to the enlightened and switched to vim
I’d rather never turn my computer on again and run away to live in the woods than use notepad++
- Comment on Sony Patents Buttonless Adaptive Controller With Customizable Layouts 3 months ago:
Unless they have some magic tech to deform the surface and do the same fake click Apple does with their touch pads, this is going to suck massively.
You shouldn’t need to look at your controller, basically ever
- Comment on Sony Patents Buttonless Adaptive Controller With Customizable Layouts 3 months ago:
The steam controller was a bit inferior to the steam deck control setup and used touch pads instead of buttons in a lot of layouts.
The steam deck (and new steam controller) layout is much better because it’s essentially touch pads added to a conventional controller layout
- Comment on Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI 3 months ago:
Hmm, seems exactly like the kind of training data you might need to create an AI that does VPN traffic analysis to then sell to the likes of Palantir/autocrats
- Comment on Some Japanese shops start rationing GPUs — graphics cards with 16GB VRAM and up are becoming harder to find, says one store 4 months ago:
GPU shortage V.2?
I mean, did the first one ever end?
- Comment on Deepfakes Leveled up in 2025—Here’s What’s Coming Next 5 months ago:
Given the rate this stuff has progressed in a few years, don’t count on being able to recognise it by eye forever.
And frankly, even if a large minority of people can still identify the difference immediately (which tbh I reckon is close to the point we’re at now), that makes for a majority that will glance at an image and take it as real without question.
Those people can vote and shape our world
- Comment on Deepfakes Leveled up in 2025—Here’s What’s Coming Next 5 months ago:
Where do we go from here?
Looks like oblivion, frankly
- Comment on Valve discontinues the entry-level Steam Deck, considerably raising the starting price 5 months ago:
A tenner says this is due to the component price inflation we’re in the middle of
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck's days are coming to an end, as Valve wind down production of the OG model 5 months ago:
I’m surprised they were still making it tbh, I assumed it was just existing stock
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 5 months ago:
Hmm
My immediate reaction is “stay in your lane, Gabe”
- Comment on RAM is ruining everything 5 months ago:
The ram cartel produces exactly enough ram to keep prices stable, increased demand means the produced supply is not sufficient so prices rise
This is not a capacity issue, it’s forced scarcity and collusion laid bare
- Comment on How Snapchat manipulates its users through notifications 5 months ago:
Facebook did this shit too when I last had the app installed
You’d get a notification about one of your friends and clicking it just took you to some random brand’s main feed page
- Comment on YouTube experiments with messaging and video sharing inside its app 6 months ago:
I look forward to in 5 years time where my 2 factor Auth app finally adds an arbitrary DM function no one wants
