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- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 2 weeks ago:
You’re really willing to die on the hill of poop camera subscriptions, I’m not willing to waste time diving further into the subject. You’re ignorant of the topic, which is fine, but I won’t be the one explaining further.
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s an incredibly unreliable data point by itself, and requires significantly more than visual analysis to prevent several co-variables.
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 2 weeks ago:
Yes and you don’t have to hire a plumber to fix your sink if you’re a plumber.
You are severely misunderstanding the point being made. Imagine you have a leaky pipe, you hire a professional plumber, they charge you $500 and say “yep, I can take a look and I conclude it’s a leaky pipe!”
What I’m precisely telling you is that this company can’t provide the professional analysis you just commented.
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 2 weeks ago:
You’re telling me there’s zero valuable information in photos of feces?
Nope. I’m saying a private company and whatever training set they have, plus a cheap RGB camera and an AI model, is not going to give you any information that you can’t derive by simply looking at the feces yourself, much like the table you just linked. Though that table itself is an oversimplification that, being unable to take other parameters into account, also contains potentially misleading conclusions.
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 2 weeks ago:
My field is bioinformatics. I’m willing to bet $500 there’s little to no valuable data being gathered at all, and quite a lot of noise, rather than anything relevant for your health. I’m sure, just like your smart watch, they can make it sound like some deep insights and health exploration, but I guarantee you it’s not.
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 2 weeks ago:
A subscription… for a toilet? Internet access… for a toilet? Am I having a fever dream?
- Comment on The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users 2 weeks ago:
Kicking off? It started ages ago.
- Comment on FSR is missing from Steam Decl menu 2 months ago:
People gave you the exact solution to your “problem”, which isn’t actually a problem but rather the expected behavior of FSR 1.0 being implemented as a shader.
You then downvoted and complained about the user. There’s no extra advice to give: you rejected or is incapable of using the feature as designed, what else can anybody do for you?
- Comment on FSR is missing from Steam Decl menu 2 months ago:
Because you apparently are not capable of setting a game to a window with resolution inferior to the native screen.
- Comment on FSR is missing from Steam Decl menu 2 months ago:
There’s no “turning on” FSR. It’s a simple per pixel scalar.
If your game is not running at the native resolution and you’re stretching it, Steam Deck is upscaling it. How it upscales is entirely defined by that setting. Sharp means FSR.
That’s it. There’s no way for this to fail, otherwise you’d be seeing a tiny window for the game.
- Comment on FSR is missing from Steam Decl menu 2 months ago:
Not sure why your comment got downvoted, you’re correct.
Valve removed NIS and renamed all other options. FSR 1.0, the horrendous looking matrix-based scaler, is now simply called “Sharp” and indeed you need to set the game at a lower than native resolution, with no upscaling, for it to make any difference.
- Comment on Gaming handheld prices are out of control, except for the Steam Deck 3 months ago:
The Steam Deck is not sold at a loss. The initial pricing for the 64 GB unit was barely profitable, but this quickly changed with production ramping up.
This was confirmed by Valve themselves in an interview that happened months after Gabe’s famous comments about the pricing.
So yes, Valve profits from the games too, but that’s not used to subsidize the Steam Deck’s price.
- Comment on Replacing the Delta fan IS VERY worth it 4 months ago:
The official supplier for parts is iFixit, however, they do not ship to Brazil and they charge a premium. I purchased mine on Aliexpress, just make sure to select a listing that shows that it’s a Huaying fan (or they sometimes call it the “revised silent model”) because there are some Delta ones being sold too.
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- Comment on SteamOS outperforms Windows on almost all Legion Go S benchmarks, but Lenovo seems to want to pretend that the SteamOS version doesn't exist 5 months ago:
Also, we know Microsoft will eventually do something to mess this all up.
Even if they change absolutely nothing, Windows on a handheld is an infuriating experience, which is saying a lot, because the desktop version isn’t very good either.
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next 5 months ago:
This is what, the fourth time a Linux community gets excited about this, but that’s actually not good for us at all. Much like Android’s safety net, or the nightmare that is the Mac equivalent, the entire point will be creating an untouchable chain from the firmware to the final OS being booted, and only allowing some apps to use a specific API to attest this isn’t compromised.
This is horrendous for people trying to modify the OS or, in a more relevant tone, run programs meant for that OS on an entirely different environment. Microsoft has slowly been moving towards making this work on PCs, mostly due to pressure from DRM providers like Netflix or banking apps, but unlike Apple they can’t simply lock everything down at once and say “deal with it” because Windows lives by backwards compatibility. Either way, this is just another step towards this upcoming future.
If your favorite games now start asking Windows if the chain of trust is not tampered with… say goodbye to compatibility with Proton.
- Comment on Steam OS page gets a redesign, finally retiring the old design from the Steam OS 2.0 era 6 months ago:
Yep, and they’re still quite troublesome. But installing Nvidia drivers is not the only problematic aspect of an immutable distro, so it doesn’t matter at all if Bazzite makes it easy as far as my point goes.
- Comment on Steam OS page gets a redesign, finally retiring the old design from the Steam OS 2.0 era 6 months ago:
Sure…?
- Comment on Steam OS page gets a redesign, finally retiring the old design from the Steam OS 2.0 era 6 months ago:
Sure, but the original context was a new user wanting to try Linux on their gaming laptop.
Both Bazzite and SteamOS will result in headaches from their limitations.
- Comment on Steam OS page gets a redesign, finally retiring the old design from the Steam OS 2.0 era 6 months ago:
If you’re assuming the user will have trouble with SteamOS’ write protection, which I totally agree with, Bazzite is also surely going to cause headaches. The idea of a locked down system that gets most apps as Flatpaks sounds appealing, until the cracks start to show up.
I strongly suggest going with your other proposal, something like plain Fedora with KDE.
- Comment on Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck 6 months ago:
you’re not explaining how that works
My brother, search “how to purchase DLC on Steam”
- Comment on Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck 6 months ago:
You’re a bit slow my dude.
This software is free to download, but includes an additional optional purchase.
Guess what, old school RuneScape on Steam is also free to download, but includes an additional optional purchase.
- Comment on Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck 6 months ago:
So…?
I can download a free game on Steam and not download the paid DLC that unlocks whatever feature. How’s that hard to grasp compared to this piece of software?
- Comment on Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck 6 months ago:
Yeah? That’s how every purchase on Steam works? I don’t recall being forced to buy any game or DLC
- Comment on Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck 6 months ago:
What do you mean?
“Optional non-recurring purchase” means buying something once lol, of course Steam lets you buy stuff.
- Comment on A note about the security of your Steam account 7 months ago:
GabeN once leaked his password on purpose to prove how secure Steam Authenticator was, before people were familiar with 2FA.
- Comment on [Game] Doom the Dark Ages will not run well on steam deck at release 7 months ago:
I do 99.9% of my gaming on the Steam Deck… But it’s also important to recognize when it’s time to let go.
It was released using AMD hardware in the middle of a transition to ray tracing and path tracing replacing rasterized effects. It’s great hardware, but we need to accept that new releases will probably not be compatible with this system.
- Comment on [Game] Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Got Steam Deck Verified, But It Still Has Issues 7 months ago:
It’s also worth noting that although very limited, the Steam Deck does actually support hardware accelerated ray tracing.
- Comment on [Game] Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Got Steam Deck Verified, But It Still Has Issues 7 months ago:
This debate often arises in the Steam Deck communities because a huge proportion of Steam Deck users are PC users that now have a handheld, so this transition is jarring.
For people that actually had handhelds before, that’s not only normal, but actually quite good.
Go play Xenoblade Chronicles on a 3DS, at 240p with an unstable 30 FPS. I loved it anyway. How about Doom 2016 on the Nintendo Switch? Hope you enjoy settings lower than low on PC, lots of missing textures, and a stuttery 25 FPS - still one of the highest rated games on the Nintendo Switch subreddit.
Handhelds make sacrifices for portability. 30 FPS is fine, it just won’t ever compete with your 1000w gigantic desktop PC.
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a Battery Charge Limit control in the latest Beta 7 months ago:
The Deck automatically stops charging and let’s the battery drain to around 95% when plugged in anyway.