Glad to see more handhelds picking up Steam OS! So many portable competitors have been hampered by their OS sucking down limited resources while providing an inferior UI and UX.

The site can be fun sometimes. ;p

Hopefully it will be a banger like the first!

Nebula focuses mostly on 7-50min, edited content. That is to say, not shorts and no let’s plays. They have some solid originals, like the Battle of Britain series, however most of their content is also available on youtube. What most creators do is offer the ad free version on Nebula (ie no in-video ad-reads), and Nebula doesn’t add ads themselves. Many creators will also create supplemental videos that aren’t available elsewhere that go into more detail on one part of the prior story; something LowSpecGamer does quite a bit.

On the negative side, because the content is all edited (ie, not things like lets play) and there are less creators overall, you can’t sit down and watch Nebula all day every day like you can youtube. Also, as mentioned earlier, much of the content is also available on youtube.

I personally like it and happy to support creators I like. The extra content is solid and it’s nice creators are rewarded for making quality content.

Regulating ISPs as a utility is a pretty big change, not simply a technical detail; it is in the purview of Congress.

Congressmen aren’t individually drafting bills, they direct their aids to draft the bills and hammer out the details. We don’t need to overhaul our system, we need congressmen to do their job rather than offloading their job to the Executive.

Edit: Said bill would direct the Executive on how to regulate them as a utility at which point small technical details, as you mention, are handled by the Executive.

I don’t know what the US should do to resolve all this, but it’s getting to be quite the mess.

it really is just another example of how various parts of the US government have been ceding or delegating their responsibilities around willy-nilly

This is the big one. Congress has been delegating their power to the Executive for decades. Rather than meaningful law, they tell the Executive to make regulations that don’t stand the test of time. Congress needs to pass laws again, instead of delegating large swaths of their power.

Like most large changes, it requires an act of Congress. Doing these via the executive leads to weak outcomes like this.

Yeah, I have switched quite a bit of my viewing over to Nebula. Bunch of the creators I like are over there since Youtube punishes high-effort content.

The Switch mostly lives on the talent and creativity of Nintendo devs. Russia seems to be lacking in the quantity and quality in that regard as well.

Honestly, I would expect Russia to shoot more for PC gaming, rather than console gaming. But that would almost certainly require using home-grown or Chinese semiconductors. I’m not sure there are too many homegrown Russian semiconductor fabs, and Chinese chips aren’t known for their high performance like Taiwanese (TSMC, and by extension nVidia, AMD) and American chips (Intel) are.

Does Microsoft make Halo? Halo’s developer is owned by Microsoft, just as Xenoblade’s developer is owned by Nintendo.

Xenoblade

The Xenoblade series is made by a developer that is owned by Nintendo. If Nintendo doesn’t want people to rag on their products, they should make them better.

Seems negligent to not include extension cables in the spec. Lots of hubs have too short of cables, or one needs to expose a plug somewhere other than where the PC is.

The longer the cord is the more resistance there is; ie the more electrical load on the circuit. As long as you are pulling less than what the circuit and cord is rated for, there isn’t an issue, you will just be wasting a little extra power from the extra resistance. The plugs themselves can also have a bit of extra resistance.

Two pieces of advice that will make the biggest difference:

• Keep the total length of all extension cables used as short as is reasonable. Don’t use a 20m cable when a 4m cable will do.

• Buy extension cords with higher wire gauges (higher wire thicknesses). A 12 gauge cable (4mm²) will provide notably less resistance than a 14 (2.5mm²) or 16 gauge cable (1.5mm²). The packaging will say what gauge it is. Note, I’m talking about the thickness of the metal itself, not the thickness of the extension cord as a whole. I have seen some very, very thick extension cords with absolute trash wires inside.

If you got that 30% haircut just before you needed to sell

Yep. They key part is to invest for 20, 30, 40 years, where those consistent 10-20% gains compound and vastly outweigh the occasional 30% losses. Even if you had invested at the worst time in 2007, you are currently up 285%.

Put money into index funds every paycheck and don’t sell them for 30 years. Compounding returns are damn strong. And yes, lots of people do it, it is the most straightforward and common strategy.

Investing money generates more production and profits, it is very much so not a zero-sum game. There is good reason the average standard of living has increased dramatically over history, and it has increased faster in modern economies with strong monetary availability and movement, something investing directly contributes to.

Since y’all aren’t sharing a room, closing your door and speaking softly is usually sufficient. Make sure you have a mic that rests in front of your mouth, and isn’t setting far away on your desk. That way it can pick you up easily.

Exactly, every time I say ‘I’m thinking of putting up a Factorio server, you want in?’, they are significantly less likely to be playing (or paying for) the newest game that has kernel-level access. Why, because we are playing Factorio for the next few weeks together and Factorio is fun.

Factorio isn’t the only game we play, but the point is to reinforce yours. If you are playing fun game x, your friends are more likely to play x instead of something else. Even if they have no care about Kernel-Level access, the fact you do affects their buying (and playing) patterns.

First of all, plenty of people would be happy to self-host a game for their friends, if they were still allowed the option.

Exactly! Me and my friends often play on modded Factorio servers that one of us hosts. This is only possible because the developer doesn’t lock things down to only the first-party (official) servers.

We don’t play with cheaters either (you aren’t getting invited to our server if you are). We play with our friends because it is fun, in a way no official server could hope to work.

Why would they listen to your personal complaint if you, singular, are going to buy it anyway? Your voice only matters to a company if it means you won’t buy their product otherwise. Don’t buy the game, then tell them why you didn’t.

If you feel up for it, boot into the live disk for Mint. Lets you trial the OS without touching your OS install.

But, I hear you on the lazy angle. Momentum is a hell of a thing.