Imagine having a router with an AP built in. We don’t use that consumer tier stuff around here. 😎

Amazon Sidewalk means that PiHole or AdGuard won’t stop anything, because the point of amazon sidewalk is that if a device can’t find a usable internet connection (ie, you didnt set up wifi, or you dont have wifi), it can still function by connecting to nearby open networks, or perhaps even someone just walking by with a phone that it can piggyback off of.

So setting up a pihole prevents it from phoning home on your network, which will just prompt it to jump to another network potentially.

The question is just “how aggressively does this device want to phone home?” Some devices will actively seek out ways to phone home if blocked, some devices will try to phone home and give up if blocked. Some devices don’t try to phone home at all.

Not phoning home is ideal, a pihole will (probably) keep a device that stays on your network under control, and you should just not buy things that actively will work around your intentions to do whatever it wants without your permission.

But this person has already bought the thing, so “dont buy it” isn’t an option. But “don’t use it” might be. Depending on which category it’s in. (which I do not know, just trying to illustrate the bigger problem with Amazon Sidewalk)

I believe wine has a WoW64 implementation now, to allow 32 bit software to run on 64 bit wine prefixes. Which means any windows games (unless they are 16 bit) can work on 64 bit non-multi-arch system.

Linux games are the core problem. But they also have a Steam Runtime where they ship the entire runtime libraries needed to run a game for compatibility reasons… and Steam Runtime 4.0 (which just shipped and/or announced a few days ago?) is set up for only 64 bit systems.

So if the answer is:

• Steam itself can be 64 bit, and is moving that direction
• Windows games can be 64 bit only due to proton/wine handling the 32bit translation in WoW64
• Linux games themselves can be any architecture since the steam runtime manages the libraries for the games.

Then the answer is just “they’re getting around to it, they are only just now getting around to it for windows, and linux is a lower priority” because clearly its all possible.

So “What about linux?” is just asking if there is a timeline for the speed that things are moving in that direction.

Correct, so why does steam on linux still run as a 32 bit app and require 32 bit libraries to run games.

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Dev/

If IDEs from Flathub and CLI tools from Homebrew serve your needs, no further action is required. If deeper system integration is needed for VSCode (ie. devcontainers), Docker (ie. Podman is not sufficient), etc - then see below specialized images.

There is a whole Bazzite for Devs page that mentions Bazzite-DX for development to handle some things like devcontainers: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite-dx

Their main website also says:

Running a game, a development environment, a container for your Jellyfin server, or a utility only available on the Arch User Repository? You can rest assured it works here. Bazzite is developed on Bazzite.

At the end of the day, its an immutable fedora distro. Which may serve your needs. or may not. And bazzite’s primary focus is on gaming. It will most likely work (given a few criteria), but it may not given that is not their primary focus.

“on your machine” requires you to have a machine. This isn’t for people with computers already. This is for people who are already looking for a new machine, and this becomes the “ready out of the box” option.

The episode of Sawbones where they talk about this, they imply that RFK Jr doesn’t even know what miasma theory is. The thing he talks about is weird nonsense unrelated to old medical idea (which was also wrong)

pre-ryzen AMD CPUs were always a bit on the budget side even when they were new. They were a bit more power efficient and cheaper, but never were amazing performance. So yeah, a 15 year old CPU is often rough, but a 15 year old low-mid end CPU is going to be even worse off.

Ive not had issues with Counterstrike 2 on linux, aside from wanting to play FaceIt or ranked matches that have stricter third party anticheat. And that’s just the anticheat being the problem.

I would venture a guess that linux is not “the problem” here and it’s more likely just aging hardware meeting increasing game demands.

The only time in recent years I’ve had specifically a problem with linux gaming performance (not related to anticheat), was playing VR on a pre-GCN AMD GPU which didn’t support async reprojection properly which caused quite a bit of stuttering.

No, but the fediverse doesn’t go down just because one instance is down.

You would need multiple accounts (one per instance), but you could just switch instances if you had that set up

https://komodostation.com/

Komodo Steam Deck Store rebranded to Komodo Station today. Which to me indicates that Valve’s distributor in Asia is already ready to begin selling more types of hardware. So that’s at least a positive sign.

https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX

My understanding is that FEX + Proton is the plan and just double up on the translations as appropriate.

Valve has supposedly just been heavily investing in fex.

Steam deck highlights that Windows -> SteamOS translation is good enough.

I’ve use my Index on Bazzite successfully with no issues, so I’m confident in SteamOS VR capabilities.

ARM-based is the only wildcard, but if fex works, then that’s not an issue either.

Then just onboard compute performance is the only factor. But like you said, even if this winds up only being a “stream everything, its a wireless index,” then I’m already excited.

There is an optional accessory for knuckle straps for these, mentioned in some of the 3rd party reviews.

Which somewhat implies the ability for custom knuckle straps and other accessories as well since they are detachable with mount points.

edit: screenshots from the LTT coverage:

https://youtu.be/XvXRaSvxmqg

Reminds me of this old commercial

If someone else is getting paid the most amount of money, I’m happy to let the most amount of work fall to them. “Sharing the responsibility” doesn’t make sense if I don’t get to share the reward. It’s a company, not a community or a family.

If this were an actual public service, the solution would be to make sure people’s needs were met so they didn’t feel obligated to take comical amounts of soda.

Things in favor of Peyton here:

• Corporations in general
• There is no rule against it
• 7-11 has a pretty regular event where “fill a silly cup, feel free to be absurd” is a thing, so there is precedent
• That amount of soda is still probably profitable for the company, fountain soda is incredibly cheap
• This isn’t regular consumption and clearly not a regular occurrence, if beverages were regularly freely available, it wouldn’t be exciting to do this and this type of behavior would go away – you have to hoard service when public service is an artificially limited quantity.
• This didn’t deprive any other customer of soda – the only downside here is a corporation losing a few cents of profit.

Things against Peyton:

• Hoarding is a bad mentality to be in (agreed with you here)
• It will take days to drink that much soda, and it will be flat and nasty

When poor people get a windfall of money, they tend to spend it all. It’s why lottery winners tend to wind up broke. Because historically, money is a “use it or lose it” for those people. If you’ve been trained your whole life to adapt to things, it can be hard to do the right thing when those things no longer hold true.

Americans cant have decent public services because they abuse them… results in Americans desperate for public services… which results in Americans taking extra advantage of any public service that is available… which results in a mindset that Americans abuse public services… which results in less funding… Its a vicious cycle.

It’s not a sensory issue - I just like wearing socks.

This part feels like you talking about yourself, and everyone agrees.

Not everything needs to be pathologized.

People are taking this as an assertion that sock preference should not be pathologized and cannot be related to ADHD.

Clearly not what you meant, but the phrasing you used is ambiguous enough to not differentiate between “not everything about myself is pathologized” vs “please stop pathologizing everything”

And it is recognized in game by comparing the steam user ID of the other players on the server. Which means if someone else spoofs their name it won’t work. But if real Garry is there, achievement confirming it is him

You don’t have to have been a slave to have dealt with racism. Enough people still get really excited about their confederate flags that clearly the era is still heavily topical.

The word “confederate” means nothing beyond referring to a type of government, but when I hear it, I think immediately of the American civil war. Even though that ended in 1865 so I was never alive to witness that.

That’s not how word associations work.