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The timing of the click captcha loading is randomized and it probably is looking for human-ish cursor movement? (Like you’re probably moving your hand in imperceptibly small ways that are difficult to replicate). Clicking before it loads and doing it repeatedly probably triggers detection.

I wouldn’t suppose that people are required to inform steam that they’re dead. Therefore, I’d assume the easiest way to bequeath games/DLCs, etc, is to get a wishlist from your loved ones, and then gift all of those games prior to death on a credit card that you might not be able to pay, due to being dead. Steam gets the money, the CC company gets shafted. Alternately, share your credit card details with a loved one and that list, and have them order within hours of your death (this depends on whether or not you were plausibly alive when those CC transactions took place)

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Isn’t this the mineral that people are proposing that we process into sand and dump into the ocean to sequester carbon?

It’s a Linux handheld with software support and updates and it seems like it’ll have it for a good while, being immutable is good for not fucking it (as long as you’re cool with those limits) and the hardware specs are midlevel gaming PC in a decent (but big) form factor. You can run anything that’ll run on a laptop/desktop of that spec. Seems like a pretty good device to give to a kid if you’re familiar with Linux and can lock it down.

I got the top-of-the-line Steam Deck at launch, absolutely no regerts about missing the OLED. Hate the gyro controls so turned those off (though maybe Super Monkey Ball would be fun with that? IDK) and added thumbstick caps and another 1TB of storage. The case is excellent, traveled with it internationally and worked great for pirating movies/TV and gaming (Vampire Survivors is an excellent time waster, BTW)

Desktop mode is good. I don’t really use it as a desktop per se but it’s good when you need to set up displays, networking, VPNs, etc. Sure, you can use it like that, but I find the fact that it doesn’t “remember” (i.e. list the last time you connected) connections like a regular, mutable Linux install would is kinda irritating (this is mostly aesthetic in my case because I only use a few connection, but if you regularly connect to similarly-named networks, I can imagine it’s a hassle).

Piracy/Media consumption on the Steam Deck is first-class because it’s all the power you need for most emulators and streaming through browsers is totally fine (but is locked at like 720 for most services). Haven’t gone beyond Super Nintendo and Genesis but it handles Mode 7 graphics just fine. Don’t have Plex but I think it’d work great w/ it

I feel like this will definitely help Linux adoption if kids really go for these over say a Switch - well cared for units will probably be good (and repairable) for a long while.

EXPLAIN SETTING UP AUDIO SOFTWARE ON LINUX TO ME OR I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU! DON’T DUMB IT DOWN INTO SOME VAGUE SHIT! EXPLAIN JACK TO ME RIGHT NOW OR I’LL LITERALLY FUCKING KILL YOU! WHAT THE FUCK IS cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority -4) ? WHAT THE FUCK ARE JACKD and QJACKCTL? DON’T DUMB IT DOWN OR I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU

But seriously I’ve tried getting some music-making/software synths/recording/tracking software together and every time I just bounce off of it because setting it up is just too much effort/out of my regular software wheelhouse/the documentation is like 5 decade-old forum posts with 2 replys.

I’d say so - since you’re coming in relatively cold you’re probably not so used to Windows that you’d get frustrated with how Linux works compared to it, and if you’re just using it for regular, everyday stuff like web browsing there’s practically no difference.

I’ve been running Linux in some form since 2012 - I installed Ubuntu 12 on my old laptop and played around with it - was a pain so I dropped it for Windows until like… 2015? Then I went full into it as I started getting into programming and whatnot.

TBF to the Dutch, the regular food they serve you at a restaurant nowadays beats the USA by a mile.

I had fried gator and it was actually a pretty nice meat all considered - it had that “freshwater fish” taste that I kinda dislike but otherwise it was sort of a softer-textured chicken.

What I really appreciate is that it’s geared toward handhelds, but has a decent desktop experience and is powerful enough to be a nice mobile media/piracy box with a remote and a USB-C breakout dongle. You don’t even need to change the read-only filesystem if you use WireGuard VPN (this might take some legwork to generate the .conf files you need, depends on VPN provider) and a streaming/torrenting program that comes in flatpak.

EDIT: Also forgot, you can add a custom shortcut to your Steam Library and have (some) programs launch from the SteamOS frontend rather than desktop.

Valve tried selling Linux boxes for gaming back in 2013, but noone wanted to sell/make/buy them b/c the library wasn’t there and it’s a hard sell when Windows is already baked into OEM hardware pricing anyways (so it wasn’t any cheaper to buy a pre-made Steam Machine than it was a similar-spec windows box).

If someone you know has/if you have kids: car vaccumn. It’s thoughtful, useful, easier than stopping by the gas station just to clean out the family truckster, and you can find them for around $25 at Walmart.

% of the time I’m using nano to edit something in the terminal, and it’s usually something really minor. I’m using GUIs for the majority of my computing anyway, so if I need some robust text editing, I’ve got a bunch of easier-to-learn, easier-to-use options available, and that’s totally ignoring things like awk, grep, sed, etc.

One of the big buttons on that story is that in 1993, Los Angeles County Hospital had like… 2 incubators.

Psh. You posuer. I’ve converted my life savings to yuan notes and am now keeping them under the bed to reduce the circulation of cash in the Chinese economy.

I drink water, water comes out. I drink soda, water comes out. It’s pretty obvious, my body don’t want the water.

But well… you might be right. Non-linux sysadmins probably think it’s not possible and just hand out windows or mac.

I mean even if you were totally knowledgeable about it (Imo, as a non-IT person) it seems like it’s a hard sell in terms of effort/value unless it’s totally necessary esp if there’s an established user base for Mac/windows.

I guess it’s mostly because Mac and Windows are just easier to run for most organizations, and IME as someone who’s never worked at a software company, IT teams don’t have any interest in admin’ing Linux for a small handful of users.