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[–] [email protected] 2 points 30 minutes ago

At most I could see it being a kind of novelty for stuff like movie theaters to add to the immersion. And the obvious ads bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Is it really unreasonable to explain that nothing you do on a work computer is private, though?

Obviously you don't want to do any of that. But if you have a reasonable set up, you can when you need to, and telling people not to do shit they shouldn't on company hardware is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago

Ranked choice enables actual sane candidates, because people are allowed to vote for people who aren't insane without costing the lesser evil (because primaries massively benefit the most liberal/conservative in their respective parties) their vote.

Third party candidates are wasted votes now. Ranked choice lets you vote for them, then if they're eliminated, you still get to vote for the less bad person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, I'm not. People don't turn down free stuff with no strings attached. It doesn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Because it's free. I guarantee you 90% of people will take free shit if offered free shit.

Including it for free completely undermines the whole reason for removing the cable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Then everyone will claim one and you'll increase waste.

The whole reason they're removing the cable is because of pressure from governments not to waste materials including it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have massively better quality, stability, and latency with the RemotePlay app over the internet from PS5 than I do with Steam in home streaming actually in my house. It's still not good enough for high precision games, but Steam isn't close.

PS4 can't stream for shit because it can't do the encoding.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

His brain is still fucked.

It's too early for him to seriously evaluate anything. Just rule him out, let him recover, then convince him in the offseason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, the OP did.

Edited for clarity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Because there's very little overlap between people who need them and people who know that it's an option.

The people claiming them would primarily be people like me who do know how it works, know that I probably won't use it, but am going to take it anyways, because it's free and because it is within the realm of possibility that I need another cable as a temporary replacement until I get another one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It would be a handheld console that would play their console library. They'd beat the Steam Deck's sales volume as fast as they could manufacture them. Also, the Steam deck doesn't do the triggers, which is a meaningful loss in plenty of PS5 games.

My actual point, though, was that the build quality for the price is really good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I love my Steam deck, and bounce between how heavily I use it vs the switch* or PS5 depending on the games I'm into at the moment. But misrepresenting its utility as a modern living room PC (like the OP) doesn't help anyone and is just going to leave people disappointed.

The PS5 is probably my smallest library (and mostly PS4 games, a lot of which were before I had a PC), but it's definitely plenty capable and I don't regret the purchase at all. (The controller is also the coolest non graphics addition to gaming I've experienced in a long time).

*The switch desperately needs a 3rd party replacement for the controllers, though, because the joycons are bad brand new.

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