wischi

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[โ€“] wischi 1 points 3 months ago

Yea because wheels suck on sand.

[โ€“] wischi 39 points 3 months ago (5 children)

"none of my friends from high school have ever bothered to contact me".

Best line ๐Ÿคฃ Maybe you should contact them.

[โ€“] wischi 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Compared to many countries in Europe even US "left" is pretty right.

[โ€“] wischi 1 points 3 months ago

I guess that's true and I certainly don't have anything against the concept of a constitution, but as someone not living in the US I find it pretty strange that so many Americans treat the constitution like some holy religious text.

[โ€“] wischi 30 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's not like the constitution is some infallible magic text, it was also "invented" by some dudes.

[โ€“] wischi 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably to make sure the customers know that they mean it. There are often a lot of people coming in one minute before closing time that don't leave in time.

[โ€“] wischi 11 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Because of the shadow maybe. But it's practically impossible to offset the human carbon footprint with trees.

[โ€“] wischi 4 points 4 months ago

Given the fact that a fair price for a real town sign is about 175โ‚ฌ somebody will probably just rob the vending machine, either to get the money or a sign. Maybe a card only vending machine would work but changing the name to "Fugging" was probably simpler.

[โ€“] wischi 6 points 4 months ago

But be sure to read the top comment first ;-)

[โ€“] wischi 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

That likely wouldn't have helped, because sadly some people still think it's funny to steal the actual town signs. I guess even if they'd sell identical 1:1 signs for a fair price, some people would still steal the installed ones.

[โ€“] wischi 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ok I also try it one last time ๐Ÿคฃ

Go to Google images and search for "Desktop". What you see is Desktop machines amd setups and how I and the vast majority of the world use the word "Desktop".

Now search for "handheld game console". It's very likely that one of the first few results is literally a SteamDeck.

Now back to the stats. As I already said. SteamDeck will be tracked as a Desktop because stat tracking sites just use Browser User Agents and try to detect what the device actually is, but that's very hard if not right out impossible because clients (including the SteamDeck) intentionally (for privacy and compatibility reasons) lie about what they are all the time!

If you take your mobile browser and enable "Desktop site" or "Desktop mode" it will lie(!) and make the server think it's a Desktop - even though it is really not. A smartphone doesn't magically become a Desktop PC. If I browse the web with my typical mobile browser - every site will track my activity as smartphone. If I switch to Desktop mode most sites will track me as a Linux Desktop Machine. But my device has not changed.

So you are right that the SteamDeck is tracked as a Desktop PC. But that's because the Server has has either no better category for the device or can't determine what the device really is because it lies about what it is.

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

Stat tracking always had (and will have) two big issues (which can't really be fixed).

Devices which lie about what they are (see link above) and the problem that they have to come up with some categories and there will always be some devices which fall between the categories (Think fridge, microwaves, sex toys, etc.).

If your SteamDeck is currently actually connected to a monitor a mouse and a keyboard than you are actually using it as a Desktop PC. But if you use it like most people - even though the SteamDeck lies about it - it's not a Desktop, because the word "Desktop" really is about the form factor - it's not just my definition. Give any of your friends a piece of paper and a pencil and ask them to draw a Desktop PC - I would actually be amazed if anybody in the world (even you! outside the context of this discussion) would draw anything even remotely resembling a Steam Deck.

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[โ€“] wischi 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Desktop is a form factor not "software" and there are microwaves and refrigerators with "PC hardware" (in quotes, because it's actually a pretty ill-defined term), but they still are not "Desktops" even is you install Fedora on your fridge.

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