Legend has it, this was a real problem in the Vietnam War. Soldiers would roll a grenade into the officers tent while they slept.

Because there are random hands and faces all over the place, random cartoon characters and every frame had no connection with the next frame except the to foreground characters?

This thing is chaos.

That would be hilarious. Just start challenging anyone and everyone with a MAGAt sticker just before the election and lock them all down in pointless bureaucracy of proving their citizenship

Personally, I think Asus is good on paper but the products are usually poorly assembled and don’t last. I recommend the SD or Legion.

Must be a pic from a few years ago, now they’re basically town homes with about 3ft in between them so they can cram more in but still list it as a single house. Plus just enough land to fit the structure on, then they sell it for twice as much as the 20yo house down the road with at least an acre.

So applicants are being sorted by browser? How does that indicate adaptability? So if they use Netscape are they too old or too stubborn or too niche for the job? I use Chrome at work and another browser at home, does that mean I get moved to the top of the application list?

I would think some more interesting data points would be what OS were they on or how quickly and accurately they filled out the application or if their resume rambles on with no substance or if they haphazardly used buzz words or look for signs that they didn’t create their own resume.

That’s ridiculous and doesn’t suggest anything other than that’s their preferred browser. That’s just data to be collected for statistics and shouldn’t even be relevant. I’m interviewing the person, not their data, their data could influence if they get an interview if there’s actually something interesting in the data, but the browser just seems very odd thing to focus on.

It’s worse than you think, AI did the screening interview. I would have run from this company, if they’re willing to use AI to conduct an interview then they are going to treat you like crap if they hire you. They basically just let you know that you weren’t even worth interacting with by a human. Screw that place.

So we can all line up to throw garbage at them? You know, return the favor.

They did confirm two tiers for the Machine a 512gb and a 2tb. If they come out with a bare bones I’ve got a couple 500gb or 250gb drives lying around from old builds.

I’ll sell you mine for $200 plus shipping

Jokes are hard

If Linux could run AutoCAD and didn’t have issues with anti cheat programs then I probably would have fully committed to the switch.

Before any says anything, yes I know there are CAD alternatives but all of my custom tools only work in AutoCAD and I have no idea how to recreate half of them if I had to and I wouldn’t know how to do it in another app anyway. Plus AutoCAD is the industry standard so for compatibility reasons, I’m locked in.

I would say that it’s as simple as adding a prompt during initial user setup with check boxes. Would you like windows to handle XYZ for you? Instead of assuming all users just want to use their computers to become influencers and forcing frustrating problems onto everyone.

It may have started out with “hey we are doing this for your own good” to now it’s “how can we exploit ignorance and data mine our users and put ads on the desktop?”

The thing that’s driving me away from windows is how pushy it’s gotten. Forced updates, ads, AI, OneDrive, and subscriptions. I just want to be able to turn on MY computer and do what I want or need without having my guard up that I can’t trust my home PC with my privacy.

Windows 11 is ok, but is frustrating to use and I can’t trust it not to screw with settings and there seems to be something annoying added instead of something useful with every update. I also hate the Settings menu, it’s like an unhelpful layer between you and Control Panel the eventually will take you to the same place but took 5 more clicks and searching through drop downs for a link to what you needed.

It’s optimized for gaming and you can install a lot of standard Linux apps. But it only works on specific hardware like the Deck and Legion at the moment, the Frame and Machine should be running their versions. A lot of things that come in a standard Distro for PCs have been removed that you might take for granted. I like to think of it as a balance between PC and game console, remember when you could side load Linux onto a PS3, sort of like that.

I use my Deck in desktop mode and connect it to my TV for web browsing, Steamlink to my tower and occasionally use the Libre apps, but I wouldn’t recommend using it as your daily PC. It doesn’t exactly feel like a fully fleshed out PC, hard to put a finger on it until you use it.

Listen to sports commentators out of context. Sounds pretty gay to me

Simon didn’t say put your hands up…BANG

I love your enthusiasm but Valve makes hardware to sell more Steam games. I don’t think they would make a phone controller unless the intent was to push Steamlink. I could see a whole ecosystem of Steam products if the Machine takes off.

Official keyboard and mouse would be great for the Deck and Machine. When I’m not traveling or sitting at my desk I plug my Deck into my TV and having something native and Steam branded would be great because I enjoy playing FPS and RTS.

I would really like for Valve to put a mag on the back of the Deck, maybe for Deck 2. Like a Magsafe/MagGo. I have The Mechanism (Deckmate) and it’s fantastic, I really recommend it, the variety of parts and attachments really cover a lot of bases. But it’s not perfect, the clips sometimes break and they attach using double sided tape, so you have to peel it off and clean it up, then stick a new one on. Wireless charging on the Deck doesn’t seem practical but there’s a lot of great Mag stuff already out there.

Valve should also open up LAN play. If I have friends over and I have a PC/Steam Machine/Deck then I would like to be logged in on multiple systems if they’re connected via LAN instead of logging me out of the other PC if I try to launch a game while a game is running. I’m sure this is a built in security measure, but I’m sure a guest account would be do able, like on consoles.

A premium bag/case for the Deck. Check out The Mechanism Bag, it’s expensive but I believe it the best bag out there. I would like to see the Deck 2 come with a much better bag/case than the one the Deck came with. I carry a charger, battery pack, folding keyboard, mouse, headphones, kickstand, sometimes a HDMI combo charger and attach a pair of controllers. My son and I will play local multiplayer games on long trips. I can fit everything, except for the controllers, in The Mechanism Bag. But I attach the controllers to a carabiner to the bag.

The Mechanism

Only available for phones you’ve never heard of or phones no one bought. Like Volla or Pine or Fair, and very specific versions.

Streaming cloud PC

Now you just need this $500 device that’s about as powerful as a $75 Roku to stream a virtual PC to your home. You will store all of your data on the cloud where you and everyone else can access it, you will own nothing and we will sell your data for profit. All for just $19.99 a month.

Your PC as a service!

As a bonus, when one persons account is hacked then everyone’s data is exposed! By agreeing to use our service you waive all rights to sue or reclaim any data. You get to pay a monthly fee for accessing your private data, what could be better!

My grandparents had one, it made an awful screeching sound

How dare she, Lower Decks is exactly what it should be and we should have gotten 9 seasons.

I give SFA a pass because it’s recovering from DISCO fever and is moving in the right direction and because the burn would reshape and change a lot of what we would consider Starfleet without a fleet. The actors not being physically fit I can forgive because the federation split Starfleet into separate military and science during the burn, so those left in the science part might not have been the most physically fit or emotionally mature.

The Jem Hadar slash Klingon vice principal does seem a little weird but it could be brushed away with the time jump. A lot can happen in almost a thousand years.

I get that a thousand years later tech has changed but the academy being a ship with wings seemed dumb and I hope it never comes up again. Having a dedicated ship for the academy seems practical, like having a bus for field trips. Having a ship built like a satellite campus of a community college that flies through space just seems odd, impractical and inefficient. Why not an actual real training ship to give cadets practical experience or are we supposed to believe that ships of the era all have an open courtyard in the center.