Makes sense. Building a home ‘steam machine’ alternative for my home TV has been on my own todo list for awhile. (Unless I can get my hands om the real deal before I get around to it, I suppose.)

Thanks.

Thats makes me wonder if the dip there is natural wear and tear taking SteamDecks out of play, and folks not replacing them because there were none in stock for awhile this summer.

Does anyone have their Steam Holo yet? Or could that drop just be all of the Valve staff taking a break from their game testing?

Yes. In my opinion, both Sister Act films hold up.

I did a watch party with Sister Act 1/2 and School of Rock and some others, recently.

It also increased my respect for films like “School of Rock”, as “Sister Act” had to have been a tough act to dare to follow.

Yes. I was interested until I realized it’s Capcom.

Capcom needs to work much harder to rehab their reputation with me. I recall them adding DRM to games where, to me, it made no sense. Including weird, seemingly random timing for the change.

I get how there’s an argument to be had about fair online play, and stopping early pirates. But sometimes Capcom seems to me yo just be rolling dice, or trying yo meet an internal DRM use quota.

I do hate that about trains.

(Poe’s Law disclaimer: This is meant as obvious “yes, and” absurdist humor.)

FYI, whether fair or unfair, since you don’t mention having an error-catching mechanism, the rest of us suspect that Lumo is hallucinating things regularly, and you’re not catching the lies, because you lack familiarity with the original source material.

I desperately hope that AI makes drastically fewer mistakes in some roles than others, because most people do not report the error rates that I see in my areas of expertise. So either the errors aren’t happening evenly everywhere (probably true) or some people are simply not catching the many mistakes (also probably true, though?).

No, just an American, where a health challenge of any kind can potentially bankrupt me, because health care here is a criminally privatized corporate hellscape.

Bad llm code is just as bad as bad human code.

Bad LLM code is worse than bad human code. LLMs sanitize out markers that humans use to catch and correct mistakes.

Eye contact is benign for most of us. We still give it a context warning in civilized circles. It costs us almost nothing, and lets people make an informed decision what you engage with.

We got the nerd tech who exudes, “I’d rather be at ComiCon.”

Wow. That describes my whole team.

Probably depends where the Bayer funding is at.

Or does America have a unilatera free pass from trade dispute resolution

Maybe, or maybe not. But some rich folks - unaccustomed to consequences for their actions - feel that the only way to be sure is to put it to the test.

Faith of the Heart

Art belongs to all of us.

Yes!

I hope we can ensure that future generations remember Harriet Potter as a trans woman hero, long after Rowling has been forgotten.

And we can do that without giving Rowling any money.

also anyone here into manifestation/law of attraction, does it actually work for you? not asking to like wish for money lol, more curious how you actually get into a good headspace and stay there day to day

I remember the random people I’ve interacted that I really liked.

Then I taught myself enough acting skills to pretend to be that person.

(Edit: I’m not amazing at this. It just doesn’t take that much skill or effort to become a favorite customer, while so many customers suck.)

I get genrally better service than anyone else.

I also tip well, because I can. That probably helps, but that’s not why I do it.

As others said: Choose to fall in love with brushing and flossing your teeth.

Make that shit your “me” time.

Experiment with expensive or esoteric ways to make it feel great.

If it’s not the best part of your day, change things up until it is.

I would have suffered less if I had figured this out sooner.

does manifestation actually work

Not unless your parents are rich.

had some bad losses in trading lately, took a short break and now trying to actually fix my risk management before going back in

Good for you getting out. Don’t get back in. No more day trading. Day trading is anti-social shithead behavior, anyway. If you don’t feel bad for doing it, take a closer look. It doesn’t pass any kind of pro-social test.

if you’re older and already been through your 20s, what do you wish someone told you back then?

Someone did tell me this, but I was a stupid kid. I followed it, but I started stupdily late.

Maybe you’re smarter than I was, but forgive yourself later if you’re not - you’re at least in good company.

Here is is:

"Time in the market always beats market timing. Buy conservative things with real value - ideally that routinely pay a dividend. Hold on to them.

However powerful you think you know compounding interest is, you’re wrong. It’s substantially more powerful than that.

Get it - compounding interest - on your side right now, and keep it there, anytime you can.

Don’t take out any debt that you can possibly avoid."

Lots of organizations have a “ooh scary Linux” server or two that they rely on, but failed to retain the talent needed to maintain it. If you’ve been running desktop Linux, and know some basic command line tools, you’re way ahead of most people they will interview for the role.

The downside is that they might feel that they can maybe just keep ignoring their problem for another year, and some will.