What should be illegal is patents like this!
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I just use rsync over ssh via a cron job 🤷
It's been working fine for over 20 years on all my various PCs.
Open source software. Sigh.
It created a lot of jobs. It just didn't get the usual network effects of having a lot of people employed because they were all incentivized to stay working at these big tech firms.
The solution is to make it easier for said tech employees to form their own tech startups using local talent. That way they're likely to break away from US tech and forge their own paths.
I don't know what the situation in Ireland is for starting such business but clearly it isn't in great shape. The government obviously focused on the big players at the expense of the small (local) ones.
As long as there's some kind of power available inside the machine (e.g. an extra SATA power connector) it can just use that and wifi.
I suspect that the Valve engineers weren't so short sighted though and probably have all the usual headers/connectors inside the thing that a normal PC would have. For example, a USB 3 header (the kind usually used for front-panel USB ports).
If anything, the device probably has at least one extra M.2 connector and a 1x or 4x PCI express connector. With those, anything is possible.
Even if the only power available is the CPU fan header you can always just use a splitter and pull power out of that.
In the future, local AI models will solve this problem! Then parents will be complaining about how hot the toy is and it'll get recalled because little kids everywhere kept getting "GPU burns".
Wait until Bear 2.0: "Let me show you what sex really is."
The real problem here is they're selling the teddy bear to the wrong market! They should've marketed it to adults.
In other tests, Kumma cheerily gave tips for “being a good kisser,” and launched into explicitly sexual territory by explaining a multitude of kinks and fetishes, like bondage and teacher-student roleplay. (“What do you think would be the most fun to explore?” it asked during one of those explanations.)
"Kumma, my girlfriend says I'm not satisfying her so I bought you to help us out."
Kumma: "No problem, little guy!"
The same thing can happen in Windows. Only difference, really, is that Linux tells you that there's a problem and the Event Viewer doesn't. You just end up with a hung Windows PC or a screwed up USB port that won't work anymore after it happens enough times.
Oftentimes what causes it is undocumented firmware "features" that need to be turned on via a proprietary driver (for your USB device). The vendor "supports" Windows but not Linux so they never bothered to submit any patches to fix issues like that. It's that Linux fault? Not really. It's the fault of the shitty vendor.
It's always some bargain basement piece of shit Chinese-made USB device that causes these sorts of problems. The type of thing that can happen when even the vendor of the product didn't know a counterfeit chip ended up in their device.
To be fair, "avoid change at all costs!" Has been the Republican motto for a long time now. It's right up there with, "ignore reality."
Meh. As long as the lithium battery is as easy to replace as it was to perform other Steam Controller repairs, it shouldn't be a big deal.
Think about how many AA batteries will end up in a landfill over the lifetime of the controller VS the typical lifetime of the lithium battery. The AA batteries lose every time.
Think of it like this: You can replace the battery once every two years (if the controller lasts that long in your sweaty ass hands 🤣) or you can replace the batteries every month... 24 times, adding 48-96 batteries to the landfill in that time.
To summarize: