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[–] who@feddit.org 0 points 4 hours ago

I did call out data density in my first comment. Did you somehow miss that? Not all things that need storing are megabytes in size, though.

Why would you assume that paper means punch cards? Printers can store far more than a machine word on a page, are relatively cheap, and are widely available. For some things, this can be superior to both magnetic and flash storage.

[–] who@feddit.org 17 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

IMHO, two hours is not nearly enough to get a feel for a game. At least, not for the sorts of games I tend to play. I spend longer than that just working through initial technical issues, configuration, and (in games that have one) the character generator.

I have to conclude that Steam's return window is either intended to be just enough to see if you can get it running, or as much as Valve could talk publishers into tolerating.

[–] who@feddit.org 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] who@feddit.org 19 points 1 day ago

IIRC, the creator's medical bills were the motivator for bringing it to Steam with graphics upgrades. I'm glad to see he's finding success here.

[–] who@feddit.org -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was excluding media that are impractical for most people to use.

[–] who@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Strictly speaking, I think paper beats magnetic tape on longevity.

Unfortunately, it loses on data density.

[–] who@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

I haven't tried it yet, but I expect it will be nice to be able to compare our own hardware performance to the benchmarks we see in reviews, and do apples-to-apples comparisons with the results reported by Windows users when performance tuning.

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[–] who@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Which ants? What important work do they do?

Where I come from, Argentine ants are dominant, and considered pests. Apparently, there is also some evidence of them being problematic for pollinators.

[–] who@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I know I didn’t put adaptive in there, but that is what I meant when I said the triggers don’t work.

Yes, I understood, but I wanted to clarify for the sake of other readers who wouldn't. Most people who don't have a DualSense don't know about its adaptive triggers, since they're not a common feature on game controllers and not used by most games.

And how do you get the touchpad to work? I can get the buttons on it to work, but I haven’t gotten the mouse-like touch input to actually work, despite being able to map it.

On the desktop, I didn't have to do a thing. It was automatically recognized when I connected the device, and I could move the mouse pointer and click right away. (I ended up disabling it in Xfce, because it sometimes got in my way.)

In Steam, I usually remap areas of it to produce keyboard events (useful in Elite Dangerous), but I think it can also be mapped as a mouse. I haven't fiddled with Steam Input's many options in a while.

[–] who@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

Critics, however, see a more nefarious White House agenda – namely, gutting universities of what it sees as a liberal-left bias, while using antisemitism as a cudgel in an authoritarian power grab.

Seems to me that crying liberal bias is just a lie behind another a lie.

Education tends to counter authoritarianism/fascism.

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