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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago (16 children)

It's good. The steam deck's version of steamOS is arch based, so that should tell you a lot about its capabilities.

I'd recommend choosing an Arch-based distro like Endeavour or Garuda so you don't have to go through the rigmarole of installing vanilla Arch.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago

As long as they are truthful they only report on the quality of the product and prevent many people of spending a lot of money from losing it by buying something that doesn't work.

Well, yeah sure. The problem is whether or not that's actually what's happening in any given circumstance. Most reviewers I've seen are more than happy to include personal opinion, and some will exagerrate points for the sake of getting views.

Things get even more fraught when the reviewer is a bigger company than the company whose product is being reviewed. For example the debacle with Linus Tech Tips and Billet labs that they were dragged for. That's the kind of coverage that absolutely can sink a company that seemingly only ever did exactly what they said they would.

Reviews are good if they present the important facts and generally act with integrity, but sometimes that's a really big 'if'.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago

Just wait for Windows 10's service life to run out. That's when I'm switching full time

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Computers are dumb and need to be told how to take the data of an image (stored as a long series of 1s and 0s in memory) and draw it on the screen so you can see it. The people writing the software to do that needed an image to test with, just to make sure everything was working right.

Either because they were a bunch of lonely geeks in the 70s or they didn't have any other good photos to scan in, they used a headshot of a PlayBoy model. They couldn't have known that it would effectively become one of the first digital memes, meaning it's still semi-frequently used by graphics programmers (professionals and enthusiasts).

I can't claim to speak on the model's motives, but it's not hard to imagine that having their headshot used in perpetuity without consent would make someone uncomfortable.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 8 months ago

Many parts of the Internet has become functionally unusable without one. And given online advertising's history as a vector for malware, as blockers are just the sensible choice.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Bruh the first 6 months of cyberpunk were an unofficial early access

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Props to him for talking about it. A lot of people get too embarrassed to tell anyone they got scammed. The reality is that phishing works on a ton of people and we should avoid shaming the victims. Everyone's acts like they're a digital security expert until their credit card gets stolen.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a credit card, they don't typically have pins like debit cards do. They do have a 3 digit CVC code on the back, but 3 digits is pretty easy to get just by brute force guessing.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 9 months ago

Worth noting he's a senator in the state legislature, not one of Georgia's federal senators who are both broadly pro LGBT+

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

It's a slow month, I guess

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

I wrote out my turn signal stalk tacking across lanes driving up a headwind the other day. 0/10.

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