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Steam Frame starts at $1059(store.steampowered.com)
734 points by bsimpson 2d ago|634 comments
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by bsimpson 6d ago
Copyright has been broken for decades. Disney famously lobbied to pervert it for a century longer than reasonable. (Hence, the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.) I'm honestly amazed we finally have new entrants to the public domain again
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by bsimpson 7d ago
I often feel like I'm the only person using jsxstyle, which is wild since it was done by Pete Hunt, same guy who spun React out of Instagram.
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by bsimpson 7d ago
The aspect ratio is the biggest problem with foldables. The main reason I'd want a bigger display is for more immersive content like videos, which are typically 16:9. On a Pixel Fold, you have all the added complexity of the fold to m
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by bsimpson 7d ago
It's my primary role. I started using jsxstyle a dozen years ago alongside React and really liked the ability to style my components in situ without breaking browser architecture assumptions. I recently had to help out on a vibe coded
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by bsimpson 7d ago
My Legion Go came with a free Game Pass trial. I spent 20 minutes playing No Man's Sky in VR and liked it, bought it on Steam, but haven't actually played it yet. Maybe this is the nudge to move it higher in my queue.
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by bsimpson 8d ago
I often use Google Deep Research when I want it to actually go out and find an answer for me, but the prompt must have a high school essay requirement in there. Nothing I can do prevents it from giving me a page of background that tries to
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by bsimpson 13d ago
That's assuming there's an alternative. Yes, the language should be clear and precise. Also, if the whole industry string-replaces "lease" for "buy," I doubt the effect will be much.
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by bsimpson 13d ago
It's incoherent. They're also forcing Stage Tour to include discs with their guitar bundles, even though many PS5s can't play discs.
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by bsimpson 13d ago
Then the button becomes License and everyone knows that's the one you click to buy. As much as I empathize with (and even support) the reasoning, I wonder if it would have a tangible effect. Is there anyone who was gonna click "b
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by bsimpson 14d ago
> said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. That must have been in drafts for a while.
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by bsimpson 16d ago
There's a hot spring under the ocean off the coast of Steep Ravine in Stinson Beach. It emerges for like 6h at a time - twice a month - for low tide. People who were young and adventurous before there was an internet have been going f
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by bsimpson 19d ago
Funny - Stage Tour (a Rock Band revival game) announced this week. There was a big chat in their Discord about AI, and stem separation was one of the use cases that came up. As a side, it's a bummer how many similar names there are.
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by bsimpson 20d ago
Economically, it's a problem long-term. Dollars only have value if you can buy things with them. Japan, China, Saudi Arabia - countries we've had trade deficits with - have been buying our business, infrastructure, and real esta
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by bsimpson 20d ago
Which takes us back to the root of this thread. His perception when he was running was "popular, well intentioned, and naive" for the reasons you're outlining. Yet what people have been experiencing isn't a mayor trying
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by bsimpson 21d ago
I've never had an Instagram account, and I'm trying to keep it that way.
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by bsimpson 21d ago
Are there any Instagram equivalents that don't suck? People love to virtue signal by linking to Twitter proxies, but Instagram is still a walled garden that all sorts of useful information (event details, restaurant menus, etc.) is loc
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by bsimpson 21d ago
Robin Williams broke my perception of a lot of things when he died. I was 27 then, and it's already been a dozen years.
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by bsimpson 21d ago
It's kind of funny that Facebook tried to launder its brand by renaming itself Meta, and its vile reputation is haunting that brand now too. New name is so abstract is sounds vaguely dystopian. Not sure that it matters though, because
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by bsimpson 21d ago
Have they? I know a lot of my peers went to college for free with the Millennium Scholarship. But so many young people vape now that it's becoming cool to smoke analog cigarettes. I barely knew anyone who smoked 10-20y ago. Many peop
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by bsimpson 22d ago
My mom had T1D onset in her 50s. (It's usually thought of as a children's disease.) She figured it out because she recognized the symptoms of ketoacidosis. That sent her to the hospital, which has thankfully allowed her to outli
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by bsimpson 23d ago
I found my own Vespa!
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by bsimpson 27d ago
According to the article, budgets were cut when the USSR fell.
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by bsimpson 29d ago
Ridiculous regulations have been California's MO since at least the middle of the last century. Why in the hell should the government be regulating this?
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by bsimpson 29d ago
I have a Z1 Extreme that has 16GB shared between the CPU and GPU (what AMD calls the APU). I've noticed that mangohud, the SteamOS utility that shows performance diagnostics, often reports RAM + VRAM numbers that exceed 16GB. I'
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by bsimpson 29d ago
I opened this thread to see if he was active in it. Disappointed that I haven't seen him in here.
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by bsimpson 29d ago
> installing official updates should extend the warranty. That sounds like a big incentive to never ship updates.
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by bsimpson 29d ago
Lenovo also just had it happen with their Legion Go. They finally pulled the BIOS from distribution, but doesn't sound like they're doing anything to help the victims whose devices got bricked by a bad update.
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by bsimpson 1mo ago
So the euphemism treadmill is spinning the other direction
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by bsimpson 1mo ago
It's so frustrating that Social Security reform became the "are you a good progressive?" litmus test in the early 00s. We've had our wages tithed for our whole lives - money that would be actually worth something in ret

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