garciansmith

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by garciansmith 4d ago
Not to be confused with Decky[1] for Steam Deck. [1] https://decky.xyz/
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by garciansmith 9d ago
Keep all the processing on device? Do so in a way that is legal in the jurisdiction you are selling the devices in without claiming it's the owner's responsibility to get consent from all individuals (even if they cannot legally c
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by garciansmith 10d ago
The argument hinges on Ganon's sprite in the original Legend of Zelda looking like the a monster from Kamen Rider and the skull on Ganon's belt looking like the monster group's symbol. I don't think either looks similar,
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by garciansmith 13d ago
I mean, sure, but you seemed to be differentiating the Playdate from other video game hardware. Maybe I misunderstood.
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by garciansmith 13d ago
I think the makers of the Playdate have always been pretty clear about what the console is about. And I'm not sure you could ever consider a video game console a "practical" purchase. You never need to play video games. Vid
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by garciansmith 15d ago
Wasn't the 9-2x just a rebadged Subaru Impreza?
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by garciansmith 17d ago
But he didn't need to do that before either. He did it because he cared (in a weird way, sure). And some people will still care. Video game text FAQs in general though were a dying genre before gen AI anyhow. Something I bemoan when I
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by garciansmith 19d ago
Yeah, previous discussion about this issue with LG monitors and TVs is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956688
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by garciansmith 1mo ago
At least in whatever apartment you can afford you won't trip constantly due to each of the four rooms having slightly different floor heights. And you won't have a wall that extends into another room but somehow not take up the sp
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by garciansmith 1mo ago
So many companies and individuals using AI and are like, here's our (sloppy) product! Whether it's a game or program or just a blog post. But it's not theirs. They didn't create it. They can't claim copyright over i
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by garciansmith 1mo ago
It's still a security risk though: you still have to visit those sites to determine if they have ads or not. Why browse without proper protection?
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by garciansmith 1mo ago
EA-3167 is referring to Iran, not Ukraine.
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by garciansmith 1mo ago
There's a MiSTer core: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/BBCBridgeCompanion_MiSTer
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by garciansmith 1mo ago
I'm continually baffled that there are people on HN that browse the internet without a content blocker. UBlock origin on Firefox, I see none of what you describe. I just wouldn't read anything except Wikipedia if I didn't use
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
> Sony is discontinuing disc sales as a response to how gamers are buying games not the other way around. I disagree. They are using that as an excuse, when in reality they simply desire more control. When Sony releases their sales numbe
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
I disagree about drywall versus plaster, save for ease of repair. Maybe it's just in most cases you won't encounter the highest quality drywall, nor will the installation be well done and actually last even if, in theory, it could
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
There are some spots in the US where you drive on the left, albeit for a short distance and the road is divided. Still messes with my brain. E.g., here in the northern suburbs of Detroit (W. Big Beaver going under I-75): https://
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
You don't care about game ownership, collecting physical media or being able to sell or let someone borrow your games, nor that a big company controls when you can play your games. Ok. Do you not understand that other people do care ab
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
"Somewhat dishonest"? It's plagiarism. Just because you claim the output of a machine as your own instead of the writing of another human as your own doesn't somehow make it yours and not plagiarism.
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
It also lists some "castles" that no longer exist, e.g., Fort Detroit, which was where downtown is and very much not extant (and not to be confused with Fort Wayne to the southwest of downtown, which does exist but isn't on t
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
What is microtx? I see some Oracle product called that but I don't get what it has to do with games.
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
This article is just a summary of one from Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-07-17/valve-...
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
If Windows continually supports third parties installing malware (without your consent and through Windows update, not some third party updater), at what point can the OS itself be considered malware?
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
The selling point, for me, is that it's a console in both form factor (not a PC tower, smaller than small PC cases) and easy of use (you plug it in, you play games, no shopping around for parts), yet because it's a PC you have con
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
SteamOS uses KDE Plasma for the desktop mode, not Gnome.
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
Not only do you have to build them, but in all those builds the cases are several times larger than the Steam Machine, so they are not actually equivalent. If you care about the form factor, there is nothing directly comparable.
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
The author of this article is way too kind to LG. They write: "I think the terms and conditions are an attempt at corporate ass-covering rather than something sinister: the preceding paragraph talks specifically about when 'a prod
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
This is also about monitors (as per the article, even the title...). Those are dumb and can't connect to the internet, but as soon as you connect them to a Windows 11 PC software is automatically downloaded. "As Gamers Nexus repor
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
Tired of adware and spyware on TVs? Get a monitor that doesn't connect to the internet... and Windows will happily install spyware for you. N.B., the title here is wrong, this is about computer monitors, not TVs.
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
Plus: (1) the security camera footage is constantly overwritten. (2) the video from the glasses is being uploaded to Meta .

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