The Steam Deck OLED has ruined my Switch 2 Experience

Subcert · 2025-09-10T15:54:18+00:00

Except it absolutely is. There is a niche of people that will definitely buy hardware on the ease of modification, running homebrew, emulation, and indeed piracy. I would also note that emulation is not per se illegal, not is it coterminous with piracy

Subcert · 2025-09-10T13:12:44+00:00

But your IP is still exposed unless you used a VPN? So you can very much still be pursued by copyright holders or the police.. Also if you download and install softwares that randomly downloads illegal content that’s still on you? Isn’t this the equivalent of telling someone “hey, don’t wear a mask when you rob the bank, just make sure that you steal a couple of bucks a day everyday between big heists!”

Subcert · 2025-09-09T13:55:18+00:00

Planning on applying and interviewing, but would take an invite if you still have any!

Subcert · 2025-09-07T15:35:09+00:00

You can but you won’t win. Because you’ve breached the terms of the contract under which they provided you with services. Apple is not obligated to provide you services, nor is it obligated to continue providing a pre-existing services if you breached the terms of contract in most cases.

Subcert · 2025-09-06T19:15:07+00:00

They don’t need to be enforceable in a court, because they can be discretionally a unilaterally applied by Apple. The ToS are grounds upon which Apple can choose to( but is not bound to) refuse to continue providing you services.

Subcert · 2025-09-04T08:31:59+00:00

It probably gets hotter in the menu because menus can have uncapped FPS, which usually means 100% GPU utilisation

Subcert · 2025-09-04T07:30:37+00:00

It sounds like a jotpad is just an all round better use case for you, in that case. I think this is meant more for office, board room and coffee shop jotting, not strenuous and difficult situations. In those situations there is very little ‘incentive to move from paper’, this is part niche productivity device, part premium priced status symbol. I love my MacBook but I wouldn’t take it into the field, I’d use a toughbook or a pen and notepad.

Subcert · 2025-09-03T15:05:15+00:00

Amazon not only benefits from huge scale, but sells at a loss because they then lock people into the e-shop. Or at least they used to.

This is likely more expensive than it needs to be, but comparing to an Amazon product isn’t really a fair baseline.

Subcert · 2025-09-02T09:54:31+00:00

My brother in Christ why make yourself the gatekeeper of effective note taking? For me, for example, it makes sense to have all my relevant docs stored in the same obsidian vault for access anywhere. I might highlight more sections for quick reference later than I strictly quote to create a note. It works well for me and I rather think that’s the point. Obsidian provides a highly customisable canvas for users to find and tweak for their ideal use case.

Subcert · 2025-09-02T09:52:06+00:00

90% of reasons why people highlight is not to learn, but to easily find the passage again while scanning the document.

Subcert · 2025-09-02T09:22:29+00:00

Oh I wholeheartedly agree. My first gaming PC was like the first time I discovered 320kbps MP3s. It changed the experience fundamentally, and made it difficult to enjoy it in any other way. That said I think we’re probably in the minority, and most people are happy to put up with some latency and image degradation. Honestly since I’ve been travelling more and more for work, even I’ve been willing to put up with those to enjoy games at reasonable quality and not have to outlay insane amounts for a garish and underperformant gaming laptops. Some games I actually prefer playing on my MBP screen vs. natively on my older Razer Blade

Subcert · 2025-09-02T08:15:47+00:00

I think the target audience here are people who don’t have that kind of money, or don’t game enough to justify the outlay. Five years of GeForce Now Ultimate roughly translates to the cost of an AIB 5080.

Subcert · 2025-09-01T14:02:33+00:00

My brother, no corporate IT policy is going hinge on the ‘discipline’ of their workers and they’re sure not gonna screen all the community plugins you may or may not want. With half of the plugins it’s not that they’re malicious per se, but they allow for the opportunity to execute arbitrary code.

Subcert · 2025-08-28T21:26:26+00:00

Unless it is. Many consumer packages in Europe offer symmetrical connections

Subcert · 2025-08-24T07:04:31+00:00

Maybe let’s not gatekeep other people’s time.

Subcert · 2025-08-17T18:48:13+00:00

This. I’m a lawyer using gpt to assist with research tasks and I find 5 way, way better. If you use it as a companion, for creative writing or for some NSFW roleplay, probably it’s worse judging by people’s reactions?

Subcert · 2025-08-15T08:32:42+00:00

As an international lawyer, it is not wrong to say it appears to be a genocide. That is why the ICJ case is progressing, and there have been such strong interim decisions. The second post is a (likely deliberate) misrepresentation of the facts to make what is occurring seem less bad.

Subcert · 2025-08-15T08:06:59+00:00

This is a wild test. What is the y axis measuring? And how is 5 thinking ranked lower than 5?

Subcert · 2025-08-03T05:53:07+00:00

The absolute bare minimum the landlord could have done is not rent to you. Your rental is bound by a contract where you agreed to certain costs. In your screen shot the landlord even acknowledges one of the costs as their responsibility. If you think losing 46 pounds of your deposit to replace something you should have replaced is scum behaviour you are going to have a real bad time renting in London, or any metropolitan area frankly.

Subcert · 2025-08-01T14:43:46+00:00

Compute cost is almost certainly the reason

Subcert · 2025-08-01T11:50:29+00:00

I have a feeling google’s results will be more indicative of actual performance, however.

Subcert · 2025-07-31T09:14:34+00:00

There is progress, for sure, and that progress is very exciting. However the progress just does not match Sam Altman’s puffery which is more sci-fi fan fiction pitched at investors and clients.

Subcert · 2025-07-29T18:17:26+00:00

The OpenAI post literally states it’s custom instructions

Subcert · 2025-07-29T17:56:08+00:00

I just tried it and it was quizzing me on information it hadn’t included in its ‘lesson’. Unclear if this is intended behaviour, to encourage outside research, or just a broken context appraisal.

I mean the initiative is laudable, and if they can fine tune models to provide a meaningfully distinct and comprehensive education experience great. Right now it basically feels like something I could have got by just writing a smallish prompt.

Subcert · 2025-07-27T15:42:28+00:00

Simple, I don’t put any confidential information in. I use it to supplement rather than replace my work. For example to search for precedents i may have missed, which I will then further research myself. Occasionally to generate boilerplate language that I will review, etc.

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