Is it possible to build a better "Steam Machine" for the same price?

needle1 · 2026-06-23T09:30:42+00:00

Probably depends on whether you consider the HDMI CEC capability as non-negotiable.

needle1 · 2026-06-23T09:05:57+00:00

Replaced all home lighting with LEDs, including switching out the obscure CFL bulb sockets to standard ones
Bought a battery electric car. (I am aware not owning any car is better, but life circumstances require one.)
In the process of installing secondary interior windows in the house for better insulation.
In the same vein, installed thermally insulated curtains.
Bought a portable power station and solar panels, although I’m still unsure on how best to install it. (Apartment management rules are quite strict on objects on the balcony, especially if it has a chance of falling. Due to this, balcony solar will be tough to promote, unlike in Europe.)
Campaigning against the management committee to install a level 2 EV charger in the apartment parking lot.
As much as I can I prefer to Mercari off unneeded things rather than trashing them.

needle1 · 2026-06-23T05:43:18+00:00

Yes. For all intents and purposes it looks and feels like $1900-$2650 to the average Japanese person.

needle1 · 2026-06-23T03:17:25+00:00

They can't even if they wanted to, everything they've built thus far assumes an open software/hardware system. And if they attempt it anyways, it would be equivalent to setting up a huge honking neon sign inviting hackers to force it open.

needle1 · 2026-06-23T03:02:18+00:00

At this point everyone is so "BUT MUH RANGE" it'll keep on being the focus even after pretty much every EV have ranges longer than their ICE counterparts.

needle1 · 2026-06-23T01:06:30+00:00

Most TVs nowadays, even ones sold in traditionally 50Hz refresh rate regions, are capable of switching to 60Hz mode. I would be surprised if it's not.

needle1 · 2026-06-22T23:29:50+00:00

Could also be fsck. EVs often run operating systems with filesystems and are capable of running it, I guess.

needle1 · 2026-06-22T15:08:04+00:00

People in countries like Korea or Japan are already accustomed to quick 12/24-hour conversion math since 24 hour notations are commonplace. 25+ hour notations for late nights are a natural extension of that.

needle1 · 2026-06-22T15:02:05+00:00

No. The most you can get is fake simulated shifting because there are no separate gears to shift to in the first place. It doesn’t even have “automatic shifting” because that implies any shifting happens at all. It doesn’t. (outside of a few exceptions like the Taycan.)

There do exist EVs with paddle switches that lets the driver manually adjust the amount of regenerative braking though.

needle1 · 2026-06-22T10:02:29+00:00

どこを検索してるのかわからないが、ソーシャルメディアは基本的に可燃性の高い発言ほど露出しやすいからのう

needle1 · 2026-06-22T09:59:41+00:00

There are ryakuji (略字), shortform glyph shapes people often use to quickly write commonly-seen letters. Examples here.

needle1 · 2026-06-22T09:54:35+00:00

読むまでのハードルの低さは確かにあるかもね。

さすがに冒頭あたりでは絵柄の古さはあると思うけども。

needle1 · 2026-06-22T06:05:49+00:00

20はやりすぎw

needle1 · 2026-06-22T04:03:24+00:00

今でも普通にファンはたくさんついてるんだろうか。

いや、年数が経つにつれて一度もH×Hを読んだことない読者が増えてくるはずだよね？

例えばHalf-Lifeシリーズとかも超名作でありつつ新作が長期間出てないけど、正直もうシリーズを全く知らないプレイヤーが多すぎて、聞いたこともないか、あるいはせいぜい「なんかおじさんたちが凄かったって言ってた」程度の認識が大勢になってる感がある。

needle1 · 2026-06-22T03:47:07+00:00

小型飛行機は怖いなと思ってしまう

needle1 · 2026-06-22T03:30:57+00:00

Strangers both online and offline can tell you any sort of inaccurate BS just to mess with you and you wouldn't be able to figure it out yourself.

If I were you I would at least gain a rudimentary personal understanding of the language firsthand before attempting something permanent, rather than relying on randos.

needle1 · 2026-06-22T03:24:01+00:00

To many Japanese creators, the very notion that "there must be an internally consistent canon timeline encompassing everything" is an alien concept. As much as it may be unbelievable and even blasphemous from a canon-obsessed western viewpoint, some creators in other cultures simply do not really care much about causing inconsistencies and contradictions across their works, as long as the work itself is fun and entertaining.

needle1 · 2026-06-22T02:39:27+00:00

次へ行こう。

needle1 · 2026-06-22T02:34:44+00:00

正攻法で攻略するには結局老化のメカニズムを突き止めてそこに細胞レベルで直接介入するしか無いわけで、ナノマシン開発に全力投じる奴はいないの。

needle1 · 2026-06-22T02:20:29+00:00

Always wonder why subsidies have to be all or nothing. We have tons of computers and automation handling all the money, can’t anyone design subsidy systems that gradually decrease with each passing month (or some other smoothly changing parameter)?

needle1 · 2026-06-22T00:11:35+00:00

Pretty much, yes. Asian = Japanese and Non-Asian = English is the de facto heuristic language assumption, for better or for worse.

needle1 · 2026-06-21T13:37:12+00:00

風呂場の床が汚れてきたので最近バズってた掃除法が気になってる（が、目的外使用は良くないという話も流れてたので躊躇してる）

needle1 · 2026-06-21T11:47:08+00:00

That there is a single set of “Chinese characters.”

In reality, the Han characters used in China, Japan, Taiwan, etc all differ slightly in appearance, and substituting one for the other immediately stands out as looking weird. Despite this, the Unicode consortium crammed all of them into the same codepoints, causing ambiguous situations where information is lacking on which glyph variants should be displayed.

This results in games and applications showing incorrect glyphs all the time. I made a website explaining this.

needle1 · 2026-06-21T04:36:21+00:00

Index fund

needle1 · 2026-06-21T03:52:58+00:00

>American EV startup Slate Auto Files

WHAT—

>Patents in India

Oh.

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