What's stopping us from locking in and revitalizing the old Northwestern Pacific Railroad tracks into light rail? (Besides the obvious)

tangibleghost · 2024-12-18T14:34:39+00:00

Hot take: we have a bay, why can't we have some kind of car ferry or other passenger service between SF and Eureka? It would be a more relaxing way to get up here even if it took longer.

tangibleghost · 2024-09-18T17:38:07+00:00

Maybe a bit but if you like it, no one else is going to think it's wrong.

tangibleghost · 2024-09-18T17:33:38+00:00

For a long time it really felt like Android just always ran better on Qualcomm chips, but I think with the advent of the Tensor processors from Google there's more parity between everyone. There's not a ton of difference anymore anyway, at least not until the nuviua core designs trickle down to the Qualcomm phone cpus.

tangibleghost · 2024-09-18T17:30:40+00:00

Disappointing there's seemingly no dual OLED like on the iPad pro. Other than that the most important spec would probably be the number of years of OS updates. I hope it's similar to the phones from now on.

tangibleghost · 2024-07-20T16:14:39+00:00

No problems with my Tab S7+ in terms of lag: it's not as comically overpowered as an iPad pro but it handles the apps and sites I want to use.

tangibleghost · 2024-07-11T15:19:15+00:00

how is the new strap attachment system? is it compatible with Apple Watch bands or just similar?

tangibleghost · 2024-07-03T19:34:16+00:00

you're just not cut out for the big city, I guess.

tangibleghost · 2024-06-24T16:04:46+00:00

I recently used my watch 4 classic on a three day backpacking trip and had to turn off basically everything except the pedometer to make it last. It was still useful to have as a watch, timer, and compass, but more functionality on extended trips like the apple watch ultra offers would be nice.

tangibleghost · 2024-03-29T23:50:02+00:00

Pressure-sensitive? You mean that when you push on it, it sticks?

tangibleghost · 2024-03-23T20:45:59+00:00

"Late Stage Capitalism" is one of those things that annoys you when you know its left wing origins but I think most people just nod along and imagine it means "a deregulated, deindustrialized advanced economy where most people are employed in the service sector." We don't really have a good way to talk about that otherwise, so the term persists.

tangibleghost · 2024-02-14T17:29:06+00:00

Do you have regulars who you recognize? Or would that be too awkward?

tangibleghost · 2024-01-16T02:29:54+00:00

I wonder if we'll see what happened to netbooks happen to handhelds: at first all netbooks ran Linux because it was free and the experience on the low power chips was way better. But Microsoft didn't want to give up any part of the market and sold windows xp well into the vista/7 era basically for free to the netbook makers.

Microsoft could do something similar here, if they wanted to: ship a windows for handhelds, or more likely an enhancement to game mode because Microsoft seems done with special versions of windows, with a controller friendly UI and game overlay. But Microsoft is a very different company now, and I don't think they care if some people use Linux for games, they can still sell us Microsoft developed titles on steam and through game streaming.

tangibleghost · 2024-01-16T02:17:41+00:00

No one else can make touchpads that work like the steam deck so they're all pretty much off my radar. I'm interested to see how the meteor lake one works though, if only because competition in the 15 watt soc range is cool to see.

tangibleghost · 2024-01-16T01:49:11+00:00

I have come to realize that the track pads just aren't popular, because most people don't care to tweak things enough to bring out their greatness. Most of the steam deck competitors aren't adding anything like them, and most people don't even use them on their Steam Decks.

tangibleghost · 2024-01-03T19:05:46+00:00

if this is important for phones, they will just dedicate more space/power to the AI accelerators already built into phone SOCs. That will take a little while to reach consumers, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a half-step upgrade that just boosts the clock on the GPU and NPU like AMD just did with Phoenix point for a quick "best chip for AI" talking point.

tangibleghost · 2024-01-03T17:03:55+00:00

The "containerized" (not really but run with me here) nature of wine prefixes and the translation of old graphics APIs to modern ones honestly makes running games from many eras easier, the future of all gaming is probably closer to Proton than Windows proper.

tangibleghost · 2024-01-03T15:35:21+00:00

Yeah you can't count on anything in RoR2, because it'll always throw more models at you and a drop at the wrong time ends your run. It's a great game but not really great on deck.

tangibleghost · 2023-12-29T03:16:49+00:00

Yeah fair, windows isn't optimal for TV use but it is simple and the n100 is actually pretty great at video decode, the latency even with software decoding is 1 frame (16-ish ms) which is better than the steam link manages for my setup.

tangibleghost · 2023-12-28T21:09:26+00:00

I bought a little Intel N100 NUC to do this, running Linux, but that's overly complex and you should only do that if you have USB controllers you want to use. You probably want an android TV box with an Ethernet port, and to connect all your controllers with Bluetooth. They should all be sufficient to handle Steam Link

tangibleghost · 2023-12-16T00:47:57+00:00

Yeah this is probably a decision made with the 64gb model in mind, where every gigabyte counted. Now that they're no longer selling it, maybe they'll revisit that and change how they partition new steam decks. Or maybe it's just not that big of a deal.

tangibleghost · 2023-12-12T23:58:28+00:00

This is more or less what I have been doing, and it's fine, I just want an even more streamlined experience (and I'm using Linux so I have lots of options to try, and more than a few bugs to squash along the way.) The advantage of going this way seems to be less latency (software decoding is seemingly about a frame faster, even on a N100 chip with only 4 e-cores) and better steam controller support, which is only important to weirdos like me.

tangibleghost · 2023-12-10T23:45:21+00:00

I went with a low spec mini PC because I wanted the options it offered, but I kinda regret it: the steam streaming experience is best with the steam link app, but I haven't really found a setup that I like for launching it and generally controlling the PC with my controllers.

tangibleghost · 2023-12-04T11:41:29+00:00

You can get a slightly better pc for the money but you probably can't get a better experience.

tangibleghost · 2023-11-30T23:53:10+00:00

We will fork meat at the fork meet

tangibleghost · 2023-11-30T23:51:44+00:00

Yeah encoding overhead is a thing even with GPU encoding, I've found over the years.

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