Water does have tastes. Hard to believe others don‘t notice it.

I‘ve got this one too. It smells like dry hay or straw to me.

That isn’t what the context of the discussion is about. Please read my edit and other responses.

Ok, in the context of the original discussion, there is no need to deride PC gaming if all the steambox is is just another PC and no reason to treat it as anything special other than a cheap-ish PC preloaded with linux.

Your response in a comment chain that derides PC gaming, says it would be good to get away from PC gaming, says people don’t have time or interest in building PCs, people don’t want to understand tech, is “this will be good for PC gaming”?

Ok.

I’m kinda surprised to read this. As much as Lemmings deride people for not wanting to change to linux, not understanding the basics of PC’s, not willing to learn tech, falling into walled gardens…here you are. Rationalizing for people who don’t want to learn tech and accepting yet another potential walled garden.

But you can build a PC with linux. It’s every bit as possible. Upgradable. Repairable. Functional. Powerful.

You are cheering about yet another proprietary box like a console that affects repairability and how much of it you actually “own” it just because it has linux on it. Yet more “dumbing down” of games to conform to a console spec. You’re blind if you don’t think this will affect games developed to be sold on Steam.

I’m all for linux advancing in gaming, becoming more mainstream, and replacing Windows, but cheering for the demise of PC’s in favor of a proprietary box is a bad idea.

E: this is a very interesting discussion, but I can’t keep replying to the same responses. Lemmy criticizes walled gardens, lack of tech knowledge, anything that isn’t F/OSS, anything that limits ownership of the hardware or the OS…yet here we have people advocating for a proprietary box that has potential to steer game development (yes, toward linux, this is good) and confine it to the steambox’s spec. just because linux good and a semi-benevolent dictatorship is offering it. While I’m not against this console, anything that a BigCorp produces that has the potential to be a walled garden and indirectly constrain development should be met with guarded attitudes and absolutely not cheer the expected demise of PC building or use.

E2: pile it on boys. If lemmy is still here in a decade and Steam does some “bullshit” with the ‘Box I’ll read your complaints as the custom PC market shrinks and gets more expensive thanks to the console-ification of gaming. Consoles aren’t for you per-se. They’re to cheapen hardware, OS, and game development costs and make profits. I’m not against its existence, but leave replacing PC gaming out of your cheering for this box. Good luck.

Yeah. Over 40 here. Still pretty sure the light at the end of the tunnel is a train. Or a fire. Something like that.

My friend, the number one thing I eat when I go back to CA is the Mexican food. Y’got me there. CA has huge indy owned Mex food. “My man” loves the taquerias and every other hole in the wall Mexican joint. Just went to El Cholo in L.A. two days ago.

Just ask for more tax breaks. poof Problem gone.

I lived there for 20 years. I went everywhere.

E: why the downvotes? I’ve literally been in every State, and have been all over the entire state of California, from Mono to Crescent City to Blythe. I was there twice last month and I’ll go back again soon. Compared to where I’ve lived like Boston and NYC CA is full of chain restaurants. Not as bad as TX or the South. Y’all need to get out more.

And LLM’s aren’t gamed? Like Grok constantly being tweaked to not say anything inconvenient about Musk? Or ChatGPT citing absurd Reddit posts deliberately made by users to make AI responses wrong?

AI is built from the ground up to do what they want, and they’re no better than those crappy info-scraper sites like wearethewindoezproz dot com that scrape basic info off every other site and offer it as a solution to your problem with [SOLVED] in the result title. “Did you turn it off and on again?”

Huh. Had an opposite experience. Boston locals have their families and friend set, if you don’t have 3 generations in the local cemetery you’re not “from there”. Very closed.

West coast is all chain food. Meh.

The best restaurants are the local ones in NY and Boston.

NY? Everyone was chill. That said, the idea that Bostonians are unfriendly isn’t true. You get them talking and they’re your bestie.

Difficult to navigate? The roads are designed entirely around the premise of “FAHK YOUU!! You don’t know how this road works? Moron!” Source: lived there. Want to go to Salem? Nope. One of my favorites is the tollway from the airport to downtown. If you miss the last exit or go the wrong way on 1, guess you’re going downtown because fuck you. Downtown is a mess of one-ways, turn only lanes, and no, two rights will NOT have you going in the opposite direction. Fuck you, you’re now going to Worcester on the Masspike. Have fun.

Not working great so far. I’m 100% for renewables and fuck fossil fuels, but despite the press about renewables finally being cheaper than fossil, it isn’t being passed to the consumer yet.

Thanks to 3D printing Z is firmly “up” in my brain even if the modeler I use does it differently.

Kinda muddy on the idea behind the showers. I read somewhere that they weren’t really about killing the occupant, but it was suggested that it might be a reference to the furnaces used in the Nazi death camps in WW2 and the eugenics associated with the Nazis.

Thou shalt buy a smart tv or other device that we can pull metrics from and force advertising to.

Absolutely. And that also applies to some immigrants from harsh dictatorships. I worked with a pro-trump Russian. He liked trump specifically because he wanted someone to “crack skulls” and all that. (This was during the BLM protests.) He wanted the police state to shut up everything inconvenient to his way of thought.

Numerous reasons.

Lots of people don’t want anyone to disturb the system…”upend the apple cart” as it were. A known, even if shitty, is still better than the unknown. Like people pining for lives under the rule of some harsh autocrat. Even if your neighbor disappeared one night thanks to the State Police, it was better than worrying about the less-harsh policing that lets kids get away with graffiti-ing everything or the petty theft you’re always hearing about.

Also, if they come for the rich people, they’ll come for you. If they tax the rich, they’ll tax you. If you support the rich, people will remember that, and they’ll come for you.

Maybe a little of the “I could be rich someday” idea too, so they support obscene wealth with the idea they could somehow also be rich no matter how minuscule the chance. The irony being the wealthy are the ones supporting barriers preventing you from even achieving financial security, forget ever being wealthy.