I believe you’re talking about the Steam Link. Which if you had ethernet running everywhere worked pretty good.

The old Steam Machine branding was more a set of guidelines / branded manufacturer specs for mini-PCs. Not many actually came out and yeah it got shut down pretty quickly. Though it was the origin of Steam OS / Big Picture Mode and what became Proton.

That would be amazing, but given how speculative the Framework and other RISC projects are I feel like that would be a massive headline for Valve.

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Fwiw, SearXNG is using a very similar engine to Kagi and you can host it yourself and tweak it if desired. There are also a bunch of public instances if you prefer that route.

Every operation your computer does. From displaying images on a screen to securely connecting to your bank.

It’s an interesting advancement and it will be neat if something comes of it down the line. The chances of it having a meaningful product in the next decade is close to zero.

One of the more telling aspects of who ICE is targeting.

Using 18650 batteries is nice. One of the few things I don’t like about the Eufy.

Your application to work at Microsoft has been accepted.

Sure. Now organize updating the last 30 years of hardware and software for compatability. Or just keep using the slightly unintuitive thing.

You’re conflating two different definitions of “standard”. URLs are more human readable than IPs, but changing IPs into URLs would cost decades of manpower and break everything for basically no benefit either.

Eh. :P

I mean sure it’s kind of a relic from the 90s, but so is the save icon. If you change it you’re breaking backwards compatibility with everything tangentially related to digital cameras prior to <current year>. A ‘photos’ folder might be more intuitive but then you run into the issue of “what about my language’s folder” instead of just everyone worldwide using DCIM.

Sometimes its better long term for people to learn about a standard instead of for the standard to be more intuitive to newcomers. Sure you could just make a new standard but that’s its own problem.

It’s a DCF thing, not a Windows thing. A bunch of Japanese companies collaborated on a spec in the 90s so most digital cameras would work vaguely the same as far as file storage went and it’s still the standard because it’s a naming convention and there’s not really a reason to change it.

In the US those’ve been almost universally replaced by 401k plans, which I assume is what they’re referring to.

Even if quantum computing turns out to actually be infeasible and classical cryptography is secure for the next millennia, it’s still a good feature to have a third independent encryption layer in the protocol. It makes it that much less likely reliant on the other two being bulletproof.

Trains Planes and Automobiles is about Thanksgiving. Passion of the Christ is about creating Easter at least.

But yeah they’re pretty thin on the ground, especially once you get past those two holidays.

Seconding the t6. It’s been solid and does everything I want in HA.

I even got a rebate from my electric company for the full price of it which might be worth looking into.

I believe that supposed to be whether you can get to their website to download clients / register / etc through TOR. Not that the VPN can access the TOR network.

The Commonwealth Saga is so great.

The portals / train system brings the vibes of the commonwealth up to something like the EU, but on a multi-planetary scale. You have to go through specific points to get planet to planet but the infrastructure is so built up that it’s mostly a travel time problem. It becomes an issue later on that the society has gotten kind of hidebound into a gradual expansion so they never really ‘needed’ FTL for exploration, and now they do.

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-we-should-improve-society-somewhat-comic-the-popular-panel-explained

Dude history class was boring. “Good one” status is binding don’t you know that? /s

Worm also has far and away the best in-world explanation of why everyone puts up with the cops and robbers BS as well. It’s just so freakin good.

I just hope at some point they’ll be able to reformat/release it as an ebook or something. I know a lot of people get turned off by it being on wordpress. ( I know there’s at least one unofficial one but still. )