Not liking something “just because” is also a valid argument to not like something. You are not required to like anything and your reasoning is your own.

You may be less fun at parties for not liking lots of things, however.

The title said “coming,” not “came”

I may start keeping a cheap device that lives in a Faraday cage that obeys the corporate rules and only comes out when I absolutely need it, and then a graphene device of sorts as my daily driver. Ive almost completely de-googled otherwise.

There’s nothing weird about being against metastacizing cancer.

Ok, that makes cents.

There are no units on that website and I’ve only seen gas stations list prices in the dollars-and-cents format ($5.99 instead of 599¢).

Looking at it a bit closer, you’re paying $1.79AUD/litre.

To compare to the U.S. (where the OP’s signpost is clipped from in the meme), $1.00AUD trades for $0.72USD as of this writing, so $1.79AUD would be $1.29USD. Then, to get from litres to gallons, we see that there are ~3.79 litres in a gallon. Multiply $1.29 by 3.79 and you get 4.8891, or $4.89USD per gallon, which is about on track with what we are paying here in some states, maybe a little less. I am open to correction on this math.

$200 AUD a litre? There’s no way that’s real

It technically follows the industry standard rules (and companies who have been exploited have 30 days to disclose breaches in the U.S. so there’s probably similar “best practice” stuff with these kinds of disclosures)

I.e. anyone who has touched a steam deck

The steam frame will do that

Is it?

As a malicious actor or red-team player, I would want to get you on as old of an OS as I could in order to exploit a wider range of CVEs. Or in most cases, one would be hunting for a specific set of CVEs. Once I’ve got you on the version I want, I can then perform other attacks and ensure that they run.

The iPhone, many Android phones, some network equipment, and game consoles all have eFuses that burn when you perform an update, and the specific number or pattern they burn in is used to determine the lowest OS version your device is allowed to be on in order to stop this from happening.

We all need to run on non-Nvidia hardware too.

Thats called a downgrade attack and is explicitly blocked by most modern security models that are not a PC.

They don’t have the same limitations that you have on a console. Steam input allows you to bind any button to the following things:

• keyboard buttons
• mouse buttons
• controller buttons
• system actions (volume, power, etc.)
• controller actions (controller slot toggle, controller power, action layers)
• steam actions

And probably one of my favorite but underutilized:

• Games can also provide custom actions that show up in the button bind menu, and they can be basic things like “jump” or really bizarre things like “make character think.” Games can have built-in action layers as well, so you can bind buttons multiple times for different layers such as “in combat”, “in a menu”, “dialog”, etc. which means you can have contextual actions be different to match your comfort (think PlayStation × vs o regional differences in-menu and in-game where o is confirm in menus but × is the main action button in combat).

I own a dualsense. I’ve always loved its trackpad for mouse cursor control in games that are less controller friendly on PC, but ever since the steam deck and it’s split trackpads, I’ll never look back. The split pads are such a superior option, especially with the way they work with the steam deck’s on screen keyboard, or for aiming in FPS games.

The F in FOSS stands for Libre

Graphics font and name fall under trademark I believe, which separates it from copyright.

Firefox is a famous example of this. The code for Firefox is completely open to anyone to fork and reuse, but you cannot call your fork Firefox. Mozilla retains the brand and the logo for it.

So instead we get iceweasel.

I feel like something like the xteink would be better suited to this class of device though

Do you think it runs at 1000w continuously? On any decent GPU, the responses are nearly instantaneous to maybe a few seconds of runtime at maybe max GPU consumption.

Compare that to playing a few hours of cyberpunk 2077 with raytracing and maxed out settings at 4k.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to hate about AI/LLMs, but running one locally without data harvesting engines is pretty minimal. The creation of the larger models is where the consumption primarily comes in, and then the data centers that run them are servicing millions of inquiries a minute making the concentration of consumption at a single point significantly higher (plus they retrain the model there on current and user-fed data, including prompts, whereas your computer hosting ollama would not.)

Thats easy, just stop using windows

I think you’re missing the point. What you said is a problem for sure, but that problem isn’t related to what we are talking about here.