Yes, that’s all true.

It is not just a console, it is a full-on PC.

Run your own home media mode, browse the web, make stuff in Blender, write and compile code, etc, I do all of that regularly with my docked Steam Deck.

But I went with Mini PC rather than Steam Deck for comparison because, though it very much literally is a Steam Deck 3.0, in a lot of ways… I think its closer to a mini PC than anything else.

MiniPCs are basically small boxes often comparable to, I dunno, a large jar of pickles, in size. They… also do not have the functionality of a gamepad controller, or built in screen, as actual physical parts of them.

And they basically always have integrated cpu+mobo, RAM is usually laptop SODIMM form factor, and then either the cpu they use is actually an apu, or an npu, as opposed to laptops often having a discrete but laptop sized gpu, or full-on pcs typically having full-on gpus.

Or, its becoming more common for a mini-pc to juat be designed with either an oculink port, or a usb 4.0/tbunderbolt port, with the idea being that its a decent general purpose work pc in its own, and if you want to game on it, you get an eGPU cradle, stick a power supply and desktop GPU in it, and then connect it to the miniPC, which can then use that GPU nearly as efficiently as if it were just directly plugged into it.

Unfortunately, you’ll have to tell me about that, graybeard, as I …

… I am part of the one of the first eternal Septembers.

Except I was like 8, or 10, not a college student.

I… think the dancing baby gif is significantly older than demotivational posters, and the other two you list.

All good choices though.

I’d go with StrongBad ‘The System Is Down’ rave, or All Your Base Are Belong To Us, personally.

… Be the bad thing you want to happen.

Who else will?

Its ok.

Life goes on, people and things grow and die.

… but Minazo, Minazo will always can haz bucket.

removes onion from belt

holds it up toward a cloud in the sky

begins to clench onion-

… No. No.

Eh, howdy partner, you remember Digg?

Does anyone remember Digg?

… Remember when triforcing became a thing?

… Remember 4chan before the V for Vendetta mask got associated with it?

gaze drifts back toward onion

… Pepperidge … farm… remembers…

grins strangely

SUDDENLY FIRES MAH LAZOR AAAUGH WAHRBARGBL!

I am doing something similar, with a similarly old TV, and can get the render res up to 1600 x 900 for a good deal of stuff.

Can’t quite handle 1920 x 1080 though, that starts to be just generally problematic.

Here’s a way to think of it:

It’s a mini-pc.

But a bit bigger.

So… yeah, even if it is expensive by console pricing standards… $600 to $1000 is actually a pretty reasonable range for comparably powerful mini-pcs.

Look up like NUCBoxes or Minisforum miniPCs.

The runor that MooresLawIsDead was initially running with was that the actual custom chip they are using was originally slated to be used in something like a new variant of a MicroSlop Surface tablet.

AMD fabbed a bunch, MicroSlop bailed on the idea, leaving AMD with a bunch of weird custom chips they don’t know wtf to do with.

Valve then goes to AMD, begins to uh, think with portals, or whatever.

Aluminum.

I am from Seattle and I didn’t even know the Seahawks made it to ‘the big game’ until literally yesterday.

Sportsball!

Meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in the Selfish Gene (1976), where he meant to make an analogy between how…

…well, genes basically operate as a self replicating instruction set via things like plants and animals… or virii / viruses.

In that sense, we live in a gene-world, where genes perpetuate themselves, spread and grow and are the primary drivers of dramatic change and growth and collapses.

But ideas, notions, attitudes, philosophies… these become powerful enough once they are embodied by biology capable of contemplating them and acting on them, at scale, that they can actually override genes as the fundamental driver of change in the eco/biospehere, and they also propogate and essentially vie for dominance or prevalence amongst each other in similar ways as genes do.

So… ‘meme’, because it sounds close to ‘gene’, and also because of similar sounding roots in greek, ‘mimesis’ essentially meaning ‘behavioral imitation’.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/meme

‘Meme’ itself was not widely used outside of basically academia untill it gained a more specific meaning in the roughly the late 90s / early 2000s, as referring to a kind of (usually goofy) image or video that spread virally across the online world.

To my knowledge, you did not broadly have people emailing each other goofy ascii art in the 80s and referring to that as a meme, nor widely or within a niche subculture referring to any kind of idea or cultural craze of the time… certainly at no where near the scale and popularity of the term nowadays.

If you wanted a meme from roughly the time that the term ‘meme’ was being broadly popularized to mean ‘online internet joke image’, you’d be looking at basically demotivational posters.

Goddamnit.

I have seen this thousands of times, but this time, this particular time, for some reason…

The goddamned cheeseburger song from VeggieTales is now the soundtrack to my brain.

https://www.sunnyspizzeria.com/menu

… theres more than one pizzeria here in Sioux Falls that specifically offers a special that includes pickles.

3000 cycles.

Not years.

Its like Tron.

Time moves at a different speed in this place.

Its because ‘fruit’ and ‘vegetable’, in their culinary context, don’t really actually mean anything.

… Also, just wanna let people know that in the midwest, pickles on pizza are not that uncommon.

I switched to vaping, because I don’t currently have the capacity to quit, but, 100% on board with this.

Do not start smoking.

Do not start vaping or chew or zynn or anything else.

Being an addict sucks, I turn into a demon when I don’t have my nicotine.

Please… seriously, do not start smoking or using any kind of nicotine … thing.

I’ve seen studies that say that nicotine withdrawl can be as bad as heroin withdrawl… and I guess let me just say that seems about right to me.

… I would like to think I consider myself retired at this point.

I am in fact, too old for this shit.

Uh… yes, I apparently did miss that.

… what?

How… did that happen?

Can you link an article or something that substantiates that?

Well… I’m going to hope you are more right than wrong and that they do not actually have a massive CSAM database.

… but I like my tomaccos fried!