averagedrunk

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm using HoloISO (it's like 95% SteamOS) on a mini PC (all AMD, 680M iGPU because I wanted to get close to the deck specs). I mostly stream games from elsewhere in the house, but it has a few titles installed locally.

The sleep works perfectly so far for local titles. I assume other Arch based distros with all of the steam software installed (like ChimeraOS) work just as well. If the hardware maker who puts it on their box makes sure their hardware is well supported it shouldn't be an issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My guess is that some non-insignificant (though certainly not large) new portion of buyers will replace their head units, assuming they keep the double DIN standard. It's trivial to change out currently.

Of course if too many people do it they'll change the slot and make the wiring harness an incomprehensible mess. One wire now controls your left rear audio channel, rolls down all your windows, and deploys caltrops if the police are behind you. If you wire things incorrectly it locks you in and sets the car on fire.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Works really well for me too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That may be why GM is not going to be putting Car Play and Android Auto next year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A couple of things. First, things change. Even in places where it doesn't feel like things change, they do. So if you leave a place and come back it will be different.

More importantly, we don't look at an objective past. Our minds remember the best and the worst. So when you get older you remember "the good old days". Those days, objectively never really existed. They were just days. So when you're 40 you won't be able to recreate the magic of being 21, or that feeling you had when you went home and someone was cooking your favorite meal, or go back to your hometown and feel the way you did when you and your buddies hung out.

I'm probably explaining it poorly, but it boils down to nostalgia being a hell of a drug. You never know when you're living in the good old days until they're gone.

Luckily it works in reverse to an extent. If you had a really shitty childhood, you can look back on it and say "at least it's not like that anymore!" The psychological damage is already done, but you're not coming home to an alcoholic berating you or heading to school to a teacher beating your ass ever day.

You can never go home again, both because things have changed and because that place only ever existed in memory, and the real world was some amount (generally GREATLY) different than what we remember.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The guy in charge of letting people in to one of the most prestigious universities in America is overworked? The hell you say! (That's supposed to be read as friendly, not actually incredulous)

For real, it's not like job applications where a lot of folks just cut the pile in half and toss them, then cut it in half again and toss them (yeah, I've seen managers do that for jobs with high application rates). They've got folks going through just checking that the admission was properly submitted, another layer making sure the people who properly submitted are qualified, then they're weighted to toss out any that fall below a certain percentage of qualification. Then the dean makes decisions. And they're still probably way overworked.

Something like this got tossed out by the lowest possible level and that person wouldn't even have the authority to write anything except a standard form letter that gets signed with an autopen.

It's an entertaining fake, but definitely a fake.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Less than a hundred, and they still charge it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The problem is that the second you responded to something like that you'd be buried in copycats the next year all hoping to go viral. So you've made your job more difficult or burnt bridges on the way out the door.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If I could go back to 27 I'd take the interesting job. I've done both but waited until my late 30s to really spread my wings. I did a whole bunch of cool things that I wish I had done 10 years earlier so that I wouldn't mind settling into a more boring thing later.

But money matters.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had heard that saying for years before I understood what it meant. By the time I did understand, it was too late.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Buc-ees (a Texas gas station chain) has been expanding beyond Texas recently. I've driven all over the US and have never seen anything quite like them anywhere else. The gas is cheap, they have their worker salaries posted (and are way above what other similar places pay), they're incredibly clean, their bathrooms are huge and immaculate, they have restaurant quality food, halfway decent barbecue, a whole home goods/apparel section, a huge variety of snacks, and a load of merchandise (from rocking chairs to roto molded coolers to huge grills and smokers).

It is part of the state identity. With the expansion I bet it will become part of the southeastern regional identity. And if you're near one it's worth stopping at.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I didn't notice Atmos was gone until now. I have an ok Atmos system that works pretty great on the titles that support it. I love Atmos.

I get it free with my Internet service so I'm not cancelling, but I'll never subscribe.

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