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azdle

@ azdle @news.idlestate.org

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  • Non-Send Futures When?

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  • Woah, this would be huge if this works.

    Though, I'm almost more excited about the idea of native task locals variables. I came real close to trying to add that to tokio myself.

  • What is this camera like thing on electronic shop price tags? (And how does it work)

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  • The top white rectangle is a multi-color LED (presumably RGB). Can't make out what's in the bottom, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was some form of light sensor for (literally) flashing new information onto the tag.

  • Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?

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  • That's a problem anywhere with user generated content & user defined communities. The usual example is that when BOTW came out there were at least half a dozen subreddits created and more than one survived, so there were two that were both really popular at the same time and that's in addition to multiple Zelda and multiple Nintendo subs that might all get the same links/posts.

  • What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for?

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  • Its a non-powered version of a hot shoe, both of which are the thing you use to mount an external flash that's on the top of a lot of (all?) full sized cameras.

  • What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for?

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  • It's for a hook to keep the handset on when the phone is mounted flat on a wall. It can usually be slid/folded down or removed when its not need.

  • "Bot resistant" voting systems?

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  • As far as I'm aware something like that isn't really possible.

    • it would prevent one person from making multiple fake accounts

    How do you define 'a person' and how do you ensure that they only have one account? Short of government control of accounts, I don't think you can really guarantee this and even then there's still fraud that gets past the current government systems.

    Then, how do you verify that the review is coming from the person that the account is for?

    IMO, we'd all be better off going back to smaller scale social interactions, think 'social media towns' you trust a smaller number of people and over time develop trust in some. Then you can scale this out to more people than you can directly know with some sort of web-of-trust model. You know you trust Alice, and you know Alice trusts Bob, so therefore you can trust Bob, but not necessarily quite as much as you trust Alice. Then you have this web of trust relationships that decay a bit with each hop away from you.

    It's a rather thorny problem to solve especially since for that to work optimally you'd want to know how much Alice trusts bob, but that amounts to everyone documenting how much they trust each of their friends, which seems socially... well... difficult.

    Though the rest is actually easy™:

    • reviews wouldn’t be suppressed or promoted by paid algorithms
    • the algorithm WOULD help connect people to items they are interested in. But maybe the workings of it would be open source, so it can be audited for bad acting.

    You do what the fediverse does, you have all the information available to everyone, then you run your own 'algorithm' that you wrote/audited/trust. The hard part is getting others to give away access to all 'their' data.

  • Xbox wireless controller pairs but will not connect. (SOLVED)

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  • Update the controller firmware.

    I've got the "Xbox Wireless Controller", the one that has a little bit of a grippy texture on the handles & the 'd-pad on a circle' d-pad. And I was seeing the same thing before updating the FW ~a year (maybe even two?) ago.

    Unfortunately, doing that requires a Windows PC or an Xbox.

  • Did you receive your Deck OLED?

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  • Yeah I had the exact same thought - “huh, transparent case and charging led” - but I hear they’re going to come out with an update to adjust the intensity of it, so that may help that.

    Oh, nice. I'm also wondering if I can't paint part of the light pipe so it doesn't shine outward (as much?). Or print some sort of replacement with opaque sides. We'll see if I ever decide I'm bothered enough by it to actually do that.

    I also upgraded from OG 512 - personally love the OLED so far. Screen is really nice, battery life will be great to have on my business trips, and the clickiness of the Steam and … buttons is a definite improvement. Do you need any of these things? No… but they are really nice things.

    Yep, totally agreed. Though, I finally started one of my 4 HDR games (Death Stranding) and if I knew it was going to make this much difference, I might have been clamoring for it sooner. Though, I don't know if DS is hamming it up/designed more for HDR at the expense of the quality without it.

  • Did you receive your Deck OLED?

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  • I upgraded to an OLED from an OG 512. I definitely don't think it was a "must have" upgrade, but I was never really bothered by the LCD.

    The only thing I have approaching a complaint, which is more of a "huh I didn't actually think about that", is that on the LE the charging LED shows through the transparent case from the front. I think I can probably come up with some way to fix that (or at least make it much dimmer from the front).

  • Did you receive your Deck OLED?

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  • Got my LE just after noon yesterday in Minneapolis with an order that went through @ 29 minutes.

    Absolutely loving it so far. It might be all in my head but I swear it feels noticeably lighter and it's definitely way quieter, but I never did figure out if my OG deck had the loud or quiet fan.

  • What's the status of your OLED preorder?

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  • Update: Delivered! Now just to "patiently" wait for it to warm up before I can turn it on...........

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    Why dl restaurants not offer metal straws the same way they offer metal forks, knives and spoons.

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  • If you have any straight straws, you might want to hold them up to the light. They get pretty grody on the inside.

  • What's the status of your OLED preorder?

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  • Mine nows says it was picked up about an hour ago and should be here Weds. Coming from Addison, IL.

  • What's the status of your OLED preorder?

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  • Exactly the same for my LE OLED order that I got in @ 29 minutes.

    Edit: Dunno if there are multiple warehouses, but mine is for shipping to Minneapolis, tracking doesn't say where it's coming from yet.

  • Valve detail their plans to combat Steam Deck OLED scalpers

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  • Valve detail their plans to combat Steam Deck OLED scalpers

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  • Bad Bot! You stripped out the only important part of the article:

    For the special Limited Edition version Valve has said:

     
            You need to be in the United States or Canada.
    Your account needs to be in good standing.
    Your account needs to have made a purchase on Steam before November 2023.
    Only one unit may be purchased per account.

    If their experiment with this extra Limited Edition model goes well, we may see others come in future.

    Additionally, their FAQ also notes for the normal 512GB and 1TB Steam Deck OLED models you will only be able to purchase "1 model of Steam Deck OLED per customer per week" but they plan to relax that when they're confident they can meet demand.

  • Did anyone get the Limited Edition OLED Steam Deck

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  • Did anyone get the Limited Edition OLED Steam Deck

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  • Yep! I got one.

    Got it into my cart within seconds, didn't even get through more than the cart screen before I started getting 502 errors. Eventually went out of stock. But, showed back in stock a few minutes later and I was able to get my order in. My order email shows 12:29 (10:29 PST).

    Already had a 512 Deck that I got in Feb 2022, but when you combine mainstream Linux gaming, OLED, and a translucent shell, apparently I have no self-control.

  • Good Times

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  • Gratz! ~Enjoy your sleep!~ [Edit: Ope, that wasn't you.]