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[–] [email protected] 85 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, turning on Penis sounds pretty low-effort to me.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

I find percussive maintenance to be effective

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

So uhm.... at what age does it stop being so easy to turn on? I'm actually looking forward to that cause right now shits embarrassing.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Well, there’s a period when you’re younger when it’s almost involuntary. Later, it’s just super easy all the time. Over time, it slowly becomes less easy, over the next few decades, sooner for some, later for others.

Many things can affect this. Blood pressure has a lot to do with. Also stress and other psychological and physiological factors. Talk to a urologist if you have concerns.

[–] TexasDrunk 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Alcohol can also have a lot to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Lots of um… “stuff” can do that…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It takes a couple of months/years on estrogen :3 Not guaranteed tho!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

i suspect a lot of these people are actually just experiencing the reason why we're constantly told to stay active and eat healthily..

[–] SerotoninSwells 63 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

"Ah, an appreciation post for the local transfer feature," I thought, as I continued reading to the last part of the sentence.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

"Coming Soon: Steam Dick! Stream along with millions of people! Available in vastly different colors! Service opens soon!"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I like the feature a lot but it's actually faster for me to just download over the internet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

is your other device connected via telegraph wire?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nah, usually WiFi but I have tried both being connected via ethernet. It's possible the bottleneck is either devices CPU or something as it maxes out at around 600 Mbit/s compared to over 2000 Mbits/s over internet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's the read or write speed of the drives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't have two great devices to test with but my bet is on the CPU being the bottleneck. I have only used the feature between my desktop (5900x, 2,5 gigabit connection) and a steam deck (a comparably bad CPU, 1 gigabit ethernet or WiFi)

The steam deck also caps at around the same speed when downloading from the internet while the desktop can download at near 2,5 Gigabit speeds.

Oh and both devices used NVME drives.

[–] IHawkMike 2 points 7 months ago

The CPU on the source used for compression is definitely the bottleneck for me. Internet is faster.

[–] TechAdmin 3 points 7 months ago

I think it's because Steam compresses the data before sending it and limits CPU usage. I still use local file transfer between desktop and Steam Deck because rarely in much of a rush.

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

For me, it’s the same either way. I’m capped off at 120MB/sec whether LAN or internet!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Same, I'm still too cheap to upgrade the LAN to 10 Gbit/s. I could theoretically get old stuff from work, but that's all 19 inch rack mountable and loud...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] olafurp 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Lan are usually 1 gigabit. He must have a serious connection. It's more likely he has a slow hard drive on the host or stores the data on USB2.0 connected drive.

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

Same for me, LAN is 1Gb, my internet connection is 5Gb.

Of course none of the devices get more than 1Gb, but that means than LAN or Internet doesn't make a difference. Especially for Steam games that get downloaded from a very close CDN proxy (probably hosted by my own provider).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Being someone with a bad internet, this is actually quite a useful feature. It saves me from either having to set up an smb/ftp share on a computer or backing up a game to a USB drive to restore it on the other computer if I don't want to wait 10 hours for any modern game to download.

[–] papalonian 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I see the joke, but just wanted to say that this feature was way more of a hassle than anything. I guess for the intended purpose of saving bandwidth it's nice, but it was difficult to get it to even work (steam kept wanting to download from their own servers instead of the host computer) and when it finally did, it was painfully slow, just transferring the program data manually over the network was going faster.

[–] Ddinistrioll 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Obviously not dismissing your experience, just adding my own : I tried it recently on a big game that was installed on my SO desktop, and it worked great. Just had to activate the feature on both Steam instances, restart Steam, and then I enjoyed a superfast "download" speed, that was mainly bottlenecked by my drive speed and even sometimes by my computer's ethernet port limit!

[–] papalonian 2 points 7 months ago

I wonder if I have something set up in steam that is bottlenecking, then. I use my home network to transfer files pretty frequently so I know that's not my issue. Oh well, I don't have limited bandwidth and my Internet is pretty decent so I don't really need it anyways. Glad it works for others though!

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

how did you get it to wörk?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

local transfer really helped me out the other day as i tried to have a lan party at my slow-internet friend's house