polysics

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It's everything from Gemini itself, to even the new Screenshots app on the Pixel 9 series devices. Even though the Screenshots app is supposed to process data locally, you can't search for various words like Trump, or Republican, Democrat, etc.

The funny thing is, the processing still summarizes a screenshot even if it contains words like that, you just can't search for them.

[–] polysics 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] polysics 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People in Houston generally drive 30mph above the speed limit anyway so this is just business as usual.

(I hate it by the way. Houston drivers are so incredibly dangerous. It's absolutely insane.)

[–] polysics 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Propaganda. Mostly funded by the rich, in order to, of course, stay on the top of the class hierarchy. Easier to be a filthy evil oligarch when the "rabble" just fight each other and don't pay any attention to you, or worse, kiss your boots.

[–] polysics 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] polysics 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pink all the way. Rude to some service worker? Poopy pants. Didn't return the cart? Poop. Drive like an asshole? Poop. Politician spewing hateful garbage on national television? Oh you bet you're getting the poopy pants.

I would be The Punisher, only with poop instead of guns.

[–] polysics 3 points 1 month ago
[–] polysics 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As someone that has both (and I did install Bazzite on the Ally) I have found myself still using the Steam Deck. Like many in my (admittedly fortunate) situation, I had a deck first then got an Ally later out of curiosity if the "more power" aspect would make an impactful difference in gaming on more demanding titles. And while yes you can get more frames/use higher graphics settings on demanding titles, I keep going back to the Deck because it's just a better overall experience. Even with Bazzite on the Ally, there's just this level of Jank that prevents me from using it as my main "console."

A recent example: I finally beat Horizon Zero Dawn (original version ran great on the Deck and I played through the whole game on it) so naturally I fired up the sequel, Forbidden West. Since it's a newer game it's a bit more demanding and not officially a verified Deck game, but I've been able to get it to run at a mostly steady 30fps anyway. I was curious how much better the Ally would run it so I tried it for a day or two, and while I get more fps, the frame pacing and controller response and screen and speakers just soured the experience so I went right back to the Deck and I'll be playing the rest of the game on that. I had similar experiences with other demanding games like Cyberpunk, BG3, Dragon Age, etc.

And yes I know that there is "tweaking" I can probably do to make things "perfect" on the Ally but I just want something that works when I want to just play a game, but allows me to go down the tweaking rabbit hole when I want to. The Steam Deck does that in all regards. And no, my issue with the Ally aren't from a lack of knowledge (I've worked in IT for over 20yrs, I know what I'm doing when it comes to making a PC work) because I do often mess around with the Deck to "perfect" a respective experience with a game.

Maybe when Valve finally releases SteamOS for other hardware will I give it another go (though they can't change the hardware itself), but until then, I'll stick with the Steam Deck (and my big rig for the few games that are just too demanding)

Edit: and for the curious, I only got around 40fps on Forbidden West in the most demanding areas compared to 30fps on the Deck, and I put the two on identical settings, including graphics preset, resolution (720p on Ally, 800p on Deck because aspect ratio) and everything else. So the added power didn't do enough to justify the rest of the experience.

[–] polysics 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's probably it. I did play it recently enough that steam would feed me news updates for it.

[–] polysics 1 points 1 month ago

It's actually both horror and porn.

You can download a demo version on itch.io it's actually fun and you don't necessarily have to play the parts with boobies.

[–] polysics 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thought this was Noel Fielding for a second

[–] polysics 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes.

Well, at least the ones in government probably are.

[–] polysics 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thankfully all those hours I put into Anomalous Coffee Machine will probably confuse people since the title doesn't really give away what it is.

It's porn in case that wasn't obvious.

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I’ve tried to search around the web for this issue, but recently, (sometimes) after I exit a game and get dropped back into the steamdeck UI, I can’t click on some interface elements. If I go to a community tab and click on a post, nothing happens, some UI elements like the search bar don’t register as well (but they make the sound when I try) but worst of all, many of the menu options, specifically the power menu, I can no longer click. So of course, I can’t shutdown or reboot without doing a hard shutdown. Anyone else experiencing this lately? On the latest stable build as of this reply. I’m fine with switching to beta but I don’t want to break DeckyLoader, which tends to happen on the SteamOS beta channel.

Edit: the only workaround i've found so far is to add Konsole to the steamOS as a launchable item, then go into Konsole and type the linux command for rebooting: sudo shutdown -r now

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