Hell, even consoles aren’t as easy as they used to be. They require accounts with Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, they require updates for the console itself as well as individual games, most games have to be “installed,” you still have to think about internal storage…

I’m working on an ~$800-900 build for my little cousin with a Ryzen 7600X and a Radeon 7600 in an mATX mini-tower. According to the specs I’ve read, this is at or above the Steam Machine in both processing and graphics power.

Socket AM5 motherboards are weirdly expensive in the ITX form factor; I bought an ITX AM4 motherboard for like $100 a few years ago, but like, Asrock isn’t selling a B650M-ITX Pro RS, not in this hemisphere anyway. That and non-stupid ITX cases are difficult to find. A lot of the “it’s a PC tower, but ITX size” like the Meshify Nano are being discontinued. So motherboard manufacturers think the ITX market is going for extreme high end, as if we need lots of PCIe lanes on motherboards that only fit one slot, and case manufacturers don’t think heat sinks exist.

Not sure about hate, but the entire Steam Machine thing happened because Microsoft was making noise circa Windows 8 that they were going to take the platform more closed and require sourcing software from the Windows Store, which would shut out things like Steam. So they said “Okay, we’ll make our own operating system with blackjack and hookers. We could take the PC gaming market with us, and we’ll even come for the living room console market and threaten Xbox while we’re at it.” And if anyone in the world is going to get that done, it’s Valve.

But then they’ll implement an AI detector detector deflector.

Steam machine is cube shaped.

Gamecube is cube shaped.

CEO of Valve is Gabe Newell.

Steam Machine = Gabecube.

I don’t think there are any negative connotations to the original Steam Machine. They weren’t successful, but in a way that was okay. They weren’t widely sold, and what most of the gaming public got out of the Steam Machine project was the Steam Controller, Big Picture Mode, and the Proton compatibility layer. Most Windows gamers didn’t notice, it was a major boon to Linux gamers, and then they came out with the Steam Deck which has been a genuine success.

A bit how, most of the time in Breath of the Wild, the gyros don’t do anything. They only activate while aiming a bow, using Magnesis or a few other context-sensitive moments. Because yeah, if it was constantly doing something like camera control that would get turned off immediately.

They were talking about “magnetic joysticks” so they’re hall effect?

A Connecticut Linux Administrator In King Arthur’s Court.

Why didn’t you fix the power steering? I’m pretty sure they were all built with it.

My old instincts tripped me on that one, because I got suspicious if it was a photoshop rather than AI. It felt weird to me that the SAAB logo would be painted on a jet with flat grey military livery. But, that logo and the tail number on the nacelle are clearly legible, which AI still chokes on.

Somebody sent around that same template but with the girl’s face replaced with some gorn, and it spooked THE FUCK out of the mods and admins, to the point that sh.itjust.works blocked any community with the string “nicole” in it.

I’m surprised nobody posted the xkcd comic. I think Randall had ImageMagick in mind (he names it in the alt text) but it applies to ffmpeg as well.

Eh, if I’m doing something like chiseling the shoulders of tenons by hand, I like using a knife to mark that so that I don’t stair-step it around the board, plus it makes sure the line that will be visible in the finished product will be straight and not jagged. When marking out for using power tools, I use a pencil, typically a Pilot Sharpwriter. They’re cheap as borscht and the spring action they have reduces the amount of lead I break on wood.

With or without the bowl itself?

I’ve been kicking around the idea of hosting a Youtube channel from my wood shop. Which is a 10x12 foot shed on the corner of my family’s land. I’ve built some decent furniture out of there.

I often see comments under woodworking videos, to include the New Yankee Workshop’s, that read “I could do that too If I had a giant building an $30,000 worth of tools” and I have two simultaneous thoughts:

1. It’s a valid complaint; woodworking is a relatively expensive hobby to take up in both tools and materials, and by the time you feel you know enough to stand in front of a camera and talk you’ve probably amassed quite an arsenal, worsening that perception.

2. I’ll just bet you couldn’t.

Woodworker here, the reason you use a marking knife rather than a pencil is because it is more precise, in two ways:

1. A pencil line has width to it. Even a very fine mechanical pencil line. A marking knife has a single bevel, so the cut it leaves looks like |/ The vertical surface is the mark.

2. If you need to transfer the mark around the board, say for tenoning, you make the first mark, then you turn the board, put the knife in the end of the cut, butt the square against the knife, and then cut. With a pencil you might stair step a bit. Then, when it’s time to cut, you can register a chisel against the mark, you can feel when you’re in place because it clicks in.

Note I’m talking about chisels here, because you use a marking knife when using hand tool techniques. It doesn’t help at all when using power tools like a track saw, so using a marking knife in a power tool workflow is a bit pretentious.

A marking knife does not need to be expensive, you can use an ordinary utility knife to get the job done, and a cheap single-bevel marking knife can be had for a few bucks. I bought mine from eBay for $9.62 American. Or you could buy this weeb shit for $2400.

For a moment I was like, “well yeah, most radio shows do pretty well without computer graphics” but then I remembered they made a TV miniseries.

Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park make heavy use of CGI. The liquid metal effects in T2, and any time you see an entire dinosaur that is standing up and moving around in Jurassic Park, are computer generated. They were just done very well.

And yet it’s pretty much all they use it for.