AlternateRoute

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[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Blower fans had a technical reason to exist that isn’t very relevant anymore.

It used to be to keep the card profile low so you could have other PCI card slots populated. However these days everything including Wifi can be found pre populated on the motherboard. It is rare you put in any additional PCI cards in modern personal systems.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Ya acrylic side cases where a trend, maybe 3D monitors but everything else in there was just specific technology that has been replaced by better technology..

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Reading through the comments on the video, the only "used to be" part the video creator is talking about is that it is a alien hobby OS that hardly anyone uses or knows about. Don't take that as a negative but he is just talking about the feels. Other than that technically their isn't a lot in common with Linux from the past.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Never heard of ether of them.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 36 points 11 months ago

The funny thing is that we started buying MORE games after getting it and filtering steam for the ones that work best.

It completely replaced the Nintendo Switch as our party platform, we have been adding piles of local multi player games to it and using multiple Xbox controllers with it docked around the main TV most of the time.

I think when it comes to how many titles work it is going to depend on your gaming preferences. If you play a lot of EA games or Ubisoft games it is clunky to get their store loaders going sometimes or at a min you get prompted to sign in via onscreen keyboard which is a PITA sometimes and there is lower support.

Steam native games however are great.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can see this as a one time verification to help verify the video isn't being faked / you aren't working out of a remote cube farm in another country.

Clearwater firm KnowBe4 accidentally hires North Korean hacker

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our steamdeck gets the most use connected to an external display with us playing local multiplayer games, the blank screen sleep / resume issues being fixed will be really nice, I am tired of having to fiddle with it every few sessions.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How so ? The default browser on Windows is Edge, people keep installing Chrome? Chrome is available on MacOS, yet people stick with Safari?

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

For all the firefox fans out there it might be good to note there have consistently been more Safari users than Firefox users since 2014. Hell Safari has been the number two browser by market share since 2015.

Browsers have to get very SHITTY or a new browser has to have a killer app to unseat a dominate one.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-200901-202408

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Which one specifically?

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

LitterRobot 3 -- Died after a year.. I am not spending money on repairing it as I think the design is fundamentally flawed (DFI system gets pee and litter in it by design and fails). LitterRobot 4 fixes SOME of the issues but I am not dropping that much money on another robot litter box..

I loved not having to scoop so regularly and the immediate clean cycle actually made the litter last longer with just a few top ups.

I have purchased two cat fountains, both died in like 6mo of use even with filters and careful cleaning. Cats loved them and they were purchased because they were not drinking enough.. Found out all I needed was a CHEAP larger diameter bowl as their whiskers were touching the edges and that is why they didn't drink much from other bowls.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Please no! I shouldn’t need to constantly re-grant permissions unless an app has maybe had a major update where it may warrant review.

I am already annoyed how often iOS asks me am I sure I want an app to run in background etc when that is the point of said app.

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