averagedrunk

The other comment answered your power question so I'll skip it.

Steam link works. It wasn't great over wireless for me but others have had success. I've got my house wired in every room.

Sure! It's the Beelink with the 5500u. I am using steam link and everything is wired. No resolution problems, but I do have about one stuttering issue a week for a second or two. At 4k I had alignment problems that didn't make sense (everything was shifted 3 inches to the left) but my eyes aren't great so 1080p fine for me. Moonlight would probably fix it but I'm lazy.

HoloISO has been great. I had a Bluetooth issue where it wouldn't come back from sleep, but there was a setting I added in desktop mode that took about 3 minutes that fixed it right up. I use Xbox clone controllers or my old stadia controllers that I've set up for Bluetooth depending on what's closest (did I mention I'm lazy?).

Ask questions and I'll answer. I like talking about my setup.

It's not that hard. Did I mention I have 9 fingers on my fretting hand?

I don't think they expected it to keep going like this. There are something like 7 original Nightmare on Elm Street movies and Freddy is a horror icon. There are 11 original Friday 13th movies and Jason wasn't really a part of a couple of them.

I think they just didn't plan for him to still be going. If they keep doing this they'll need to have him meet Freddy and get dream powers.

ADHD combination type and used to battle depression with anhedonia every single day. I wasn't sad, I was uninterested and couldn't feel pleasure. I haven't beaten it but I'm in control these days.

It's an exhausting feedback loop. The less I did because I just couldn't get myself together enough to do anything the worse I felt. The worse I felt, the less I was able to do.

I see you, friend.

I don't doubt you. I haven't personally had any of those problems except fixing the resolution. I use Xbox clone controllers.

I don't use the official dock, just one of the dozen random USB-C docks running around my house. My Deck is mostly stock, except for an SSD upgrade. I used to dock it about a third of the time I played it but now I've got a mini PC running HoloISO connected to the TV to play games remotely from my rig if I want to play on the big screen (I'm too lazy to walk over and dock it and someone who will remain nameless borrows the deck from time to time). HoloISO hasn't shown any of the problems either.

Luck of the draw, I guess.

Edit: removed the line about it being dead stock because I wasn't thinking about my SSD upgrade when I wrote it. I addressed it elsewhere anyway.

I played Cyberpunk on Stadia. It was pretty good, no complaints from me. Stadia worked out really well in general for me.

I replaced it with a Steam Deck when it shut down. I used the money that Google refunded me and ended up not spending anything on it. I think BG3 was the first Steam purchase I made that didn't come out of the refund.

I liked cloud gaming. I may dabble in it again someday but I don't play often anyway and now I have a backlog so it'll be a while.

I can't speak to much of this, but I have a friend who works on the technical side of health insurance. Specifically he is helping with FHIR. I did some HL7 work a long time ago which lets health systems talk to each other. FHIR is supposed to be a more comprehensive offshoot (I asked if it was HL7 on steroids and wasn't corrected).

Unfortunately, I may have misunderstood. My career took me a different path than his so I'm way out of date on it.

Agree entirely.

I am in my 40s, have two bachelor's degrees, got my second SPECIFICALLY in my field, have changed job directions half a dozen times within my field (because money talks), and have used nothing from college that I couldn't get in a month long certification program.

I've gotten way more out of getting the respected industry specific certs than I did in more than half a decade of school.

I've gotten a thousand times more skills from learning on the job from colleagues and working managers than college and certifications together.

You're exactly right. Given the circles we run in it's easy to forget the rest of the world just doesn't give a shit about any of this.

They've been reinvented repeatedly. Citrix, terminal servers, thin clients, cloud desktops, web apps, remote app delivery......

Most people (not necessarily here) need a web browser and an office program. Most people are well suited to terminals or something like a Chromebook.

I need actual hardware for my job and hobbies, but even I have a mini PC set up like a gaming console so that if I want to play games on my bedroom TV I don't have to hook up my Steam Deck or gaming laptop. I just stream them.

I guess I'm finally in a place where advertising can't get to me because I didn't even know it was a thing until just now. It's the kind of thing I'd go watch in theaters if I had time.