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Comment Re:*some* games (Score 1) 31

Oddly enough at least last I heard Marvel rivals is fully supported. It can best be described as playable just because it's a relatively modern game and the steam deck is getting long in the tooth but the company does actually support it and when it's broken they've fixed it.

Comment Re:Who asked for this (Score 1) 31

Um... People that want to play PC games in the living room that's who.

There are tons of games that never get released on console that people like to play or that have inferior versions on the console.

The biggest issue here I think is going to be that the console only has 16 gigs of main RAM and I think it has 8 GB of video RAM.

It is at least upgradable but I think you really want 32 GB of RAM.

The Xbox and the PS5 for example have several strategy games that basically grind to a halt 2/3 of the way into the game because it's just too much for the CPU and RAM on the Xbox or the PS5.

Also if you already have a large library of games this is a convenient device that may be affordable with the price of RAM and hard drive skyrocketing because of AI bullshit.

Comment Re:Should not require an app (Score 1) 98

I don't think this is news worthy. They still have a website, so no you don't have to download an app. I suppose a website could allow you to print a boarding pass at home (or at least a screen shot). Furthermore, they will still print a boarding pass for a fee.

This sounds like every airline I've been on in the past 5 years...

Comment The problem is any attempt to change it (Score 1) 12

And the private insurance companies spend hundreds of billions of dollars convincing the public that you're going to kill grandma

When there was a possibility of a public option in the affordable Care act the private insurance company spent $750 billion dollars that we know of to shoot it down.

I get pissed off when people complain the Democrats didn't give us a public option back then because what the fuck are they supposed to do in the face of nearly a trillion dollars of propaganda?

I don't think you can directly fix the healthcare system which you need to do instead is have a federal jobs guarantee that gets everyone used to the idea that healthcare is a right and then you can gradually start moving in the direction away from the parasitic insurance companies.

Also we need to get comfortable using the word parasite again. We get really antsy about that because fucking Nazis use it. It's a word and a concept we need to reclaim.

Comment So the US healthcare system costs $500 billion (Score 1) 12

More than it needs to because it's a private health care system. So yes the employer gets taxed to pay for healthcare along with the employee but it is substantially less because you don't have the bloated parasite of private insurance.

The problem isn't that your company is paying for your health care, the problem is your company isn't paying for your health care it's paying for the profit margin of the private insurance company it is forced to do business with.

Comment Re: Fixing CVE Slop? (Score 1) 106

*citation needed

How do you know this impacts other users? The ffmpeg software is for the command line. It is not used for opening attachments. For that, you would use a video player that relies on ffmpeg for decoding. Are there actual video players in the wild that would play such a video?

You haven't demonstrated an attack chain for your assumptions, so I'm gonna go with the professional assessment of the ffmpeg team when they say this is not a serious issue. If you have any evidence to the contrary, it would be a valuable addition to this issue.

Comment Re: Make them occasionally? (Score 1, Interesting) 93

That would not solve anything. Do you think we are just minting pennies willy nilly, for no reason? We mint them based on demand. If you produce fewer, you'll just run out of pennies a bit later than if you just stop minting them altogether.

The lifecycle of a penny is essentially a one-way trip from the Mint, to the bank, to local retailers, to consumers, to the bottoms of drawers and bowls to be forgotten. They pass through the economy, but they don't circulate.

This has been a long time coming. Europe has already started a similar path for their similarly-valued 0.01 Euro coin and its more valuable 0.02 Euro counterpart. Several countries in the Eurozone have started rounding cash transactions to the nearest 0.05.

Comment Re:I am shocked. SHOCKED! (Score 1) 27

The point of the fee change was to shift profits away from Apple, which has clever tax avoidance strategies in Europe, to developers in Europe with fewer tax avoidance strategies. Europe wants to tax more of its economy than it can, because Europe's economy is less "domestic" to Europe than it should be. Europe uses more American tech and services from American companies than it wants to, so more of its money flows over the Atlantic. This was a shitty attempt to change that. It had nothing to do with consumers or developers. It was a tax scheme.

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