Not really. A switch is a game console and does Nintendo stuff exclusively. It wont run Blender. It cant boot libreoffice, and Nintendo wont let me play playstation games or emulate my own collection.

My Steamdeck is a real computer with a real desktop OS. I can pop the SD card in for production work and dock it in my office for some light CAD/Polymodeling, and then grab the unit and plug it into my TV and drop in the emulation card for the emulation-station on the 70'' TV, then drop the unit into the art station dock and it's a jukebox/reference station. When I'm done I can grab it on the way out and bring all of this anywhere I choose to go. This lets me convert any screen I can plug into into a workstation, a universal retro-game console, or a passive entertainment device for youtube/plex without having to log into public terminals.

I have lots of computers, laptops, SBCs, and electronic projects all over the place, and I am super familiar with networking, RDP, VNC, and Moonlight. The unique use case for the steamdeck is that it can wear many hats depending on what it's plugged into and it's designed to be portable. The footprint is 1/4 or less of a laptop with the same features, and the internal storage of the device and SD card logic lets me have both swappable memory for specfici use cases while still having consistent internal memory for OS and utilities.

It's also a neat little handheld, and does all of that stuff on the tiny little screen in a pinch, and it's pretty good a playing video games too.

Steamdeck is a great little workstation if you can get past the form factor. I have a couple of docks around my house, and moving the system from room to room for specific tasks is pretty great. It's sort of like a laptop in this regard, only I can swap the SD card out for a different one depending on the "Current" use case of the device.

Pretty awesome utility, and I'm suspicious that this is the sort of thing driving sales. There's not a lot of devices with enough horsepower that can do this so seamlessly.

If i CAN be abused, it WILL be abused.

The question we should be asking for every single tech we develop is "Are we willing to accept this technology being abused?"

When we're talking about mass surveillance, we've got a TON of abuse history. Cops stalking girlfriends, bad actors using the tech to plan bad stuff.

Republicans just wear the irony on their shoulders at this point. Zero fks to give about any of the values they used to stand for. Wars, budget, family values? pppsshshshsh we're making $$, to hell with your outdated "values"

Law and order party fighting like to hell to normalize sports booking? Totally fking scans. Eventually, when it blows up in their face and legions of gambling addicts do what they always do, these ghouls will find a way to blame Biden and the dems for letting them do it.

Just another day in backwards-upside-down-world.

In a couple hundred years, the pirate sites and torrent indexers are going to be the go-to sources for the study of current day lifestyles and culture. Stories like this will be popping up every couple of years from then to now.

Seems to me, a lot of the "server side" content is just choices made in development to keep control of the game system out of consumers hands. These are design choices, not technical limitations.

"We cant let you run your own server to keep our abandoned game up because we designed the game in a way that wont allow us to do that"

These choices can just as easily not be made. We live in the era of 100gb+ game patches. There's no real excuse for this kind of game design aside from straight up obsolescence.

When my car gets broken into the cops shrug. Once I was told I can fill out a report but it's "not going to be a priority"

Seems the rich and famous get a different justice system on both ends.

I actually had my fingers crossed, AAAANNNDDDDD You didn't say no backsies and whoops, no money! Sorry, we broke- Fighting not-wars and funding federal jump-out squads is not cheap!

Tough luck.

Does anybody actually think this administration even has the money to pay back? This is going to be the biggest shitshow in American history. We're going to be talking about "the tariff refund scandal" for decades.

We're a whole society full of over stimulated sexed up violent greedy weirdos.

We're constantly at war, and the majority of our people are all kept just a single paycheck from total financial destruction. Our schools get shot up. Our clinics get bombed, and our people are dying on the streets to drugs and hunger. Our leaders insist half of us are monsters deserving of death while threatening genocide.

But shed a tear for Altmans home. Lookout for those CEOs.

There's tons of options parents can tap to control the digital tools and toys their kids can access. The people pushing this are same ones who'll scream "DONT TELL ME HOW TO PARENT MY CHILD" when you attempt to hold them accountable for the action/inaction of their children.

WTF. Why do we let parents off the hook for this kind of thing?

Before he went political? We're talking about Colbert? Of... the Colbert Report?

HEY! Where's everybody going? We're the same as Anthropic, HONEST! WAIT! DONT GO!

-Sam A, probably

This is the dystopian AI future we're walking into. Endless generated versions of everything- copies of copies of copies and the original creators just buried under mountains of bullshit. And that's what they're aiming for.

The money is injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into this tech so that in a couple of years they can have skinjobs walking around with ripped off liknesses and bootlegged voices doing the things we used to do ourselves without paying us for it.

We've seen a lot of movies play our the robot revolution, but the corpos stealing of likeness angle? Fun.

Its funny, in the 90s and 00s- everything was new again because we were doing it online, and it let to the .com bubble. Now here we are- witnessing the same shit play out again, complete with the same things we've all already decided were not OK- because its AI.

We can't sell you little worker people new tech anymore.

Use what you've got, it's plenty. We're busy building a GOD.

-AI CEOs- probably.

Every couple of years we hear about another tranche of spooks security tools leaking out.