Good info to have! Then I can't blame Valve for the old app going away, but can we blame them for not making one in the first place? Valve made it for AVP - an extremely niche device that seems likely to have very little commercial benefit for them. Samsung sells more TVs in a month than the total number of AVPs ever sold.

Unfortunately my house's attic doesn't extend over the TV area in a way that would work for wiring. You'll have to believe me that all the options have been explored. However, I have a strong mesh setup and had very little trouble streaming a 2K signal from the PC to the TV (which has ethernet to the router) over Steam Link. My current setup uses Apollo/Moonlight to stream from the PC to my Steam Deck, plugged into the TV. But that reduces compatibility (no motion control) and since the LCD Steam Deck doesn't support HDR, I don't get that either. Valve have also apparently given up on really making Remote Play work properly either, hence the Moonlight option (for now). I'm hoping they will fix it once the Steam Machine comes out and I can benefit without having to buy a new box just for the living room.

My gaming PC is on the opposite end of the house, so not only would I have to run a 50' HDMI cable, I'd need a 50' USB cable for my controller, since it can't pair over BT through the multiple walls between the couch and the PC. Believe me, I've tried :) Also, running long cables down the hall and across the living room seems ridiculous and isn't looked upon kindly by the spouse. Steam Link worked perfectly and I mourn its passing every time I try one of the other options that fail to work as well. I'd say it's no more niche than the number of Apple Vision owners who also want to play their PC-based Steam games on it.

They got rid of Steam Link for my Samsung TV, but release it for a device so few people own. WTF Valve? My life is measurably worse, but at least the rich f**ks can play 2D games in a VR headset now.

There's a reason this story is only showing up in nonsense rags like the Post.

Yes, and state surveillance is one niche Ai could be good at. But the tech bros want everyone to believe their product will revolutionize everything and bring about a new world order by replacing a huge percentage of the workforce, requiring "sweeping policy changes to help manage the societal disruption". This is the pipe dream they are selling to keep investments coming in and postpone the bubble popping as long as possible. The truth is much more mundane than that, but mundanity doesn't drive billions in investments.

This is just more of the same playbook wherein Ai zealots try to convince us that their scam product will disrupt everything and therefore is a real value proposition worth billions, as opposed to an extremely niche use product with only novelty toy value for most people.

Don't try to put words in my mouth - I never said I hated my employer. To be clear, the top leadership acted badly, like most C-Suites do, because they figured they could get away with it in a certain kind of job market. They got away with it for a few years, despite the NLRB siding with the union multiple times. Ultimately it came down to the workers, who are great, and make the company great, taking matters to the streets, the press, and the public, to make leadership see they couldn't win. It ended up costing them as much monetarily as it would have if they'd just dealt fairly years sooner, but also cost them a lot of public good will that they didn't need to lose.

If Lichtenberg is starting with a headline, which I assume he didn't make up out of whole cloth, but rather comes from an actual news story or fact, and then uses Ai to write the initial article, which he just fact checks, what possible value is he adding? How is reading his slop any more useful to me than just typing the same "headline" into Google and reading its robot summary? What's the value proposition of this compared to a story researched, thought through, and written by a human?

In my experience with my own union, getting a favorable ruling from the NLRB means almost jack shit. My employer lost multiple cases before the board over a couple years of bad-faith negotiating, with rulings saying they had to do this or that, and we still went for years without a contract. It ended up taking multiple strikes over a full year to get them to actually bargain for real and get a new contract.

I see - so the 30+ satellites mentioned are previously existing ones that they've been developing new software for, and it still doesn't work? Somehow that makes it even worse - they've spend years and billions mostly on shit software. They could have just hired if that's what they wanted :) I guess I should have read the full article before commenting.

The fact that they've launched more than 30 satellites without working software is a mind-boggling example of poor planning and non-existent oversight. I know you need more than one up there to test the software, but if they couldn't get a fully working proof of concept covering just CONUS with ten then they should have stopped paying for launches.

I'm not sure what incentive game developers and artists will have to really put in their best work on these huge titles anymore. All the big players, EA, MS, Blizzard, etc, just wait until they ship a game and then lay off a huge portion of the dev team, regardless of the game's success. Why work hard if you know the quality of the product doesn't affect your future job stability?

Any parent who buys their minor child a Linux-based system is going to need to set it up with the parent as admin, and give the kid a non-admin account. Then they are going to have to deal with the fallout of constantly being asked to approve things with their credentials every time the kid wants to do anything. That'll teach 'em :)

The article states these are required, but some cars (like mine) only use "indirect" sensing, meaning there are no actual sensors in the tire. The onboard computer just uses speed and rotation data from the ABS system to detect pressure changes. So before you worry about this, find out if your car actually has them.