lol, I switched to a steam deck from using a linux-ified chromebook for travel gaming so I see what you mean

How powerful is it? Just based on the graphics of what I’d seen I assumed it was around the same.

Anyways, I think the switch can get away with worse hardware as every game is specifically optimized for that exact soc, while the steam deck has to play games optimised for a PS5 or a midrange gaming PC for example.

I have a steam deck oled and love it, but the SOC is slightly old now and was never the fastest. If you’re playing slightly older games or are fine with slightly lower settings, than it’s still great.

SteamOS is great, but I think you can install it on other handhelds as well. It sounds like current competition isn’t great unless you’re willing to pay a bit more and the steam deck 2 isn’t rumored to come out soon, so the steam deck is probably still worth purchasing tho.

I agree that it’s a political problem, but I think that a modernized rail system would be well-used if it were available.

I would be shocked if they actually start building the northeast maglev. Happy, but shocked.

I would be surprised if the French TGV can go into tunnels at those speeds, or maintain them safely 24-7. Also, the 100 years figure is one I completely made up based on what I’ve seen from conventional trains, I have no idea how long maglev track actually lasts.

Also, the scmaglev is advertised to be able to hold up to 728 people in the 12 car configuration, and can probably reach high frequencies similar to the rest of the shincansen system.

Speed matters for people to actually want to use trains, and maglevs are supposed to be both much faster and even more comfortable than conventional rail. They are a proven technology by this point.

Yes, it’s not cheap, but it has the ability to significantly improve rail service in the northeast, and as the richest country in the world surely we should be able to afford that.

The other argument I’ve seen is that we have to go through all of the trouble and lawsuits around obtaining a new right of way anyways, even for normal high speed rail, so we may as well put the best technology available there.

Yeah, I just see that said a lot and think its a bad excuse for having bad service.

Especially when we had much better service 100 years ago, with a fraction of the modern day population.

The estimated cost of construction of the maglev line in Japan is a bit less than 10% of the yearly U.S. military budget. The Northeast Corridor is about 10% longer, so let’s round that to 11%. And I would be surprised if that infrastructure would not be used at least partially 100 years after construction.

Keep in mind that the proposal is to buy the technology from the SCMaglev people, which is something IIRC they indicated they were supportive of doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Maglev

It’s currently stuck in an indefinitely paused environmental review as far as I can tell, due to no one caring about it I guess

And yet we don’t have true hsr in the northeast, where the big cities are…

Blender was also used a bit in Everything Everywhere All At Once

Unfortunately NASA rockets are also made by corporate assholes because everything is outsourced to the military industrial complex

Bernie’s going to be almost 90 years old by then

Apparently (according to some random comment on Reddit where this was posted) this was written by an organization called “Third Way”, that doesn’t actually have influence in the government or either political party

Truly only the most useful of functions for this great operating system

It’s because Windows has to save its keyboard combinations for the important things, like opening a new LinkedIn tab.

the federal department does some very important assistance to state departments and students, but it is worth noting that states do basically all of the actual control and management of schools

Most points are more focused on decreasing workplace efficiency by ways other than lowering morale.