You shut your mouth that song is great. It’s no Favorite Game, but it’s still good!

I found a homemade Ubuntu 8.04 installer disk the other day, simpler times. It had it’s place.

I will never forgive the amazon partnership with the desktop search bar.

If you open up the door, we’ll all come inside and eat your brains!

Try putting it on a USB extender too - getting it away from power plugs and other cable interfaces will probably help!

The right way is some sort of inline water flow sensor, so it’ll trigger within seconds of you turning on the shower to warm it up. With an esp32 and a sensor, and some clever use of the sleep function, it’d probably last a year or so on a couple of AA’s.

Low effort and price tech is probably better in a wet environment though! If you just want the mood lighting, get a wireless button and stick it somewhere near. Tap it on, tap it off!

If you want to feel that automatic magic, consider a cheap battery powered temperature sensor. If you fix the chassis to the shower head pipe it’d probably be accurate enough. Also, assuming you need to wait for your shower to heat up, you’d have a pretty good idea when your shower was hot too - when it triggers your automation for the lights!

Just make sure the sensor polls often enough or can be made to report on a significant temperature difference in a timely fashion. Something like this might do it: https://sonoff.tech/products/sonoff-zigbee-temperature-and-humidity-sensor-snzb-02p

Also avoid WiFi for buttons, connection and addressing takes ages and sicks for an instant response needed for something like lighting changes

tl;dr:

If you think something is blocking DNS traffic, you could try configuring DNS-over-HTTPs or DNS- over- TLS and picking a reputable upstream. This should obfuscate the traffic somewhat and get past common DNS interference issues and tactics.

So building on what yourself and everyone else has said, it does seem to be a DNS issue.

I found that at select times my local ISP was up to shenanigans with DNS.

I live in a very small country and work in IT. The NOC for all three ISPs and I have met. It would surprise me if they were competent enough to do this intentionally for malicious purposes.

If you can get access out to the internet via ping, see if you can do other things - get on a VPS and test with tcpdump at both ends. There’s a few free ones or trials great for disposable purposes like this. Set it up in advance…

You won’t know what it is til you troubleshoot.

I’ve had huawei firewalls reaching some simultaneous connection limit and fail, reversing their ruleset - blocking everything except ICMP, tr069 and ssh (concerning) outbound…

I’ve had problems with specific DNS servers, through the ISP’s network.

I’ve seen regular BGP changes causing outages all over the place (the ISPs locally don’t peer with each other…)

Post your findings, would love to help/hear!

I have Graphene, and I’ll be sticking with it for now.

I think my next step will have to be getting involved with implementing verified boot, because unless every phone suddenly starts shipping with TPMs and open bootloaders, I won’t ever be able to switch.

Finding a starting point is half the battle I guess!

After installing a different os? So if I installed PostmarketOS, could I lock the bootloader? After looking in to it more, it seems like a pretty clear no.

Good lord you must be from my era

I love my steamdeck oled.

I use it primarily for upscaled emulation using retrodeck, (it runs PS2 upscaled to 4k, with all the beautification hacks switched on no problem) and in-home streaming which it excels at because of specialized hardware - sub 15ms 2k frame decode time over wifi (indistinguishable from being in front of your PC).

It can run large amounts of the steam catalogue, but very modern games that are quite demanding are going to struggle a lot, even at the native 800p. I prefer to stream them from my PC which it does very well.

Definitely get the oled model. Still might be the best screen I own. No ghosting and very good visual clarity. It’s still 800p though. I got the 512GB model and upgraded the SSD to 2TB myself. It was a little bit delicate, but nothing really major.

Worth noting that despite hating games running less than 60Hz, and preferring 120+, the performance target of the switch is actually 45Hz. With the 90hz display, locking the fps in for vsync at 45hz is actually perfectly acceptable for most games. Not allowing screen tearing is enabled by default for everything, and the frame limiter is available for changing/switching in game via a quick menu.

That said, if I wanted it as my sole gaming device, I would get something else.

I keep a USB-C dock behind my tv and when the tv is mine for an hour, I plug it in and grab my controller, and I’m in my game in less than 30s. If the tv is not mine for an hour, I can still get a bit of game time in handheld on the sofa.

Currently replaying unfinished games from my childhood - or ones I wanted but never got to play.

Battery life is highly variable. For emulation, you’ll get ages - 6+ hours. Same for much older steam titles. I played half life for 7 hours during a hurricane power outage once. Elden ring gets maybe 1hr20m.

I did get a Killswitch kit from dbrand, and would recommend that. It makes slinging it in a bag much easier and friendlier size wise compared to any case you can buy. It’s the best. The stand is surprisingly useful too. Fair warning, the deck is heavy enough without this extra mass, it’s not easy on the elbows for extended play on your back in bed e.g.

The killer features are:

• the overall simplicity
• steam in-home streaming hardware performance (outperforms theoretically much beefier hardware in all scenarios)
• screen

Bummers are:

• lackluster performance in modern titles.

Note: I am holding out hope for the recent Wine 11 ntsync patches being ported to proton - steams version of the windows compatiblity layer. With the recent fps improvement numbers, I’m hoping this will have a big impact.

The reason being, on the deck, the performance being poor isn’t all across the board, just for lots of newer titles. The Halo Master Chief collection will run at 120Hz at 1080p no problem.

An interesting argument would be to require the training data to be shared to prove it was never exposed to the original source it’s ripping off.

It might help set a precedent that would make this sort of thing less attractive

Do you subscribe to karakeep lists? Are they of infinite length?

That matches my experience too. I’d still recommend switching to vibrate to prevent the next call from embarrassing the user further

If you’re on android, pressing or holding volume up and power should mute a ringing alarm or call by switching it to vibrate only mode

That’s right. Pay no attention to the duplication glitch that occurs if you disconnect your Gameboys after trading one way.

It’s definitely not restoring your totally unique and definitely not artificially reconstructed friend from a read only snapshot due to a glitch in Bill’s transfer code.

5 mins later: “WHY IS THE USB NOT SHOWING UP AS A MOUNTABLE DEVICE- oh yeah, there was a kernel update…”

I was about to say, I’ve only come across that particular issue since moving to KDE, but I know what you mean about the lack of options, but then I looked in the settings, and found this:

It’s getting there!

That’s exactly why. You can manage users no problem. Multiple machines was never the paradigm.

90% of the current development effort (containers, virtualization) is about copying the working machine and giving it a nice safe space to run in, where no outside forces can reach in and disturb its peace.

Did you just try to theme my app? We’re opinionated software, and that’s bigotry.