Yeah. If Valve releases a remotely viable desktop console OS, I’ll immediately build one for my living room. If for no other reason, to keep the rest of the family away from my SteamDeck.

As in if you live in a state with sales tax but down the road is a state without sales tax- why ever shop in your state?

Mostly the states are quite big, so it’s not worth the trouble. But along various state borders, it distorts the shopping experience in odd ways.

I’ve been towns that are missing common retailers entirely, because everyone drives to the next town over (in another state), to avoid a tax.

We also have a rich history of driving across state lines to purchase stuff that’s illegal in our own state. It’s also illegal to bring it back, but the borders aren’t patrolled, so the only way to get caught is to have a traffic violation while doing it.

Or so I’ve heard. I never break any laws, myself.

Cool chart.

It really makes the point to me that the PS1 and PS2, when adjusted for inflation, and for relative compute power, were just such a fantastic deal.

I was recovering from some serious console-purchase fatigue, when I bought my PS1 to replace my garage sale purchased Super NES. It was a big deal to me.

I’ve paid PS5 prices (inflation adjusted) for a game system a few times (my first Switch and SteamDeck), but they’ve been a lot more mind blowing than what appears to be on offer today.

Disclaimer: My favorite game is 8-bit, anyway.

They’re basically Steam Machines tailored more towards retro enthusiasts.

Styled to look like a Sega DreamCast

Priced from around £300.00 to £500.00

It’s fantastic, especially for non-gamers.

There’s a huge library of cozy games, and arcade games, and retro games, and adventure RPGs, exploration games, puzzle games that all run terrific on a SteamDeck.

The average randomly selected game from my Steam Library has run fine for me, on my SteamDeck.

If they ever make a smaller model with a clam shell to protect the screen, it’ll be the perfect game system.

Uhhh…well. that’s…um. sure. Someone could do that.

Yeah!

Wow. That’s going to make my SteamDeck way more fun.

Ironically, I had this issue a lot more often with my official licensed SteamDock than with a random USB C to HDMI adapter I dug out of storage.

I appreciate what BeeHaw brings to the wider community, and particularly appreciate the reminder of the values that power that.

Thank you.

Let’s see how he union negotiations go.

They have plenty of leverage. WoW runs on centralized servers which cannot maintain themselves, and are likely still under constant forms of Cyberattack, waiting for a serious vulnerability.

The work of these innovative new AIs is Coming Soon! to a VHS $3.00 bin near you!

Sometimes I’m really excited about a game.

That doesn’t make me a gullible sucker. I mean, in theory, anyway.

It will be.

IoT devices are already getting owned at staggering rates. Adding a learning model that currently cannot be secured is absolutely going to happen, and going to cause a whole new large batch of breaches.

Yeah. The demand for red team skills is complicated.

There’s plenty of work to do. But there’s a lot of anxiety, and in some cases laws, that make hiring managers cautious.

When a team member is going to sometimes physically break into a data center, things are much simpler if they have an unimpeachable reputation.

And that, itself, is unfair, since everyone’s definition of “unimpeachable reputation” is going to be a bit different. I’m inclined to factor in motives, but not everyone can.

So it’s not the end of the world for a young hacker with a conviction, but they definitely have a more difficult time.

he just realized there’s profit to be made by not pissing people off

It’s weird that I’m nostalgic for the good old days when the ultra rich understood that

They have a good point though. Pen testing is a vanishingly small corner of our field, and I haven’t seen anyone with a past conviction get hired for those roles, in a long time. (Edit: Of course, I work with privacy respecting folks, so there could be, and their conviction just isn’t famous.)

I’ve seen too many hacker kids think their hacker reputation is going to get them out of trouble, and it didn’t.

doubt the furries will care much about being outed as furries, but cybercrime is a big no-no when it comes to actual employment

Absolutely.

I would prefer our gay furry hackers keep things fully legal, for their own sakes.

That said, Mike needs help from folks like me to catch these kids, and as long as they’re sticking to ethical hacking, I’m not motivated.

Also, I don’t like Mike.

His claim that he actually has my kind of help, actually on his side, is… overconfident, I think.

I can’t guarantee that, though, so I’m glad to hear our ethical hackers have decided to lay low.

In any case, everyone has a slightly different perspective on what counts as ethical, so I hope they’ll stick to legal as much as their conscience will allow, from here out.

Lol. The gay furry Cybersecurity activist’s reputations are already established.

We like them.

I appreciate what they’re doing, and hope they keep a strong eye on where their ethical boundaries are, and keep out of anything too hot for their opsec to handle.

But Mike Howell needs to watch Ocean’s 13.

“I know all the guys you would send after me. They like me more than they like you!”

but was unable to reproduce those images in my testing

I bet they worked hard at this…

Asshole lawsuits and “day one patches” finally killed my love for the Switch.

I don’t feel good about sending money to Nintendo anymore. And I don’t feel confident that my physical media Switch cartridges will stand the test of time after Nintendo shuts the patch servers down.

But I’ll always appreciate the innovation. I’m not buying games for it anymore, but it’s a fun part of my home game setup.