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    4 hours ago

    I’ve said it before, just… give me a Steam Deck without the screen, and I’ll buy it. I need that layout, it’s the perfect combination of features for me.

    If I could be greedy, an extra set of back paddles and some extra “spare” buttons would be nice for flight/space sim games.


  • Both are up to date. I actually suspect this is an issue caused by the newer firmware, but there is only one firmware version available when I looked into it.

    I ended up working around the problem, and just using the old NVME as the OS drive and using hibernate rather than sleep. It seems something about going into standby causes the problem, and the system going “cold” by parking onto the disk doesn’t cause the same issue.


  • I’ve been having the same problem, and it’s not Linux specific; this happens on both my Linux and Windows partitions. I’ve yet to find a clear cause and no amount of changes to power consumption or boot parameters seems to fix it. In my case, the unit is also the boot/OS drive for both.

    I suspect it’s something related to the NVME, since I did not have the problem with my 1TB unit, it only started after replacing it with a 4TB one. Both are WD, though I don’t have the exact model on hand.

    I’d love to hear back if you find a fix, because it’s got me stumped.



  • I’m not saying I agree with it, just what I’ve observed in other discussions.

    I’m not happy with generative AI in general. It’s worn out the novelty and is very clearly just another tool to extract as much value out of people while giving next to nothing in return.

    Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag, and the vast majority of people don’t understand how it works or why it is a problem. Meaning that, not enough people make a fuss, to the point where no action is taken towards legislating against it in a meaningful way.

    The end result is games like this, which find a position where it’s not quite objectional enough for most people to make a fuss about it.


  • I think the reason most people are okay with it is, firstly, because it runs locally, not on some massive datacenter somewhere.

    Secondly, the type of AI used is either not generative; for the “smart Zoi”, feature, where it’s basically just an AI driven NPC logic system; you tell them what they should act like in a prompt and it informs what they do and why, taking it a bit further than their basic needs.

    Or, where it is generative, it’s within its own ecosystem. It’s generative, but for its own consumption, rather than polluting the general web with garbage content like most generative AI is. If this causes their own ecosystem to be drowned out with garbage, it’s their own problem solve, not ours. They have a financial stake in keeping that ecosystem healthy to engage with, since I believe it’s a source of monetisation?

    I’ve played the game for a few hours, but unfortunately I’ve aged-out of enjoying this type of game I guess. I used to be a big Sims fan, but neither that nor Inzoi grab me as it would have 20 years ago.


  • The fact that this is normal in the US is incomprehensible to my European brain. I don’t think the fluoride is harmful, I don’t think there’s anything nefarious about it all, I just think it’s weird to add things to the water supply?

    Water coming from the tap should just be … water? If you want fluoride in it for better dental health, just add it yourself? Or use fluoride toothpaste?

    I feel like if you start doing that, you kinda open the door to mass dosing of other “potentially beneficial” agents. And things we think are safe today, may turn out to be unsafe a few decades from now (see lead, plastics and a number of pharmaceutical compounds that turned out to be unsafe later after decades of use).