@optilude mainly because you escape the closed phone ecosystems. You can play God of War and Spider-Man Remastered on this baby! You can't even *stream* those games on an Apple device.

@GauthamPonnu it's a very large and fun list!

But on the other hand you basically have a handheld device with PS4 levels of power. That's cool!

Since several people asked about battery life.. it's decent. Will never compete with Switch, that's the primary weakness. But you *can* get a solid 4, *maybe* 5 hours out of a 2D style game if you turn the TDP slider down.

@UGatuito it really isn't. we need major advances in fundamental science and physics for VR to be .. good.

@lip_cheese @heccbrent @clontz yeah if you turn the TDP slider down you can probably get about 4, mayyybe 5 hours with 2D style games. Battery life will never be as good as a Switch, of course. That's the primary tradeoff.

The Steam Deck UI is also excellent. Here’s me experimenting with the minimum power I can give Hades and still maintain 60fps.. looks like 5w is the floor https://t.co/SgCvIf406k

This is still one of the most amazing things I’ve heard. The band learned to play the song *backwards* and then reversed the recording. 🤯 Scroll to the last minute for audible lyrics.

@eaglemmoomin @Nyadnar17 Nintendo games are _extremely_ expensive. That's the compelling part of the story. They're selling razor blades at a high price to razor owners. Even the indie stuff is expensive on their store, compared to what you can get it for on Steam..

Finally got my Steam Deck. Strong recommend, especially for the price. Nothing else even comes close in the bang per buck department. $399 for this is a steal. https://t.co/UKrBwvUWTc

@rogers_sim_ I've noticed google searches linking directly to exact points in videos, though.

@BradenHolt @ImZackAdams Thing is, reading gets me to the info faster. Unless it's a mechanical thing with lots of complex visual steps like "how to install a carburetor"

@cameri ah it's out of date: https://t.co/XuK7TQdo7m

And if you want the absolute best power per watt on the market, I guess you slap this on your iPhone.. but it's kiiiind of a closed ecosystem, to put it mildly 😬 https://t.co/5ffSTTWN3W

The app is more fun than I thought it would be, too. I opted not to get wi-fi in the previous gen. https://t.co/yAyKmLuAyC

I upgraded to the Litter Robot 4, which addresses the only two complaints I had about the 3! It's quieter (a *lot* quieter, actually) and a bit more compact. Wifi is built in this time rather than being an option. https://t.co/HKLk3VnIIa

@mjwhansen The national chains can be quite bad as well but have bigger budgets

@Beschizza but what about this one? https://t.co/UyNakASDkm

@eviltrout 🤜💥🤛

@vashpan Yes per watt Apple is destroying everyone, absolutely

@mjwhansen Banks, especially local ones not part of national chains

What’s impressive is that valve requested a customized SoC from AMD which really hit the “go easy on the CPU but make the GPU beefy” sweet spot for the Steam Deck. All the stock options weight CPU performance too heavily

🙄 https://t.co/lFq3hxKxhy

@Carnage4Life I was curious about this, so here's the link https://t.co/olwQDelJi9

@mariecbaca @ID_AA_Carmack We have the bet: https://t.co/3TG3irxSHS

@MilanGriffes I don't mean to be rude, but isn't this sort of obvious? Thousands of years of opiates and alcohol, for example..

I was definitely guilty of this behavior for many, many years. Being snarky is/was being clever and funny. In small doses this is kinda true, but at scale across every human, every day .. it's unhealthy.

@Harr0uet That would be a very low sale price. I’ve seen pics of it on Reddit but $600 is probably more normal

Dual spinners and a trackball plus pinball buttons on each side. Lots of community mods like 30 inch LCD, and official mods like pixel array marquee. Built in software and support is decent. You could easily build a better custom, but this is a good start.

@danluu And they’ll get better heathcare so win-win

"Since 1990, the United States’ supply of billionaires has increased from sixty-six to more than seven hundred" https://t.co/F0MZw8gTz6

@han0z Agree! Happens to me at least once per week

@Carnage4Life https://t.co/ikO4GGrsyE

@QRothmann yes, per watt Apple is absolutely knocking the ball out of the park and have been since ~2016! ⚾

@BPasol It tends to get ignored; people talk about GTA3, or GTA5.

700 watt GPUs. ⚡🔌🤯 https://t.co/6Yi7Z8izBC

@StuartHMarshall @Carnage4Life it can, sort of, like Amazon turning AWS from "how we internally provision servers" to "let anyone provision servers" .. you make an internal service a product, you sell it both internally and externally

@lizardbill I've often wondered the same thing, and found this article had an interesting take on why https://t.co/UL6HSXeFfC

Thinking, fast and slow https://t.co/HZ4MtBNHlT

@steven_odb this one has the proper animated GIF! I couldn't get it to go through on my phone..

@Carnage4Life it is, and @paulg and Jessica deserve credit for seeing it through https://t.co/fJudpZPBVM

@Carnage4Life That is why “fund everything credible” ala Y Combinator is a winning strategy. The 100000x returns mean you will win in the end.

@jwz I had no idea members of Devo were standing next to students who got shot at Kent State!

@jwz @discourse And since everyone wants everything for free, of course.. well.. turns out support ain't free.

@jwz @discourse otherwise, you get a *lot* of support tickets about "why can't I do {normal thing}" which costs quite a bit of money.

@jwz @discourse I don't find that to be true in practice with @discourse though. There are *definitely* communities which are *significantly* more at-risk than others. So you move the "inconvenience" dial over to the right, in the name of greater protection.

@jwz I guess I'm saying "I am an at-risk person" is a reasonable product decision, and lets you enable siege mode. Hell, Cloudflare does it. We actually have features like that in @discourse. They don't make sense as general defaults but they make sense for "I'm gonna be attacked"

@jwz I dunno, not being able to tap on links sent via iMessage is pretty strict.

@xor See @jwz -- why would average users want this on?

@bootrino @TaelurAlexis Aw I'm really sorry to hear this. If it was on the public web and indexable, someone might have a copy -- that's what saved me!

"I bet you type on a 40% keyboard every day."🤔 https://t.co/KwozDl2GSZ https://t.co/VymztEN6VN

history at https://t.co/SFC0hTZjEc

@lobrien @JasonImison @badamczewski01 S3 was an utter disgrace, it makes the third Matrix movie look like a masterpiece

@NickMar I know, the whole time I'm playing Mario, I'm like "what is this bullcrap?!" Now Mario 64 though, that was awesome. That's what it always should have been.

@Carnage4Life I'm surprised they haven't resigned from the court in protest. Seriously.

@Carnage4Life Not far back enough. I think we gotta go all the way back to the civil war. We're still dealing with that fallout.

@mattdarveniza it is, though -- assembling a system is kind of a pain, whereas here you can use the integrated GPU for simple games and attach any GPU/PSU if you want to go big. It's the console style of expansion, external plugin.

@chia_pizza how would you upgrade the GPU on your laptop?

@keelanl @textfiles @discourse every single user page has a "download" button on it, for one thing. And Discourse sites mirror images in posts by default, plus bake in oneboxes for links. So, yes. It's designed to preserve history and make it searchable.

@mattdarveniza The GPU is all that matters. We have comical obscene amounts of CPU power, and consoles tend to have super weak x86 CPUs, meaning games are optimized for "who cares" on CPU and the maximum GPU you can afford. This config is *exactly that* which is cool!

@textfiles well, we've been over here building @discourse for almost a decade now 🌈 .. and we're even adding real time chat so people can have their 🍰 and eat it, too.

Perfect timing for the new era of cheap(er) GPUs -- combination of low crypto prices and lots of people upgrading to the upcoming 4000 series in July https://t.co/CYX06SUys4

Now with RGB lighting gamer street cred.. three buttons, so I guess down, left, and right? https://t.co/QY5XRRXq8C

@Carnage4Life for free? heck no, for their 15 minutes of fame.. and beyond!

@mathowie how about that tan suit scare? A TAN SUIT MATT

@pomeranian99 yeah and education/healthcare was absorbed by this massive increase in middle management: https://t.co/cjAXzzzaLG

@popcorneaterman @nanochess This is THC I'm talking about!

@Carnage4Life I was LITERALLY just complaining about this on our internal Discourse - note 1m ago timestamp https://t.co/xJv0zKOMSp

@chetfaliszek wow. is this for real???

@jrmiller @ZachWeiner nobody said it was a GOOD outcome. It may be an inevitability, as in "irreconcilable differences" during marriage

@Carnage4Life The videogame part is a different story / industry, and the restriction on streaming apps is really dumb on Apple's part.

@Carnage4Life we've been building a PWA on iOS since 2013 and I can quite definitively say that iOS Safari is an *awesome* PWA platform. The only remaining missing feature is native notifications, and that's now in beta. https://t.co/DHQQ8ldaWj

@gendahdefendah @timbray @AnitaYandle @quinnnorton I just wasn't sure if unanimous was required everywhere; looks like it is. That's good news! https://t.co/wkbsRPqNs4

@terrenceturner @AttyErinS @timbray @AnitaYandle @quinnnorton it might work, see https://t.co/wkbsRPqNs4

@LukeYoungblood @timbray @AnitaYandle @quinnnorton I agree with the concept, but is the "must be unanimous" rule universal in all states / regions? I guess it is! That's good news! https://t.co/wkbsRPqNs4

@danluu https://t.co/CaPLTKzh2F

@ZachWeiner warning: the fix may be pretty intense https://t.co/XRba9HNfsG

@nanochess I just wish it did *anything* on me. I've tried edibles, vaping, under tongue liquids.. everything but injecting the damn stuff and it's just total complete boredom (mild sleepiness at best). Where's the fun in "recreational drug" that I was promised lo these many years??

@timbray @AnitaYandle @quinnnorton I.. don't think that will work here in the USA. :(

@Carnage4Life It makes sense; Apple and Google and Amazon are basically nation-states at this point

@llopatin it's actually @SMBCComics to be fair!

@DenverDataDude Every article I've ever read says the chances of filibuster ever being killed are absolute zero. From either side. It's the "carve outs" that can be made.

@Carnage4Life Was this tweet deleted? I get nothin'

Check it out. Same sunlight levels, one not working at all, the other chugging right along! ☀️💨 https://t.co/8MP3qOVnrm

@burgerbecky Those tended to be in stock because they were so expensive relative to the performance per dollar. Also there is a 3090 ti out now as well

@Carnage4Life Yeah my initial reaction to Clinton running was, is the USA really ready for its first female president immediately after two terms of its first black president? I had no idea the colossal magnitude of pushback that was coming. None. It opened my eyes, still stunned. Still going.

@neilhewitt @davidfowl This is a must read. Without Cutler the world would be a UNIX monoculture. Even more so than it is now...

@themoah We all will, eventually

@renefournier No, streaming will win by default

@themoah There are 8k videos on YouTube to test with

@tankslap @thefreehunter @aquatoad Agree, except when re-watching with kids or friends

@migueldeicaza @gknauss @jessamyn The only good thing is the "More Tweets" is buried at the very very very bottom of the entire tweet thread on church windows, but otherwise.. very bad

@SnarkyPixel_ no, Portal had interactive game mechanics with the portal gun, wasn't just "walk around and guess what these levers do"

@jessamyn @gknauss How can I repro this? What's the URL to view in incognito mode?

@Coder_Go Basically streaming is gonna win.

@Carnage4Life True; this already happens with healthcare in general. No job? No healthcare.

@Carnage4Life Fact checks say this isn't correct: https://t.co/upt9lLUmj4