@hennejg I tested that panel again holding it up myself using gravity to hold it down and I could NOT get it over 10w. It's just.. a bad panel apparently? At least much less efficient!

Today's tests. Smaller panels. The yellow extra-foldy one on the right can only muster a max of 6w, typical 4-5w no matter how I position it, the BigBlue "14w" panel on the left can do max 10w if I get it just right, typical 8-9w in practice. https://t.co/4UlXlhlBbU

@irae the risk is there, but overstated, check youtube for example test videos if you don't believe me. The OLED hardware subtly shifts the image around by a few pixels and also compensate for particular areas that never change.

@testthesoftware there's gonna be a special place in hell for you with that job though

@dmitrybrant I wonder if they a/b test these? You'd think the smarter ones would.

@mikaelne that's the goal.. all the $ will go to a worthy charity

@NickFausti @PeterZeihan @elonmusk @tim_cook because Cook acts like an adult CEO, and Musk acts like a toddler? https://t.co/pp8d1gI7IM

@SK83RJOSH I dunno, there's a fanatical obsession with emulating Nintendo platforms, so it's only a matter of time until they get the kinks worked out. And WiiU games that are also Switch games (BoTW) are 100% playable at higher frame rates..

(and yes I planted a bunch today, and will plant more!)

@stuinzuri no, his misguided understanding of "free speech" rules that out

Hmm, I have been informed that a coworker has more trees in their ecologi forest than me.. please help me (and the planet out here) by donating to plant more trees in *my* forest https://t.co/bsNkDUlj08

@adamcnight yes; no new models are on the horizon for quite some time. Look how long the Nintendo Switch has been on the same model.. I expect the Steam Deck to have similar characteristics.

"the best 'one and done' handheld .. a modern marvel" https://t.co/rWPBixGIQj

@testchamber1 why would he dislike that?

@seesharp @shog9 yes, I have some hall effect keyboards!

@ptnik yes, I experimented with angles a bit here and it didn't increase or decrease output much; they are both "facing" the sun in their pictured orientation. And that tiny, tiny bottom shadow cannot explain the difference!

some maths... 150w is 1960x550mm, 36w is 947x361mm. Thus the larger panel is 3.2 times the total area, but 8 × 3.2 = 24. Off by more than a factor of two. I think the larger panel has to have more efficient / better solar cells?

@Carnage4Life they don't really understand crypto, it's kind of a "gadget" to them, hence the weird coverage. But then nobody really understands crypto, so..

@gladpiano the touchpads, which I never ever ever use, the underside buttons.. do not include charger or case.. could be a bit smaller with slightly smaller screen ala the Switch Lite

I bought another (cheap base model) Steam Deck just to keep around as a dedicated handheld emulation device. This will be my third Steam Deck, the second I gifted to @tenderlove 😘 .. get one for you or someone you love, it is amazing and doubly so for V1 https://t.co/osGOJr73Lq

@slado sort of, except Apple's hardware is state of the art / relatively expensive and Nintendo's is.. meh / cheap. Their software is great though!

@wdesmet SunPower X22-360, 28 panels, looks like $800 per panel is the current price? https://t.co/BHeFpOVqNz

@wdesmet The average residential electricity rate in Alameda, CA is 23 ¢/kWh, which is 17% lower than the average electricity rate in California of 27.56 ¢/kWh

@NartimHenriksen A classic!! Loved mine. But the tech has improved so much since then.

One of the rare places where the fashion world and tech intersect. I think the "drop" of limited edition clothes was an established pattern in the fashion world for decades?

and to be clear I like Drop! It's a great idea executed well. But in the same way that eBay kinda quietly switched to the "buy it now" option, the lede is getting buried.. for good reason.

even https://t.co/lWaspyaPbF -- whose whole product idea was the 'drop' of artisanal batches -- has generally moved away from this model because it's *annoying as hell* for the consumer. EG you literally have to have your browser primed with credit card info preloaded at 1pm EST

@seesharp where do you clamp it? I don't know anything about these

@jakerobinson I dunno, 3d printing *has* improved, for sure, but it is a far cry from a properly custom molded item. Maybe in 50 years? 100 years?

@Nedrick_NA pff that sort of off-the-shelf stuff is for plebs 😏 .. what I really want is this but it sold out in like 5 seconds https://t.co/IPt9a9trtJ

@restlessmedia Well, season 2 is tolerable but just go in with low expectations. Do NOT attempt seasons 3 or 4. They are flat out unwatchable IMO

@donw @mhenderson_4 I *only* buy cartridges for the switch because there's no other way to share the games!

I do like it, but I had to bid for it on eBay like an animal instead of buying it via a typical online product cart checkout. So did the reviewers: https://t.co/FVd3VjYnuj

@atmosfx cmon guys. Splatterhouse. That should be your obvious favorite!!

@chetfaliszek I got into artisanal small batch mice. I wish I was joking, but.. I'm not. https://t.co/x6Sc6ionrd and https://t.co/f9a2XGdnTz

@jerkob yeah it's kinda sad to work on video games. Within about 5 years, nobody is touching your software (statistically speaking). A house no one lives in :(

big exception is Nintendo. 2017's Super Mario Odyssey is still $52 new, $30 used. That's another reason why the Steam Deck is a big deal. An enormous portable library of very inexpensive, often free, games. And not the "pay us $ every 6 hours" mobile type either. https://t.co/IPvg0krCl8

@bmackay @miguelatwork @StackOverflow such a funky scent! I could "get behind" that 🤣

@jamesdh @rands yeah, I went straight for the 48" OLED because.. well.. I want my blacks to be actually black ;) .. wish there were more small OLED options.

@rands you can do an ultrawide monitor; they work well for replacing dual monitor setups if you want "one thing" https://t.co/t6Zlvdhneo

@AmericanAvat_ar @elonmusk OK, account with default avatar and creation date of November 2022, I'll definitely take that into consideration

@MafVosburgh If you *don't* wanna buy something, why would you make an offer for it?

@MafVosburgh uh.. no? https://t.co/19QPwETYE9 says "On April 14, Musk made an unsolicited and non-binding offer to purchase the company for $43 billion, or $54.20 per share"

@JourneymanGeek our solar company kinda bailed on me, so our setup is incomplete until 11/30. But they did say it can work with or without the battery, difference is (obviously) without the batteries all excess power is pumped back into the grid and not our own batteries.

@xin1337 @TimSweeneyEpic @StackOverflow you can be promoted to moderator position on Stack Overflow via periodic elections. Look it up. Nobody else does this, and we get no credit for it. But it'll be in the history books forever.

@MafVosburgh Wait, didn't all this start with Musk offering to buy the company? Not like Twitter just rang his doorbell and said "you owe us $44 billion and now you own us"

a good companion piece https://t.co/9VN3TEshHX

@WorldWub fair; there are some good objective measures like net worth, though

For the record our home solar system has two Tesla Powerwall batteries (which haven't been delivered, and are months behind schedule) but I'm OK with that. They're inside, I'm not driving around a physical advertisement.. electric is a good thing. ⚡

Another angle is "should we treat everyone exactly the same all the time?", aka "all lives matter" aka https://t.co/BdCgpPPkqW

I find that this is a chasm many people still can't cross or wrap their minds around. A good reference: https://t.co/0SGJcBaUu4

@AmericanAvat_ar @elonmusk freedom of speech means freedom from the *government* censoring what you can say. Wal-Mart can (and will) absolutely boot you from the store for yelling expletives at the other customers at any time.

@churchofzues I wish; their hardware is too damn good

@JohnONolan Yeah I don't want to judge too early, the real thing that matters is the product

@scottastevenson @gamesbrainiac @peterpham @paulg hmm, curious what @Carnage4Life thinks of that

Still up for any teamwork! 🤝

https://t.co/54tmgzeeJO is the original AFAIK

@lucky_ruby @jstew1974 I’m just telling you what he said. I was surprised to hear it.

@Koriaxe @TimSweeneyEpic Mostly I was surprised to hear him say this!

@shreyas Check out @discourse -- fully open source, same stack as Mastodon.

@wilshipley I think most do fine, we see more of the mistakes in the modern era as everything is visible to everyone all the time 24/7

@miguelatwork @StackOverflow If it has infinite answers, it's not really a question, but a discussion. You can look at the rest of Quora to see why allowing "everything" is a bad idea, e.g. "what did Jesus' farts smell like"

@kevindente nowheresville, withdrawing from life altogether

@MikeSinger @CaptainGrudin @elonmusk well, have fun in your bubble; the "public town square" ain't happening here, that's for sure

Yep. Way too many excited firmware updates. Here is one for today https://t.co/XYaNGqtL0I

I've added "leaving soon" to my bio as I ramp things down.

@dupays @CaseyNewton @pimjoosten Ah, I see you suffer from “shit’s easy syndrome”, a common malady..

@_gb So far yes! Have not busted them out yet this year

@Carnage4Life The original has a lot of .. issues so there was some low hanging fruit there

@ronburk @Carnage4Life hmm, I've streamed files just fine off removable media in ChromeOS. Have you tried recently?

@Carnage4Life It exists; it is chrome OS! I sings its praises often. Has gotten very very good.

Interestingly, @eviltrout mentioned to me "I'm setting up a mastodon server and the stack they arrived at is quite similar to Discourse - Rails, Sidekiq, Yarn for JS, pre/post migrations" .. we're of course 100% free open source forever, so everything belongs to you, not 🧐

And if you have 500k or more followers and would like to launch your own community outside the increasingly unstable world of Twitter, we can host you for *free*: https://t.co/7y4dRfCbwS — just mention Jeff sent you. Now with fully integrated real time chat! 🗣

@jbaert This is Dice's critical weakness. They are drawn to complexity like flies to honey. They CANNOT keep it simple, even when that'd literally be a better game, e.g. Bad Company 2

I'm going to start slowly ramping down my activity here over time (quietly closes tab)

well, maybe Season 3 will turn things around, but MW2 is *very* good so the overall prospects are dim: https://t.co/rxXNJ2dKAU

This.. still isn't where I would like it to be, but it's better.. ish. https://t.co/m9ruiyEVmM https://t.co/sYUuB6bBo3

aha! https://t.co/NkHKTdOB7k

@arstechnica @kwiens noooo

@Hanzo55 @marc_laidlaw @clarkkaren 🤣

@aallan yeah I have several and like them a lot.

This one from Anker, the PowerCore 24k 737, is also very good and costs less https://t.co/vxgURWGFGr

@jwz @djbaskin naturally the ratio is heavily dependent on gender 😢

@SparkyRobot @redqueen76 Yeah I worried a lot about doing permanent stuff to my eyes

@maybebobparr @john_lam No, but the Sony models with the same panel tech will, I think?

Anyway, getting back to my original question: is 3D TV dead? Yes. Very very dead. "in 2021, IMAX announced that it would no longer show 3D movies." https://t.co/TROavq66Qz

@peterpham @paulg Dara Khosrowshahi comes to mind as a point of comparison. Or Satya Nadella. https://t.co/pp8d1gZaKM

@paulg @peterpham They aren't rooting for him to fail so much as reacting to his actions under the lens of "is this what a responsible, experienced manager would plausibly do?" And from the start: is it a good idea to be active CEO of four other businesses?

Calibrating digital displays is so much easier today than it was in the analog days! That's right, VGA. https://t.co/d8ARoaksQ5 https://t.co/5n9Z2v7xir

@JohnONolan this is 100% a 15 second hot take but it looks *really* pretentious

@JohnONolan @adders This is true of all "embeds", and it is why @discourse mirrors hotlinked images by default.

@IanCutress @ShortTheFOMO I've seen a number of test results with the 4090 where if you intentionally reduce resolution and frame rate, it does produce better performance per watt than older cards.

@TimSweeneyEpic oh man this is a fun rabbit hole. I owned many of these oddball coolers, like the Zalman al/cu https://t.co/oGy3iUSi5G

@TimSweeneyEpic and heatsinkless! https://t.co/zBl7sWZc2F

@yonatron @siracusa yeah, unless you watch a lot in really bright rooms during the day, I wouldn't sweat it. Plus, there's always something new around the corner.

@siracusa Yeah this isn't our primary TV so I went with the more rationally priced one. The primary TV, I am splurging a bit, I want to go as close to 100" as I can by the end of the year. That is already in motion.. it goes in my office so it gets spousal approval by default ;)

@john_lam yes! I got mine from Amazon. I paid like $3500 for that 55" OLED back in 2016.. I figured the price/performance had finally hit something approaching reasonable? It's so much better now of course.

@TimSweeneyEpic They are getting into serious heatsink engineering territory here to the power draw rising so much over time though. Remember when most GPUs were 2 slot? 1 slot? 1 slot with no extra power connectors? 🤯 Now it's 3 slot given, and some push 4.

@val1984 @siracusa any fanless design is possible if you are willing and able to make it large enough! The difference between "no fans whatsoever" purism and "one or two very large, slow moving, *nearly* silent" designs are .. stark. No fans is an order of magnitude more difficult.