MudMan

“Keeps”?

Someone is making a lot of assumptions about how the last decade of being terminally online has gone that reality isn’t willing to sustain.

I used to be inverted until controller FPSs started to be a thing. I don’t think people realize how long PC FPSs were mostly a keyboard-only thing. By the time WASD+Mouse standardized, quite late into the Quake 1 era I had hundreds of hours on Tie Fighter/X-Wing and a bunch of other first person flight games.

Hell, Descent predates Quake, and I’d argue it figured out full 3D controls way before Quake did.

Now that I’m on board this train of thought, do kids these days think Doom played with full mouseview and just distorted all over the place? Is it well known for people not born at the time that Doom was mechanically closer to a twin stick shooter than an FPS or have all the source ports erased that from history?

Yeah. You’re basically buying a laptop crammed into a small box. May as well get a laptop if you need the small footprint and portability or a desktop if you need the price-to-performance.

Also, the Steam Deck thing people keep repeating is terrible advice. Even these can power their components somewhat robustly. A docked Steam Deck is still a 10W APU for no good reason. It depends on use case, in that you also get a handheld out of the deal, but if you’re looking for a primary device even a laptop would be a better choice.

Yeah, ok, so… don’t wash your phone with a spray nozzle regardless, is going to be my advice. Wet tissue? Sure. Under the tap with light soap? If desperate. Just… don’t hose your phone down, what are you doing.

But let’s be clear, IP ratings are certifications. You can still be water resistant under the conditions of the test and not have the certification for it.

It makes perfect sense for… you know, people not using water jets on their electronics, to get just the certification that covers most real use cases (in this case the one that covers rain, accidental pool falls and the occasional toilet dunk) and communicate that. It doesn’t mean your phone won’t survive a bartop spray nozzle wash (which, again, you shouldn’t be doing) or even that it wouldn’t have gotten the IPx5/6 cert if the manufacturer had gone through the process, but it’s extra cost that will only muddle how you communicate with your user.

Are people not clear that IPx5/6 and IPx7/8 aren’t on a linear scale? They are not. That’s on the IEC’s poor formatting of the ratings. Are manufacturers leaning on the implicit user assumption that the higher number just means more protection? Sure.

Is it relevant/annoying/effectively problematic in real use? Not unless you’re using a waterjet cutter to rinse ketchup off your phone. Which, again, don’t do that, that’s not a good thing to do.

This is a bit obtuse for the sake of pedantry.

I mean, is it possible that you could build a device resistant to submersion but not splashing? Maybe?

But this isn’t “a device”, this is a phone. The problems with water ingress are very specific. You have a couple of speakers, a few microphones, a sim card slot and a USB port, plus the seams for the screen and backplate. If you secured those well enough for the immersion tests they’re going to be splash-resistant. If you have a way in which you can somehow have a phone screen adhesive survive being underwater for several minutes but not falling rain or being placed under a tap/hose please do share, because I can’t think of one. The scenario where your speaker seals are good enough for being fully submerged but get water damaged by shooting high pressure water directly into them is so niche it’s probably not worth it to further confuse people by having two different IP ratings listed.

Plus… you know, don’t be shooting water hoses directly up your phone’s holes regardless? I don’t see why you would in the first place, but… just don’t? It’s not gonna happen by accident, so it doesn’t need to happen at all.

Yep. Non-negotiable. Not only do I live in a very rainy place, but I have uses for this stuff that require getting splashed A LOT very often for other reasons.

Yeah, that’d work a lot better for me if I was American and not painfully aware of similar issues happening in cities where cars fold like umbrellas and are almost entirely parked underground.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, you guys have a whole continent you can use for this, so maybe you can brute force it. Definitely not “the biggest thing” where I’m from, though.

Yeeeeah, I was too adult in 2008 to go “you know the real problem? We check too hard for solvency when giving out mortgages”.

Not that I have a silver bullet for solving a housing crisis. There probably isn’t one. You need a lot more public housing as a percentage of the total pool, that much I can tell. How you fix a job market where nobody holds the same position for more than a handful of years is beyond me. You probably need to make it much more expensive to own a house without living in it or renting it out. You definitely want to make it much more expensive for corporations to own housing.

Guessing that’s harder to fit in a pithy, viral tweet, though.

I mean, they built a whole NFT marketplace into it under Gaben.

You could argue that the next guy (if any) would be worse at making money from Steam than he is, I suppose.

Although admittedly their NFT marketplace went the same way all others did. I remember at the time people were shilling that stuff my go-to response to tell them why it’d fail was that Steam tried it and it all trended to zero.

I mean, it’s good now.

I guess there’s a question about good for what, but what it does it does pretty well.

I mean, that’s a bit of an anglicism, though? It’s not strictly incorrect, maybe, and you’ll hear it in some dialects, but it sounds weird. For one thing it’s more ambiguous. It sounds like you’re saying the surface itself is feeling a bit rough today. I’d go a looong way out of my way to not say it that way. “Es rugosa al tacto” sounds more natural.

But yeah, in English feeling is specifically the verb used to express that you’re touching something or perceiving something by touch. In romance languages it tends to default to hearing before it does touch.

You can’t use “sentir” for touching things. I mean, you can try, but you’d sound like a creep. Come to think of it, Spanish doesn’t really have a word for perceiving things by touch. They just say… well, touch. They have a specific different thing to reference feeling around (a tientas).

It can technically mean “hear” in it and a few other romance languages, though. Not as weird, I’d argue.

I mean… I’m trying to be snarky, but I’m finding it hard to argue that it’s bad advice.

“Print”?

I mean, you’re in a fascist global dystopia and you’re gonna get picky about formats? I can carry a copy of Wikipedia in a SD card the size of my pinky nail, and I know because I have one. Who are these hipster kids that look at my Wonder Phone of Truth and go “well, this would be a lot easier on my eyeballs if you got me a paperback edition”.

The things English does with the word “feel” should be illegal.

You don’t get to use the same word for having profound internal emotions AND to rub your grubby hands on things. That’s just not right.

See, you start reading too much into grammar this way and then you learn about how Spanish uses their “to be” equivalent and have a massive existential crisis.

I presumably already do. Am I expected to know every single maintainer of every single piece of software I boot up? That is a LOT of homework to run an application.

Genuinely can’t tell if this a real question or some weird reductio ad absurdum thing on the not separating art from the artist trend in modern society.

I do like to cancel my golf appointments when I die. It just distracts from the work at hand, you know?

That’s fun. I mean, as a speaker of a few languages with arbitrary grammatical gender I don’t feel particularly outraged at the notion of gender being arbitrarily selected, but in a world where Americans have exported their weird hangups with gender-via-pronoun to the entire planet, the idea of the two genders being Common and Neutral is delightful to me even if it is cumbersome in practice.

My Windows machines seem to be just fine with the couple of NFS shares I use for easier cross-platform mounting on boot. It comes at the cost of some security, though, so I use it to share unimportant stuff I want to mount very freely, like some media libraries. I use SMB for the rest.

I’m curious, what’s the issue with NFS on Windows for you?