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yaroto98 @ yaroto98 @lemmy.world
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  • Anyone automate anything with smart thermostats and outdoor temp?

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  • I have one where I put a door/window sensor on a window and anytime that window is opened it turns off the HVAC, then when closed, turns it back on.

    I tried once to setup a notification to open the windows if the weather was nice, but I'd never gotten to work quite like I wanted, and so I turned it off.

  • New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought

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  • Fair, I was mostly referring to needing an update because a few games I want to play on the deck need it.

  • YSK that if US housing and population projections hold, the Electoral College map will change after the 2030 census.

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  • Yep! Always expect more excuses from the govt. Just like your boss telling you the economy is bad so they can't give you a raise despite pulling in record profits, you really can't get a raise because they answer to investors not you. The govt answers to donors not voters. So any excuse to not do something for you will be used. Regardless of the political pins they wear.

  • New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought

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  • This feels about right. I have an OLED and I got it about 6mo after it came out. I'm rocking it most days, and it doesn't feel End Of Life. But I could see maybe wanting a new one in a few years.

  • YSK that if US housing and population projections hold, the Electoral College map will change after the 2030 census.

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  • I bet it is getting more expensive, but it probably hasn't hit the same heights as silicon valley/san francisco where a small condo is 1mil.

  • YSK that if US housing and population projections hold, the Electoral College map will change after the 2030 census.

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  • Yep, most of the people leaving those blue states are leaving due to high cost of living and going to cheaper states. The HCOL means they're likely from metropolitan areas, meaning they're likely democrat voters. Very few of them are going to rural areas, they're going to cities in the cheaper states. This will have a bigger impact on presidential elections than congress, due to gerrymandered maps. It might be enough to flip these states as they're all-or-nothing states.

  • Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?

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  • Yep. On the emulators now it is instant. I recently stayed at an airbnb with an nes and played with my kids. The lag is definately there. Even my kids were falling off stuff shouting that they pushed the jump button.

  • Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?

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  • I distinctly remember mario bros on the nes. There was like a 1/3second latency between pressing the button and mario jumping. You had to time your jumps (especially when running) further back than you'd expect to compensate. You just kinda got used to it after a while.

  • SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

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  • Sorry, I was referring to the underlying tech and bands. The physics behind LEO doesn't automatically grant it the ability to be faster than GEO. It's faster because the sattelites are brand new not 10 years old.

  • SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

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  • Heh yep, in fact they're not lasting as long as they were supposed to.

  • SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

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  • Companies like Viasat with GEO sattelites have the advantage of one mololithic sattelite with massive coverage. They have a ton of little antennas on each sattelite that they can adjust as demand changes. Need more coverage in an area due to demand? They can task an antenna not doing anything over there.

    Latency is a B though. Minimum 500ms each way. Which is minimum 1sec round trip just physics not actual. What's interesting is the layperson (non online gamer) doesn't notice much. It's not abnormal for a rando website to take a few seconds to load on my wifi. Or for a netflix stream to take a few seconds before it starts buffering. The biggest problem a company like viasat has is old tech in the sky. They can't handle the load of everyone watching netflix. So, they have to data cap everyone. It'll be interesting to see if their new sattelites later this year fix that or if they keep the caps on.

  • SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

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  • The tech behind starlink is good. LEO satellites play a purpose. Upsides are they have less latency than GEO satellites. Speeds are the same though.

    Downside is you have to deploy them evenly as a constellation or else you get service inturruption. Which means if you look at any population map 90% of your constellation is going to be underutilized, and the other 10% is going to be full.

    The real target audience should be mobile broadband. Airplanes, ships, RVs, cars, phones, etc.

    But what do you do in the meantime? Fill in the unutilized constillation with rural residential. You can't compete with fiber tech, so you sue the govt for free money.

  • Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing?

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  • Go OLED if you can, grab a 1tb sdcard for storage expansion. Watch a few people tweak the settings of a game and the graphics card. You can force lower settings and make a game have higher fps and much longer battery life and not really see a loss in graphics due to the smaller screen. Also watch a few tutorials on tweaking steam controller settings. So you can pick up some rando game that's built for kb/m and make it work nice with a controller. Especially gyro, FPS games are more fun being able to gyro the crosshairs a little for micro movements like targeting the head.

    Also once you get it, play Aperature Desk Job. It's free, and is a nice 30min tutorial of your deck.

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    Help diagnosing server freeze issue

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  • This was my first thought too.

  • Spooky co-op games for me and my girl?

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  • I LOVED Dying Light. I tried to get my wife to play with me, but she quit after 30 mins and had to calm down. It was too scary/stressful for her.

  • What distro do you game on?

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  • Rocking Garuda here!

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Final Fantasy 2.

  • I'm losing my fucking mind.

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  • Sounds like hardware then. Try an old gpu or power supply.