One might say the Deck still isn’t fully baked. I got mine a few months ago, so well after it launched, and there were still some rough edges. For example, I wasn’t able to redeem the OLED goodies (startup animation and keyboard theme). Steam Support advised me to switch to the SteamOS beta at the time, which worked. So the release version of SteamOS had a known redemption bug for months, likely to affect a large number of new users? Sure it’s a small thing, but exactly what I mean by not fully baked.

I have some other nitpicks with it but overall I’ll admit it works quite well.

Right, I’ve heard of that. Never seen one in my life.

I second the citric acid tip, it dissolves the limescale really well, no scrubbing needed. How do you clean the stovetop kettle?

This is the relevant quote:

“In the current state of things, mangaka are not allowed to use AI. But using AI actually drives up the quality by a mile. So doesn’t that mean it would be best to not draw the manga now? Maybe they suddenly lift the ban [on AI] next year, so it might be better to start drawing after that happens. I’m currently on standby in that sense,” Asano says. Though he didn’t elaborate if or to what extent he hypothetically plans to use AI, he said that using it could significantly speed up the modeling process.

What’s a “regular” kettle?

https://example.com/test

www.example.com/test?utm_source=abc

For context, in the original post, this was the result:

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=5%EF%BF%BD2%26%238242%3B51.59%26%238243%3BN+9%EF%BF%BD7%26%238242%3B23.26%26%238243%3BW+-+28%EF%BF%BD17%26%238242%3B7.68%26%238243%3BN+121%EF%BF%BD38%26%238242%3B17.31%26%238243%3BE%0D%0A&MS=bm&DU=mi

Note that single-quotes %27 became %26%238242%3B which encodes ′ which is an HTML entity for U+2032 ′, i.e. smart quotes but broken all the way to hell and back.

Trying to recreate the weird smart quote conversion.

www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=5%B02%2751.59%22N+9%B07%2723.26%22W-28%B017%277.68%22N+121%B038%2717.31%22E&MS=wls&DU=mi with http: becomes:

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=5%EF%BF%BD2%2751.59%22N+9%EF%BF%BD7%2723.26%22W-28%EF%BF%BD17%277.68%22N+121%EF%BF%BD38%2717.31%22E&MS=wls&DU=mi

Edit: oh, it’s fine… maybe it’s a kbin issue?

https://example.com/query?P=%EF%BF%BD%27hello%27

https://example.com/query?P=�'hello'

link

On Android (Samsung specifically, dunno how much it differs from stock), I just added it to quick access (the shortcuts when swiping down from the top-right corner). It’s called “Colour adjustment”.

So yeah, as I found out this was entirely not your fault. Lemmy literally doesn’t let you post the correct link.

There is a chance that this will work though: www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=5�2'51.59"N+9�7'23.26"W-28�17'7.68"N+121�38'17.31"E&MS=wls&DU=mi

Otherwise, follow these instructions:

Go to http://www.gcmap.com/mapui

Into the “Paths” textbox, paste this:

5°2'51.59"N 9°7'23.26"W-28°17'7.68"N 121°38'17.31"E

Click “Draw Map”

Result:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6613

yeah I’m still playing with it, seems like a really serious lemmy bug. I’ll report it.

Managed to work it out, here’s the fixed link: www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=5%B02%2751.59%22N+9%B07%2723.26%22W-28%B017%277.68%22N+121%B038%2717.31%22E&MS=wls&DU=mi

Apparently Lemmy is screwing something up with the link. If you paste it into a comment, it gets modified.

Edit: okay, what the hell.

The query string starts with: P=5%B02%27

But this gets converted to: http://example.com/?P=5%EF%BF%BD2%27

Your great circle link doesn’t work for me. It goes to a page with the title “Fix location 5�2′51.59″N 9�7′23.26″W” and the red error message “No locations match 5�2’51.59"N 9�7’23.26"W”. I think that site is quite broken, which isn’t too surprising considering it doesn’t even support HTTPS.

Edit: this is apparently Lemmy breaking links. I reported it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6613

From my understanding, the first and second parties are the seller (Valve) and the buyer (you). They are the two who have a contract between them. A third party, then, is any party which isn’t signed on the contract. That is, an outsider to the contract.

Any other meaning of second party is probably a back-formation from a misunderstanding of the terms 1st and 3rd party.

Disclaimer: I literally have no idea what I’m talking about

Not OP, but I’m definitely going to try the greyscale thing!

*twice every day

The company may be big, but their hardware orders are nothing compared to the orders for compute farms. They’ve gone on record recently about the Steam Machine saying there are some components they could not secure at all, for any price. Their service contacts are just not attractive when the world-ending AI farms are happy to pay more per unit and ordering more units total.

I do think they really should try their hardest to keep those replacement parts coming, but from the outside it’s impossible to know how hard they actually tried. The only question is whether you give them the benefit of the doubt. You don’t seem to, and that’s fine (honestly I’m not sure I should give it either), but what I’m saying is there is doubt, the market is so fucked right now that this is actually believable.

I’d be shocked if not. There’s just no reason whatsoever for it to not work.

I like this variant (note, I’m slightly biased):

And Englishman, a Frenchman, an Israeli, a Spaniard and a German are sitting in a room when a man enters and asks, “Can you see me?”

They respond: “Yes.” “Oui.” “Ken.” “Si.” “Ja.”