I’m not sure why you are getting down votes.

The reasons fur the demand sick, but you are correct, demand is fast outstripping supply… Price rises are inevitable.

Whilst pricing everything at “what the market will bear” is valid; it is a shitty way to do business.

Valve has traditionally taken a longer view of things; if they sell a controller that you will love and use for years. Their reputation grows, especially if they are not gouging their customers for everything they can.

Valve will make more than enough by selling games via Steam; having an “optimized for Steam Controller” tag somewhere will keep those who already purchased happy; and drive more sales over the long run.

I use windows at work, I have local admin which removed a lot of friction for a more technical user.

But the difference between my home machines (18 years Linux) and my work machine is friction. Windows makes things hard, it is always a few extra clicks or a stupid reg key change.

E.g. recently wanted my full right click menu back on win11, no nice setting option. Go edit this unnamed registry key, it seemed so janky in a modern os.

I’m a long time Mint user, jumped around a fair few distros but mint works well for me. It is so polished compared to windows, it seems crazy it is the free one.

The way to eliminate the risk is a lot more complex tracking wise but worth it for the risk reduction.

Effectively using spread focus tracking; multiple lower powered lasers provide the power to destroy the mosquito but no single laser has enough energy to damage your eye.

It would require extremely accurate positioning and pointing of the lasers and most likely two cameras for the tracking to get accurate distance to target. I thought of this years ago…but never really cared enough, I live in an area with no mosquito issues.

Amazing comment.

I vote “schlopp summoning”

About 100 years.

no no no; since you are using zsh you will need to use ragedit not regedit.

This soccer playing robot isn’t much of a threat, it can be equalled by an elite player with years of experience.

The hands of fate are kind today.

If I got an old kindle; how easy is it to jailbrake it and install a better system?

Notification history is off by default in GrapheneOS…so that is nice.

I guess next year I’ll have to post a joke just after midnight. I’ll wake to find confusion and chaos.

Often we are not even included on maps.

Well he did bankrupt 4 casinos…that place where, you know statistically, the “house always wins”.

A big ass-hammer

With a specific mix of spiteful grumpiness toward windows and a naive optimism, born of youth and abundant nerd resource at university.

That and a stoic acceptance that shit breaks, but it also broke on win 95, 98, XP and especially millennium edition. Which is the timeframe I switched in.

Going full time was fully enabled by reliable virtualization. When I could run a win XP VM and expect no issues in a work day, I was about to ditch windows as my main OS. Over time, I used fewer windows only applications, now I barely need the VM.

Can’t tell of sarcasm or serious, damn Poe’s law.

Rough…but fair!