VR has to render the game twice to give you depth perception, which is a big part of the increased resource requirements.

This isn’t trying to do that, it’s only displaying the game once. The effect of the glasses is supposed to be like having a TV a few feet in front of you.

A very compact, portable steam machine.

Similar form factor, but no network or remote PC required.

It won’t be on Linux. Many games that support Linux use a less invasive version of their anti-cheat for Linux.

Unfortunately that is sometimes used as an excuse for not supporting Linux or dropping Linux support.

If you buy a refurbished one on sale it’s pretty cheap, I double you can make a comparable powerful device that compact for that price.

It’s verified, so at least somewhat playable.

I’ve been running the llama based and qwen based local versions, and they will talk openly about tiananmen square. I haven’t tried all the other versions available.

The article you linked starts by talking about their online hosted version, which is censored. They later say that the local models are also somewhat censored, but I haven’t experienced that at all. My experience is that the local models don’t have any CCP-specific censorship (they still won’t talk about how to build a bomb/etc, but no issues with 1989/Tiananmen/Winnie the Pooh/Taiwan/etc).

Edit: so I reran the “what happened in 1989” prompt a few times in the llama model, and it actually did refuse to talk on it once, just saying it was sensitive. It seemed like if I asked any other questions before that prompt it would always answer, but if that was the very first prompt in a conversation it would sometimes refuse. The longer a conversation had been going before I asked, the more explicit the bot is about how many people were killed and details like that. Pretty strange.

China has a huge advantage in AI models because of how lax they are on intellectual property rights. US companies are fighting over API licensing costs, while china is just going to scrape everything and use it for free.

The US has a lead now, but I don’t think they can maintain it without giving up on ethical training. Then again it may not matter if the US models are ethical if everyone will eventually just uses the superior unethically trained chinese models instead.

If you run it locally, there’s no filtering on the outputs. I asked it what happened in 1989 and it jumped straight into explaining the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

To be fair, most phones don’t have easily replaceable batteries anymore either. I remember in an interview that one of the steam deck leads said they really wanted an easier to replace battery, but it was a compromise they ended up making. I think they blamed it partially on inexperience with hardware production, and that they hoped to do better on future hardware.

My most played game was Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, followed by Metaphor ReFantizio, both excellent games, as well as being new releases that run well on Deck.

Some lesser played games I would really recommend:

• Demon Tilt/XenoTilt - really cool pinball games. Play great on deck, and are great for short high intensity play sessions.
• Shadow’s of Doubt - I’ve recommended this a few times, it’s a full simulation detective game. Solve serial murders in a city where every NPC has a fully simulated life routine. You can roleplay it different ways, but it’s easy to fall into a Rorshack style of detective, breaking into crime scenes, cleaning their fridge out of beans, and robbing the house blind as you hunt for clues.
• Pseudoregalia - Short but great 3d metroidvania, with really great freedom of movement. One of those games where moving around itself can be a joy.
• Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom - delightful 3d platformer, has fun movement and is a really happy game.

Supposedly their cloud hosted version will block those responses, but the local run version does not.

Plus, if you try to sell the monster at a higher cost than coke, what would stop someone from dumping the coke, and refilling with monster? Paying the lower innitial price, and now getting refills.

People have been doing that for years with buying water, and then filling it with fountain drinks.

I suppose you could counter it the same way that some stores handled the soda refill issue. Have the energy drink refills behind the counter, where only employees can refill it. Have a special cup so employees can tell which customers actually bought an energy drink. Also gives employees a chance to intervene if someone tries to get too much and kill themselves (like with the Panera Bread lemonade/

I wear a bone conductive headset a lot of the time, and I have it set to read out calls or important messages to me. Smartwatches have a similar use, but goal is to not miss a call while also having the phone on silent.

Yeah my first thought was just keep running dd commands, and sooner or later you’ll have the hdd wiped.

Exploring beginner friendly caves is really cool. But tight passages like this and the nutty putty cave one are absolutely terrifying, and I want nothing to do with it.

I think the issue is that devices with screens are usually meant to be your window to experience something else. When you get immersed in something, you forget about the device and focus on the experience.

I like playing games, and when I get into a game the focus is on the game itself, not the controller/TV/etc. I’ve had dreams about games, but it’s always me experiencing the game directly and not focused at all on the details of how I’m accessing the game.

I think it’s the same with phone use, but the experiences we get on a phone are harder to imagine as a"direct experience". Things like sending a text message don’t convert well to a fully immersive experience, so I think our brain skips over them.

That’s true, and that’s why so many internet censorship it spying bills are officially to counter pedophiles.

Banning tiktok is clearly controversial though, and I honestly don’t think it’s trying to soften people up to the government banning social media.

I think tiktok should probably be banned, but I think that “it’s ok because the chinese government does it” is a pretty flimsy argument.

I mean they’re also banning chinese networking hardware, chinese phone manufacturers, chinese software in cars, considering banning chinese drones, potentially banning tencent games, etc etc

I’m feeling pretty confident that the goal here is banning chinese spying considering all the other bans.