Yup, Valve is still in it for the money of course, but the customer really does come first. I’ve used their support a few times and they’ve always been stellar. I will always buy Valve products.

I love Thunder. Have it set up with the small UI, feels like I never left Relay.

I think P2P is still the way to go. Sure it’s not perfect, but it’s simpler and by it’s very nature doesn’t require the infrastructure we know will be a problem.

Plus, don’t forget screen sharing in discord isn’t very good as is (720p30) if you’re not a paid user.

I’m looking to donate my BTC wallet. Can anyone confirm if they still accept it? All I can find is a tweet from 2022 and nothing current on the site.

Thank you, I did a quick google but all I was seeing was articles explaining difference between an LED and a laser, none were saying you could use LEDs to make a laser.

What’s an LED laser?

Dude, I feel this. We had these nice NEC AccuSync CRTs that could so 1280x1024 @ 85Hz or 1024x768 @ 100Hz. Guess what they were all set to? 800x600 @ 60Hz. Not only could you not see a damn thing, but the flicker from the slow refresh rate would give you a headache. Teacher said it was normal and the flicker was in my head.

We weren’t allowed to use USB flash drives because they we’re an up and coming technology that they figured would give them viruses, but we were encouraged to have our own floppy disks to save our work on. Not only does this not make any sense, but now your homework could just corrupt on a whim. Anyway, I had a special floppy disk that I loaded with utilities that could bypass the lockouts and allow me to change the resolution to something sensible.

They also had an HP Laserjet with an IR port and in my last year I was one of the first students to have my own laptop (very lucky). I would take notes in class on it and then print them in the computer lab. One day a teacher caught me and I was lectured because it was against policy to plug personal things into their network. I explained that there was no networking involved, it was a local device to device print job, but she wouldn’t have it. Viruses you know. The next day they had covered the IR port of the printer with whiteout to protect it.

So my options were buy and carry a USB floppy drive, write to floppy, log into a school computer, print from there or… put a tiny little scratch in the whiteout. Which do you think I did?

All in all it was fine. The good old days of early computers where everyone was just figuring things out. Tech was a lot more interesting then and I don’t fault the teachers for not knowing and trying to protect their systems. It was just annoying when you knew more but still had to follow their nonsensical rules.

Sure commercial eggs aren’t, but they’re supposed to be. Egg laying takes a toll on the hens and the conditions they’re kept in are deplorable.

Still, thank you for adding clarification. Education is never bad.

I will say that I’m also vegan and don’t agree with the approach they made. On high moral shaming doesn’t get us anywhere. My mom constantly telling me to clean my room did not make me a tidy person as an adult.

We need understanding, conversation, and education otherwise it’s just a pissy exchange like this and no one is better from it.

I would never be foolish enough to say that nutrition isn’t important, but most people who are becoming frail in the western world are doing so because they lack exercise, not sources of protein.

Fancy processed meat replacements are insanely expensive. Vegan diets? Man that’s the cheapest shit there is. Most of the world lives off a similar diet due to poverty.

They were literally asked how many he eats. What should they have done, just ignore the question?

A little advice: You’re not going to gain any ground with him by saying what he eats isn’t food. Try a more understanding approach. That said, I think history is going to side with your son.

I’m pretty sure that’s the joke they’re making.

It doesn’t match up with my personal experience, but it’s the common view.

It’s been 6 years for me, but at my peak I used to eat 2 every morning for breakfast.

At one point I looked at all the eggs and chicken breast I was eating by being “healthy” and realized it was not in any way rational or sustainable. How could one person (myself) be responsible for the death of one chicken and two chicks PER DAY! I imagined what it would look like to stuff all those birds into my living room and how there’s no way I could farm something on that scale myself (or want to).

So I switched to a vegan diet and never went back. My personal morals tell me I shouldn’t eat animal products, but for the average person who doesn’t agree I can understand why consumption is through the roof. This separation we have of living creatures into commodities, all behind a legally protected black curtain.

When all that’s talked about is how much per dozen, your mind never really stops to think about the rest.

I haven’t tried, but I wouldn’t recommend it. It was years ago that I set it up, but I belive it wanted an app. I would stick with one designed for local only.

I have an EcoBee thermostat which is typically web managed, however it also supports HomeKit. Using the homekit plugin for HomeAssistant I now get best of both worlds.

If I were to do it again I might consider a Z-Wave or ZigBee thermostat, but living in a cold climate I really appreciate knowing that if for some reason my home auto fails there is a backup service to alert me, or vice versa.

You hear sayings like “family is everything” all throughout your life, but it’s only partially true. There is an unspoken assumption that there is love within the family and to not let little things pull you apart.

That is not what you have here. He does not care about you in the way you do about him. As another commenter said, trying to have him live up to an ideal you have in your head will never work. He’s a square peg that you are trying to put into a round hole and every time you do it hurts and causes you emotional distress. He doesn’t feel that. It’s asymmetric.

So you have to ask yourself why you are holding on to him as a father if he is not willing to be one. It’s unfortunate but you may have to accept the reality that you don’t have one.

Oh man, that sucks. I can’t say I’ve ever had performance issues due to steam, but my hardware is better. I wonder what it would be doing to chew up resources?

I can understand that, but Valve is very customer focused, which is why people love them. It’s sad to say but these days most companies are not. Bad support, bad products, bad policies, etc most companies will try to give the shittiest passable product while spending big on marketing to grow.

Valve has had excellent support, innovative and niche products, and very pro-customer policies. Gabe’s often repeated quote on why people pirate is upheld within his company and it’s how they succeed.

I firmly believe that their success is due to their private ownership and his vision. If he were to sell or pass away, I would immediately stop trusting valve and look at them with a lot more scrutiny to see if they are changing for the worse, but for now he has earned my trust.

I totally get preferring GOG or systems that don’t require launches. Trust me. I never buy Rockstar or EA games because their lainchers are so anonying. Steam just works so well that I see their launcher as a benefit and not an annoyance. That’s just me though. Anyway, that some perspective from a Valve fan.