HuniePop is a comedic masterpiece I will actually be upset about if it's disappeared.
This group is nuts. Wanting to ban Detroit Become Human because it depicts child abuse is completely insane. That's like solving sex trafficking by making it illegal to mention it.
The difference, like the other commenter already pointed out, is whether you take something across a border, and then leave it there.
If you take the stuff you brought with you, back when you leave, then you didn't import it. Import tax is exactly that, a tax on stuff moving from one country, to another. If you bring it in, and then out again, nothing changed.
As such personal items aren't subject to this, because the owner is comingandleaving with them. Technically there's a whole song and dance that should happen when you come and go, but that's massively inefficient, so customs will just sit there and trust that if you have something to declare, you will.
And a lot of the time people don't. Like a phone they bought while abroad. That's technically something you need to pay for, but it's not that harshly enforced. It just doesn't matter compared to the import taxes collected for large commercial shipments.
I'm having trouple parsing this comment into a sentence that makes sense. You don't penny pinch e-waste? What?
Either way, a lot of people won't think about this in terms of mere monetary value. Every bit of plastic counts.
And that's before considering that not everyone can afford to make trivial purchases. And even if you can afford it, I can't imagine making purchases without thinking about it beyond whether I have the money. That some people don't think past that, contributes to tons of problems.
I could easily afford a more convenient and smaller GaN charger to replace the one I got with my Deck, but it wouldn't really bring me any new value. Every cent I'd spend on that purchase would be more efficient when used for something else.
If not for my needs, then someone elses.
People care. And they should. You bother me, because behind your comments, is the suggesting that we shouldn't. To you, one less piece of waste is "not worth it". That's wrong.
So you're saying buy the US one, throw the charger that comes with it in the trash, then buy another?
Wasteful.
I didn't have a USB PD charger that went above 15W until the one that came with my Deck. I use it as a slightly slightly faster phone charger, too.
And no, the vast majority of new ones do not go above 20W, either. It just checked. Sure they all work, but your claim that "any" charger hits 60W is complete nonsense.
My dad reading "Moominpappa at sea" to me one chapter a night as a bedtime story, is seared into my mind.
You might start with book 7. "Tales from moomivalley" as it is a collection of short stories, one of which is "The invisible child"-story that was adapted for the TV series. It's essentially a story about child abuse, as it tells the story of Ninny, a girl who has ceased to be visible. She was abused by her guardian to the point she wished she'd cease to exist, and that is essentially what has happened, as she can be neither seen nor heard.
The Moomin family take her in and begin her recovery, by basically being kind to thin air.
The other books follow a loosely chronological order, and are full-on novels.
That makes a cell much more sensitive, since a smaller change in the charge is required to change the stored value. As opposed to an SLC cell which would simply be empty or charged depending on whether it's storing a 1 or a 0.
Good SLC nand should be able to store stuff for a decade just fine, if not longer. This is what'll be in any decent USB drive, as they're intended to spend the vast majority of their time unpowered.
QLC nand uses 16 different charge levels to store 4 bits per cell. That means a 1/16 change in charge would start corrupting data. PLC is in development, and will use 32 levels to store 5 bits. This'll be in your budget multi-terabyte SSDs.
Temperature also plays a role. The nand cells will lose charge at different rates at different temperatures.
You'll want to consult the specs of whatever drive your looking at. The variance is huge. From some drives needing a firmware level "data-refresh" that's constantly keeping the data from disappearing (people seeing bit-rot was a problem with some drives back when TLC first became common), to stuff that's fine for decades.
If you want Sunshine to run and stream the game at the deck's resolution, you'll need to add a "Command Preparation" entry to set and unset the resolution and framerate requested by the Moonlight client on the deck.
Mine look like this:
sh -c "kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.hdr.disable; steam steam://open/bigpicture; kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.mode.${SUNSHINE_CLIENT_WIDTH}x${SUNSHINE_CLIENT_HEIGHT}@${SUNSHINE_CLIENT_FPS}"
sh -c "kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.hdr.enable; kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.mode.3440x1440@165; sleep 3; steam steam://close/bigpicture"
The first one disables HDR (colors are wrong on the deck otherwise), launches big picture, and sets the main monitor to whatever resolution and framerate is on the client end.
The second re-enables HDR, sets the monitor back to its native resolution and framerate, waits 3 seconds for the resolution change to finish, and then exits big picture. (The wait is so that the normal steam window doesn't get placed weird while resolution is different)
You can modify these commands and test them in a terminal before setting them up in Sunshine. You can remove the HDR toggle since you're on x11, and you'll want to check what the ID of your main monitor is, for me it's "DP-1".
Something I really appreciate, as an adult, is how Moomin stories tricked me into learning things about the real world as a kid.
The Moomin world is simple and fantastical, but something it doesn't do, is dumb down real problems.
"The invisible child" is a top one for me. In it, the Moomin family takes in Ninny, a child who has gone invisible due to the abuse of her guardian. She canno't be seen or heard. In the Moomin world, making someone feel like they should disappear, can actually cause exactly that to happen.
By showing kindness to what is essentially thin air, the Moomin family slowly help her recover and become a person again.
Tove essentially wrote about child abuse, at the hands of adults, no less, in a way that even kids can understand.
Her stories concisely make points about decency, respect, and kindness, in such powerful ways that I feel they effortlessly implant in you the desire to be a good person.
No. The novels were for all ages. And they still got into heavy subjects, with an introspective and thoughtful tone. The books use the environs of a fantasy world to tell stories about real-world problems like identity and love.
When looked at through the lens Tove's personal life, each book fairly clearly explores thoughts and feelings she would have been dealing with during that time in her life.
The newspaper comic strips were for adults, and often took on political satire and caricatures. They feature a far less serious and more comedic version of the Moomin world.
You should think of the two as completely unrelated projects.
Just tried it on my arch system, works. Not sure what's wrong for you. Nothing sticks out in what you posted.
But like the other guy said, you should use Moonlight/Sunshine.
Better latency, better picture quality. I was able to set up AV1.
Plus unlike steam, you can set it to run things at the decks screen resolution. Using steam I get giant black border's because my desktop is an ultrawide, but even on 16:9 you'll get small ones, since the deck is 16:10.
I can tell you more about setting up Moonlight/Sunshine if you want. I have it configured so I can remote into my PC in big picture mode, and then I just use my deck to play whatever.
Except that companies are the one's literally purchasing labor.
Framing it the other way around paints a world where a corporation is doing individual humans a favor merely by existing. When in reality, it is being enabled by workers providing their labor. At least for now.
It's a trade. Where one side is providing the literal time people have on this earth, and the other is a corporation that produces whatever it produces. Or consumes, even.
The latter should literally never be the one with an advantageous position. It exists to server human interests, not itself. It simply can't be worth more than the actual lives of people.
And before you go "sure it can be" I'm not talking about how capitalism turns everything into market-defined value.
The way the author of the article thinks about this stuff is not just out of touch. It's sickening. And people like them are why modern society regularly tramples over real lives for the benefit of imaginary value.
HuniePop is a comedic masterpiece I will actually be upset about if it's disappeared.
This group is nuts. Wanting to ban Detroit Become Human because it depicts child abuse is completely insane. That's like solving sex trafficking by making it illegal to mention it.