The Octonaut

Hey Militant Left, just because every question directed at you assumes you are an asshole, doesn’t mean the same applies to questions to other people

… why are you putting an apostrophe in McDole? The O-apostrophe in Irish names is an anglicisation of Ó, eg. Ó Briain becomes O’Brien. Mac Dól would become MacDole/McDole.

Yes absolutely they can

You know the purpose of this is so they can use them without being tracked though, right? If it’s easy to exclude outliers and bad data, it makes this suggestion pretty useless.

As people have suggested, there’s almost no reason to ever have this data leave your own personal device or network. Women have tracked their periods for thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of years.

Nah they’ll just say “weird. Guys, exclude November, it’s an outlier”.

If you are required to install something like InTune by your company, that’s what controls what apps you can install in Work mode. It’s a good trade off because it enforces good separation for them - clipboard is blocked between profiles, data too - but also for me. One little toggle and those apps and the profile are disabled entirely until I care again tomorrow.

This is data analysis, not development. Yes you can just exclude the problem month, average the previous and next months, and her real data starts to contribute again. And yes you can do that regardless of who is writing code. Or even that the code was written by your company and not some other company you bought or seized data from.

Bold of you to assume we didn’t just pick up the newspaper in the shop, flick to the funnies, shake our heads at what Andy Cap was upto today, and then leg it before Mrs Murphy tried to get us to pay

Right, but what can they do, short of banning small bottles of water?

Arf Arf Arf!

I love my Steam Deck. It’s literally beside my hotel bed right now, while the Switch is at home with two kids under 10. But:

• the docking and detaching experience is frustrating as hell
• it is significantly heavier and yet feels more fragile.
• it has profiles but not comparably to the Switch in terms of use and UX
• and the controller experience is very hit and miss.
• • It spent 2 months just literally randomly shutting off bluetooth - you had to go into desktop mode and re-enable with a Linux command until they patched it - but that’s not even it - whenever it did that, it also disabled the sticks!.
• • I have multiple entries in the controllers screen - none of which can be renamed or show indicators as to which controller they are - where every now and again the Deck decides sorry, I don’t recognise that controller anymore. Please come walk across the living room and awkwardly stand in front of the telly pressing buttons on the Steam Deck’s face to re-pair things.
• • Oh and controller layout schemes are a cool and powerful feature but way too complicated for me to explain to an 8 year old.

If “I just want to pick up a controller after work and forget what Philip in Marketing said he thought the project was going to look like”, or “I want to buy games once and share them with my kids” or even “I’ll throw this in my bag to kill 20 minutes at the waiting room” are factors, the Steam Deck is very much not superior in every way.

Again. Love my Deck. Almost exclusively buy “Verified” games now. Halfway through a Nintendo game that somehow is easier for me, a software dev to find ajd emulate on Deck than on a Nintendo console. But the Switch has been a remarkable console to have in my living room. The first console I bought (actually now that I think of it, that my wife bought for me) since Wii and before that since PlayStation 2. I’m not really a console player. I have 1000+ games on Steam. Still Switch excels at many things and the sales figures should make that obvious.

No that’s OK, pictures speak louder than words. Doesn’t matter that it’s RFA, images like the feature photo of the article deserve to be seen around the world. The utter devastation of… well… maybe a strong wind?

I care about news in a news community. Not 3 year old stories from America’s Asian propaganda outlet.

Trying to pollute the search results for “bomb schools”, Gedaliyah, govenor of Yehud, son of Akiham, son of Shaphan?

That would have been a great article to post here a year ago

Much better. Please do stick to the pictogram communication, saves everyone time.

Well given that I’m neither American nor particularly aligned to Washington Post (I had to Google “wapo”) or the New York Times, it wasn’t a particularly interesting question. Having lived by the South China Sea however… yeah it’s probably more pertinent to my interests what Yogibear posts about that.

Did you forget your image macro?

I guess we’ll find out when Yogsy posts them some day.

Do we post opinion pieces on news communities now?

Be careful, I heard that having strong opinions on seed oils lowers your testosterone

I do not wish to enjoinder with your Game Launcher and anonymous telephony