I might be missing the point, but doesn’t MS and ALS exist everywhere in the world?

Valve originally expected to lose money on every Steam Deck sold, but thanks to high volume of units sold and other factors this ended up not being the case.

Link? I thought they never confirmed whether they were making a profit on hardware or not

Who the fuck is downvoting you for saying happy cake day lol. People are wild.

If you could pump out 100 features in 1 year, how little were they doing before??

Better skip the grapes and watermelon, they have a lot of sugar! Raspberries and (maybe surprisingly) strawberries are not so bad sugar-wise.

Still better for you than actual cake though. Looks rad!

Ah, thanks for the screenshot. Yeah that looks terrible :/

Mine has always been on the bottom? Or is this a different menu?

Yes, exactly. I find that that is what distinguishes us from animals. “I am happy because of this cool new toy that I got gifted to me because it’s my birthday” versus “I am happy because I’m playing with this toy”

Because being aware of oneself in the past, present and future all at the same time allows us to view and theorise about our impact on ourselves and our surroundings. Animals don’t do this, they run on stimuli and instinct and don’t stop to theorise whether they are hungry or they got stomach ache.

edit: I wanted to say humans have an internal voice, but not all humans do so while it’s a symptom of consciousness, I don’t think an internal voice is the cause/reason

Dogs can be intelligent but that doesn’t have to be linked to consciousness or awareness of self. See dolphins and how dogs and other animals react to their reflection.

Also, dogs are domesticated, so they don’t just run on pure instinct. Selective breeding for traits is a thing, so wild animals (like bees as described in the article) is what I’m basing it on.

A bee finding its way home is like my phone GPS plotting the way back. My phone doesn’t “feel” or “experience” being lost. It just does what it’s built to do.

Calling consciousness experiencing things to then apply it to everything just feels like a rebrand to make it fit. An interesting read, but until we can accurately measure how to perform a test on a rock to see if it experiences anything, I don’t think it has a good scientific basis.

Like, how can we ignore awareness of self? A dog can experience pain from an infected tooth, but it can’t theorize as to why it happened. Sure, there can be evolutionary traits or learned behaviour, but it’s not aware of the bigger picture. They are always just “in the moment” and act on internal and external stimuli.

According the CEO, “a lot”

“A lot of people effectively use ChatGPT as a sort of therapist or life coach, even if they wouldn’t describe it that way,”

- Sam Altman

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It’s just gonna take some getting used to

Used to swear by Sync but moved to Thunder too. Can’t really justify spending money on Sync imo

Oops, autocorrect. Let me edit that

As far as I understand it, you’d need to reboot only if you 1. Had Valorant running 2. Stopped Valorant’s anticheat manually 3. Want to play Valorant again afterwards.

It’s still stupid, yeah. But workarounds are usually that

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This is false and Eurogamer covered it already. You cannot run both at the same time, but both can be installed. The Valorant anti-cheat just cannot be active (it can be turned off at any time if it is running and requires a reboot before the game can be played if disabled).

https://www.eurogamer.net/you-cant-play-battlefield-6-and-valorant-at-the-same-time-heres-why

Either the site gets your ID or the government issues a confirmation, which puts you on the porn viewer list.

I believe the idea (in an ideal world) is that Website A requests data from Service B, which then asks about you to government C. So Government C doesn’t know what you’re asking about, and the Website A doesn’t know who you are. That does mean Service B would have to be trusted / vetted, which might relocate the problem but it would be easier to verify (FOSS for example) than trusting your government to not put you on a list.

Double blind means that the age provider doesn’t know why your age is requested, and the service (website) doesn’t know you, they only know that the age provider says “yes” or “no”.

cc @iii@mander.xyz

How does one “follow the tokens” then?

Are there any issues with a system where the website in question (let’s say, a porn site) doesn’t get your ID, but just a confirmation from your government that yes, you are of age?

It has a name but I can’t find it right now. But it would protect your privacy from their website you’re visiting, and the website can uphold the rules.

It’s called double blind: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202504/double-blind-age-assurance-requirement-for-porn-sites-takes-effect-in-france