KoboldCoterie

Well, I'm not a single-issue voter.

I'm not rewarding them for anything, but I accept that it's possible to oppose one policy a politician has, even a very important one, and at the same time support a lot of other policies they have, while also vehemently opposing almost all policies that their opponent supports, and make my choice based on that information.

Based on this post, you seem to be a single-issue voter, though, so I'm trying to understand what you're hoping the outcome is. You acknowledge that a vote that supports Trump, even indirectly, is not helping the people of Gaza, so why would you vote against your own self-interests? What's your goal?

If your goal is to show opposition to what's happening in Gaza, there's much more effective ways to do that. Get out there and protest - the protests at the DNC are getting a lot of news coverage, that's where your activism could actually make a difference. Not here.

A normally blue voter voting 3rd party is indirectly helping Trump win the election. Do you think Trump's Israel policy is going to be better than Harris's?

So, what course of action are you proposing? Vote Trump? Vote 3rd party? Don't vote?

What's your intended / expected outcome?

Oh, we can see post / comment count, but that's a meaningless statistic, no? The whole point of karma - the whole thing that makes karma toxic - is that it's based on farming upvotes; it's why Reddit is a cesspool of low-effort meme comments that're engineered to gather those upvotes. Post / comment numbers can't really be hidden anyway, unless you're also proposing hiding a user's comment history... you could get a quick rough total just by checking how many pages of posts and comments there were and doing some quick multiplication.

This might just be a feature specific to the app you're using; it isn't displayed publicly on web, at least on any instance I have an account with.

The only things I've found that just straight up don't work on the deck are things with draconian anti-cheat (which don't work on Linux in general, not just the deck), and very old titles that have weirdly restrictive resolutions or control schemes or whathaveyou. Some games require some tweaking (mostly around controls, occasionally changing the Proton version, which is very easy to do within Steam), but generally that's been minor. The things that don't work well are typically things you wouldn't expect to work anyway.

It's worth noting that it makes it very easy to remap controls, even for games that don't natively support controllers or don't let you remap the controls at all normally. You can also invoke an onscreen keyboard as needed (for e.g. typing names). The controller mapping is very strong; it's not limited only to single buttons; you can create custom contextual radial menus, for instance, so even games that need many more unique controls than the Deck has buttons work fine with some tweaking. You can also view / download / rate other users' control mappings for any game that has them, so you don't even need to do the work yourself.

It's a fantastic piece of hardware for gaming. Looks great, feels great. It's a bit large (won't fit in a pocket, obviously), but that shouldn't be a problem for anyone who would reasonably want a handheld gaming PC. It's not a phone or a Gameboy.

I was without a desktop PC for a week or so due to a hardware failure, and was able to do everything I needed to do on the Steam Deck (with a USB mouse/keyboard, plugged into a monitor via a dock). So it's a great piece of hardware even for that.

I'd go so far as to say no op eds at all. If I'm paying for news, I want factual, high quality, ideally unbiased news, not some chucklefuck's opinion. I can get some chucklefuck's opinion all over the internet for free. (Case in point: You're getting it right now, for free, by reading this comment.)

Darktide is, too, if you prefer WH40k to WHFantasy.

Also all books you lend from the library should be public knowledge.

Terrible analogy. You can consume the post without anyone knowing. Voting is more akin to signing the guestbook.

There's been a few of these stories lately, about billionaires "thinking about" leaving the US. Just shut up and do it already. Nobody cares. Good riddance.

I also exploited the living shit out of my high school’s fast connection and a friend’s Zip drive.

My school had a T1, too, but I didn't have a zip drive, and MP3s were too big for floppies. However, old cracked games very often came in segmented zips that were floppy sized. I'd bring home games 20 or 30 disks at a time (or as many as I thought I could without drawing attention in the computer lab) over the course of a week or more.

That one layer is far sturdier than the covering on a traditional office chair, at least if it's a budget model and not actual leather. You can also replace the mesh, but if you aren't using a super expensive model, I think it's easier to just replace the chair at that point. Anecdotally, I sit on my feet all the time and haven't had any problems with the mesh tearing.