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Steam machine prices are live

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You can always replace the storage yourself. A 2TB NVMe doesnt even cost $300 (most are around $250), and if you swapped it yourself, you'd have a 512 GB one to stick into an enclosure and use as a portable hard drive.

And you don't even have to do that immediately. 512 GB is plenty to start. Especially since not everyone plays enormous AAA games with hundreds of mods. You can upgrade at any time.

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Why?

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oauth only passes back a "login successful" reply and an identifier to associate an account with

Right, it's a unique login token the website or app uses to ID you, and it keeps you logged in as long as you don't delete the associated cookie. In addition, it can be revoked by you at any time, essentially logging you out (including anyone who may have stolen your cookie and is using it to impersonate you).

It's better than using the same password everywhere, but not as good as using a password manager with unique passwords for every app and website.

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Some things are universal

Korean has a perfectly phonetic written language. It was invented by King Sejong and his scholars in 1444 specifically to be phonetic. Koreans probably use "Tyranasaurus" and "tiramisu" pronounced as-is, and the translator app translated the portmanteau phonetically to English.

That's my hypothesis.

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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally pasted random private stuff from that goddamn middle click into WEB PAGES! Things that can read whatever text you type without having to explicitly submit anything. It's a horrible thing for a new user to discover by accident. It's such an unexpected feature to new users, and no one gets told about it, ever. You simply discover it by accident.

This is a good change, not having it on by default.

To all the haters of this idea, god forbid we make Linux less weird by default for people migrating from Windows.

All that said, I have learned to love select-to-copy and middle-click paste. Especially in the terminal.

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Here's how I fixed my Steam Deck when it stopped turning on.

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If they have to suffer, you have to suffer. It's the golden rule or something.

Edit: he's totally wrong about what he did and why. This video is truly garbage.

4:14 Cool. I was was uh was very worried that my Steam Deck wasn't going to turn on again. So, my understanding of what happened there is that the CMOS just needed to be cleared. Uh, apparently holding the volume up and the quick access menu button while plugging in and some like magic freaking voodoo uh makes it clear the CMOS.

It's all bullshit. Read this comment instead: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/21922838

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Unsettling

The guy in the half gorilla suit is hiding in the shadows. The door locks behind the kids as they enter. He steps into the light and says, "You guys can't be back here." He takes a bite. The kids can't open the door. "You guys can't be back here", he repeats a little louder. "You guys can't be back here!" He drops his sandwich. "YOU GUYS CAN'T BE BACK HERE!"