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Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users?

As many others have said, this is because you’re using the same account on both devices, and Steam’s DRM policies will stop you from being able to do what you described. So I won’t go into re-mentioning the many suggestions others have talked about.

What I do want to mention, however, is that this isn’t a problem that comes from having the Deck itself. Set up a separate computer in your living room and use your Steam account there, and you would have the same problem. Does that mean you should be turned off from buying a new computer that’ll run parallel to your main gaming rig?

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TailwindSQL - SQL Queries with Tailwind Syntax

As someone who writes a lot of CSS, and actually like CSS (yeah, unheard of, I know; I'm some alien), Tailwind doesn't just seem like it's reinventing the wheel and wrapping over an existing language, which is weird when you think about those two being mentioned together, is also bad for other reasons:

  • UserCSS becomes near impossible to use
  • Web scraping becomes a gigantic mess; LLMs become the only viable solution, and let's not even get started on how crazy that sounds
  • Semantic HTML becomes difficult to verify and build upon due to the sheer amouns of TEXT (and if you go "But you can put your most commonly used declarations together in a class selector and use that!" then congratulations you almost just wrote CSS), and in relation to this...
  • It encourages bad CSS practices and thus bad HTML practices, as if the terrible walls of text isn't already difficult to debug when working for accessibility
  • RIP traditional SEO, and thus RIP any small players who want to create and maintain their own search engine, and only large companies with a lot of resources can hire people to spend a fuck ton of time to scrape and index the web. SEO already has a ton of problems as it were, and Tailwind just adds a new dimension to the problem.

If the web industry as a whole could slow down and learn to live with the cascade (seriously, the cascade is your friend!), and stop demanding that we do CSS without the C, that'd be great.

Thanks for walking pass me standing on my soapbox that virtually nobody cares about.

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What’s Next after a Polarizing Election?

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The TLDR is, no, I don’t think it’s true that Canada didn’t want anything to do with what pp has to offer. And the proof is in the vote share. If the Libs f up, I believe that the Cons can easily re-campaign on a similar platform, and they will, quite likely, handily win the next election.

Now for the long version…

Unfortunately, I don’t think the results were that simple. Not only have the Cons gained a lot of seats this round, they also gained a lot in vote share, at a historic level not seen since the 1980s. They’re also trailing behind the Libs at 2.1% (around 410k) votes at this time of writing according to the CBC. Had people not rallied behind the Libs and the vote-splitting were any worse, we might’ve ended up with a Cons government (worth noting that given their track record, it’s unlikely that they would be able to function as a minority government, so if they are to form government, they almost have to win the majority). Regardless of what we think of pp’s politics, he’s been able to garner a lot of support through amplifying and channeling the anger that people have due to current issues, to bring about this historic vote share for the Cons. This is one of the key takeaways of this election IMHO.

Yes, I believe the Libs have the potential to do Canada good and protect Canada from the US under Carney. Yes, pp’s a terrible leader by many metrics and is highly unlikable by the general public. And yes, most Canadians don’t want to be like the States and the anti-wokeness bs is clearly not as pervasive here.

But we are not without problems. Problems that pp has successfully gotten people to be mad about and channel their anger in the wrong direction. We’re in a poly-crisis, and such scenarios give the perfect conditions for fascists to swoop in and gain support, and pp has definitely taken advantage of that.

And I also do not, for a single second, think that the anti-woke, Maple MAGAts days are over. They are clearly part of the Cons’ base. There are voices saying that those people will only vote for the PPC, who has earned less than 1% of the vote share, and declared those dead, but some of those voices are from the Cons themselves, and pp was vocal about his support for the Freedom Convoy and that he repeatedly campaigned on anti-wokeness. The fact that the Cons have not imploded over their leader’s affinity to the far-right (iirc pp has had multiple appearances in far-right podcasts) should be a testament to who their base includes.

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Options for a controller for steam deck

What sort of configurations are you looking to do with the controller that Steam Input wouldn’t cover? Cause if you don’t actually need specific features from the 8bitdo config software, it works just fine with Linux. In fact, I’m using one right now, and have been using it for years.

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The Nation That Trump Could Never Break

Thank you for sharing this article @[email protected]. I must admit that I’ve been rather pessimistic about the election outcome, that 41% of the votes went to the Cons, that I forgot to sufficiently celebrate the fact that 44% voted for the Libs, many of which were out with the intention of denying the Cons government. That I forgot the fact that the fact this happened gives us all, at home and abroad, hope that the fight goes on and that we stand a chance at decency. Thank you!

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Canadians upset Carney caved to Trump over digital services tax

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I’m gonna need some citations or sources for that.

AFAIK, the service tax was not “put in place ages ago”. It was put in force in June 2024, literally last year, and the first payments were expected literally yesterday, on June 30th, 2025. It’s retroactive, but still only goes back to 2022, which isn’t “ages ago”. Source

And what’s this wheat market steal you’re talking about?

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Conservatives update platform to include omitted 'anti-woke' promise

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It only means “we have this bunch of people that we say are ‘the enemy’, but we keep the definition vague so that it can be anyone or any group that is convenient for us to use, as per the fascist playbook.” The purpose is to channel hate and people’s frustrations into a movement for their own purposes, and it doesn’t matter to fascists (or neofascists, or pseudo-fascists, etc) if it’s actually built on nothing.

“Woke” meant something, and there was the “anti-woke” people, and the right took advantage of that hate, twisted and muddled it into basically a meaningless but convenient tool today.

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Trump says Ontario ‘not allowed’ to slap surcharge on electricity sent to U.S. states

Says the guy who literally decided to slap tariffs on Canada over a flimsy pretext.

If his goal is really to depreciate the USD, he’s doing a fucking good job while sabotaging Canada at the same time. Not sure if he thinks this’ll make Canadians consider moving their businesses there, which is one of his goals, but this is also a man-child who doesn’t understand empathy and assumes everyone works like the stone-cold (failure of a) businessperson he is. There’ll be some who’d do that, but idk if they’ll find a depreciated USD all that alluring to earn. Trump essentially wants the US to become China though, as the global factory of sorts, and wants to force others to buy US products, in a way that so far seems to be more heavy-handed than China, who typically looks more for weak points and pressures other nations into buying their products if they don’t already buy enough. He claims that this’ll make Americans rich, but in truth, this only enriches the rich, just like, well, right in China.

Might be my dumb 2 cents but it’s what I’ve gathered from the material consequences of his actions so far.

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About Linux growth in Steam HW surveys: don't forget chinese language is currently the biggest source of "noise" against accuracy

As someone who hasn’t been following what’s going on, this reads like a really weird post.

What does it mean for a language to… “drop”? Did you mean language usage? Why would Linux “grow” (whatever you mean by “grow” here) whenever this language “drops”?

And assuming I understood your post correctly, why should we consider Chinese users of Linux as “noise”? In what context are you posting this such that they can be considered “noise” instead of “more data points”?

Sorry for blasting questions at ya, but this is really out of left field.

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Why are so many second-generation South Asian and Chinese Canadians planning to vote Conservative?

I’ve definitely heard of irrational hatred towards the Libs from South Asians, but not so much from those of Chinese descent, but tbf my real life circle isn’t that big and we don’t really talk about politics. As an immigrant myself from a similar demographic (am Southeast Asian), I have to say that I don’t understand this rightward shift in voting sentiments. Is it cause they’ve never been under Harper, or never heard of what things were like under him? (I’ve only been here since Trudeau) The Cons never came across as being friendly to non-Whites, and that should already be a warning sign.

But afaik, a good number of the Chinese that I know of are generally supportive of being tough on crime and see Canada as being unsafe, especially the older generation. They praise China for having strong police presence and for its seemingly lower crime rate, and then says things like, “It’ll never be like that in Canada. And to think that we came here because it used to be bad there and was much safer here.” One that I’ve talked to said that he supports the CPC for being tough on crime (allegedly I would say, but nonetheless), and support scaling back immigration even further to hopefully bring back how Canadians used to be much more friendlier (he sees the large increase in new immigrants as a reason why Canadians have become less friendly overall). Perhaps to these people, they would rather trade being possibly oppressed for a chance of having lower crime rate? Idk how that’s more assuring from a safety standpoint but it makes sense to them.

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Liberal operatives planted 'stop the steal' buttons at conservative conference

Way to blow a good lead and give your opponents ammo, and especially at an opponent that’s trying to grab onto every possible thing that could be an ammo.

Edit: And I also wanna say, man I just can’t with the CPC. Their rhetoric sucks, their role as the opposition is juvenile af (just look at this childish comeback!), and their entire existence feels like they just pull Canadian politics down to the sandpit and make people fight like dumb kids who don’t know and can’t act better.

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Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users?

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Welcome to the painful world of DRM that we live in :’)

And to be fair to Steam, they did recently issue a statement and tried reflecting it in their stores to say that you don’t actually outright own all the games you “bought”, as, for some, you are merely purchasing the license to play games that the publishers have decided to put behind a DRM. This has always been the case since the dawn of DRMs, and it was implied that people should understand it, but recent events have made it clear that a lot of people aren’t even aware of it. So you’d be forgiven for not knowing.

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Carney tells Trump Canada is not for sale, president praises PM as a 'very good person'

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Ehh… It seems like Carney’s comment is just lip service, and imo it just skirts around things that you just can’t say anything good about. “Transformational” isn’t necessarily a praise, and a “relentless focus on the American worker” doesn’t focus on the policies (which we know have been really bad for American workers) and basically just reiterates Trump’s claimed motivation in some way, so a nothing burger. “Securing your borders” is also a nothing burger cause while it’s what they’re trying to do, is hasn’t necessarily been done successfully or in a good way. “Ending the scourge of fentanyl and other opioids” is just another self-proclaimed point, and in the case of fentanyl, 21g in a whole year from Canada, and of unknown effectiveness from Mexico. And “securing the world” is also a nothing burger cause he hasn’t, but he’s doing things that he thinks is securing the world.

I don’t think it shows what Carney’s true plans and motivations are going into the meeting, so I’d recommend not reading too much into it at the moment. We’ll see what comes out of this whole discussion, and we’ll find out what have Canadians voted into.