PrivateButts (u/PrivateButts)

PrivateButts commented on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/Philpax

oxguy3 · 7 days ago

> Can I play non steam games with the Steam Controller? > The controller can work with any game compatible with the Steam Overlay.

Ughhhhhh. Looks like they're doing the same nonsense as the last controller, and it won't work without Steam running. Such a disappointment; have to hope someone makes an open-source driver.

PrivateButts · 7 days ago

It'll probably work like the steam deck in desktop mode when steam isn't running- a basic default profile takes over. To change anything on that profile or to have any advanced features would require steam input.

PrivateButts commented on Intel will start making GPUs techcrunch.com/2026/02/03... · Posted by u/SunshineTheCat

Qision · 8 days ago

Why doesn't AMD make a similar framework than CUDA? Is this so much of a task? But if that increases their market share that should be financially viable, no?

PrivateButts · 8 days ago

ROCm is their CUDA-like and imo it's been a buggy mess, and I'm talking bugs that make your entire system lock up until you hard reboot. Same with their media encoders. Vulkan compute is starting to recieve support by stuff like llama.cpp and ollama and I've had way better luck with that on non-nvidia hardware. Probably for the best that we have a single cross-vendor standard for this.

PrivateButts commented on Getting syntax highlighting wrong tonsky.me/blog/syntax-hig... · Posted by u/robenkleene

PrivateButts · 4 months ago

To each their own. If anything I tend to go farther, like using different tints for async vs sync functions in python and gdscript.

What'd be nice would be easier customization of these rules in your ide, like quick email rule creation in Outlook. Select what you want to alter, the rule modal shows you a couple options for targeting, then you can apply whatever highlighting you want.

PrivateButts commented on iPhone Air apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte

PrivateButts · 5 months ago

Welcome back Droid X

PrivateButts commented on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly anderegg.ca/2025/09/08/yo... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

troupo · 5 months ago

I keep seeing people say this: "I pay for YouTube Premium. For my money, it’s the best bang-for-the-buck subscription service on the market" and I don't understand.

For me, Premium's only value proposition is removing ads. Recommendations are still the same (quite shitty). Search is unusable (4 relevant results then unrelated recommendations). Shorts are pushed aggressively no matter how many times you hide them. Search in history will often not find even something you just watched a few days ago.

It's the same Youtube.

PrivateButts · 5 months ago

On top of removing ads and giving you a couple extra minor features, it also has a way better rev split with creators (last I heard). Half of the sub gets divvied up to the people you watched that month, portioned out via watch time.

PrivateButts commented on From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year npr.org/sections/shots-he... · Posted by u/laurex

atonse · 6 months ago

I still feel that something like Medicare for All should just be an issue for those that are all about free markets and entrepreneurship.

Maybe there are millions in America that only keep their jobs for the health benefits rather than starting a 1-2 person business.

It just seems so silly.

PrivateButts · 6 months ago

I made this argument in a paper I wrote for a college economics class. I had first hand experience with it because I had recently done the math and figured that I would have to stop my flexible contracting job and seek more traditional employment as I was going to lose my parents insurance and the 'open market' option was unaffordable. Ended up being the reason that I dropped out of college.

PrivateButts commented on Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust tritium.legal/preview... · Posted by u/piker

nyanpasu64 · 8 months ago

I wonder if textbooks and papers could be easier to understand if they had a "go to definition" functionality for technical jargon, notation, or reasoning.

PrivateButts · 8 months ago

When I went back to college to finish my degree, some of my classes used online textbooks from a couple different systems. Most had a simple link to a glossary for key terms, but some took it a bit farther and had a nice pop-over widget. The nice ones also had the ability for you to highlight and annotate passages for your own notes. It's less fun though, if you're like me and have a hard time reading long-form content on a laptop or phone. I ended up getting one of those eink Android tablets to make it easier for me to get through the reading.

Shame is that monetization around them is even more exploitative than normal textbooks. You don't own them, so you can't keep or resell them once you're done, and you typically lose access to it about a week after the class ends. Many courses also issue assignments and grades through the e-textbook, so you're forced to buy it at a price they decide. Fortunately work reimbursed mine.

PrivateButts commented on An Upstate Town Took Back Its Power (2023) nysfocus.com/2023/06/21/p... · Posted by u/kotaKat

PrivateButts · a year ago

In my area when National Grid abandoned our local power station they sabotaged it before ditching it on the city. Now we got an abandoned hulk that's an environmental and economic disaster and will require millions to dismantle or repurpose.

PrivateButts commented on BambuLab new firmware to cut access to third-party API and tools github.com/SoftFever/Orca... · Posted by u/dazhbog

ghostpepper · a year ago

Which prusa would you recommend for someone switching from a bambu P1S? Primary requirements are single-color PLA and PETG with a comparable ease of use, speed and print quality.

PrivateButts · a year ago

Mk4 or Mk4s would be the current one, or wait for the new core one

PrivateButts commented on PolyDye: Full color printer mod for Marlin 3D printers github.com/cooljjj33/Poly... · Posted by u/utopcell

CodeWriter23 · a year ago

Doesn't Bambu have "Purge to infill" in its Orca fork?

PrivateButts · a year ago

It can help a bit but it's not a magic bullet. You're usually not using that much plastic in infill to do a full purge, and the current implementation doesn't add more infill if there's more purge needed. Toolchangers stand to benefit the most from it since they only need to purge enough to prime the nozzle again.

There's also a side problem I've noticed with purge to infill, it's way less forgiving if your filament has too much colorant or you have your purge amounts wrong. Having a perfect print that had it's colors bleed sucks.