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marricks commented on Steam Machine   store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr
godzillabrennus · a month ago
Don't sugarcoat it. Valve has to make sure this is advertised as a PC to keep the licensing good on the games you've bought and that they are allowed to sell. Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have closed ecosystems with their consoles. Well, Microsoft seems to be throwing in the towel on consoles.
marricks · a month ago
Didn't Xbox pivot to be an entertainment system a couple generations ago and flop compared to PlayStation?
marricks commented on Steam Machine   store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr
lazyfanatic42 · a month ago
Valve respects its customers. It is so insane that this isn't a norm; what a world we would be in if all companies did so.
marricks · a month ago
Because they're not owned by private equity/publicly traded. If that ever happens the "let's squeeze this for every dime it's worth" will happen.

That's really the saddest thing about capitalism, if everything around us wasn't getting enshittified in the exact same way at least the future would be more alluring.

marricks commented on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race   nbcnews.com/politics/elec... · Posted by u/jsheard
JumpCrisscross · a month ago
> he called for universal health care but once he was elected he started saying it was "too radical"

ACA was the most radical package that could have passed, and it still cost Democrats the Congress.

This line of argument reminds of the folks who complained about Sinema and Manchin. You know what we’d have with a few more Sinemas and Manchins in the party right now? A majority.

The bill that passes is better than the ideal that doesn’t.

marricks · a month ago
> ACA was the most radical package that could have passed, and it still cost Democrats the Congress.

People aren’t excited by half measures that let health insurance companies generate tons of money and CONTINUOUSLY raise premiums. People still go bankrupt receiving cancer care here.

The person who gets free healthcare and cuts overall costs by destroying health insurance middle man will be massively popular and, once the effects are borne out, win congress in a landslide.

Perhaps Obama couldn't have made it happen, but he didn't try. He could have made a speech about "how we will do because not because it's easy, but because it's possible because every other western nation has this same basic thing." But here we are with a crappy compromise.

marricks commented on China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990   e360.yale.edu/digest/chin... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
andrewflnr · 2 months ago
I would really respect the hell out of the nation of China if it wasn't for the authoritarianism and imperialism.
marricks · 2 months ago
I don't think any super power looks fantastic, and we definitely should not idolize China.

But also, we should let that be an excuse for western powers. We have corporations forcing most of the decisions in our country for extremely short term gains.

In the US we have... decrypt public transit, horrible healthcare, halting progress on renewable energies, we're probably going to make less than our parents while billionaires make more.

Like it sucks, and if anyone tells you well at least you don't live in China you should roll your eyes, why does where we live have to suck. Oh, and we even have awful imperialism too.

marricks commented on China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990   e360.yale.edu/digest/chin... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
marricks · 2 months ago
This and Bill Gates saying...

> “the doomsday outlook [on climate change] is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.”

I guess it's cool there's something to be hopeful about, westerner's just seemed excited to make money off of melting ice in Greenland.

marricks commented on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem   basicappleguy.com/basicap... · Posted by u/andrem
el_benhameen · 2 months ago
Ha, I figured someone would give me shit for that. I blame my comically oversized feet and comically undersized hamstrings.
marricks · 2 months ago
Heel striking is fine, most pros do it, I do too. It is great joke fodder, though!
marricks commented on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem   basicappleguy.com/basicap... · Posted by u/andrem
el_benhameen · 2 months ago
I have this happen outside of flights. Cupping your finger over the ANC mic is enough to trigger it.

The new tips (that’s my guess, at least) also transmit vibrations into your ears much more than the old tips or third party memory foam tips. This results in a popping noise when walking or moving around, and a horrible thumping sound when running with them in. I think the latter is partially caused by the “reduce loud noises” feature incorrectly identifying vibrations from heel strikes as loud noise.

I’m glad I’m apparently not the only one experiencing these issues. I hope they’re software fixable. I filed a bug report, but radio silence on that, of course. I would sing the praises of the second gen AirPods Pro to anyone who would listen, but the 3rd gen have been a huge disappointment. I had to buy a different set of headphones for running, whereas the second gen were my daily drivers. And I’ve been through three pair of the third gen, so it’s not a one-off issue.

marricks · 2 months ago
> incorrectly identifying vibrations from heel strikes as loud noise

You should be thankful you get a free reminder to stop heel striking

/uj figured a little running BS hear could be fun

marricks commented on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzm... · Posted by u/net01
deanc · 4 months ago
What is the use-case now in 2025 for an e-ink watch? I have a Garmin Epix pro gen 2 which gets about a month of battery life and has a gorgeous AMOLED, has profiles for pretty much every sport ever invented, incredibly accurate GPS tracking, all day HR-tracking, ECG etc.

I understand it's about 4x the price, but there's also lower-end Garmin's that are about 2x the price with the same screen, slightly less features and similar battery life

marricks · 4 months ago
> https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/subscription-plans/

Garmin introduced a subscription and you can guarantee that'll pave the way for the base experience to get shittier over time as they funnel people to it. If it works other fitness watches will follow.

As soon as someone makes a good enough fitness app for that it becomes a way better option, it could actually get better over time without breaking.

marricks commented on Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations   cpb.org/pressroom/Corpora... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
1234letshaveatw · 5 months ago
right on! down with DEI!
marricks · 5 months ago
Yeah, because hiring qualified female, black, and queer people is exactly the same as hiring someone who hates what the job and what it's trying to accomplish.

u/marricks

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