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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • There would have to be limitations on how many people could get paid for some degree types. It doesn’t do society much good to foot the bill for degrees that don’t have actual related job opportunities. It could maybe work where just heavily needed jobs get wages paid, while other degrees are only offered under the current system.

    Another thing here is that this would be another form of taxes used to directly benefit businesses. If taxes pay to educate a lot more employees for a job market, the companies in that market would directly benefit by being able to pay lower wages. I wonder if we could do a different system where companies could offer sponsorships for specific degrees in exchange for employment, similar to how ROTC works.










  • On the deck I use them all the time. For FPS games I frequently bind them to be ABXY, lets you jump/reload/etc without having to take your thumb off of the joystick. Absolutely mandatory for games like Doom Eternal and Deep Rock in my opinion.

    In games with heavy dpad use for cycling abilities/items (like Elden Ring) I usually use them for that. Being able to cycle spells or potions while running is very necessary sometimes. You can also use them in combination with mode shift settings, things like while I hold R4 down it will temporarily turn my ABXY into a second DPAD.

    You can use them for steamOS features, stuff like opening keyboard or toggling zoom for games with small text.

    A lot of people dislike clicking thumbsticks, so it’s common for people to use them for that. L4 to toggle sprint instead of L3 is very popular for example. Also nice for when L3/R3 do something you don’t want to trigger accidentally during combat (Ys 8 and 9 toggle a minimap overlay with L3, which is very distracting during combat. So I’ve disabled L3 on the thumbstick and instead have L4 open the minimap overlay).

    In any PC game with more inputs it can be great for common button presses that didn’t make the cut onto the standard controller. Things like map/journal shortcuts, quick save, etc. Setting left trackpad to a touch menu is also great for this.

    Overall they’re pretty great, I don’t use them in every game, but there are a lot of games I refuse to play on a standard controller without them.














  • Yes, it was fixed December of 2023 or January of 2024, if I recall right. Not long after the OLED launched. It was some specific wifi features, mostly wifi 6 features, that would cause the wifi card to malfunction and not work at all until you rebooted. Had to disable the specific wifi features on your router if you wanted to use 5ghz, or stick to 2.4ghz networks. Didn’t usually affect LED decks afaik since they wouldn’t try to use the affected wifi 6 features.

    While valve got it fixed in SteamOS not too long after launch, they only recently applied that wifi fix to the SteamOS recovery usb drive. There was over a year where people could still run into the wifi issue if they had to repair their OS from a recovery drive.