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Note that I submitted a San Francisco Chronicle article about this yesterday. One thing that came up during the discussion is that while there may be a lot of people streaming the song on Spotify, at least according to one source, the Billboard chart that was topped was a small-volume one, so it may not be as significant as it sounds.

https://lemmy.today/post/41573347

tries running yt-dlp on the page URL to grab the URL of the actual video file involved

Try:

https://video.euronews.com/mp4/SHD/29/22/96/00/SHD_PYR_2922960_20251113112832.mp4

I mean, yeah, but that's wartime policy. Like, most countries are willing to take more risks and accept more costs if they consider is necessary to fight a war.

But as far as I know, doing this demo successfully isn't something that Russia needs for any kind of war purposes.

Frankly, if the thing is that untested, I'm not sure that I'd want to have the developers or the audience that close to it without shielding. And it should have a remote E-stop switch (though maybe it did here, and that's why it froze up).

You know those Boston Dynamics videos? Unless the stuff is pretty mature, they've got those protective walls or are interacting with the robots with hockey sticks.

Ex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwekersccY

EDIT: Actually, looking at the Russian video again, I think that the AIdol people don't have a remote E-stop button and were instead fumbling around with one built onto its back there, since that's when it stopped moving.

Not to mention that Steam does have competition as an app store, stuff like GOG. I mean, it's a little bit obnoxious to use both at once, but really not that much of a hassle.

It's built like an extra beefy gaming laptop.

Much better cooling, which is a limiting factor for the laptop form factor.

I mean, you can run a Linux phone now:

!linuxphones@lemmy.ca

Downside is that aren't going to have a large software library optimized for touchscreen use. The hardware options are pretty disappointing compared to Android. Not all hardware functionality may be supported, if it's on a repurposed Android phone. Android or iOS software is mostly designed to expect that it's on a fast/WiFi connection some of the time and on a slow/limited mobile data link some of the time and be able to act accordingly; most GNU/Linux software is not. Battery life is often not fantastic.

I still haven't been pushed over the edge, but I'm definitely keeping my eye on it. I'm just not willing to develop software for Android. I know that GNU/Linux phones will stay open. I am not at all sure that Android won't wind up locked down by Google at some point, and over the years, it's definitely shifted in the locked-down direction.

My current approach is to carry around a Linux laptop and try to shift my usage more towards using the Android phone as a tethering device for the laptop, to get Internet access everywhere. That's not always reasonable

you need to sit down to use the laptop

but the only thing that the phone really has to be used for is dealing with text messages and calls. If you really wanted to do so, as long as the laptop was on, you could run SIP to get VoIP service off the Internet from a provider of that from the laptop over the phone's data service, not even rely on the phone's calling functionality. The laptop isn't really set up to be able to idle at very low power the way a phone is, be able to wake up when a call comes in, though, so it's not really appropriate for incoming calls.

If I need to access something one-handed without sitting down, I can fall back to using the phone.

And it does have some nice benefits, like having a real keyboard, a considerably more-powerful system, a much larger library of software, a better screen and speakers, a 3.5mm headphones jack (all those phone space constraints go away on a laptop!) and so forth. You can move the phone to somewhere where its radio has good reception and just have it relay to the laptop, which isn't an option if you're using the phone itself as the computing device.

You can, though I don't, even run Android software on the laptop via Waydroid.

I don't presently use it in this role, but there's a software package, KDE Connect, that lets one interface a phone and a Linux desktop (well, laptop in this case), and do things like happily type away in text message conversations on the laptop, if one has the laptop up and running.

I'm thinking that that approach also makes it easier to shift my use to a GNU/Linux phone down the line, since mostly, all I absolutely need from a GNU/Linux phone then is to act as a tethering device, handle phone calls and texts. It's sorta the baby-steps way to move off Android, get my dependence down to the point where moving is no big deal.

I'd think that you could set them to whatever in Steam Input, if you're playing a Steam game.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/597397396010388899/

You can set the touchpads to nothing in their menu. Just delete the command in settings and that will solve it for you...

I believe that you can have per-game settings, so just enable them gor thst one game you want.

What controller from the 1980s looked anything like the Steam Controller?

I mean, the Sega Genesis controller was mostly black and had face buttons and a D-pad and was around in the late 1980s, but that's about as close as I can think of, and that'a not much by way of similarity.

https://www.workableweb.com/_pages/tips_how_to_write_good.htm

All too often, the budding author finds that his tale has run its course and yet he sees no way to satisfactorily end it, or, in literary parlance, "wrap it up." Observe how easily I resolve this problem:

Suddenly, everyone was run over by a truck.
-the end-

If the story happens to be set in England, use the same ending, slightly modified:

Suddenly, everyone was run over by a lorry.
-the end-

If set in France:

Soudainement, tout le monde etait écrasé par un camion.
-finis-

You'll be surprised at how many different settings and situations this ending applies to. For instance, if you were writing a story about ants, it would end "Suddenly, everyone was run over by a centipede." In fact, this is the only ending you ever need use.¹

¹ Warning - if you are writing a story about trucks, do not have the trucks run over by a truck. Have the trucks run over by a mammoth truck.

Just loss of access to Web sites alone is pretty problematic in 2025, not even getting to open source packages.

If I lost access to Web search engines and Wikipedia, I'd lose a lot of important tools.

Ironically, software might be one of the less-problematic areas, as I have (probably out of date) local git repositories of a lot of software. But I don't have local Wikipedia or local documentatation on a host of things. Maybe in 2025, local LLMs could act as a limited stopgap for some Web searching stuff.

is a pain in the ass

is dependent on 3rd parties

Well, one of the two, at any rate.