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Comment · 3 months ago
Informative article about how padding bras positively impacts aerodynamics for cyclists. The relentless pursuit for optimization and the evolving rules for the sport is an interesting dynamic.
Comment · 4 months ago
It’s a shame because the mediocre hardware specs lend itself to a cheaper companion device for people who already have a vast steam library and a powerful gaming PC.

I would have impulse bought this for $750 to play my backlog of indie games and older AA/AAA on the couch, with a nice small form factor, very quiet machine, and hdmi cec to control my tv like a console.

Instead, I’m going to be scraping together some old parts and putting steam os 3.8 on it. Kudos to valve for giving this option to us officially, and I plan to support them with a hypothetical steam machine 2 in the future when prices are more sane.

Comment · 10 months ago
Yeah, the machine elves rabbit hole is interesting for sure. I hope a lot more rigorous science delves into both mushrooms and DMT
Comment · 10 months ago
It is interesting how the hallucinations consistently represent tiny people/elves to the mushroom consumer, even across geography/culture.

I wonder what the brain is doing…

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
This guy is a little annoying in the intro but this is a genuinely informative and in depth look at how different sound quality was in this earlier computing era based on your sound card hardware. You’ll likely learn something, I know I did.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Anyone out there still playing MUDs? Any good ones to recommend?
Comment · 1 year ago
Plenty of people would greatly appreciate charging times much quicker than 20 mins. People without large families taking long breaks, apartment dwellers, etc. would

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