tomku

Yep, you're right. Can't edit my comment any more, but it is wrong. Thanks for the correction.

Your device would also have to be pretty recent to ship any of these certs in a frozen cert store as they were only generated in April/May of 2025.

People like the author have likely spent so much time soaking themselves in cynical/pessimistic online discourse that they don't realize how much it has poisoned their worldview. You have so much more agency in this world than picking which device you are at the mercy of. You can choose to use social media less or not at all. You can choose to read the comments sections rarely, and mostly ignore what they say. You can choose for your iOS/Android device to be a source of joy and delight instead of doomscrolling, or you can indeed choose to use something else entirely for some or all purposes. Those are perhaps not the easy choices, but sometimes the harder choice is where the rewards are hidden. I hope the author's experience with their MisTer is only the start of a journey to more control of their life and less being "very online".

Calling something "vibe-coded" nowadays is a permission slip to unload on it with hyperbole and insults because you can presume there's no human in the line of fire. I really don't think the people engaging in that kind of rhetoric understand how corrosive it is to the humans who do get caught in the crossfire sometimes, and to themselves for normalizing that kind of behavior.

No, it's part of the Machine. Direct quote from the Steam Machine page:

"Steam Controller's wireless adapter is built right into Steam Machine for direct pairing. "

It has dedicated hardware for pairing with Steam Controllers without needing a puck adapter plugged into a USB port.

HN has a "second chance queue" that sometimes revives posts and gives them another shot. Not entirely sure how it works, but it sounds like what happened here.

Click on the home page and look at their other headlines, read the "About" description. It's just an endless stream of clickbait AI slop. Their "archive" goes back two weeks and has over a hundred articles with the same stilted "Reasonable statement. Controversial twist." headline format. Please stop falling for this trash.

It's absolutely shocking how many people think that inverting all the quality metrics that we've traditionally used "because LLMs" will lead to good things. Nothing about this will end well.

It's using "Fortnite" as a synecdoche for Epic Games, because "I have to give an age verification company owned by Epic Games my passport to use Bluesky" isn't quite as effective at revving the outrage engines, even if it has the benefit of being true. Personally, I don't think people who are willing to do that are showing themselves to be trustworthy but you might feel differently.

Two years ago there were also hundreds of people constantly panic-posting here about how our jobs would be gone in a month, that learning anything about programming was now a waste of time and the entire profession was already dead, with all other knowledge work guaranteed to follow. People were posting about how they were considering giving up on CS degrees because AI would make them pointless. The people who used language like "stochastic parrots" were regularly mocked by AI enthusiasts, and the AI enthusiasts were then mocked in return for their absurd claims about fast take-off and imminent AGI. It was a cesspool of bad takes coming from basically every angle, strengthening in certainty as they bounced off each other's idiocy.

Your memory of the discourse of that era has apparently been filtered by your brain in order to support the point you want to make. Nobody who thoughtlessly adopted an extreme position at a hinge point where the future was genuinely uncertain came out of that looking particularly good.

Believe Andrew Ng's new course is all Python now, yeah. Amusingly enough another class that I took (Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers) kinda did the opposite move - when I took it, it was all Python, but shortly after they transitioned to full-powered MATLAB with limited student licenses. Guess it makes sense given that LAFF was primarily about the math.