Biggles @Biggles@social.cleverlibre.org

@cstross

Certain "artifacts" can last a very, very long time. A long, very straight line, cutting through normal geography, is easily identified as a manmade road - in some places likely lasting basically forever until something like tectonics disrupts it; I'm thinking about the glacial scrape marks in the rocks in NY's central park that match up with others in Europe (forget where) that survived millions of years of continental drift.

I also expect a future civilization would detect us by plastics - some of which never degrade naturally, until something evolves to degrade them, which may be never. That is, if the radioactives didn't already give us away.

On a more human scale - carved stone and glass or ceramics could easily go for millions of years if well protected - burial works.

@sdw

I've been shopping portable external HDMI monitors, so this is a good hit. It's a pity that the single listed known compatible dongle isn't a prime delivery - they're saying october 2nd for delivery. But - i can wait a week or so for a $20 (gotta get the 4k) portable hdmi monitor (assuming you already have the ipad).

@bob_zim @wjohnston @darthnull @briankrebs

This. Not having "we hacked the poorly protected site, grabbed the hashes, and immediately cracked the third of them with poorly chosen passwords that also happen to be shared with other sites" as a viable attack vector is huge. A good password manager and practice does the same, but that's also burdensome and intrusive, so a hard sell.

@darkuncle

For gaming? I mean, for desktop text and such it makes sense, or obviously 4k video - but resolution past a certain point is kinda lost, especially with FSAA and other similar tech; versus things like higher frame rates.

But I am like Sam I Am: "Try it! try it! then you'll see!"

I bought my steam deck sight unseen, no demo, a solid year before I got it. You don't need to do that.

@darkuncle

You'd be surprised. Go look on youtube, plenty of people demoing those at various resolutions on the steam deck. It's surprisingly powerful. I think you are putting too much emphasis on 4k - none of the 32-bit stuff you cant run on the mac will be 4k anyway.

@darkuncle

So - I have a steam deck. It doesn't care about how big your tv is, but it's not gping to drive 4k performantly. I play diablo 4 on mine at 1280x1024 (i think - i should double check) and it's very playable. For older games at native resolution its dreamy. Yes bluetooth peripherals work.

If you want, pick a day and time and i'll come over and let you try it out - plug it into your big monitor and play some games. If theres a demo i'll even pre-install stuff, or you can try my games. (Can you log in on the deck without blowing up my stuff? I dunno.)