This sounds like such a cool idea. Makes it super easy for anyone to participate. I hope it takes off

I once bought a three-pack of rubber ducks to the office as a joke and made an expense claim where I explained the concept of rubber duck debugging. Funnily enough, it got approved. I now wonder if I could get the company to pay for a personal blåhaj for every developer :3

I unsubscribed from wishlist discount emails last weekend just to avoid getting my hopes up whenever I got a notification. Just now, I got a notification about an email from Steam, and I was 100% sure it’s finally the long-awaited purchase email.

You have sold an item on the Community Market

Oh, come on! The listing for some profile background for 5 cents had been sitting there untouched for a year. What are the chances that someone just happens to buy it this exact week?!

Good thing only smoking bare foot pets are not allowed. I agree with this, non-smoking ones are cool tho!

Why… Why would you carry them like that?!

I’ve been wanting to replace my Oculus Quest 2 for quite some time but there hasn’t really been viable options for PCVR in the recent years if you didn’t want to break the bank or support Meta/Facebook. Not saying Frame is cheap by any means but it’s cheaper than Bigscreen Beyond, for example. I think that explains some of the fomo.

But if you have 2k disposable, then there are so many better options available than throwing it at a scalper. That’s what doesn’t make sense to me.

IKR, my wishlist is not that long and games in it don’t go on sale often but somehow it seems like half of them decided to have a sale this exact weekend lol

That’s the thing, Valve made it so there’s no way to guarantee you’ll get it before anyone else. A spot in the reservation queue only guarantees that you’ll get a Frame from the first production batch, but the order within the queue is randomized and not known. The first orders will start shipping next week, but personally I predict it’ll take weeks at minimum before everyone in the queue even gets the option to pay, let alone actually have their orders shipped. So you could pay a scalper 2k and still be the last person in the reservation queue to get the device (or don’t get it at all, if the seller turns out to be a scammer…)

It makes a bit more sense if you didn’t make it into the reservation queue in the initial lottery and were waitlisted instead. That probably means you won’t be getting a Frame from Valve within this year. But I still wouldn’t pay double the price just to move from one queue to another.

I understand wanting to get your hands on a Frame as soon as possible, but who in their right mind would pay double the price, especially considering that Valve’s own price isn’t exactly cheap? And it’s even worse that these listings are just for spots in the reservation queue. It could still take weeks or months until the spot turns into a chance to purchase, and there’s no way of knowing how long it will take beforehand. So you would be paying 1k extra for nothing basically.

Null. There are articles online about people with this surname and the problems they face in everyday life.

For those who don’t know, null means “nothing” or “missing data” in computer systems and databases. Properly coded systems handle it correctly but there are so many badly coded and/or legacy systems that simply crash or behave incorrectly when that surname is entered.

Wow, usually I have the worst luck but somehow I landed in the reservation queue. 256GB, EU.

The main issue with AI scrapers is that there isn’t just one, there are dozens or hundreds of them, all doing the same thing. Most websites would handle being hammered by one or two bots just fine, but crash under the load of dozens of bots constantly sending requests.

On top of that, many of them are very badly (vibe)coded and get stuck in endless loops, requesting the same pages over and over again. At my job we IP-blocked an aggressive data-harvesting bot from our service, and the thing got stuck requesting the same page over and over again every 8 seconds, despite receiving the same error code every time. This continued for weeks.

I don’t fully get how this change helps with scalpers. Just like nocturne wrote, with the Steam Machine you were still only given the option to buy the one SKU where you landed highest on the list after the lists were randomized.

And it’s not that big of a deal obviously. But doing it like this created an unnecessary dilemma about which list to join. While I actually wanted the 256GB one, I was seriously considering joining the 1TB list because there are probably fewer people going for that one, which could potentially increase your chances. But then you start thinking about how some people probably have the same idea, potentially negating the effect…

The whole thing turned into an unnecessary headache lol, so I just stopped thinking about it and went for the 256GB one.

The lottery is cool but too bad this time they don’t allow you to join the list for both options to increase your chances of getting one in the first batch. I decided to go with the 256GB one. I don’t think I’ll be using it standalone very much, so I don’t really need the extra storage. And while I believe there will be more people signing up for that one, there will also be more units available, making the chances pretty much equal. Obviously, saving 200+ euros is a plus too.

69€ for the pretty much mandatory “Ergonomic Accessories” pack is just dumb, imo. For a 1000+ euros product I would expect that stuff to be included.

I might be guilty of using an argument like that sometimes. What I really mean is that I currently value the convenience more than my privacy. “I’m using service X because that seems the most convenient choice for me and I don’t really care whether someone I won’t ever meet is reading my data. But I could also use service Y if it’s just as good and convenient as service X.”

Point being, I’m always willing to start using a different thing as long as it works for my use case as well as (or preferably better than) the thing I’m currently using.

So, instead of trying to scare me about someone spying on me, try convincing me how the other service works better than the one I’m currently using.

The water meter and the subsequent bill seriously limits my mmmmm warmth time

There will also be a “normal” Direct the next day.

That must be something they have added recently because d.furaffinity.net links used to work well on Lemmy. But interestingly, in the Voyager app this post and its pic work just fine, while in the PWA they don’t.

It sucks, but I get why they have done it. I bet the amount of traffic they were getting via hotlinking is/was huge.

Who could deny such a good boy? *pats head*

It’s more about “could give consent”.

You’re not wrong but that’s still the part I’m not a huge fan of. I think the moment we start arguing whether something is okay based on if a fictional creature would be sapient enough to give consent or not, we’re in a bit dangerous waters because that same train of thought is used by real life animal abusers: “My dog is so intelligent, I can communicate with it and it’s sexually mature. Obviously it would give consent if it could speak.”

That’s why I personally think the better way to look at it is to draw a clear line between reality and fiction and just treat fiction as fiction where none of this matters.

Also, wanna make it clear I’m not trying to invalidate how anyone personally looks at this matter. Just pointing out the flaw in the logic if trying to “justify” furry porn with “tests” like this.