TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Yes absolutely they can

You know the purpose of this is so they can use them without being tracked though, right? If it's easy to exclude outliers and bad data, it makes this suggestion pretty useless.

As people have suggested, there's almost no reason to ever have this data leave your own personal device or network. Women have tracked their periods for thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of years.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nah they'll just say "weird. Guys, exclude November, it's an outlier".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

If you are required to install something like InTune by your company, that's what controls what apps you can install in Work mode. It's a good trade off because it enforces good separation for them - clipboard is blocked between profiles, data too - but also for me. One little toggle and those apps and the profile are disabled entirely until I care again tomorrow.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 14 points 2 days ago (5 children)

This is data analysis, not development. Yes you can just exclude the problem month, average the previous and next months, and her real data starts to contribute again. And yes you can do that regardless of who is writing code. Or even that the code was written by your company and not some other company you bought or seized data from.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume we didn't just pick up the newspaper in the shop, flick to the funnies, shake our heads at what Andy Cap was upto today, and then leg it before Mrs Murphy tried to get us to pay

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, sure, but this assumes that the killing is completely indiscriminate.

It is, but it's important that you're clear on that

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Right, but what can they do, short of banning small bottles of water?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I love my Steam Deck. It's literally beside my hotel bed right now, while the Switch is at home with two kids under 10. But:

  • the docking and detaching experience is frustrating as hell
  • it is significantly heavier and yet feels more fragile.
  • it has profiles but not comparably to the Switch in terms of use and UX
  • and the controller experience is very hit and miss.
    • It spent 2 months just literally randomly shutting off bluetooth - you had to go into desktop mode and re-enable with a Linux command until they patched it - but that's not even it - whenever it did that, it also disabled the sticks!.
    • I have multiple entries in the controllers screen - none of which can be renamed or show indicators as to which controller they are - where every now and again the Deck decides sorry, I don't recognise that controller anymore. Please come walk across the living room and awkwardly stand in front of the telly pressing buttons on the Steam Deck's face to re-pair things.
    • Oh and controller layout schemes are a cool and powerful feature but way too complicated for me to explain to an 8 year old.

If "I just want to pick up a controller after work and forget what Philip in Marketing said he thought the project was going to look like", or "I want to buy games once and share them with my kids" or even "I'll throw this in my bag to kill 20 minutes at the waiting room" are factors, the Steam Deck is very much not superior in every way.

Again. Love my Deck. Almost exclusively buy "Verified" games now. Halfway through a Nintendo game that somehow is easier for me, a software dev to find ajd emulate on Deck than on a Nintendo console. But the Switch has been a remarkable console to have in my living room. The first console I bought (actually now that I think of it, that my wife bought for me) since Wii and before that since PlayStation 2. I'm not really a console player. I have 1000+ games on Steam. Still Switch excels at many things and the sales figures should make that obvious.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

No that's OK, pictures speak louder than words. Doesn't matter that it's RFA, images like the feature photo of the article deserve to be seen around the world. The utter devastation of... well... maybe a strong wind?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I care about news in a news community. Not 3 year old stories from America's Asian propaganda outlet.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Trying to pollute the search results for "bomb schools", Gedaliyah, govenor of Yehud, son of Akiham, son of Shaphan?

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