“and this is the pilot I keep screaming at”

Wait. Is the first word not an ing word? N is already on the board

Another solution I’ve played around with, but it didn’t work super well… would be krfb-virtualmonitor

KDE’s remote framebuffer tool for making a virtual monitor to VNC into. For me it didnt do what i wanted because I have 3 other monitors and I couldn’t assure that things would launch directly into the virtual monitor… and it doesnt support any sort of dynamic resizing… But there might be something there.

I also hope that this kind of stuff improves in the future because of the Steam Frame. In Tested’s video, he calls out that he can only stream games at 21:9 if his 21:9 monitor is on. And other VR friends have pointed out the desire to dynamically resize content in the headset. So maybe this will get better in the future.

For me the issue is that i have a OLED 21:9 desktop, and streaming to my Steam Deck risks burn in on my desktop, and annoying black bars on my steam deck… I’d love to just have a 1280x800 faux monitor to stream to my steam deck, nothing needs to be visible on the desktop (headless, like you want).

But anyway tl;dr - krfb-virtualmonitor vaguely worked but not for what i needed. Virtual monitors are definitely a possibility

https://www.amazon.com/DIOOEER-Dummy-Headless-Adapter-Emulator/dp/B0HBQJQSDS

This might not be what you want specifically, but this is the kind of thing that came to mind. Basically a stub that feeds EDID data into the GPU so it THINKS there is a physical monitor with any resolution you want connected.

There are more advanced models out there that will allow you to custom program the EDID that it feeds, so you can use higher resolution or frame rate or whatever.

The market demand they are filling is cutting in line. Every time a scalper buys an item, a legitimate customer doesn’t get it. So genuinely SOMEONE is not getting a steam frame because of a scalper. That’s how it works. The steam frames being sold on ebay aren’t just magically generated by scalpers, they are the result of someone else getting pushed out of line.

Supply isn’t increasing because of them.

That’s not true. He played path of exile. Or he paid someone to play on his behalf at least

For some people, the anticheat becomes the game.

I feel like I’ve heard stories about famous DRM crackers that don’t even play the games - the DRM battle is the whole point. And for some people, it’s not about cheating, it’s about beating the anti-cheat. It just sucks that when you beat the anti-cheat you have the side effect of ruining the experience for other players.

And also, some people are just REALLLLY pathetic and have to cheat at games to feel adequate.

AI, or photoshop.

If you overlay the 2 images over each other… not only are they from the EXACT perspective, the carpet hasn’t moved in any way.

While they may have done this, the before and after are the exact same photo.

And importantly, it seems to ship with mesa 26. Which fixes a DRM leasing, which means VR works. I was just able to play beat saber on my steamOS system.

I don’t view my home as an asset. But I also don’t consider it a public work of art. It’s for me. Caring about what others think only matters if I’m trying to improve the value of an asset. If my preferences are tacky that’s my problem.

The home assistant voice is the mic and speaker but isn’t a system itself. You attach it to your existing home assistant. If you don’t have home assistant set up you’ll want to look into that first.

Looks like a map of USA.

I know people who are 45 and have never had a job and just been taken care of by their parents their whole lives. If their parents were gone, they would not survive. Because they are a child who can’t take care of themselves.

The cause and effect are backwards in most of the scenarios you provided though. Living with your parents doesn’t mean you can’t take care of yourself, but not being able to take care of yourself means you need to live with your parents. So yes, when you see an adult child, they almost 100% of the time live with their parents, but that doesn’t mean all people living with their parents are adult children. To me, “child” reflects your ability to take care of yourself, not where you live.

You have a job and pay for things yourself. That’s not a child. There may be other complications in your situation, and I’m not going to say everything is perfect, but it sounds like “incapable child” isn’t specifically one of the problems.

I’m aware. Those cases all extend though. Because a lot of times the decision isn’t intended to be a concrete answer.

I just had to conduct an interview. I got to talk to the person for a whole hour. And now I need to determine if we should hire this person.

I definitely have insufficient information. No interview process has ever finished with an abundance of complete information (well, if the candidate is bad enough or just screaming slurs the whole time, that’s pretty complete). And yet I have to make a serious decision that has real consequences for my company AND for the candidate.

I don’t get the option to gather more information. I get it. This case is not fun to deal with.

But regardless of what the company says, the question isn’t “do I think this person will without a doubt be our top employee” or “WILL this person succeed” … the question is “Given the information at hand, do I think there is a higher likelihood of the person succeeding or struggling?” I can make a decision based on “given the information at hand” … and when I do, I always qualify it as such.

If I say yes, and they hire the person, and they don’t fit at the company, I can still just point to “they answered all the interview questions properly” and it’s not my fault things went poorly. I may also say no to amazing candidates who just didn’t represent themselves well in the interview. Even if I cannot make a sound decision, I have to make one though.

And maybe I’m just unlucky in life, but I feel like I face a lot of situations where I need to make decisions with incomplete information just because more information isn’t available, or time is truly a factor in the decision. Some of life is always going to require some guesswork. And we can just try our best to make educated guesses. There is no such thing as “complete” information.

But I fully agree with you that there are situations where some people are just impatient, and corners are cut. But a lot of neurotypicals often don’t like those people too. That’s not just “neurotypicals do this” … that’s “lazy/impatient people do this” and I guess I’m lucky in the sense that I rarely have to deal with this, but then again, I work in a field where basically everyone is on the spectrum.

There are 3 things possibly at play here.

Are you trying to make decisions about the same question? If the top score in a game is currently 87 out of 100, and the last player takes their turn. The announcer says the player scored “Ninety…” they won. It doesn’t matter if the complete information is “Ninety-five”, “Ninety-nine” or even “Ninety… just flat ninety” … the final player is the winner. You dont need the second digit. Knowing the score is in the range of 90-99 isn’t COMPLETE information, but it is ENOUGH information… To answer “did this player win” … if you wanted to know if they beat the world record score of 97, then you’d need the second digit. You only need fully complete information if you need a fully complete answer.

Another option is that you already have complete information. “I tossed a coin 10 times and 8 times it landed on heads” – what happened the other 2 times? You already know. Just because no one said it doesnt mean you don’t have it. Not everything needs to be said explicitly for it to be true. “There’s 2 types of people in the world: those that can derive missing data.”

The third option is just that it truly doesn’t matter, usually because of the rule of the first point. How long it takes to get to the destination, whether 3 hours or 4 hours, or 3.5 hours… doesnt matter if the destination closes in 2 hours. “More than 2” is complete enough. Some things are ok with vague answers because the question was vague. Someone may have said “how long does it take to get there” but that truly doesnt matter, because the secret real question was “Can we arrive before the store closes”

If you follow “Buffalo” rules then

Fucks fucks fuck fuck fucks fucks fuck.

is a perfectly valid sentence.

thanks Daniel Stenberg!

Even steel battalion?

That makes sense. I have no idea if I have a ground. If I don’t I assume I need a battery powered thermostat, which I would then need to periodically change batteries on or externally power?

The fact that I don’t know what I have, means I dont know what I need, means I need to bring an electrician or someone who knows what is going on, and suddenly the project becomes more work.

I could totally handle the “build a HA dashboard” part of things… it’s the physically setting up devices part that gets me every time.

I was under the impression that some smart thermostats need batteries because the “power to the thermostat” wire was designed for super low power devices, or is otherwise not there at all (thus the different number of wires). So “already wired with everything you need” varies from house to house.