I am a Software Engineer who loves cats, dogs, and nature.
Landscaping photos: @Gabriel434
Moved from @Gabriel4340 on May 28 2024 almost two years after initially creating my previous mastodon account.
También hablo Español. De hecho, es mi idioma nativo 🤭
| GitHub | https://github.com/gabriel-434/ |
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here's the final version of the "redirects cheat sheet" draft I posted a while back!
("The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is finished! 95 beta readers have read it! the copy editor is done! technical review is done! the illustrator has made the cover! It's going to be out on *****Tuesday June 24*****")
The contact form on my website is basically only ever filled out by robots, so I added a checkbox that says, "I am a robot. Only check this box if you are a robot." https://stevendbrewer.com/contact-me/
Robots appear to find it irresistible.
We all know for a fact that there is an xkcd comic for everything, but this one about historical temperatures hits hard.
Earth's temperature slowly warmed up until the Holocene Climate Optimum, where the temperature remained stable for ~9500 years (aside from the little ice age).
Then the industrial revolution started, CO₂ emissions increased, and temperature skyrocketed in a hundred years worth of time, overpassing international treaties & optimistic goals.
It’s silly to compare Switch 2 sales to Steam Deck sales.
The Switch 2 is a locked-down, vertically integrated platform. There are no ROG Switch 2s. No Lenovo Switch 2s. No Switch laptops or tower PCs with discrete GPUs. If you want to play Mario Kart World, your only option is to buy a Switch 2. Period.
Steam Deck, by contrast, isn’t a platform. It’s just one hardware option—one entry point into the sprawling, open ecosystem known as PC gaming.
Every year, around 245 million PCs are shipped globally. If even 20–25% of those are gaming-focused, that’s 49–61 million gaming PCs annually. Steam Deck is a sliver of that. So of course it won’t outsell a console that’s the only gateway to a major IP.
But that’s exactly the point.
PC gaming is too decentralized for any single device to dominate. The last “PC” that did was the Commodore 64, which sold 12.5–17 million units over 12 years because it was a self-contained platform, unlike modern Windows, Mac, or Linux machines.
That the Steam Deck has sold 4 million units despite competing with every other gaming PC in existence is remarkable. It didn’t just sell—it legitimized a category. Handheld PC gaming is now a thing. That’s why Lenovo, ASUS, and MSI have followed. Even Microsoft is getting in, optimizing Windows for handhelds—something they would never have done if the Steam Deck didn’t hold their feet to the fire.
So no, Steam Deck didn’t outsell the Switch 2. It didn’t need to.
It won by changing the landscape.
from tumblr, 09.05.2025
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UPDATE 2: We're carefully back online again, with a few exceptions:
https://mapstodon.space/@lokjo/114657821935053517
Can we have a lill boost please? The fediverse is the only place we're on.
We're a replacement for googlemaps.
European, non-commercial, pro-local.
Thanks for sharing 😊
Moin moin Europe! And we're carefully back online again, with a few exceptions. https://www.lokjo.com First, a huge thanks to https://www.geoapify.com for understanding the situation and delivering tiles while we fix a replacement. There's 3 exceptions, for the moment: - A basic OSM map display. (modern version comes back later) - No satellite images. (if somebody knows a EU provider that would be great) - the feedback form is taken offline. (no time for that) That's all for now.
Julia Evans
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️⚧️
Church of Jeff
🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭
XKCD Bot
Chris Trottier
aquascum
Rachel Burch
Lokjo - a European online map