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  • Amazon Sidewalk means that PiHole or AdGuard won’t stop anything, because the point of amazon sidewalk is that if a device can’t find a usable internet connection (ie, you didnt set up wifi, or you dont have wifi), it can still function by connecting to nearby open networks, or perhaps even someone just walking by with a phone that it can piggyback off of.

    So setting up a pihole prevents it from phoning home on your network, which will just prompt it to jump to another network potentially.

    The question is just “how aggressively does this device want to phone home?” Some devices will actively seek out ways to phone home if blocked, some devices will try to phone home and give up if blocked. Some devices don’t try to phone home at all.

    Not phoning home is ideal, a pihole will (probably) keep a device that stays on your network under control, and you should just not buy things that actively will work around your intentions to do whatever it wants without your permission.

    But this person has already bought the thing, so “dont buy it” isn’t an option. But “don’t use it” might be. Depending on which category it’s in. (which I do not know, just trying to illustrate the bigger problem with Amazon Sidewalk)


  • I believe wine has a WoW64 implementation now, to allow 32 bit software to run on 64 bit wine prefixes. Which means any windows games (unless they are 16 bit) can work on 64 bit non-multi-arch system.

    Linux games are the core problem. But they also have a Steam Runtime where they ship the entire runtime libraries needed to run a game for compatibility reasons… and Steam Runtime 4.0 (which just shipped and/or announced a few days ago?) is set up for only 64 bit systems.

    So if the answer is:

    • Steam itself can be 64 bit, and is moving that direction
    • Windows games can be 64 bit only due to proton/wine handling the 32bit translation in WoW64
    • Linux games themselves can be any architecture since the steam runtime manages the libraries for the games.

    Then the answer is just “they’re getting around to it, they are only just now getting around to it for windows, and linux is a lower priority” because clearly its all possible.

    So “What about linux?” is just asking if there is a timeline for the speed that things are moving in that direction.






  • pre-ryzen AMD CPUs were always a bit on the budget side even when they were new. They were a bit more power efficient and cheaper, but never were amazing performance. So yeah, a 15 year old CPU is often rough, but a 15 year old low-mid end CPU is going to be even worse off.

    Ive not had issues with Counterstrike 2 on linux, aside from wanting to play FaceIt or ranked matches that have stricter third party anticheat. And that’s just the anticheat being the problem.

    I would venture a guess that linux is not “the problem” here and it’s more likely just aging hardware meeting increasing game demands.

    The only time in recent years I’ve had specifically a problem with linux gaming performance (not related to anticheat), was playing VR on a pre-GCN AMD GPU which didn’t support async reprojection properly which caused quite a bit of stuttering.



  • He ends the video by saying that it’s not actually a memorization trick, and that if it was a real nailgun he wouldn’t point it at teller and pull the trigger, because that would be dangerous and stupid.

    The whole point of the thing was to talk about memorization tricks as a mislead and then say that it wasn’t that.

    Very much a “dont try this at home, the trick isn’t using an actual nail gun” ending.





  • Steam deck highlights that Windows -> SteamOS translation is good enough.

    I’ve use my Index on Bazzite successfully with no issues, so I’m confident in SteamOS VR capabilities.

    ARM-based is the only wildcard, but if fex works, then that’s not an issue either.

    Then just onboard compute performance is the only factor. But like you said, even if this winds up only being a “stream everything, its a wireless index,” then I’m already excited.