Your experience is way outside the norm. Usually it’s very straightforward.

Man, I can’t even imagine wanting to bring my phone into the shower. “Just standing” there, alone with my thoughts, hot water relaxing muscles… Nothing needs me, I need nothing, the world is on hold until further notice. It’s meditative: Everything ceases mattering, ceases even existing - to resume later, of course, but in the meantime, perfect, relaxed, complete solitude. It’s perfect as it is. Music or videos or reading would ruin it. That’s all outside stuff, the outside should not exist.

It never even occurred to me that people would bring phones into the shower to actually do things. Never even imagined that that was a thing. Learn something new every day.

This seems neat. Networking isn’t my main area, and I’m still reading about this stuff, so please forgive me if these are dumb questions, but this has raised my curiosity:

Ip does have multicasting, correct? Could multicasting accomplish some of the same one to many goals? Does NdN provide performance/ease of use benefits over multicasting?

From what I can tell, ndn can be implemented over ethernet (preferred) or over ip (mostly defeats the purpose). Is ndn over ethernet actually a thing that can happen now - ie will whatever routers are in the way between various things that want to talk to each other handle it correctly? If not, is this likely to happen in the future? If so, is ndn over ip worthwhile in the meantime, or is it better to wait?

It seems like cool technology, but a lot of what I’ve read suggests that it’s still in developing stages, so it’s unclear how you’d actually use it just now.

I got a deck and a dock, and plugged the dock into my TV. So now I play it lying in the couch in two different ways.

Yeah, but people are continually scammed out of their life savings for snake oil that promises to do the impossible. If your making 100k and spend $30 a month on some bottle of homeopathic nonsense and placebo yourself out of a headache, that’s fine I guess.

But the person who sold that to you is also getting hundreds of dollars a month from people making barely more than that by selling tic tacs or whatever at a several thousand percent markup, promising false hope to the vulnerable at the mere cost of everything they own.

Bit of a sore spot for me I guess, just because of who I know. What you say is technically true - a bit of extra placebo might be fine, but so many fall really hard for them, and the “innocent” use helps by middle+ class people who can afford it helps legitimize it, making it easier to prey on those who can’t.

This seems needlessly convoluted.

I don’t use it as a desktop replacement (I still have a windows desktop). But I do but default have my deck docked and hooked up to a TV, in desktop mode.

I’ve installed various flatpack programs, to include discord, chrome, and a couple jetbrains ides for various languages. They work great. I’ve done a couple non steam games (diablo), with mild annoyance but success in the end.

I have not used any office programs on it (as much as it’s cool to like Linux, I just think Microsoft wins by a lot there, and have no desire to get them working on Linux).

The deck itself has some power limitations, but I have no reason to think that they would translate to steam os on a more powerful machine.

So basically, it probably depends on what you want. It’s pretty reasonable. Definitely good enough for my secondary computer that blocks ads for videos on my tv. But personally, I still want a windows computer, because windows is the default assumption for most software I use.