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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    What is Musk doing to Tesla? Maybe he’ll explain on March 1st.

    Tesla just announced it’ll livestream its investor day on March 1st, 2023, “with the option for some of our institutional and retail investors to attend in person”.

    I imagine those investors will have some very pointed questions for him — like how it feels to become the first person to ever lose $200 billion? More on Tesla’s challenges in the Twitter era from my colleague Andy:

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    LG has achieved the perfect press release.

    Is this real life? Is this just parody? I can’t stop giggling either way. Not even ChatGPT can say this little with this many words. My favorite line:

    “Cho ended his talk by reminding everyone at LG that the future will be determined by the way we think and act now, which is, ultimately, to prepare for the future.” Oh we will, LG, we will.

    A real Jabberwocky moment, this.

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    It’s probably safe to download the Steam Deck update now.

    I warned you yesterday after I heard a few horror stories and got stuck on the boot screen myself, but Valve has now pushed two fixes to the supposedly Stable ring — 3.4.1 and 3.4.2. They revert and defer the SD card pathing change that was tripping up people with emulators and symlinks, fix “regression causing games to crash due to missing dependencies”, and fix hardware acceleration for remote play.

    Since Valve is putting 3.4.3 into preview rather than just shipping it, it seems the flurry of fixes is done for now.

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    Sean Hollister
    Steam Deck gets SteamOS 3.4 update, here’s what’s inside.

    The highlights for me: a new horizontal performance overlay that uses the wasted space when you’re running games at 16:9, a fix for weird fan behavior, and the ability to manually eject (read: unmount) SD cards to be extra safe before you yank ‘em. But there’s way more, too.

    I wonder if the weird adaptive backlight glitch is why my Duck Game starts stuttering after a few full rounds of play.

    Update: I might wait a day to download this one. Valve already had to revert one SD card pathing change and I’m seeing owners complain of missing dual-boot partitions and getting stuck on the boot screen. My Deck sat on that screen for 30 min before I worked up the courage for a hard reset. Seems OK now.

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    Sean Hollister
    How to make a working Lego computer brick.

    Remember when this man brought Lego’s classic computer bricks to life by putting a working computer and OLED inside? I have bittersweet news. Though I did connect him with someone at Lego, it doesn’t look like that’s moving forward, he’s no plans to produce more than a few, and at this point it sounds like he’s nearing the end of the project.

    Consolation prize: here’s a rough idea how to make one yourself! Also, they play Doom.

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    Sean Hollister
    My “$125” Equifax settlement turned into a measly $5.21.

    I just got my check in the mail. We knew this was going to happen, but it still stings: while the company that leaked 147 million Americans’ financial information continues to profit, and the lawyers walked away with more than double what all victims got combined, we get a lousy $5 because too many of us victims signed up. Apparently, the courts thought only 248,000 people would.