A few years ago I saw someone just simply checking for a cat head silhouette. Was enough to deter other animals and also worked to recognise if the cat had caught something.

We have a cat flap that detects the RFID chip in her shoulder. It seems to be broken since a few weeks. But our cat (and not the stupid neighbour’s cat) can open it anyways with a little prying with her claw. But luckily that doesn’t work as well when she has an animal in her mouth. So we will probably leave it broken.

Small tangent, I didn’t have the energy to read your whole post, so you might have addressed that. But often it’s cheaper to go with an established multi purpose device instead of building something new.

I used to build and sell Raspberry Pi gaming handhelds that were as cheap as possible and literally just held together by some string. My purpose was to get enough money through the sales to ge able to build one for myself. Sure, the building process was fun. But when I crunched the numbers just buying a cheap smartphone and controller was much cheaper and more performant and versatile than the self-built solution.

Just buying a cheap phone or tablet is often the cheaper solution.

Heck, even Valve just bought off the shelve tablet displays and turned the image in software for the Steam Deck.

In capitalist America.

Unlike liquids cats can compress to fit into small spaces. Thus cats are not liquids.

A common theme I have seen with her is reporting about a new paper about an older hypothesis. Then saying stuff like “this has been known since 2007, and still [field]-scientists are ignoring it, why?” But when you watch a scientist’s video who actually is from that field they will also mention the older papers and go on to list a myriad of reasons why it hasn’t been accepted yet.

No problem. Means I’ll get fried noodles tomorrow.

KDE Plasma has been getting so much more efficient with every release that you can almost recommend it for low-end systems.

I always like chopping all the vegetables I have and throwing them into a pot of mashed tomatoes. Throw in some minced meat or small noodles if it tickles your fancy.

I can’t steal this. My kid can cook very well. :-(

sadly eats delicious five course meal

You could add linking to the same post, eg crossposting, to the criteria.

The urge to switch my server to piefed grows bigger every day.

About as important as with people.

When I think of Trump I think of that video of some guys giving a chimpanzee an AK-47. I find that more menacing than annoying.

The Steam Deck literally is a PC. If for some inane reason you can’t get it to do what you want you can install Windows on it.

I think the only reason emulation is “worse” on it than on PC can be that a desktop PC has more power. Almost all emulators in general usage are open source and have Linux versions.

There are also no problems with running pirated Windows games. By now the only games that are problematic on Linux are multiplayer games with kernel level anti cheat that hasn’t been configured to work on Linux.

The Steam Deck is better than the Switch in almost every aspect. It just doesn’t come with detachable controllers. That’s it.

So if you want a portable console with detachable controllers buy a Switch. Otherwise there is no reason not to get a Deck.

I find it even more strange that they couldn’t get the Xbox interface onto mainline Windows to make it more controller friendly.

Damn, how does the game run on the Steam Deck? I have that card in my desktop and so far it was vastly better than my Deck.

Do you have hiding of read posts turned on? You should be able to configure that in your profile.

Just take all EU membership papers, cross out Hungary and put in Ukraine.