“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.”

or, of course, it could be that you’re just so much better than everyone else, right?

AFAIK it depends on the device. I believe it’s simpler to have a battery management system which keeps the battery charged when power is attached, and then a second separate system which powers the phone from the battery. That does lead to more wear on the battery though, so the better solution is to have a power management system which monitors the battery and keeps it within a set charge range, and additionally can supply the voltage needed to run the phone. Only when power is not connected does the battery power the phone.

From a quick google though, it seems that’s only part of the picture. High-end modern phones will often require a battery present, as they use it to smooth out the power coming from the adapter, even though most of the power for the phone when the charger is attached comes from a direct power path.

the double negative tripped you up - wasn’t unexpected == was expected

Outside of Big Picture Mode, the Steam client start-up performance is improved in general, improved CPU performance at runtime for Steam Input, and many bug fixes. The Steam client beta for Linux has improved download speeds on high latency connections, the SteamOS compatibility dialogs will now show in the desktop UI when installing games not verified for that hardware, and the desktop Linux UI will also show the SteamOS unsupported dialog when installing games that are known to not work with Proton. The Steam beta also improves its Linux distribution information collection for the Steam Survey to be more accurate. The SteamRT3 experimental beta has also seen several fixes.

The ridiculously slow start-up time has been an annoyance for ages, so I just switched to the beta to see if it’s noticeably improved.

I did a quick unscientific test, timing start-up first on the standard client and then switching to beta, restarting my PC and timing the start-up again.

The non-beta time from double-clicking the icon until the UI was fully rendered was 25 seconds, and with the beta 18 seconds. Fingers crossed that’s enough to make the start-up delay less bothersome in real-world usage.

ya … I might have been trolling a little bit 😁

Beats me. If the USSR had won the Cold War and taken over the world, we’d all have way better games consoles AND they’d be given out for free to everyone who asked.

Was it Andy Burnham by any chance?

Terrifying video

my god you weren’t exaggerating, that is absolutely horrific

Nice cherry picking, the next paragraph of the wiki says:

This type of argument is sometimes used as a form of fearmongering in which the probable consequences of a given action are exaggerated in an attempt to scare the audience.[citation needed] When the initial step is not demonstrably likely to result in the claimed effects, this is called the slippery-slope fallacy.