Most of my work events are during business hours and "on the clock". The ones that aren't are high value usually - white water rafting for example. Or volunteer events (which usually come with PTO time). Or incentives - like Christmas party of annual company picnic - prizes.

That reminds me, next week is the quarterly massage.

Yes, but it'll lighten the demand on other DRAM manufacturers, so we should still see some benefits.

Oh we have one of these at work, it currently says there are. Hmm, I'll need someone to interpret this for me.

Unfortunate. Based on what I can find it's a solo outfit, so the owner / operator (who I did find but won't name, just check the blog though) might be indisposed for whatever reason. Couldn't find anything online though.

My first thought was to take it apart and fix whatever the problem is, I've fixed issues like this before.

But I also bought it to be plug and play - disassembling to fix what is either a shipping issue or manufacturing defect is not plug and play. So I decided I would use this opportunity to see how the support experience is. So far my consensus is I'm glad I haven't had any issues with my Steam Deck...

What do you mean you "hope" rape is objectively bad? Can you expand on that? I find that phrasing to be... Weird

It makes a loud and very obnoxious mechanical clicking noise that gets worse under load. I'm guessing one of the internal fans got damaged in shipping.

I opened my ticket with a video and explanation - a quick "hey, this is the first boot I've not even hooked up a monitor and listen to this noise".

So far Steam support has asked me if I've modified or disassembled it, then told me to try factory resetting it, uninstall any third party plugins, and turn off "updated fan controller". Last I heard from them was early Wednesday that they're looking into it. No followup just complete radio silence.

And here I'm in the process of trying to get them to initiate a return because they sent me a defective Steam Machine and so far the support experience has been abysmal.

Negative bias. We notice these anomalies more than we notice the ones that don't disappoint their mothers.

I read about and see videos about the humans right violations that are happening in Pakistan, Ukraine, and other parts of the world and I know if I were put through some of that, having seen videos and read shit ain't going to mean jack shit.

Now draw dolphin shorts wearing an alien.

I stumbled on this post in my all feed. I don't journal and don't think I can contribute meaningfully but still feel like contributing a deadpan:

No. I have aphantasia.

lol