I’m not noticing much difference, if any. But I’m playing games that have been stable and well established as deck compatible, so maybe I’m not the best example.
Edit: I do have and use steam on my laptop, just not often enough to merit an opinion
Gotta be BG3. Bought it full price the day I got my deck, about a year ago. There for a while I played every single day for hours. I still play a little most days, though it’s with my wife rather than solo. I can’t remember how many hours I have on the deck, and the ps5 version I eventually snagged so my wife could play has to have damn near half the time just from me.
It really sucks, but unless someone was to come up with a way to cram massive amounts of a game onto single discs, or no more than two, it was inevitable. That’s not why they’re doing it, but still
I’m not at the point where this outweighs the reasons I picked mullvad yet. And the other cofounder’s statement does at least give me hope that it might work itself out in a way I can accept before my current term is finished.
That being said, I’m not sure I can give money to the company when someone is profiting from that money and spending part of it on a political organization that expressly espouses a stance I believe to be harmful and dangerous. And it isn’t like you can pirate a VPN, so it differs significantly from when actors or musicians do stupid shit.
That being said, I also don’t think that using mullvad would be something other people would be obligated to avoid just because the CEO donated to a small and shitty political party. By itself, it isn’t something so bad that it’s possible to point to a customer and do more than inform them of the donation and maybe give them links to see for themselves that it’s a shitty party. Or, at least that it’s a party with some really shitty platforms.
But the guy needs to show a major shift in how he donates before I’ll renew.
Eh, when it comes down to it, my concern isn’t country of origin, per se.
Since my concern is about the company making an item, and how shitty they are, you’d have to dig up some serious numbers to show me that a given Chinese company is significantly worse than a company from elsewhere, or that there’s a proven issue where the hardware had known vulnerabilities introduced by virtue of being Chinese in origin.
Both of which are entirely possible. But until I’m actually shopping for the hardware, I have way too many other things that I have to pay attention to to give a flying fuck, so this hypothetical is a zero fucks given for me. China isn’t inherently worse than any other country. It’s got flaws and virtues as they all do. Buying shit from any given country is picking exactly what flaws you prefer.
Right now, I haven’t run across one with that function, but I also haven’t specifically looked for it either.
Octopi is my backup currently, as it gets closest to nova features that I do use. So that wood be my suggestion to check
Yeah, the only issue is that any profits from paying for their service will eventually line the person’s pockets. It’s not like the company is directly doing it, or spreading the bullshit.
Makes it a slightly different issue, but it is still an issue
I don’t hate them, but damn are they pushing beyond what any one company should do. The only way a one-stop shop should be used at all is if it’s a very well structured, open side law source non-profit. Even then, I’m not sure that biting off as many things as proton is trying to would be for me.
It was my understanding that despite it being preorders, the devices were already under production. If that’s not the case, I tend to agree that it would have been damn nice to have an option, even if it came with limits on exactly what kind of hardware you could use in it. I can still understand why they wouldn’t, but I would also love to see the option if it isn’t going tp disrupt production the way I was talking.
That being said, I’m still not sure the market would be there in enough capacity to make it worth the small extra effort. I don’t mind cracking open a brand new device and fiddling with it, and I know plenty of fellow lemmizens that are equally (our even more) enthusiastic about technology that would as well. I’m just not confident that the kind of folks both willing and able to do it without fucking up would be worth even designing a second option on the website lol.
I dunno, maybe I’m not guesstimating the value of the option. My thinking is that for it to be useful, you’d have to already have the parts, or you wouldn’t be saving much money, which means you’re just doing it for fun, or to customize the exact specs of the ram and sdd. Not that that isn’t great! It is! I just didn’t (and don’t) see it as something that’s on the radar for this kind of device. Looking at prices, I didn’t find anything that would represent a reduced price tag new, unless I fucked up reading the specs (and I am dyslexic, so I do fuck up sometimes).
So, yeah, if my base assumptions are wrong, it could well be that it would be a net benefit to valve and users.
I disagree, though only in specific rather than in principle.
The point of a “box” like this is an out-the-door experience that anyone can jump into. Picking the hardware allows for tight integration with the planned power consumption, life span, etc.
So, just on that basis, it’s an iffy proposition.
But, user freedom and choice is always good, so I could see it being a good long term option.
Thing is, it would also require different stocks of boxes. You’d need to shift manufacturing lines to accommodate it, have different storage and shipping infrastructure in-house, and that runs into artificial scarcity issues where you run out of one or the other and can’t fulfill orders of that option, and they already knew they’d have trouble keeping up with demand even at the higher price points.
Ngl, the first time my hen molted, I was verklempt. She didn’t get that bad, as she tends to st it in waves rather than all at once, but I was anxious as fuck all wondering if it was molting or some kind of disease
Yeah, well, nobody started shooting the fuckers before they could get spooled up
Well, in fairness, we had a ramp installed and the good shit spots are all gone now
That’s dedication
Homie shit in their front yard, then settled down behind their camera watching it long enough for a butterfly to flutter by and land on their butt chocolate
That one’s a keeper!
Nah, it isn’t. Intelligence implies independence. What it is is a fancy algorithm with a big data set.
It doesn’t have to be general ai to be called ai, but so far none of the models I’m aware of have reached a standard to be called intelligence in the colloquial sense for sure
Being real, this is why I fucking hate the bullshit, corporate greed hype of LLMs and generative software. All the “bubble” shit? It tars all versions of the technology with the same brush.
This? This is exactly what it should be used for. And, ffs, earlier speech to text was really the same fucking thing in essence. Software that took input in the form of voice, compared it to a set of data, and made a best guess at what you meant. Yeah, the details are different, but it’s the same concept.
This? This is fucking awesome. Locally run, and doing a job that’s vital in accessibility, with the side benefit of being useful to others. Assuming canonical is being honest anyway.
But this kind of thing should be the way things are done.
Damn, I kinda want a poster of that to hang in my bathroom, right across from the toilet.
And I definitely want a decent quality copy of the original pic lol
If you’re having sex and it isn’t an art, you’re doing it wrong