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I'm still bitter that Epic abandoned this series, but I'm glad these games wont disappear into the void forever.

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Logitech is still fine but I miss my MX500..

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Wonder how they'll handle cd keys, because afaik it is needed to play online.

Other than that detail, this is amazing news!

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Hopefully mods will still work. I want to play ChaosUT2 again.

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Right now I'm using a Corsair Ironclaw (you need to plug it in to Micro-USB to change/deactivate the LEDs, but it comes with its own 2.4Ghz Wireless USB or can do BT); medium happy with it. I already have a Keychron M3 on standby which will probably replace it.

Keyboard I use a Keychron K10 Pro, which is niiice. Has USB-C and BT. I replaced my aging Turtle Beach 100 with it, which isn't available anymore, and which only had USB-A.

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goated mouse, got mine when my wired razer mouse (which technically had a better sensor but whatever) started double clicking, having scroll wheel issues and generally kind of fell apart a bit.

Also if its too slippery for you then look into modding it with grip tape or even 3d printing a new shell or battery cover for it.
There's plenty of mods for it from fingertip grip, lightweight holes-everywhere stuff to ergo, vertical and even shapes from other mice like the G Pro and Viper Ult. being available.
(just search sites like thingiverse for example)

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I have an old G102 mouse. No idea how old it is, the left button has a large shiny dimple that I'm 100% sure wasn't there when it was new. It's still working pretty much perfectly.

I just hate wireless mice/keyboards for the random battery dead at the worst possible time thing that always happens

I hope it serves you an uneventful decade

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I'm afraid this is just the beginning. I totally expect more of this to happen. Companies are making peanuts from us compared to these massive corporations (who still aren't making a profit from the AI craze, btw.) People may say I'm crazy but I could completely see a situation where Nvidia either ditches the consumer market completely or starts only selling one or two card models to prioritize enterprise sales. Our money is nothing to them.

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Ok, guys. I have a Crucial 32GB DDR5/6000 DIMM pair lying around in an unopened package. I got it 6 weeks ago for around 90 Euros but I'm willing to trade it for - say - a small apartment in one of today's hot cities I have yet to choose. Your offers are welcome.

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Logitech best HID manufacturer. Typing this with my G915 keyboard, navigating with my G502X mouse, listening with my G533 headset, and greeting with a C922 webcam.

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Holy shit, this is the best news! My wishes came true!

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If there's a textbook example of how one can hate and love a videogame company at the same time, then it's Epic Games.

Today is even-numbered, so we love them.

Tomorrow Sweeney will speak, and we will hate them.

Sigh

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This is awesome, though I wish it was open sourced as well.

Now, can we publish it on FlatHub (with a downloader)?

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Quoting: ElectricPrism@Eike

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ElectricPrismIn the near future, possibly the year 2030, you will not be allowed to own a modular computer as we know it now.

That's nonsense.
I offer a bet for 100€ to be paid on 1.1.2031.

"as we know it now."

2005 is unlike 2025

Gone:
☑ Removable Batteries on Laptops and Phones

Not true. Have it in my phone I bought this year.

Quoting: ElectricPrism☑ Optical CD/DVD/HD/BluRay Drive on Laptops
☑ Ethernet Port in many cases gone necessitating USB-C Hub
☑ Anything outside a single USB-C

Not true. Have it in my laptop I bought this year.

Quoting: ElectricPrism☑ Removable MicroSD Storage on Phones

Not true. Have it in my phone I bought this year.

Quoting: ElectricPrism☑ Ability to open devices with a screwdriver, Screens are glued.

Not true. I can open my phone I bought this year even without a screwdriver

Quoting: ElectricPrism☑ Increasing un-affordability of Modular PC Parts eg: after 29 years in business, this article: "The RAM price and availability situation is going to worsen as Micron pull their Crucial consumer business"

Yeah. Wait for AI bubble burst.

Quoting: ElectricPrism☑ RAM Soldered to Silicon

Not true. We still have RAM Soldered to Silicon. And RAM not Soldered to Silicon, which you probably meant

Quoting: ElectricPrism☑ Phones, Tablets, and Laptops as SBC where no parts are removable or replaceable, or difficult to repair

Again, not true for my phone.

... and nothing of these have anything to do with your original speculation anyway. You said "you will not be allowed to own a modular computer". Which of your points are due to somebody not allowing you to do something?

Quoting: ElectricPrismNow if you'd like to move the goal post, go ahead. The facts are the facts regardless of arguments, opinions and speculations

You're the one speculating - and obviously not trusting your own speculations enough to bet on them.

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Wow. If this materialize, it'll feel like seeing a unicorn. Nice.

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Quoting: VigilWorried about people with HDDs but not people that don't have hundreds of GiBs to spare…

Tin-foil hat tells me that it is deliberate to limit the number of competitor games you can have at the same time.

No idea if he is right, he is usually wrong... but I could see it.

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I just wonder, how much ram does these AI companies or AI data centers actually/really need.

The answer is not a quantity but simply "yes" because multiple companies are in a race to the top so each of them want as many resources as possible.

We need someone to define Moore's Law for AI efficiency and capabilities because improvements are not linearly proportional to investments, not even close

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I just wonder, how much ram does these AI companies or AI data centers actually/really need.

The answer is not a quantity but simply "yes" because multiple companies are in a race to the top so each of them want as many resources as possible.

We need someone to define Moore's Law for AI efficiency and capabilities because improvements are not linearly proportional to investments, not even close

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glitchi graphics

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There is no LTS (long term support) version of Mesa. Each release gets a few point releases, then they entirely move onto the next version.

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So, is the .2.8 line the LTS branch?

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One of Valves biggest strengths through the years has been that by being private they can do things that don't need payoff for many years. They can plan long-term in a way that most companies can. They have a steady stream of revenue from Steam and can dedicate a fraction of that to these projects. They don't need to hit deadlines for stockholders or investors. The only company I can think of that functions similarly is IKEA. Both companies have fumbled (they are not perfect) but their dominant positions means they can continue to play the long game.

I think SteamOS, Proton and FEX are good examples of this slow, long term strategy. They don't employ hundreds of developers for these projects, they don't need to show results by next annual report, and they don't have to mean some fundamental shift for Valve. All they need to do is widening the market by a tiny bit and give current customers even more reasons to stay on Steam. SteamOS doesn't mean they will abandon Windows and FEX doesn't mean they will abandon x86. This is not dogma this is long-term business strategy on a level most companies can only dream of.

Right now, for gaming, Snapdragon X Elite is not competitive with Intel or AMD's offerings. This might change in the future and if that happens then Valve will be ready to switch to ARM for Steam Deck. It might also never happen and that is equally fine for Valve. Then don't care as long as they get a good price on a killer perf/watt chip. ARM can be powerful and x86 can be power efficient. Worst case they can release a Steam app for phones and give their customer yet another platform to play (at least some of) their games on.

I myself don't care if I run ARM or x86. What I do care about is that most (preferably all) my games run, I have good performance at a decent price and (since a year back) that it can run Linux.

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Once games didn't need to come on disks developers basically stopped caring.

In the days of games that spanned multiple CDs, like Tex Murphy for example, they would duplicate some assets so that you wouldn't have to change discs as often. There was a tangible benefit to that. Duplicating GBs of data on a HDD to reduce seeking sounds pretty asinine; who benchmarked an improvement when doing that, and how long ago?

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Worried about people with HDDs but not people that don't have hundreds of GiBs to spare…

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Millennium + Extendium looks very enticing, for adding SteamDB, Augmented Steam, and ProtonDB Peek functionality into the Steam client. Does anyone have experience (positive or negative) they can share? I don't want to break Steam.

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Every day there is a new reason to hate "AI"... it's not even really the AI we've been warned about, it's dumber.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAs a consumer, not only did I not notice getting chopped, I hadn't even realized I was made of liver!

I always knew you'd be tasty with onions.

Also, that statement is hilarious.
Let me rephrase:

We are thankful to our millions of customers who made us what we are today, and who we'd now like to leave behind for temporary gains. Thank you for understanding.

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Quoting: scaineI'd LOVE to see an Arch-based distro that give us a store-like experience for updates and software installs. It's frustrating that Arch is so obtuse that even tools like Discover (KDE's appstore) is "not recommended for use with Arch-based distros".

I'm on CachyOS now and it ships with Octopi, but that has multiple problems - the interface is probably worse than Synaptic, a thing I didn't believe possible. It doesn't handle the AUR, and it doesn't know about Flatpak. CachyOS does provide a one-stop "upgrade" tool (open a terminal and type "upgrade", ha!), but no GUI exists.

It's a problem, and one that's hand-waved away by dedicated Arch users who say "just use the terminal". I'm fine doing so, but it means that I wouldn't recommend an Arch distro to anyone, ever. You try Arch, tentatively, after years of Linux exposure, and you might still bounce of it because of this.

So, yeah, so frustrating. Powerful software, like Arch, shouldn't be (this) difficult to use.

Manjaro got Pamac, that is a great store.

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Quoting: M@GOidThe Memory Mafia (Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology) are behind this. In February of this year they were on the news saying they will reduce production, because there was oversupply and market prices were too low. So they created this scarcity to make prices go up. I hope they rot in hell.


https://www.techspot.com/news/106815-nand-flash-weak-demand-oversupply.html

Kinda make sense. We saw it in meat prices as well. One chicken sneezes on the otehrside of the world and all of a sudden prices hikes this side of the world.
I just wonder, how much ram does these AI companies or AI data centers actually/really need. I can't fathom that they need so much that the whole worlds supply is impacted.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusProton to Lepton? What kind of particle physics-themed naming is that?? Well, I suppose Electron was already taken. And it's probably too late to rename Proton to Baryon…touché, Valve.

Well, I admit it's a strange direction to go, but the name is kind of charming.

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