Quoting: kaktuspalmeI wonder how the System76 sales have been going since Framework is in the market. I have the feeling they are taking away a lot of their sales.

I can say for me in 2019 to 2020 I thought about getting a system76 laptop but since I got my first laptop in 2018 their was no reason to upgrade and system76 didn't have anything in my price range that would be an upgrade. I also started to fall in love with 12 inch laptops instead of my 15 inch. And since system76 doesn't have sizes smaller then 14 inch they stopped being an option. Then framework came along and I really like the concept and waited to see if they would survive, get the price down or if they would make a 12 inch. Then they made a 12 inch that came in pink, my price range and was a 2in1 that had pen support its my perfect laptop so I ordered one immediately.

Now I don't like some of the things in their big tent but I've had to work with and my family has had to employ people that would hate to find out I'm trans which makes me conflicted on the whole thing.

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Chiaki-ng has turned in to a convenient way for me to stream my ps5 to my friends. No need to setup my capture card. I never had issue with stream quality in my house but when I visited my sister the stream would corrupt every few seconds so maybe this will fix some of that tho I blame the wifi more then Chiaki-ng. I wish their was interest in getting the other platforms that Chiaki supported over to Chiaki-ng.

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Finally got the survey on my main computer. I've always gotten it on the one time I boot steam on my windows computer to check something which always annoyed me.

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I used Ubuntu MATE as my main distro on my laptop in 2019 when I was still learning linux I really like the "familiar" layout and still use the layout in KDE. Wish the layout that they had could be easily be put on other ditros never could get the layouts out side of ubuntu mate. Hope they can get someone to step up.

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Part of me is like "man now minecraft can't run on anything" but also vulkan support have been here since 600 series nvidia with kepler and HD 7000 series AMD with GCN 1 both from 2012 so as long as your gpu isn't more then 14 years old you can still play as long as they don't go past vulkan 1.2 because of kepler. I'm not sure about the laptop side with intel so that concerns me. I don't know how kepler does with vulkan I know it does terribly with DX12 my GT 640 is dead so I can't check for myself. I just hope this doesn't effect too many people.

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I'm not a fan of the Game Boy layout would be more interested if it was like the size/layout of a Switch lite. They seem to be aiming for having community OS support which I hope they achieve. I've though about getting an android gaming handheld since even though I really like my Steam Deck it's a little too big for me to easily carry but most don't have 3rd party android rom support and if they do their is no community that makes them at least from the bit of looking that I've seen.

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Text scaling support is why Baldur's Gate 3 was the only game I played when visiting my sister for Thanksgiving. Even though the TV where my family was staying was 55 inches and I wasn't sitting far from it, I had to sit to the side of the TV causing bad contrast and it also had low pixel density. So I had a hard time reading text in games so I just when though what games I had installed and Baldur's Gate was like the only one with text scaling so that's what I played.

I don't always need accessibility stuff but when I do I'm usually disappointed at what a game supports. Stellar Blade did surprise me with a pretty alright list of stuff you can change. My hand was locking up from fishing you have to spam Square while using the analog stick to fight the fish and then hold the trigger in a certain position to real in the fish. Had to fish a lot for missions and the fact I had to do it quickly caused me pain. Luckily in the Menu you can turn on a setting to have each action turned into a single press so all you have to do use is the analog stick. There is also an option to just change the reeling in part to a timing game instead of holding a specific position.

Also FOV should always be able to go high its accessibility as well. I can't play a lot of games because I get extreme motion sickness from an FOV being to small I usually need a FOV of 110 sometime 90 is fine like in source games. Starting playing the Snowbound mod for borderlands 2 and needed to increase the FOV to 130 not to get motion sick do to that mods increased speed. I don't know if devs use this excuse anymore but it use to be devs would say if we let you increase the FOV to much cut scenes might look wrong. One that's a you problem and two I DON'T CARE IF A CUT SCENE LOOKS A LITTLE WEIRD I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PLAY THE GAME.

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I've notice a difference in how Japanese people view AI usable its much more relaxed and not really seen as anything bad. I have a Japanese 3d artist that has started to used AI (he has trained a model himself and released it publicly) and he released a music video with heavy AI use and the Japanese comments doesn't really bring up AI usage at all but every English comment is PLEASE DON'T USE AI and others saying they lost respect for him. So it maybe that Cygames genuinely never expected the back lash.
Now my sample size is small just being with in one guys community so I might be wrong but this is what I've observed.

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The only real issue I've had with Bazzite is on Sunday my living room PC would only boot in to desktop mode. Updating it fixed it but how did that happen?

This review made me realize if the docking improves this maybe more convenient for travel because when I travel I bring my Steam Deck, Its dock and a PS5 controller to play on the TV where ever I'm staying, but the detachable controllers would mean I wouldn't need to bring my PS5 controller. Not that I can afford a new handheld plus dock. How well do the detachable controllers work?

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I've been using Bazzite on my Steam Deck because Decky Loader doesn't break after an update happens and desktop mode has been less of a pain to use for me. I've also wanted a more powerful handheld but nothing is that big of a improvement to warrant a purchase of anything and having the official dock would mean getting a new dock so double not worth it to me.

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