Nvidia still fully supports Turing in their Windows/Linux drivers and that's from 2018

Nvidia currently supports Maxwell, from 2014.

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That's all of CD Projekt, not GOG.

That's exactly what I said. And if GOG are having cashflow problems that's entirely the choice of their parent company, which, I'll say again, is the largest video game company in Europe. They don't need your charity.

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I do also have an instinctive "So, this company wants to make more money by just having people . . . give it to them for free?" If I give money it's gonna be to a charity. GOG may like trying to blur the line to pretend to be sort of partly a charity . . . but they aren't.

"By September 2017, it was the largest publicly traded video game company in Poland, worth about US$2.3 billion, and by May 2020, had reached a valuation of US$8.1 billion, making it the largest video game company in Europe."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt [External Link]

I expect Ubisoft, for example, would also quite like people to just give them money on their Patreon.

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Some people think I am strange, because I boycott games forcing a male character on me, and will continue to do so until the day when there is a halfway equal amount of games with female protagonists out there. I guess there are not a lot of people like me around, because these game still seem to sell very well. :D

29% of male players and 76% of female players prefer playing as a female character.

https://quanticfoundry.com/2021/08/05/character-gender/ [External Link]

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My worry is that all this strain on the eyes of younger folk will cause them to need reading glasses even earlier than I did.

It wouldn't be that way round. The folk wisdom is that focusing too much on close things when you're young affects the ability to focus on things far away - the short-sighted bookworm stereotype. Becoming long-sighted - unable to focus on objects that are close - happens as you get older, regardless of whether you've ever been long-sighted, short-sighted, or neither, when you were younger.

If you need your glasses to read a phone or a book then you'll also need your glasses for the Deck.

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The only thing that puts me off is the small screen. My eyes aren't getting any younger.

Most text in most games is around the size of text on a phone or a paperback, or bigger. The OLED screen is marginally bigger than the LCD screen.

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But i don't really know of a stable distro with an upto date version of KDE?

Kubuntu has Plasma 6.5.0 in the backports PPA.

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I take heart from the lead at Revolution Software being candid about being bullish on AI as a means to keep the price down on remastering Broken Sword, and then being equally candid on how it hadn't been cheaper, and hadn't been very good, and they weren't going to do it again having tried it. Lots of companies in lots of industries are dabbling with AI because it's being hyped at them; they won't necessarily know that AI slop isn't good unless they try it.

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I think KDE Plasma is still the absolute best way to get more Windows users to feel at home on Linux.

I'd say that's selling it short. I'd been using Linux & Gnome for over a decade when KDE Plasma made me feel at home on Linux after Gnome stopped feeling like that. I expect users of other DEs, and Mac OS, will also feel at home on Linux with Plasma. It can't be overstated how awesome Plasma's pervasive attitude of "of course you should use your computer exactly how you want to" is.

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Just a reminder that the Truckful devs are super enthusiastic about the Deck and are aiming for >60 fps at the highest settings there. I haven't tried the demo to see how close they are to that goal so far, but I will later in the Next Fest.

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