Quoting: IzaicAlso, for all those people whining about this change, would you rather get your steamdeck now, or wait another year for it? Because if valve doesn't do small changes like this, that is what will happen. As long as you don't encounter issues and it works just as well as the other units, why should you even care?

I'd rather they sell what they marketed. Like mirv said, they should just say nvme ssd. They're doing this to try and differentiate the price point between the 64GB model and the two higher end models. Bad messaging on their part in my opinion. If it doesn't make a difference then they shouldn't point it out. If they do then they should sell what they advertise.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: CatKillerbecause it's got the janky asymmetric sticks.

It's a little hard for me to see so I could well be mistaken (and hope I am), but they also look an awful lot like Nintendo Switch sticks, which are misdesigned such that they break super-easily if you breathe in their general direction. If they're using aftermarket Switch sticks (and some of these handhelds do - it's the only flaw of some of the ARM-Linux Anbernic handhelds, for example), then you'd have to open this thing up to replace the sticks every handful of months.

It's an Xbox controller layout style. The joysticks are asymmetric with the A, X, Y, B to the upper right and an actual D-Pad to the lower right. Sorry the images are so big. I couldn't figure out how to resize them with this forum code.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: randylDoes Canonical have their employees host official/paid company projects on their personal github repos? That seems strange doesn't it?

He no longer works for Canonical.

Thanks, appreciate you pointing that out. I didn't know. The more I read through the Github repo the more it seemed like a friendly personal project to give people options. They even state at the bottom of the repo the project isn't a statement or comment on either app system.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: starpolloBold move from the old snap advocate! He must have gotten real sick of the cool-aid I guess?

Or maybe he was just doing his job as a Canonical employee.

Does Canonical have their employees host official/paid company projects on their personal github repos? That seems strange doesn't it?

I noticed it is using the permissive MIT license. Does Canonical use MIT a lot or just in a few cases? I would have expected GPL or LGPL from this.

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Quoting: GuestOne concern I have with patches being pushed to corporate forks rather than upstream wine is the situation we had with KHTML and WebKit, where Apple managed to hijack the project. Wine is licensed under LGPL rather than GPL which was the exact same situation with KHTML. LGPL allows you to add proprietary components later as well, and then slowly change license by changing part by part into different licenses as you replace the code.

Apple didn't hijack anything. That's how the license and forking works. Upstream is free to pull from a fork as well. People are free to use the fork or the original project. Sometimes that works out poorly for the original project, but there are reasons for that (see Open Office vs Libre Office).

Licenses work exactly how they're written, not how people feel the "spirit" of it should work. Every license has its strength and weaknesses. This is a good pull request that both Proton and the WINE project can benefit from.

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Quoting: CybolicWorth noting is that it's "free" if you're subscribed to "EA Play" on Steam.

Probably not many, if any, here subscribed to Xbox GamePass, but it also includes the basic EA Play as part of that subscription too. Not sure how cloud streaming EA Play titles works because on Windows I need to install the EA Desktop app. Just thought I'd mention it though.

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Quoting: ShmerlThis looks like evolving into a better variant of PlayOnLinux.

My first thought when I saw this was didn't I use this years ago? It looks a lot better now.

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Hmm, I'm pretty shocked. This is not the acquisition I was hoping for. I was hoping and thought this would be EA since EA Play is also part of Xbox GamePass. EA would make such a perfect fit for the Xbox GamePass portfolio. The ABK acquisition is just so meh on the surface.

Microsoft has been very hands off with its larger acquisitions in the last year or so. The new production titles do work with GamePass and have an Xbox focus, but they also tend to let the companies run themselves and aren't "fixing" many of the ills fans hope for. A lot of the games are added to GamePass as part of the subscription, but their individual subscriptions are not (e.g.: Elder Scrolls Online). Zenimax Media and its former subsidiaries (Bethesda, Zenimax Online, Arkane, iD, and some others) are still essentially the same from the player's perspective. They haven't fixed Fallout 76 management. The Sony PS timed exclusives still launched on the PlayStation, and then later to Xbox GamePass. Elder Scrolls performance and network issues are still a hot mess especially in Cyrodiil.

I don't see much changing except their titles being rolled into Xbox and probably GamePass. My one hope out of this is that they'll ditch their awful Blizzard Launcher and separate 2FA system.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis shortage stuff has been lasting rather a long time now. I'm finding myself wondering if it's really about all the original causes any more, or if the situation brought it to the attention of certain corporations that they are an oligopoly and constraining supply some is collectively making them gigabucks in windfall profits.

From what I understand, building new factories is a long process and they'll be only ready by the end of this year to address the disbalance in demand and supply.

I think all of them are building new ones. TSMC, Samsung and Intel. At least the new TSMC one is expected to launch in 2022.

Guess I just have a nasty suspicious mind. I'm pretty sure it is happening in the grocery sector--the big grocery chains say they're jacking prices because of higher expenses and supply chain issues, which do exist--but they're jacking prices more than the increase in costs, which is why those companies are posting record profits. So I figured the same trick would work here, probably better . . . but if they're really working on beefing up supply, I guess not.

This is where late stage poorly regulated Capitalism brought us in my opinion. The reality is a mockery of the simplistic and illusory Capitalist ideals of supply and demand, competing on quality, and consumer choice. What is that I hear? Is it Kurt Vonnegut laughing maniacally from his grave?

At this point it feels like the closest I'm going to get to a graphics card upgrade is an NFT of a 3070 jpeg. :dizzy: :cry:

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This could end being the spiritual successor to Betrayal at Krondor I've always wanted. They have a Discord you can join and chat about the game if you're interested. I've tried the demo and while it's a bit rough (as expected at this stage) it's also quite nice.

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