Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: EikeNo, erm... I don't understand the abbreviation "LE" in the first place. It can't be "Light Emitting", right?
(But I love having my LEDs less strong.)

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamdeck_2023LE [External Link]

Thanks!

(Might be worth writing it in full in the article.)

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Quoting: MasterSleort

Quoting: Eike

which should be interesting to LE users

Probably missing something obvious here, but what are "LE users" using?

Maybe because the LE is translucent, it is more annoying if the power LED is very strong. Could be that they can even see it lit up through the shell when playing in darkness. Something you don't really see on a standard shell.

No, erm... I don't understand the abbreviation "LE" in the first place. It can't be "Light Emitting", right?
(But I love having my LEDs less strong.)

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Quoting: GuppyBut be that as it may, that's not what I'm talking about - I'm talking about technology displacing workers, and said workers being upset about it.

From my point of view, most use cases currently is for art "AI" is for projects that would never exist if not for the technology. If at any point it stops being horribly bad it may cost some ( or even most ) artists their livelihood, and it will be inconvenient for them to find another income source - but they will.

It seems you're not differentiating between physical work and making art. In my humble opinion, there's a huge difference. We've dreamt of machines doing the hard work and the humans having time for art or whatever they're pleased to do - not the other way around.

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which should be interesting to LE users

Probably missing something obvious here, but what are "LE users" using?

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Quoting: SoulprayerCool. Portal 2 was awesome, looking forward for this mod!

Did you play Portal Stories: Mel already? If you're into a challenge, in classic/hard mode? The puzzles are great. I was unhappy I wasn't allowed to pay money for the game!

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Quoting: amataiA bit late to the party but I was wondering to whose sovereignity the Sovereign Tech Fund was refering. Turn up it is a fund setup by some German administrations, the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz and the Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen.
So I guess we need to thank Germany for this one.

You're welcome. ;)

I'm sure it refers to sovereignty from the big (US) IT players. You know their names...
For the question of whose sovereignty, the website mentions "Europe and Germany".
(You need to "swipe" a bit here [External Link] .)

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumHow do I get Valve to send me a free Steam Deck? :grin:

Make a gaming site for some decades and have some success. You're welcome!

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Quoting: EikeFlickering is not the opposite of VRR, it's screen tearing

Yes, I was using the wrong term here.

Quoting: Eikeand honestly since I moved away from a 60Hz screen and my old GPU I cannot notice screen tearing (the fps is far to high for that).

That's great for you, but many people are having low fps, and if not currently, maybe tomorrow with the next generation of games, you might have to. Your card will stop being high tier - but still have VRR.

(And, as I think you're a technical person as well: CPU and GPU waiting for the monitor is just wrong.)

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Quoting: BrokattI would guess that for the millions of Linux Steam users VRR is somewhat important.

More than 40% use a Steam Deck. Steam Deck doesn't support VRR (even the newest revision won't). It can't be that important if a gaming company omits it (on a device which would very much benefit from it).

Well, I sure don't buy into "The company isn't giving to us, so it's not important." Anybody got some more insight why Valve wouldn't do it? I'd guess it's part of making Steam Deck as affordable as possible?

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Quoting: F.UltraVery few people care about VRR, which is also why it have taken so long to get it implemented.

I find it very hard to believe that. Without VRR, you get either flickering or might be losing quite a bit of the performance you payed for (plus added input lag, but that probably is something not many people care for). When thinking about it, the monitor displaying the image when it's ready instead of some hundreds of bucks of CPU plus possibly many hundreds of bucks of GPU waiting for the monitor is the world as it's supposed to be.

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Quoting: tuubi

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: slaapliedjeIt's kind of amusing to me that CRTs started off as 50/60hz, then higher end monitors started getting really high refresh rates (like the one I have that'll do 1600x1200 at 85hz). Then when we started with LCDs, we were back to having crappy refresh rates, with the added disadvantage of any non-native resolution looking like trash... Many years later, they're finally getting better.

You're forgetting or ignoring the fact that we mostly wanted higher refresh rates for CRTs to reduce the eye destroying flicker, not to make games run smoother or whatever. Whereas an LCD doesn't really have a flicker problem, even with the old fluorescent backlights.

And digital LCD display was just sooo much better than anything analogue.

To be fair, back when LCD displays started to take over, they weren't that great. The colours and contrast were pretty damn awful compared to a decent CRT.

I might be wrong an "any". But what I remember very good is that when I had seen LCDs with digital ports & cables, I didn't know any analogue display I considered on par.

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