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Quoting: redmcg

So perhaps some older readers might want to keep an eye on Zoom Platform.

"Older readers". This hurt.

To be fair; at our age, what doesn't hurt? :wink:

Napping.:happy:

Not even in the back?!? Lucky you!

;)

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Quoting: elmapulif we buy those games, those companies will make more games like those? no? so what is the point?

Well...
* owning the games you love(d)?
* maybe - depending on what they agreed upon decades ago - sending some money to the people having made these games? (This might be unlikely.)
* making those who sell it dig up more treasures from the past? (People keep talking about "abondonware" and how they totally unselfishly rescue these games from vanishing - how about doing the same in a undoubtedly legal way?)
* playing the games?!?

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Quoting: soulsourceBlumenkrantz' blog is worth reading. He has a very entertaining way to write about code optimization.

Thanks for saying that, I wouldn't have read the post without this.

(One takeaway for me is though that I'm still fine with having an Nvidia.)

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Quoting: gabberLet's hope I'm paranoid: in the back of my head the idea of Valve focusing steamdeck and leaving the desktop behind is starting to grow.
- Protondb is more like steamdeckdb now. Only showing "Deck Verified Games"

I don't know what you mean here...

https://www.protondb.com/search?q=time%20hack [External Link]

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Quoting: GetBeanedIt's got good reviews, but I can't shake just how similar it looks to A Short Hike, which was admittedly great, but I'm not sure I'd want to experience something extremely similar to it.

I like what the first Steam review [External Link] I stumbled upon says on this:
I read a lot of reviews saying it's a blatant copy of The Short Hike and was wary, but I am happy to report that... it is, but in a good way. For me it doesn't feel like cheap 'steal the idea and make a copy' but more 'I loved Short Hike but wanted some extra elements there, so since I have the skill, I will MAKE my version, which has the bits I want' and it shows.

Looking forward to giving this a try. Probably alone first, and then with the kids. :)

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As I feel I haven't been advertising my favorite computer magazine "c't" in a long time:
They wrote about Heroic Games Launcher a year ago.
In Europeans best-selling computer magazine.
On actual paper.
https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2022/1/2130818212378382306 [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Marlock"spark a debate" is not necessarily bad for Valve either, quite the contrary!

As they say, "No publicity is bad publicity".

They do say so, but it's not true.
Ever seen somebody smoking a Strand?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand_(cigarette) [External Link]

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Quoting: Triasnew GraphicsPipelineLibrary (GPL)

That name though! :D Wonder what it's licence is...

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I wish for a sleep mode that might take a couple of seconds more to wake up into the game, but uses like a tenth of the energy. Whenever my Deck lays around for some days, the battery is empty for doing... nothing. And yes, I'm aware I can switch it off, but more often than not, I don't know if I'll be using it again next day or next week.

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Quoting: Scytalescientifically very thin ice

I thought I had an idea what this all is about, but I really got no idea how this could be scientifically thin ice. To not further derail things here, could you PM me a pointer?

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