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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Quoting: LinuxerThe world will never be perfect where everyone lives in harmony and there is sum mutual agreement... If you constantaly concentrate on "negative things" around and in social media, you become negative.

Yes.

Quoting: LinuxerSometimes it looks like the joy has been stripped away from some people because of all the media hassles and out of propoprtion dramatization etc.

This isn't as neutral as you'd like it to be I fear. Is it out of proportion in this case?

... and you're in the discussion, while you said you didn't want to.
(No, I don't want to either.)

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Quoting: LinuxerWhat the hell, man.. Honestly. Is JKR really that "evil" for SAYING something?

You make this sound like "SAYING" something couldn't possibly be evil.
I wonder if there's a country were there aren't things that are forbidden by law to say.
(No, I don't think that JKR broke such a law, it's generally about saying stuff is possibly evil.)

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Quoting: melkemind

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Quoting: TiZ

Quoting: CyborgZetaThat's nice and all, but Vulkan on the Dolphin Flatpak has been broken for the past several months. Trying to use Vulkan just brings up a "failed to initialize video backend" and "failed to create Vulkan instance" dialog.

I don't see an issue for this on the Flathub package's issue tracker. [External Link] Any particular reason you haven't filed a report if it has been broken for the past several months?

I don't have a GitHub account, and I know jack about filing bug reports. People typically pull up the output in a terminal or something, yes? I don't know how to do that. All I can tell you is "Uh, it don't work".

There are discussions on Reddit that tell me other people have issues with failing to initialize Vulkan on Dolphin. Though I don't know what hardware or OS they're using. In those cases, it may be a driver issue, but the Flatpak build should be using the latest drivers. No clue.

Vulkan in Dolphin doesn't work on my desktop or my Steam Deck, so I don't think it's a hardware issue.

I just tried it with Vulkan, and it appears to be working on my system. There must be a way to work around whatever issue you're having, although I don't know what that is since I didn't do anything special.

I found the problem.

Just did a fresh install and re-enabled my settings one-by-one, testing Vulkan each time to see if it works. When I checked the box for "Enable API Validation Layers" in the Advanced tab, I got the problem I've been experiencing. That's why Vulkan never worked. Not sure why I ever had that checked. Well, at least that's one problem solved.

Sounds like Dolphin should try validation though?

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: CZiNTrPT

Quoting: Bazirker

Quoting: CZiNTrPTI love the magnet on my dbrand killswitch though. Also put my additional sd card on there via magnets.

Just finished switching my delta fan for the better one this weekend (had it used together with killswitch for months now). I don't feel any difference though. If it just breaks the fan in the long term, I'm good with that tradeoff for overall convenience

I agree with you 100%. I haven't checked to see which fan I have, but I haven't noticed any change in speed or heat when the kickstand is on vs off. I absolutely love the case, the plastic cover for travel, and the magnetic kickstand; I am totally fine with the increased risk of heat or wear/ tear. It's too bad there's not more information about the percentage of circulating steam decks with the affected fan, as I'm pretty happy with my current accessories with magnets via dbrand and would love to see more. I guess we'll see what the mechanical attachment feels like soon.

You can also check your steamdecks components on the steam store directly without opening it. It's pretty neat

Link? That is way cool.

Absolutely is!

https://store.steampowered.com/account/hardwareused [External Link]

Click on the Deck to find out more.

Whoa! It has all my Steam Controllers too! And Index. Doesn't have my Steam Links though (granted one is still in the box)

It doesn't have my Index though (granted it's still in the store)...

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: CZiNTrPT

Quoting: Bazirker

Quoting: CZiNTrPTI love the magnet on my dbrand killswitch though. Also put my additional sd card on there via magnets.

Just finished switching my delta fan for the better one this weekend (had it used together with killswitch for months now). I don't feel any difference though. If it just breaks the fan in the long term, I'm good with that tradeoff for overall convenience

I agree with you 100%. I haven't checked to see which fan I have, but I haven't noticed any change in speed or heat when the kickstand is on vs off. I absolutely love the case, the plastic cover for travel, and the magnetic kickstand; I am totally fine with the increased risk of heat or wear/ tear. It's too bad there's not more information about the percentage of circulating steam decks with the affected fan, as I'm pretty happy with my current accessories with magnets via dbrand and would love to see more. I guess we'll see what the mechanical attachment feels like soon.

You can also check your steamdecks components on the steam store directly without opening it. It's pretty neat

Link? That is way cool.

Absolutely is!

https://store.steampowered.com/account/hardwareused [External Link]

Click on the Deck to find out more.

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