Interesting. I just recently replaced the i5-10400 in my PC with an i5-12400, so this is no longer an issue for me, I guess.

One of my laptops does have an i5-1135G7 in it though. I don't use it very often, however.

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Groovy.

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Quoting: ssj17vegetaGenuine question here : what's the benefit of having an emulator on Steam, apart from the automatic updates ?

Cloud saves. Say you own a Steam Deck in addition to your PC: you could be playing a game on Dolphin at home, leave for an extended period of time whilst having your Steam Deck with you, and be able to pick up where you left off.

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I'm not surprised. US Courts have shown themselves to be utterly impotent when it comes to consolidations and mergers.

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Quoting: Marlockit speaks volumes the anount of times "fixes EA launcher/app"appears in Proton changelogs

Indeed. I've basically given up bothering with EA games on PC; since the EA App being garbage isn't just a problem in Linux.

Thankfully, the only EA game I've been playing that has the EA App is Mass Effect LE, which I also have on PS4.

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Sadly, I don't think there's any way to fix the EA app. It's a piece of junk.

**** EA. Mass Effect LE is now unplayable on PC for me thanks to their stupid ****ing launcher. Apologies for the profanity and ranting.

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I am intrigued by the immutable OS concept. I like what I've tried of Vanilla OS; I'm just waiting for a KDE version before taking the dive on my desktop.

I do think it's neat that Canonical is going to make an immutable version of Ubuntu...but I'm not interested, because I don't like Snap. I prefer Flatpak.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: KlaasI've read so much about troubles with quality of the Joy-Cons, but to be fair poor build quality seems to be everywhere. Logitech has had trouble with the quality of the micro switches for the buttons for a long time and they've stopped using optical mouse wheels and have switched to cheap encoders (OT: encoders are always a huge pain – the biggest German electronics compendium has a very long article for workarounds).

It's true that poor build-quality is everywhere nowadays, but the Joy-Cons are of unusually poor-quality - going on my own experience, you'll get anything between 6 to 18 months of gentle use out of a brand new one*, and in the UK while I was a Switch owner you had to pay the cost of a new controller to get them repaired. I believe this has changed now, however.

*I'm a woman, though, so I don't know how well these things last in rougher hands. I've seen reviews suggesting that it may be as little as three months in such cases.

I learned to repair them myself (to their credit, they're designed to be very easy to repair), but there came a point where, on top of everything else that I mentioned, I ended up asking myself why an end-user should have to repair carefully-used almost-new products constantly. :unsure:

Honestly, stuff like that makes me sad to hear, regardless of my feelings towards Nintendo today. My experience growing up with Nintendo handhelds was they they were extremely durable and reliable; even the original "phat" DS could withstand a drop on a concrete driveway without it breaking a sweat. And as far as console were concerned, the GameCube had long been my gold standard for reliability; I never had a single problem with it. The only other console I have that can match it in the regard is my PS3 Slim. My JP Dreamcast is pretty old as well and runs good...but I only acquired it last year, and don't know its entire history prior to my obtaining it. Had fun playing Sakura Wars 2-4 on it though!

Apologies for the rambling.

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I grew up with Nintendo starting with the N64. Back in the mid-2010's, during the Wii U's life, I suddenly found myself losing interest in them. To this day, I find it difficult to play most Nintendo games, with titles like Ocarina of Time being one of the few exceptions. That's a game I just can't bring myself to hate, as it was my favorite game ever for the longest time.

That said, I never bought a Switch, and never will. I'm very disappointed in Nintendo right now, and I have no regret over leaving them behind.

Additionally, there's one other thing I discovered as an adult, particularly after getting into emulation. I didn't get to really appreciate them back in their heyday, but now I see...that SEGA was better.

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Unless it's a noticeable boost from my RX 6600 (non-XT), then I don't see myself buying it.

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