Quoting: ArehandoroCan the original Steam be upgraded with this new OLED? Can the new battery be installed on the original?

If the answer to both is no, even if by sending to Valve in case they don’t provide the parts to other vendors, I’m rather unhappy with this. Too early for a revision.

Edit: I just saw the HDR screen doesn’t fit in the old one.

I really don't get this reasoning, essentially being mad someone gets something newer.

It's basically been two years. An eternity for devices like this. I'd be mad if they *didn't* switch to using more power efficient chips at least, it's a good thing.

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This talk feels like the most obvious thing in the world that should go without saying, and a thing that can't be said enough. It is crazy what Valve is accomplishing here, and even crazier how they are doing it. They have been very good Open Source/Linux citizens, they are a great model for other companies to follow.

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Quoting: GuestI don't smurf, and I don't like smurfing, but I think smurfs shouldn't be banned, but rather yeeted to their real ranks instead, as soon as possible. Smurfing isn't cheating after all.

I think that's literally the goal here.

They are making a big deal out of focusing in on the main account, presumably it will tell them why they're being penalized, not just quietly adjust their scores, the end goal being to force them to just use one account like more honest players are doing.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderI wonder how many times April O'Neil will be kidnapped in this game????.......

Wrong decade. She kick punches with the rest of them now. (And is actually really fun to play.)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ZlopezIt's also good to see that Flatpak Steam is so widely used. :-)

Why? The reason for Flatpak that I'm aware of is getting newer software, but Steam is updating itself...

I think that's maybe a common reason desktop users use flatpak, but it's not *the reason for flatpak.*

flatpak is meant to solve several problems that have existed for decades. Packages only need to be made once to run (hopefully very) well on many distros, and they have security features baked right in.

If anything I'd say *the* reason for flatpak is making it easy for companies like Valve to target as many users as possible, while the biggest advantage to those users is sandboxing by default. It only happened once, but years ago there was this *nasty* bug where I believe restoring a backup in Steam would remove a users entire home folder. That bug wouldn't have been a very big deal for flatpak users. Same go for major exploits in games, Dota was basically distributing a remote shell for a while last year.

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Quoting: TcheyI miss the time of the eeePC from Asus, back in 2008 i think. Linux native, light, cheap (less than 400€), "real" computer (opposed to tablet with tactile stuff, or worst, smartphone), they were perfect for real nomad use, office, internet, 2D games or many small indie or roguelike, etc. And durable, i still boot mine from time to time when i’m on the move.

I had a eeePC 901, played Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, X@COM, TOME4... My current eeePC is unknown (nothing written on it, i think it’s 1201 but not sure), and rarely opened, but sometimes, a couple of weeks a year, i’d say, it’s usefull.

That time is still here, better than ever.

Many Chromebooks can run regular Linux distros very well. My 2017 Pixelbook is still my favorite laptop of all time, runs Fedora great, is all those things you described, can be had cheap.

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Quoting: Klaas

It will take around an hour to build the shaders on the main menu

Wow.

with many people on Windows reporting problematic performance and constant crashes.

When was the last big release where everything worked on release? You spend more money and are rewarded with a miserable experience.

Edit: According to several reviews the German version features a wrong translation for building shaders, i.e. in the sense of house shaders.

Resident Evil 4? Is it perfect? Probably not but why is that the bar? It's very similar to the Last of Us, many people are no doubt choosing between the two, and its reviews are overwhelmingly positive a week after release, very few technical complaints.

Relative to its peers, this seems exceptionally bad, Exceptions are newsworthy.

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Quoting: GuestI can't think of a single project that clashes with everything Unix more than Flatpak.

How so? It's debatable if it even needs to adhere to a philosophy from the 70s, but I mean, the UNIX philosophy isn't some abstract feeling, it's four specific points. Which one does it clash with so badly? I mean the point about one program being an input to another maybe, but that applies to most gui apps not written in the 70s. If it's the part about one tool doing its thing very well, flatpak is made up of ostree, bubblewrap, etc. It isn't some huge monolith. I find "Unix" and "Unix philosophy" and the like gets misappropriated a lot to basically just mean "thing I don't like."

If you just mean that it's big, that you don't like repackaging a bunch of stuff in user space . . .

- statically linked binaries have been a debate for decades
- Linux itself (no one wants to die on that microkernel hill anymore?)
- BSD chroots anyone
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- a huge amount of apps where the client and server are distributed as one binary, eg everything Hashicorp

I would in fact argue that 45 years later, flatpak and most of these tools are *very* UNIX like, to paraphrase Brian Kernighan:

What makes UNIX so powerful is that it decouples how the program is written, what language, what style, etc from the environment around them. A bunch of tools combine to create a coherent environment. Is that not exactly what flatpak does in 2023?

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[quote=Mountain Man][quote=mattaraxia]

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: mattaraxia

Quoting: TuxeeI have yet to understand the usefulness of lighting with opaque keycaps...

(Apart from that I wouldn't like the cursor keys arrangement and the lack of a proper ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdown block.)

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: mattaraxia

Quoting: TuxeeI have yet to understand the usefulness of lighting with opaque keycaps...

(Apart from that I wouldn't like the cursor keys arrangement and the lack of a proper ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdown block.)

It's actually really great. When you hit either function key to activate another layer, just the keys active in that layer light up, with a different color for each layer.

(I have the first gen launch, and love it so much I registered just to answer that question.)

The complaint is not about the RGB lightning but that the keycaps are not shine through, so you can't see the legends in the dark. The key caps also appear to be a non-standard size, so you can't replace them with something off the shelf.

No I get that, that's the point. I'm not sure how to put this that doesn't sound a bit snarky, but I thought it was implied -- people who need to see the keys to type aren't exactly this keyboard's target audience. I interpreted Tuxee's point as, given that, why bother with lighting?

It's a really niche device. It's ok if it's not for you. I can hit the key I want just as well blindfolded (it does have old school little ridges to help you find the home row) but it is sometimes nice to visually see what layer I'm on.

There are reasons to look at a keyboard other than not being a proficient typist.

Right? But no one's saying they're not? Just that this one isn't? There are thousands of keybaords on the market, it's ok if this one is not for you?

I'm really not sure what you're getting at. The point was there is a reason for the lighting other then lighting the glyphs, and it is not obvious until you use it. If that reason isn't for you, cool man, no one is suggesting otherwise. Get a different keyboard, there are plenty of choices.

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[quote=Mountain Man][quote=mattaraxia]

Quoting: TuxeeI have yet to understand the usefulness of lighting with opaque keycaps...

(Apart from that I wouldn't like the cursor keys arrangement and the lack of a proper ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdown block.)

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: mattaraxia

Quoting: TuxeeI have yet to understand the usefulness of lighting with opaque keycaps...

(Apart from that I wouldn't like the cursor keys arrangement and the lack of a proper ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdown block.)

It's actually really great. When you hit either function key to activate another layer, just the keys active in that layer light up, with a different color for each layer.

(I have the first gen launch, and love it so much I registered just to answer that question.)

The complaint is not about the RGB lightning but that the keycaps are not shine through, so you can't see the legends in the dark. The key caps also appear to be a non-standard size, so you can't replace them with something off the shelf.

No I get that, that's the point. I'm not sure how to put this that doesn't sound a bit snarky, but I thought it was implied -- people who need to see the keys to type aren't exactly this keyboard's target audience. I interpreted Tuxee's point as, given that, why bother with lighting?

It's a really niche device. It's ok if it's not for you. I can hit the key I want just as well blindfolded (it does have old school little ridges to help you find the home row) but it is sometimes nice to visually see what layer I'm on.

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