I think you guys are on the money.

A future Steam Deck and even Deckard (Standalone VR Index) would logically target ARM, RISC-V or something else as (1) better battery efficiency (2) less heat produced

Who wants to have a GPU strapped to their face outputting 66 C :tongue:

I use my Steam Deck OLED every day and it's a great product, I don't personally need any better battery life than what I get but I could understand on a backpacking trip or long travel how it would be nice to get a boost.

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Here are my notes from watching the video:

[1] automated build service -- currently this is done manually by antiz, ( thank you for your service good sir)

[2] secure signing enclave -- secure signing of packages -- centralized -- (people who use arch occasionally have to reinstall `archlinux-keyring` prior to large multi-month updates) -- this singular signing key would make it unneeded to have all these updated keys to allow software installation.

[3] This is a valve freelance contract, it simply boosts team members to spend more time doing what they are already doing to reach their goals sooner and to create better versions of these build systems that are envisioned.

[4] Speculation, that architectures that may be considered, could include: x86_64v2 x86_64v3 dram risc-v, arm

[5] I was unaware but Proton is alleged as tested on ARM processors already, I would love to see/read more on this.

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Valve is logically looking to cross the next proton-esk bridge by making sure that game libraries are not limited to x86 or x86_64. (Who knows how long x86 will even be defacto.)

The timing of this is very smart as other countries are pushing competing architectures and there will no doubt be growth in the future that benefits us (the consumer).

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I was unaware of the claims made above that there are fully open source arm processors? If anyone has any good links please fill the rest of us in who don't get out of anticancer much :P

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Quoting: Cato-the-youngerI am not offended. But you dont see me calling America by AmeriKKKa, because its respectful to call countries by their names.

Unless youre a racist of course, arent very smart and fall for propaganda easily 🙂

Please stop race-baiting race-baiter,

Notice how doing so creates the Streisand Effect:

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Streisand_effect?lang=en [External Link]

Also notice the First Law of Physics. I'll let you look it up.

I am disappointed by the shame you bring to China and the billions of Chinese cosmopolitans part of "the brotherhood of man" and the "one human race" around the world through your poor behavior.

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@Cato-the-younger Request Denied.

Quoting: Cato-the-younger

Quoting: Linas

Quoting: mphuZ

Quoting: MayeulCPretty sure it's CCP for Chinese Communist Party in English

Of course not :grin:

I'm sorry, I really don't see what distinction are you trying to make here. I was simply referring to the ruling party in China. You know, the one and only.

Whats the distinction between "America" and "AmeriKKKa"? Its the same here.

Also there are about 25 parties in China

Actually there's a song about that, it's pretty good: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM [External Link]

Notice how I wasn't offended, I suggest others try it sometime.

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Quoting: mphuZNot for long. In the next 1-2 years, the Chinese will significantly completely abandon Windows (even pirated versions will be cut) and switch to HarmonyOS [External Link].

They write [External Link] that its microkernel is 3 times more efficient than Linux.

If China claimed that in the next 5 years they will land on the sun would you believe it? Talk is cheap.

Quoting: mphuZ

Quoting: MayeulCPretty sure it's CCP for Chinese Communist Party in English

Of course not :grin:

Notice how he used the words "In English". You can call it whatever you want. In any case it's the same entity it's been for the last century and changing the name is an act of censorship to expunge the events of the last 100 years from history.

But hey, we saw Chinese SARS/Influenza changed to "The Spanish Flu" in the early 1900s and Wuhan Penumonia in the 2020s quietly changed to COVID and we certainly made sure that after Greek Alphabet Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gama variants that we didn't have a Xi (She) variant even though Ebola is named after a river, and Lymes are named after a geographical location as well. I guess naming convention rules don't apply and English can be subjected to walk on eggshells of people who don't even speak it.

If you want to refer to North Korea in English as the proper name "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" -- go ahead.

Cuba refers to itself as a "People's Democracy" https://wikiless.org/wiki/Politics_of_Cuba?lang=en#Legislature [External Link]

You can call things Democracies and Republics if you want.

Many of us will not participate.

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Nintendo are cry-bullies

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: EhvisSo basically Epic is still trying to please the publishers instead of the customers while the latter is the only potential source of income.

They've been this way from the start and it's taken them nowhere so far.

( I think of Monty Python's Cheese Shop skit )

( https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A [External Link] )

They call themselves a Game Store despite not having customers/gamers to buy stuff :tongue:

Not much of a game marketplace is it?

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Epic Games reduce their cut for Unreal Engine games for same-day Epic Store launches

I'm pretty sure that is illegal and that other companies have been litigated against for this kind of thing.

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I wonder if they will ever add a horizontal or vertical scrolling to the Tiling Workspace.

I found this feature to be intuitive and groundbreaking ( https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri [External Link] )

NewM is interesting in this regard too doing "Scrolling" ( https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=dCHtwyD1wzo [External Link] )

After nearly a decade I finally understand what Gnome was "trying to" accomplish with Gnome 3. The only problem is that windows needed to not just tile left, right, and fullscreen and then scroll vertically between workspaces -- they needed more complex tiling and minimum window sizes with sizes declared by each app, and to use that in combination with tiling and scrolling.

In any case I really hope System76 and Cosmic do more groundbreaking and exciting stuff -- their work so far is impressive, refreshing and interesting

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It is nice to see Valve involved at every level of the Linux Platform. All of these improvements up and down the stack are so much more effective and optimized. It would be nice to see if Valve can solve the anti-cheat using signatures though as always I trust their intuition. They have been true stewards of the source and companions over the years.

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Quoting: elmapulits even possible to fix that without breaking the functionally of all existing printers?

Create a MITM Print Server? Maybe from a Raspberry Pi? As for how you get the files from the device to the print server -- that's up to you really.

(Of course this implies eliminating cups from all LAN devices except the print server which is connected via USB or whatever.)

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