Their keyboards are a low quality plastic that shine after use and really wear and tear hard.

As someone who has the money to virtually buy anything the "Visual Coolness" factor of Razer is the only appeal IMO. I am convinced their prepherals are close to shit.

I write this on a Ducky next to a DeathAdder Elite and let me tell you it has had all kinds of USB errors clogging up my DMESG -- it was worth the sale price of $30 I paid for it but my BenQ ZOWIE FK1 honestly outshines it in all mechanical areas other than visually.

Considering their laptops I assume are Nvidia only, that would be a strong reason for me also to not buy their products considering the AMD graphics are just so much nicer to use on Linux aswell.

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Hella awesome!

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As a consumer I have learned to fear late software updates.

On iPhone and Android it means they are zapping your phones speed to get you to buy a new product.

After buying a Nvidia GTX 970 and the lawsuit over false advertising on the GDDR capacity and speed I'm not optimistic.

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These Xen Chapter screenshots are basically half-life-porn. I'm in my playthrough right now so this is great news, only had one choppy moment at the helicopter overworld hanger scene. (edit: prior to the update)

This game is a masterpiece, major props for the developers for putting in the work for us and SteamOS.

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Quoting: subHas somebody already coined a term like greenwashing - just FOSS-related?

You hit the nail on the head. Greenwashing is genius. I have to admit in a smaller way I too have incentivized many projects by throwing some coin their way. Though admittedly not at the 25,000 greenwash pricetag.

(The other suggested terms don't work because green is synonymous with money and washing is synonymous with having a effect on -- therefore using money to get reciprocal benefit for specific features or favor/s. It's just conditioning using money.)

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Quoting: Desum

Quoting: linuxcityredream only costs $5 if you want hd,its still free.well worth it and i paid the $5 seeing it runs mostly all the games i want.

Proprietary emulation is really not a thing we should be encouraging. Flycast is doing more good work with this and the OSS bios replacement anyway.

Agree. We should throw money at them in donation form, not purchase form.

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I would like to see Feral ninja some Stadia ports since most of the work is already done. Maybe they can play devil's advocate and even do games for Stadia and Linux to infuse their cash budget, gain more popularity and steamroll even more game development/ports to both platforms.

Contracts should include and require agreement to distribute on both Platforms (which incidentally are both Linux)

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The Engineer/Designer "hat" inside me is really bothered by this picture.

The black label strip is out of alignment too far to the left.

Text alignment of each label looks like it was spaced out in Microsoft Word using spaces between labels instead of measured and aligned to the center of each port in Photoshop like any sane designer would do.

The USB ports are blue completely ruining the aesthetic.

The mesh material behind the grille just looks like regular grid mesh you would find at your local hardware store.

The USB ports are vertically aligned slightly above the HDMI port which is above the Ethernet port.

I'm not as much informed about the AC ports but I am beginning to wonder if it's wonky too

I mod my own 5 volt power switches and do other mods so these little oddities just stand out and confound me.

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Quoting: wvstolzingI remember reading an article a few years ago, which predicted that once raytracing of this sort becomes mainstream, and our eyes get used to it, even the cutting edge billion dollar production George Lucas CGI from the early 2000s will start to look like N64 graphics to us -- with all the shortcuts and brain-duping tricks they had to implement with the lighting -- not to mention games from earlier eras.

I mean not really, it already looks like crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaK6ZlicwZE [External Link]

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I hope it fails because I expect governments to create gaming time laws to limit players from playing as they choose.

Singular centralized services are also more vulnerable than spread out in other ways.

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