So, what you're saying is that it's time for another playthrough

I just bought this for my shiny, new Steam Deck, so I'm up for this.

On my 'PlayStation' consoles, I've put over 10,000 hours into this game (and then some)!

I wish they'd make the 'multiplayer' component available for the Steam version though; that'd be fantastic.

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However, if you're on a SteamOS-like distribution, you might need to tell the game you're not on a Steam Deck, otherwise it will give you low visuals.

Wait, so it's lowering the graphics settings when run on a Steam Deck?

I can appreciate that a Steam Deck is not going to be as powerful as my laptop... But this implies that the game is going to look like rubbish on my Steam Deck and if that's the case, I will probably give this game a miss for the foreseeable future.

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Everyone's raving about Palworld, including at my workplace it would seem, as they were talking about it today... But I really wish they'd work on Steam Deck support.

I'm not gonna lie, I'm certainly keen to pick this up; but whilst there's so many issues with the Steam Deck, which seem to come and go with each update / upgrade of Palworld, I just can't justify it.

So I'll continue to sit here and grumble, until Pocketpair "pull their thumb out" and work on Steam Deck support... If they actually put some effort in (to Steam Deck support), I'll probably even wait until it's not on sale to buy the game (it costs me more, but it's my way of "thanking" developers for Linux or Steam Deck support).

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Oh, this looks awesome... I especially like the Firewatch-like art style!

This is on my "wishlist" now, and as long as it supports the Steam Deck, I'll pick it up. :wink:

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Wild to see the Playdate still plugging away with 1% of the dev numbers.

Are they referring to that crowd-funded thing with the crank, as well as a black and white screen? That is pretty wild, considering how basic the device is!

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It's part 2, of what will be a trilogy.

This.

They're remaking the original 'Final Fantasy VII' from scratch; but due to the scope of the project, cough cough a convenient excuse to make more money cough cough they decided to do it as a trilogy of three titles instead of just one title.

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I'm not gonna lie, this looks kinda cool... Hopefully they officially support the Steam Deck, when the game is finally released.

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If this thing could also make phone calls out of the box without an external attachment I'd buy it and ditch my old Android phone in a heartbeat.

Ditto for me (well, as long as it worked with my service provider)... To this day, my partner and my daughter think it's the funniest thing in the world as I swear at my iPhone all day and complain that I want a damn BlackBerry.

My partner reckons she'd be rich if she had $1 for every time I said "Just give me a damn BlackBerry!" every day. :grin:

Some Linux firmwares (that can be used on specific Android phones): Droidian, Ubuntu Touch, SailfishOS, PostmarketOS.

Ubuntu Touch was amazing, and I actually used it as my "daily driver" for a while.. I still have a "like new" bq Aquaris E5, which coincidentally, I charged up tonight (I pull it out of the box every six months, run it down and charge it back up again).

I'd still prefer a BlackBerry, but in the touchscreen era, Ubuntu Touch has been my favorite so far.

but boooo kickstarter yet again

I'll keep an eye on it though and see if it makes it to proper market.

Yeah, I don't do crowd-funding anymore... Too many projects "taking the money and running".

Never once did I back a project with the view of "buying" something; it was always about backing an idea that I legitimately believed in... But time after time, I watched as many projects that I backed - including some major ones - took the money and ran.

So as tempting as it is, I wait until they hit the market these days.

Option 3. You wait for StarLink Direct to Cell and either use a officially supported device, or you hope one of us makes a "Modem Wifi Brick" like in Option 1.

If this ever becomes a reality in Australia, I'll be changing my cell phone over immediately, and probably the bazillion phones on my account, too (I have all the family on my account).

I already have Starlink for my home broadband, which is fantastic by the way... I'd love to run my cell phones over the network, too.

Droidian, Ubuntu Touch, and SailfishOS each provide good interfaces for touchscreen phone use. All the basic functionality is available: Camera, Phone Calls, SMS Messaging, Internet Browsing, Media Players, Photo Gallery, Calendar, Contacts Manager, Local Weather, Ebook Readers, Calculator, and other basic software.

A lot of Android apps are just web-apps and can be replaced by engaging with a website rather than an app. As such you don't need to install certain Android apps to have access to that functionality.

This.

I was using Ubuntu Touch as my "daily driver" back in ~2017 and whilst it wasn't as polished as Google Android (which is what I came from), it was pretty good... Usage times weren't too bad and most stuff could be replicated via a web site.

There were some holes in the functionality of course, but they weren't so enormous that the phone was unusable.

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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Tizen... Isn't that Linux-based?

Even more surprising is the fact that Samsung haven't pushed this (Tizen) harder... The market is effectively Apple or Samsung these days, so they definitely have the market share to push back against Google and go out on their own.

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So the incompetent developers are lazy and have absolutely no confidence in their own product... Got it. :wink:

Kernel level anti-cheat is just a silly idea, and it's not bullet proof even on Windows.

100%.

Only the other day I was reading that a guy participating in Fortnite: Battle Royal's professional tournaments was suspected of cheating.

So clear it's no better under Microsoft Windows-based operating systems.

This is just developers being incompetent and lazy.

Real anti-cheat should be server based, and should depend on a combination of AI + game recordings + community reporting + human reviews. That's the way to do real anti-cheat systems; anything sitting on the user's computer is breakable.

Exactly.

The problem is, companies like Epic Games don't want to spend the money on that sort of stuff... Despite the fact that in many cases, they're making big money (Fortnite: Battle Royal alone is making billions a year!).

They would still have the regular open Steam OS to dual boot, but if you want to play a certain game that is blocked on open Linux you just reboot into the locked version.

This is actually a clever idea, and one that I would be open to... I wonder if Valve Software have considered doing something like this?

All they'd need to do is have a "hardened" mode that severely restricts what can or can't be done on the Steam Deck (e.g. restricts the user to only the software installed via the Steam Store), and force it to be a completely isolated instance (i.e. so that the desktop is inaccessible, and there is no way to run external software)... Problem solved!

Overnight, it'd instantly open up some of the biggest games for SteamOS, which would likely increase its marketshare tenfold.

You could argue that this is too much control or not enough "openess"; but I think the ends justify the means and if this is going to get more online multiplayer games available on the Steam Deck (particularly bigger titles like Fortnite: Battle Royal), then it's a win for everyone.

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Still waiting on my console-like Steam Machine... After getting a Steam Deck for Christmas, I'm convinced that a console-like Steam Machine will be perfect for my next console.

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