Quoting: blaeNot to rain on anyone's parade, but Slimbook is still just an ODM reseller right? Do anyone know what make this is? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'd wish there were more companies like Framework that actually designs their own laptops.

Framework doesn't just design laptops.
It designs components.

Asus designs laptops(POWER BUTTON IN THE MIDDLE).

Laptop design is plugging existing components together in new and interesting ways. They're basically prebuild pc companies for laptops.
Thanks to chip unification(Lunar Lake, M1, integrated graphics, etc.) innovation is really hard hard in this space.

As such you will find that the most innovative laptop designers are often also component designers: framework, mnt, etc.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksI find it funny how Nintendo ends up getting blamed in the comments somehow. Could you imagine the PR nightmare it would cause if they were found out? Nintendo isn't stupid enough to do something like this. Even if some of their actions (especially as of late) have been questionable. I'm not saying that a big company isn't or couldn't be behind this. I'm just saying that I highly doubt Nintendo would be the ones to do so.

Then as far as it possibly being a false flag to cause Palestinians further issues. I could see that. Seeing as how petty western imperialist countries can be with their bullshit, actions, and propaganda.

How would they be found out? Whoever did it could have paid a hacker, who could have been in a differrnt country AND using proxy

I can totally imagine someone like Nintendo who dont always play by the rules to do this.

I assume huge companies would attack Internet Archive with their huge lawyer armies. Legal battles can have lasting effect on how the Internet Archive works.

Wasn't this tried a few times by now?

A. It's currently in one and it's losing.
B. Yeah, some more successful than others.

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Quoting: LoudTechieI'm still curious what took them so long.
It's not chip restrictions, it's not copyright law, it probably isn't wiretapping law and it isn't the market.
Does Australia have some product safety law it failed to meet, such as "all gaming consoles should have minimally EAL5 rated hardware."
Could it be Chinese import/export restrictions.
The closest I get is that it's according to the american government [External Link] a "small competitive market", but that applies to a lot of their already released countries.
:huh:

I didn’t see a proper response.. I might have missed it though. We have strong consumer protections here, and Valve doesn’t always see eye to eye with how our laws work. That’s been the prevailing theory.

That was my assesment as well.
"Does Australia have some product safety law it failed to meet".
A problem with that one is that I a. couldn't find any consumer protection law that applies to the SteamDeck in Australia, that doesn't apply in the very first countries it released the thing, b. the same general logic is true for the entire European zone(they also all have national consumer protection laws you can still violate even if you obey the EU treaties).

Australia does have unique laws like "pay publishers if you want to copy their work", but I couldn't find one that applies to the SteamDeck(except for the Steam Store part, but the Steam Store is already in Australia).

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Quoting: tfkLame. Don't they realize that archive.org is fighting for our right for free information. That probably includes them.

There're those for who freedom is a threat and those who view it as a weapon.
You can't host any sizable humanitarian effort without harming someone's power.
The mere fact that you're sizable is enough to get enemies(looters).
The mere fact that you're helping people is enough to take you down for some.

Well they're still bastards. :angry:

Cyber criminals tend to fall within less agreeable parts of the general population.
I say selection bias.

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Quoting: pbI just wonder why did 31 million people need an account on archive.org. Genuinely wonder, because I've been using it (occasionally) for 25 years and never needed an account. :huh:

According to their website you can borrow different kinds of media with it. [External Link]
Archive.org has a bunch of deals(and won trials) with publishers of more heavily copyrighted works that allow them to do restricted user distribution of those works like a library with physical books.
Since Corona they're actually in hot water about that, because back than they suddenly let everybody at once use these media files(without permission).

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Quoting: CatKillerDo we know if they're partnering with someone, or doing it themselves?

Probably not.
I honestly don't know, which dorpbear Valve had to kill, but since their release misses any reference to their future partners and such releases are prime real estate for partnership announcements I feel safe to assume that they're not partnering with anybody except Australian quality control.

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Quoting: tfkLame. Don't they realize that archive.org is fighting for our right for free information. That probably includes them.

There're those for who freedom is a threat and those who view it as a weapon.
You can't host any sizable humanitarian effort without harming someone's power.
The mere fact that you're sizable is enough to get enemies(looters).
The mere fact that you're helping people is enough to take you down for some.

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Quoting: _MarsI don't follow the project too closely but it's always exciting to see just how much it improves in such a short time. Not to mention how this will contribute to general ARM (or even other architectures) improvements.

The ever increasing power requirements for modern GPUs (the GTX 1080 only needed 180 W) makes me more interested in the developments in integrated graphics and ARM improvements. I could see myself getting an used Mac Mini in a few years or we maybe finally get some good competition in that space.

Thanks to the arts of open source and software abstraction it has improved all c supported architectures and software that runs on Apple Silicon.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualDarn. Now I can't comment anything in the Steam Deck posts anymore.

Until November you still can and it's still not a truly global release.

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Having read her post.
I'm getting really curious how well Windows on Arm binaries fare on Asahi Linux.
She emulated the moon out of it, but in theory that could get better.

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