I know there are people for whom "will make you curse at the screen" would be a selling point. Trying to figure out if I'm one of them. Leaning towards not.

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Quoting: whizseYeah, IPP Everywhere supposedly solves all these issues, but I haven't tried it for myself yet. People keep giving me their old "broken" printers so I never buy anything new.

Ha, I've legit bought new printers because the ink cartridges for my current one cost more than buying a new printer. And as I rarely printed things before, the ink cartridges would dry up because I'd not leave the printer on (printers do a cycle that keep the ink cartridges clean and then you run out of ink anyhow...)

Finally gave up and bought a laserjet.

That is exactly the kind of reason I went laser. Dust doesn't usually dry out.

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Quoting: scaineWow, August shot past! I think I ended up playing games more than talking about games this month, which is a nice reversal. Also, debunking all the terrible Steam Deck articles in the wider press - always fun.

Looking at that roundup, it's been a big month.
Ah, I don't read that wider press . . . I don't suppose you could do an article some time sort of giving an overview about what the reception of Steam Deck has been like?

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Quoting: kaimanThat's actually a failed Kickstarter from 2016. Quite happy to see it being released regardless, and with support for Linux no less! Was really disappointed that it didn't get much attention back then (though I guess I would have been even less happy had it taken 5 years to make after a successful campaign).

I suppose there's a decent chance that if they'd had some kickstarter money to live on they could have taken time off day jobs and written it faster.

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Quoting: sudoerTo be honest, I never quite liked that oversaturation of purple everywhere.

Gee, maybe it's time I gave an Arch variant a chance. :wink:

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Intel say that when compared with the Skylake generation, their new Efficient-core will deliver 40% more performance at the same power in single-threaded applications or the same performance with 40% less power consumption.

So they compared Gen12 (Alder Lake) with Gen6 (Skylake). Yikes! :dizzy: Only a 40% improvement over 6 generations! :dizzy:

The doubling thing definitely died some time ago now.

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Gotta say, that trailer was pretty funny.

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Finally some circuses to go with the bread!

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Quoting: BielFPsSo the best and safer way they can boycott other systems is hide behind patent-protected tech like Media Foundation, and this is worse than relying on open source conversion layer like wine.

Microsoft doesn't really care for wine.

Microsoft cares for market share. So do I. If Wine gets us market share, or rather is a factor in getting us market share, everything else can follow. The Steam Deck makes this quite likely right now. On the other hand, if we don't get market share, GNU/Linux gaming and innovation in same won't be going anywhere much anyway.

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Say, that NetMarketShare link says they've quit as of October 2020. Maybe that 1.79% is old numbers?

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