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Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition gets certified for Ubuntu 22.04
22 Jul 2022 at 6:48 am UTC Likes: 2
How much VAT is there in France? The US price includes no tax, some 7-8% will be added on purchase. The € price includes the 15-20% of tax.
AYANEO to have their own AYANEO OS based on Linux
17 Jul 2022 at 9:31 am UTC Likes: 3
That's what you get for being stuck in a library all the time.
AYANEO to have their own AYANEO OS based on Linux
15 Jul 2022 at 2:36 pm UTC
Wow, this is something I did not expect.
GPD talk about 'cooperating' with Valve for SteamOS on their devices
15 Jul 2022 at 9:49 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: TheRiddickAlso sad how they HARD push windows on these devices, like are you paying $100 on top for the windows license? how that work? I don't think MS give out free copies to companies!
This is a mutually beneficial agreement, I’m sure. MS is almost certainly giving them incentives for promoting Windows at every step, like almost free MS products for their own business. They have been very good at convincing companies they absolutely need MS software to keep running their business, so the vision of losing those benefits and suddenly having to pay full price for all the software is enough to keep everyone in line.

Now that there’s some sort of competition in the form of SteamOS, MS may become a lot more aggressive in their attempts to maintain the status quo. Like, reducing the price of Windows licenses for the devices which can then be passed onto consumers. Or, more likely, which can then not be passed onto consumers.
GPD talk about 'cooperating' with Valve for SteamOS on their devices
15 Jul 2022 at 9:40 am UTC Likes: 1
Having thought about this for a bit, allow me to translate:

Valve contacted us about cooperation proposal
Valve publicly stated they’ll release SteamOS for anyone to use and for free, the morons.

Valve needs to match the appropriate Steam OS system for our 6800U handheld
Our device is so much better than the Steam Deck, it has a higher number! And SteamOS is no good for it. Since Valve are such morons, they’ll fix it up for us for free.

we will agree to this cooperation, we think this cooperation will be the best.
Hey, Microsoft, hello? So, what are you now going to do for us to keep pushing Windows for you?
Slimbook recently refreshed a bunch of their Linux laptops
15 Jul 2022 at 5:04 am UTC
Yeah, 1440x900 on a 14” screen is fine. Enabling fractional is just making your life miserable.

It’s the fault of 13-15” 1080p screens that have become so prevalent in laptops in recent years. Everyone is used to stuff being tiny. It’s not a good direction.
Slimbook recently refreshed a bunch of their Linux laptops
15 Jul 2022 at 4:27 am UTC
Yeah, fractional scaling is still less than desirable in Linux. Blurry windows, performance problems, shorter battery life.

The 14” is designed for 200% scaling and that is fine. The 16” however, is not and will require it as far as I can tell.
GPD talk about 'cooperating' with Valve for SteamOS on their devices
14 Jul 2022 at 5:58 pm UTC
As in like Valve would be paying people to put SteamOS on their devices? Yeah.
Slimbook recently refreshed a bunch of their Linux laptops
14 Jul 2022 at 4:22 pm UTC
A 16” 16:10 screen, huh. That’s pretty cool. Shame about the res, I wonder what type of fractional scaling it needs to be useable.
Unity to 'merge' with ironSource with a buzzword salad press release
13 Jul 2022 at 6:33 pm UTC Likes: 1
Is it possible Iron Source are so wealthy they’re actually buying Unity?

Edit: I’ve now read the press release a bit and clearly it’s supposedly the other way around. It’s evidently written by someone who is very happy ad-fuelled mobile gaming is where the wealth is.