It seems like everyone's getting "Embraced" these days.

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Quoting: damarrinIt does? I'd say the backlash Ayaneo received from "Windows fans" explains the Ayaneo stuff. I'm sure an immutable system would have been more beneficial for them.

I wonder if there was really a backlash from many people or just a few loud people on Ex-Twitter.

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Quoting: fenglengshunAt that point just use Universal Blue's Bazzite. The devs has much clearer track records and works together with various other project. Plus, you can easily clone a repo where you can layer in your own packages and user files to pack into a custom image of your own.

I literally just installed Bazzite yesterday. I'm done with HoloISO and won't be going back.

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Quoting: TactikalKittyCan anyone explain what this means or does:
Enable VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux

While the Remote Play client has supported VA-API video acceleration for a good while, this is about making use of it in DRM mode (Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital Rights Management) instead of relying on the older X11 interface. Seems like a necessary step towards better native Wayland support.

Aside from future Wayland support, does it provide any visual or performance improvements?

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Quoting: DrNickHonestly, it's not worth getting involved with most of the chinese handhelds. Ayaneo especially have terrible customer service.

So, Asus and Lenovo are both Chinese as well. Is their customer service also bad, or is it only worth mentioning it's Chinese if it's bad?

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Honestly, I don't know that companies would even verify patches on every console if the consoles didn't require them to. You'd be surprised how often IT companies are willing to cut corners. As much as I hate to praise Microsoft, I think Bethesda is actually doing their Starfield patches the right way, releasing them as opt-in Beta first.

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It amazes me that executives keep falling for this. The marketing for these DRM companies must be brilliant. They prey on fear, and the craziest part is, it doesn't even benefit the game companies.

Inevitably, the "pirates" crack the DRM, so the only people DRM ends up hurting are the paying customers.

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Quoting: soulsourceI'm a bit torn on this one. On the one hand it looks really interesting. On the other hand it's €20 that will be spent on nothing once it gets pulled from Steam because of (rightful) copyright claims by The Pokémon Company...

What copyright claim would Nintendo have?

I would guess that they would argue that the "pals" are derivative Pokémons.

Being derivative isn't copyright infringement. They would have to have the same characters, use the same character names or use the actual code from a Pokemon game. Copyright law isn't like trademark law where a company can claim another's logo is "too close" to their own. In copyright it literally has to be a copy, and you also can't copyright ideas. That's why Transformers and GoBots have existed in the same world for decades and there are tons of Pokemon lookalikes.

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People comfortable with not owning their music and movies are people who don't find them valuable (and possibly for good reasons). When people do find value in them, they still want to own them. I have a daughter who buys physical copies of her K-Pop albums, even sometimes in vinyl, because it's more than just a listening experience for her. People who are really into gaming, especially on PC, expect more than just the basic game. That's why the modding community is so huge. You take that away, and you lose a lot of people.

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Quoting: LoudTechieI'm actually quite impressed.
With both Liam and Ayeneo.
Liam got himself taken seriously as an industry voice.
Ayeneo didn't only undercut Valve, but did so while keeping it future proof.
I does cost some qualities and new technologies, but only on this forum we've already seen some protest to them.

I think we all know Liam's the GOAT. :grin:

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