Quoting: skaplonNetwork with a Realtek card
Got so many problems with realtek, from plain not working to slow as molasses so many times on linux
Off course they have testing and making sure this one is good but is hard to get away from recent bad experience with it

I miss 3Com....

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: devland

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThat's not how hacking works?!

"hacking" has multiple meanings depending on the context.

to hack
verb
1. cut with rough or heavy blows.
"hack off the branches and let them fall to the ground"
synonyms: cut, chop, hew, lop, saw, slash
2. gain unauthorized access to data in a system or computer.

For sure there are other meanings, like modifying someone else's designs (hardware or software).
Of course there is also calling someone a hack. Use as a noun. 😀

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: stylonHi,

Thanks for this article (and the Youtube video) it was super helpful. Like many people I've just got a Steamdeck so this is my very first experience with Linux. I installed Prey off the Epic game store using Heroic and apart from the odd stutter it works like a charm. However I also installed MechWarrior Mercenaries which fails to load at all even though it listed as being Platinum on the compatibility list.

This is the error: 'The following components are required to run this program: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime'. Like I said I'm completely new to Linux so don't know where to even start to fix this. If anyone can give me any pointers it would be much appreciated, thanks.

I have not tried Heroic myself, but this usually means it needs to figure out which Microsoft components need to be installed for Wine to work. Maybe ping the Heroic developers to have their scripts setup for it?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

That is a weird, random one to target. This day and age it is no longer paranoia, someone is out to hack you.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Funny thing is, with the Deck I can now waste hours of my life playing through my Steam library rather than watching Netflix!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Mountain ManThe worst part of the video for me was watching him put his thumb in the path of the razor blade. He was just asking to badly cut himself!

Ha, the one I watched of the S8 Ultra+ tablet... he flexed it and the case came apart just enough on the edges to snag the skin on his thumbs and bite him. It struck back from the abuse!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Purple Library GuyHuh. When I saw the headline, I assumed he'd have some way to simulate lots and lots of hard use--some way to do thousands upon thousands of hard "steer left" moments in a short time, sort of thing. From the comments, I'm guessing that wasn't what was happening.

That said, this isn't entirely pointless. Take for instance my laptop. I have a laptop with an SSD and a metal shell, precisely because I tend to clumsily drop it or knock it off the wide flat chair arm I often put it on, and I wanted something that would not die when that happened. The metal at one corner in particular is now rather crumpled, but that doesn't seem to have done anything except made charging a little fiddly. So yes, it's useful to me to know how equipment will take being dropped from waist height, for instance. Still . . . I'm not gonna be watching this.

Gravity is so weird some times. I dropped a tank of a LCD monitor once when I was trying to move it. It hit just right and it crumpled like if I were punched in the gut by Tyson... Shame too, as it was a pretty decent monitor that supported 15khz.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: rcritI suppose at least some of the parts are replaceable but I don't know what the purpose of scratching everywhere was. It's obviously all the same material (e.g. he could have just scored the back and made his point). Knowing that the buttons won't wear out and that some are covered with stickers is actually useful information, but defacing it and making instant e-waste seemed pointless.

His entire channel is dedicated to testing whether or not devices will fall apart, scratch, etc. I couldn't watch this one past him taking out the razor blade and scratching the case up...

I watched the one where he did his tests on the Samsung S8 Ultra (which is currently about as unobtainium as the Deck) and it was a horror show.. but it did show that it doesn't bend as easily as you'd think it would, and it 'bit' his finger tips when he tried!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: fagnerlnGoG made a "giveaway" with this game, but I didn't play it yet (like 90% of the giveaways on GoG).

It looks cheap, but interesting, I'll check it sometime

My Bro and I played through it on the PS4. Holy crap it is hard, and has multiple endings, etc. It is a tad buggy though, so hopefully they fix that. It very much plays like Dark Souls.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

This sounds pretty fun! But I really need to finish some games before I buy new ones... not to mention finish other projects... need more free hours in the day.

View this comment - View article - View full comments