Quoting: BielFPs

Quoting: Purple Library GuyAll this stuff is not really subject to discussion or argument, it's just the facts.

Well it isn't me "discussing" anything about the delay, if it's about Im using plural in my original comment, it's because I'm talking about @Arehandoro not receiving neither december nor february according to him, and this is also a fact.

They've never stated months, except the initial hope of shipping before the end of the year. Unless he got spot on the very first bit of the queue, then he would never have gotten it in February. Unless of course Q1 changed Definitions; it is January-March. Since all of them were delayed, you end up with Q2 for shipping date; which would be April-June. Who knows if they can ramp up production fast enough, or it takes longer. None of us know.

But the fact remains, there has been exactly ONE delay.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: BielFPs

Quoting: slaapliedjeUhm, there has been one delay.

First was predicted to February 2022, now @Arehandoro said:

Quoting: ArehandoroMy order availability now says after Q2 2022.

The original release date was Christmas 2021.

That's their personal date, not the general release date. Everybody preordering gets a personal prediction when their respective order might actually happen.

Yeah. And lots of those were running way into 2022 even when the general release date was still Christmas. We were talking about that stuff in like the first couple of days of pre-order.

Mine went from Q1 to Q2, so one delay. I have plenty of toys to keep me distracted until it shows up anyhow. :P

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleI'm still having silly arguments with people who believe that only when 100% of your Steam library works on Linux will Linux / Steam Deck be "ready" for the masses.

Ha, I bet 100% of my library doesn't even work on Windows 10/11. Now that macOS has dropped 32bit, even a smaller amount of the Mac support software works on my m1 mac than normally would...

Let's face it, due to various people in the industry, and the moving target, some stuff simply won't run like it used to as updates come along.

All the Deck needs to be successful is 1) have the right price, 2) support the most popular games.

The thing is, even if the games all launched and worked 100%... there are PC games that simply are not playable with a gamepad / touch screen / etc. Some are just not very playable without keyboard / mouse. So everyone should keep those expectations in check (and if you're going to say 'but you can hook a keyboard/mouse up to it!' sure you can... but that totally ruins the point of it being a portable!)

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Quoting: BielFPsAll these delays

Uhm, there has been one delay.

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Gonna pick this one up on the Atari VCS when it releases there. Though will likely get it on Linux/Steam as well.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedjeAds don't make YouTube free. You pay with your time to watch them.

Sorry, this is nonsense. Nobody benefits from the time you spend there.
It's like saying "I'm paying for this free beer with the time to drink it."

I'm also using YouTube with an add blocker, but we should be honest about what we're doing there.

Ha, well it's like Netflix... sure like 80% of the stuff is just entertainment. But there are nuggets of useful things on there. I tend to watch a lot of videos on electronics repair and tech news in general. Not to mention tutorials, etc.

Then there are the ones like the rumors of what Marvel is going to do in the next few years...

But yeah, I have zero patience for advertisements. Hell, I pretty much yell 'Fuck you, Matt Damon!' every time I see that Crypto ad placed in the middle of trailers in the theater.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Creak

Quoting: slaapliedjeThe day YouTube stops working with ublock is the day I stop using YouTube. Can't stand ads...

Well, ads are the reason why Youtube is free. Have you considered Youtube Premium or subscribing to your content creators? These are the official ways to remove ads.

Ads don't make YouTube free. You pay with your time to watch them. And no, I won't give Google money, they have enough from selling everyone's data.

Don't know how anyone can stand the internet in general without an adblocker.

Frankly I think in the medium term the ad-driven internet is untenable. If nothing else, I don't think the people buying the ads are getting value for money; I've read a couple of articles arguing that.
The original, small scale internet was largely a public thing, mainly hosted by universities and offered free to their student and faculty population. When the private sector jumped on the bandwagon, everyone figured it was a big thing, but they also tended to figure "Well, we'll monetize it some way down the road" . . . in the end, for the most part nobody could find a better way than the old TV approach of selling ads (although some websites people genuinely like are making a go via stuff like Patreon) . . . basically, selling audiences to advertisers rather than content to people. That's been the default model for most media (eg print magazines and newspapers) for some time . . . but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good fit for the internet.

But, you know, allowing for the vast difference in the technology, I think in many ways the whole thing worked better when it was public infrastructure. If the ad model breaks down, say because masses of people are using adblocks, maybe it will be time to move to public models again.

Yeah, if there is a site that I visit frequently it usually is due to lack of ads, and I'll generally buy more products / give via patreon more if it keeps the ads away. I do so on this site for sure. If I see annoying ads, or the 'please turn off your adblocker' or those pop ups that won't go away unless you accept all the cookies... I just close the tab and find another source for that info.

People always argue the many Linux flavors are about choice, and I agree. So is the internet. If you find 5 different sources of the same article / subject, there is for sure at least one of those 5 that do it for the interest of the webmaster vs their intention to try to make money off of it.

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: sgtnasty369Why can't I get a pure AMD Ryzen/Radeon Linux laptop? They always have to throw in NVIDIA.
I'm so bummed.

System76 already sells this as the Pangolin:
https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin

That's still only an integrated CPU/GPU though - it's not that it uses an AMD Graphics card, it's that it doesn't have a graphics card.

Not to say the Ryzen Integrated GPU is useless by any means, but it's not as fast as the old Nvidia graphics card from my cheap, knackered 2015 laptop (though the processor is like 10x quicker, so perhaps it all balances out).

Separately, I'm still praying for someone to make a new laptop with proper physical mouse buttons under the touchpad.

The Pangolin is what I bought for my brother and the APU is fairly decent, performance wise. Seems everyone is having a hard time getting purely AMD gaming laptops though. Asus has one, but it isn't in stock anywhere...

Ha, the Pangolin's keyboard didn't work when I first got it, had to finish the set up with an external one...

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Quoting: Creak

Quoting: slaapliedjeThe day YouTube stops working with ublock is the day I stop using YouTube. Can't stand ads...

Well, ads are the reason why Youtube is free. Have you considered Youtube Premium or subscribing to your content creators? These are the official ways to remove ads.

Ads don't make YouTube free. You pay with your time to watch them. And no, I won't give Google money, they have enough from selling everyone's data.

Don't know how anyone can stand the internet in general without an adblocker.

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Quoting: prosoorYoutube is also slower on Firefox than on Chrome.
Especially on Raspberry Pi.

I mean Chome = Google, YouTube = Google... makes sense.

Quoting: M@GOidIt did for me for many years. But months ago, mainly YouTube, but also a couple other pages started to act funny. They started to load then stop, or dynamic content like comment sessions wouldn't load. Since I use about 5 extensions, took me a while testing thoroughly until I could point my finger with confidence.

It still works fine with Chromium, but since FF is my daily driver, I had to change.

The day YouTube stops working with ublock is the day I stop using YouTube. Can't stand ads...

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