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Quoting: KithopYeah no, not after this fiasco: link [External Link]

Not trusting any of their newer hardware on my home network.

I'm typically on the fence on these kinds of issues.

FTA: " designed in-house in the UK"

IIUC for context it sounds like they must be a UK cop.

The UK is "interesting..." and UK cops are pretty infamous. I really think the UK is parasitized by other governments as their actions typically would appear to advance ulterior party's agendas.

If anyone knows of any similar open hardware where the chips aren't trademark secret blob code let me know -- I'd love to find a winner in this SBC space.

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Quoting: ArehandoroI like the update, but I honestly think they'd be better off removing microsd and adding ssd.

Let's hope they have reserved enough bandwith for a SSD expansion module. It makes sense to keep microsd for those who want to run it fanless.

It sounds like their MicroSD is faster, but is it as fast as the Steam Deck? I forgot the tag for the new tech -- I thought it was "II".

I do agree, (at least for me personally,) I would have gladly traded for a m.2 2230. Maybe it's not small enough? The microSD feels like a relic from times past, still I see their thought process in if it's not broke, don't fix it -- because fans are used to it.

But for me personally, as a potential new fan, I'm not drawn to it without being able to have a 2230 really.

I've checked by now and you can easily connect a SSD via PCIe with 500Mb/s bandwith, so it's really a non-issue. MicroSD slots are cheap and I understand keeping it. SSDs take a lot more energy and produce a lot more heat. Expect 3rd parties to boast special cases for SSD usage. If you want to run your Pi as cool as possible, MicroSD is still the way to go.

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Quoting: Arcadius-8606This is my desktop of choice for the last few years. I will update my HTPCs and sell these Pi4s.

What distro are you running to use Pis as a desktop replacement? I'm usually on Arch derivates, but I fear not everything will be readily available, especially from AUR and flathub.

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Quoting: ArehandoroI like the update, but I honestly think they'd be better off removing microsd and adding ssd.

Let's hope they have reserved enough bandwith for a SSD expansion module. It makes sense to keep microsd for those who want to run it fanless.

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Quoting: PenglingGood to see, but not for me - they make great hardware (though the RPi4 ran astonishingly hot, and I can't imagine how hot the RPi5 will run!), but I'm just not a fan of how they've traditionally handled the software side.

They lost me after automatically trusting a Microsoft repository with zero information, interaction, or permission as part of a standard apt update, and then told those who were concerned that it was for their own good and they were spreading FUD by being concerned about it, before removing posts about it altogether.

Don't know about any of that, but guess you wouldn't make that up.
What holds me back is that I bought quite a lot of pis over the years and hardly used them. There are quite a lot of ideas what I want to do with them, but I hardly find energy to do such things these days. Also, some of my old devices crash quite often, even though I use official plugs and solid, expensive cases. With my SteamDeck handling emulation better then they ever could, I don't know why I'd need a pi with such power. Maybe as a secondary PC when I need to boot Windows on my desktop for work or VR... but only after a modern distribution is available.

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Hope they sent a prototype to the box86 devs :D

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Quoting: Jpxe

Another blog post from Graham also goes over what's really going on with Wayland, that's worth a read, giving a bit of a quick history lesson and going into where things stand right now including some issues it has noting that KDE, Valve and Blue Systems have been funding work to improve various areas.

This blog post was a great read. The future looks bright for Wayland, finally. Does someone know if there still are issues with nvidia on Wayland or has that been sorted out?

only issues i have had with wayland on nvidia is with discord and vivaldi. for vivaldi it was issues with xwayland. i had to turn on an experimental setting for it to use wayland and that fixes most of the issues. for discord it also has issues with xwayland but will randomly crash using wayland. there is other occasional weird graphical glitches but nothing major

What generation of Nvidia? I tested after everyone said "it kinda works on Nvidia by now" and it was horrible. KDE messed up my screen dimensions, so the panels and fullscreen windows would not allign with the screens. Everything was flickering and resizing like crazy. Colors were wrong and - again - flickering. A whole mess and potentially hazardous for people with special conditions.

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Quoting: elmapulcouple can mean 2, or mean a few, a lot...
i hope they wait at least 5 years, but the competition surely is making some pressure with their marketing, the fact that people dont know how good the UX is until they experience it help nothing.

Quoting: BotonoskiPerhaps if projects like Box86 improve, they can make a Deck lite running off ARM. Something smaller, passively cooled, super battery life, focused on being a handheld Steam Link but fully capable of playing PC games from at least the 2010s.
That's under the assumption ARM is more power efficient than modern x86_64 processors, not sure if that's actually true anymore I haven't really looked into the subject much and AMD really seems to be absolutely killing it in the erea of power efficiency
I anticipate the Deck will become at least 5 years old before they really start considering a full on Deck 2 in any case.

its still more efficient, otherwise apple wouldnt make m1, but the issue is emulatiog another arch while being more efficient at the same time? doubt it.

Are there ARM chips in the league of M1 available to anyone but Apple by now? Afaik, there is nothing in that league, especially with the optimizations for x86 emulation, like register handling in hardware. Box86 certainly is impressive, but hardware support is hardware support.

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Quoting: LanzThe current generation of GPUs (RDNA 3) and CPUs (Zen 4) really aren't an impressive leap over the generation the Steam Deck has (RDNA 2 and Zen 3), so I think Valve is smart to wait. Both AMD and nVidia are experiencing lackluster sales this generation, so it would seem the market as a whole looked at the upgrades on offer and went "meh."

As I have real problems destingushing between videos with or without pseudo-raytracing applied, I can really relate to this. At the moment, I'm looking for an upgrade for VR only, yet I'll absolutely wait till I know what Deckard will be.

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Quoting: PhlebiacHopefully these devs (and others) make an effort towards native Linux versions as part of their switch to Godot.

AFAIK it's much easier to make a linux version of a game with Godot than with Unity3D.

At the very least there will be less linux-specific bugs in the native linux versions of games that opt for it. Unity was notoriously terrible in this regard and while the situation improved over the years it never got solved entirely.

IIRC Godot made also made it pretty easy to pack up android versions of games for testing and final deployment (I read an article once a couple years ago about how it works and why it was unusually easy), so mobile game devs might enjoy jumping ship more than they expected.

From my experience, it's not even comparable. Godot always handled Linux as a first class citizen, pretty much everything was always the same. Unity on Linux? Patched up system, horrible error messages and even if a dev has a Linux environment for QA, debugging a Linux build is not straight forward at all.
Also, Unity is hardly used as a vanilla environment. Additional middleware has always been it's strength and a lot of that middleware is not or badly supported on Linux.

Thinking about it... I wonder what Unity middleware devs will do now..

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm actually starting to feel sorry for some other open source projects that don't have as much name recognition and momentum as Godot. Everyone's reacting by supporting Godot (and in Terraria's case, FNA, which is cool) but Liam had an article listing quite a few other alternatives, some of which are both open source and seem pretty neat, and I hope some of those get a bit of love too.

Godot is simply the most feature-complete alternative we have with a license that attracts developers, especially those who were hurt by Unity. FNA also has a clear target with legacy game support. If I was a dev considering porting old Unity games to anything else in the future, Godot would be kind of obvious.
Let's hope the timing is right. Like always, Godot is currently working on some critical areas that aren't just nice to haves. The new physics plugin shows great potential, but is not really ready for prime time. Performant VR with Godot is an art in itself (though Unity itself wasn't up with Epic, either). In short term, all the money could even stall development while figuring out new staff and priorities.

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