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FX Technology tease their upgraded screen for Steam Deck
19 May 2023 at 12:54 pm UTC

OLED is getting kinda silly cheap these days. Hopefully they can figure something out for SD2.

FX Technology tease their upgraded screen for Steam Deck
19 May 2023 at 7:43 am UTC

Quoting: scaineAt least on the top end unit, the screen is vibrant and crystal clear.
Not how I'd describe a LCD TN panel if that is what SD use.
Basically once you've used OLED, you'll never turn back. I find it VERY hard to touch my VR Pico-4 because it's clearly using some cheap LCD and the blacks are all grey. (less noticeable on handheld however)

Valve tries to improve Big Picture Mode on Linux for NVIDIA GPUs
19 May 2023 at 5:11 am UTC

Well -forcedesktopscaling #.# does work now but the UI is a bit slow and wonky with mouse click zones.

The splash and login screen can often cut off part of whats being displayed since they are sized for the original tiny DPI.

Oh and yes I believe it has crashed X11 on me a few times. Normally when shutting steam down while doing something or something... whatever. Progress is progress I guess.

FX Technology tease their upgraded screen for Steam Deck
19 May 2023 at 5:07 am UTC

I'd be happy with just a plain old 800p oled given the hardware is likely not going to be ideal at 1200p anyway so your going to be using FSR a lot.

Even for the Z1 Max chip I'd say 1080p is just fine for handheld of that performance (again OLED)

Starship Troopers: Extermination is a little janky but so much fun
18 May 2023 at 6:50 am UTC

I think they made like 4 or 5 more SS movies after the first one. They were not all bad.

European Commission approves Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
16 May 2023 at 10:15 am UTC

Quoting: Purple Library GuyNo, they just don't like monopolies, or even oligopolies. Which I'm morally certain you already knew before you asked.
Well its a bit late now isn't it. They should have complained way back when Disney and Apple started buying up the planet....

European Commission approves Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
16 May 2023 at 4:28 am UTC

Do people really love Activation and Blizzard that much?

If You Like… Diablo
15 May 2023 at 7:50 am UTC Likes: 2

There is also a couple new games coming out from lesser known studios that look amazeballz better IMO. Unfortunately I don't have link to them on YT and my brain can't retain url links or names of anything...

who am I? why am I here?

ChimeraOS 42, the Linux distro for handhelds and consoles v42 is out
13 May 2023 at 1:39 am UTC

I remember first trying this out and attempting to switch to some sort of NORMAL desktop theme, elements would not, bit trash for people who absolutely HATE NEON theming! (me)

ASUS ROG Ally releases in June priced competitively to the Steam Deck
11 May 2023 at 10:48 pm UTC Likes: 2

Still cheaper to get a Steam Deck $399usd and upgrade SSD for $50-70 since NVME/SSD suitable are getting a lot cheaper now, its not so much of a expense.

Sure you miss the etched glass but honestly I don't think its worth it given basic LCD.

Quoting: EikeAs usual... Linux is just more user friendly! :D
No it's not, but that is not the issue. Linux can be much more customized and optimized for a handheld and doesn't have MS services and DRM baked in.

Valve technically own their spin of Linux via SteamOS and no other company can come along and go, hey lets insert some analytics here and a edge advertisement here, and weather app over there... lol