The base ROG Ally X is already $1147 here in Sweden so this beefed up version will most likely be even more.

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The Twitter user forgets that Take-Two is not just the publisher for Gearbox, they are also the owner of Gearbox so Take-Two is the sole entity that determines what the price of the game is.

What several in this thread seams to miss is that games are not priced after what size the market is, what effort was put into making it or what we as gamers deserve to pay for it, it is priced after what we gamers are willing to purchase the game for and as long as millions of people are buying these games at $80 then these games will continue to be sold at $80.

Moonstone for the Amiga cost about $70 here in Sweden when accounting for inflation since 1991 and yes the vide game market was much smaller back then but then also the game was created by 6 people and took 2 years to make, meanwhile Borderlands 4 will be developed by thousands of people over several years plus that they have to employ hundreds of hours of voicework.

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That's the chain of trust. The first in the chain (Microsoft) is only responsible for their link (shim) & must ensure that vulnerable links cannot boot. That's what they've done. So it doesn't matter if the bootloader was fixed as long as the old one was still bootable, this must be prevented.

The point was that there was no vulnerability which OP claimed there was.

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To be fair here, while Microsoft dragged their feet for 9 months to improve their dual-boot detection, Linux distros dragged their feet to update the vulnerable (that is why it was blocklisted via dbx) bootloader for over 12 months.

Not true, the vulnerable bootloader was fixed ages ago, the thing was though that the blacklisted key was not in the bootloader package but in the shim and since only the bootloader was changed the shim was left untouched so when MS decided to block the old bootloader they instead blocked the shim (that was not vulnerable).

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Now, what I hope doesn't happen is that the search engine becomes policed like the UK laws that affected sites like GamingOnLinux, where forums were removed and links and replies were disabled.

It doesn't matter who runs a search engine, if a political body want's to policy it, they will. So in that regard it does not matter if you use Google, Bing or a EU funded search engine. They will all be identically policed by your local political leaders because they are the ones dictating the laws.

The difference is that on e.g a EU funded search engine you will no longer be subject to the corporate policing that you are at Google and Bing.

Hopefully this project will also bring back useful searches, e.g Google have since long abandoned yielding results for you the end user and instead focused everything on yielding results that benefits their ad revenue (which is why Google is soo much more easy to spam these days).

See e.g "How Google RUINED the Internet" by Adam Conover at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7NHABs76mg [External Link]

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Too bad they didn't add the Secret Agents game, that is the best among them.

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One wonders what would happen if Microsoft ever wised up and created a version of Windows that was specifically designed for handheld PCs.

They have tried to do so several times already, from Windows CE to Windows Phone. But IMHO their major problem is that they know that the vast amount of 3d party software is their only benefit so they must create that version in a way that supports all of the existing software which ends up being something that will require mouse and keyboard and that will be completely frustrating to use on a touch screen only device.

This is probably why they have tried to move new developers to UWP for some time now, in the hope that they one day can release a good handheld version.

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Considering their anti-consumer printer business model…

Which is a valid point if you want to punish HP the company for their unethical behaviour. If it however comes to "if they do this with printers what if they do this also with the deck" then consider that HP is a massive corporation with 58k employees so things like a handheld deck and their printers are done by completely different independent divisions (just like how Sony the movie studio, Sony the amplifier company, Sony the television company and Sony the playstation company are completely different divisions).

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I think that should be in upstream, but named as futex2.

Exactly that, fsync was unofficial patches that never made it upstream. Those patches then slowly moved to what became futex2 in the kernel since v5.16 and the fsync side in proton moved over to use the new futex2 interface in the kernel if available, but for some reason kept the name fsync in proton.

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I still have an RX 470 running because to me at least it seems there has been little improvements in the bracket below 150 W. I don't need high performance, I want better efficiency. And every generation I hope there will be something worth upgrading to.

Sounds like you don't game (at least not 3d games)? Then why not simply go with an integrated GPU in the CPU? I personally went with a Ryzen 7 5700G for my workstation at work and it supports a 4K desktop perfectly fine.

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