A small fix for the Steam Deck screen

Not even out yet, and already getting fixes in the Linux kernel! :grin:

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Quoting: MohandevirIs there such a thing as a gamer that doesn't have a Steam account nowadays?! :grin:

There must be, or Steam wouldn't keep breaking its own total users records repeatedly. :wink:

(I personally didn't get a Steam account until 2011, after I'd moved away to college and had internet faster than dial-up and could actually do luxurious things like download an entire game :woot: in less than two weeks of tying up the landline, so who knows how many people even now are still discovering the joys of a fast internet connection? :smile:)

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Another interesting question is, how many people not currently on Steam will be buying a Steam Deck?

(Yeah, I know you need an account to pre-order it at the moment, but that might not always be the case whenever Valve is finally able to get on top of supply issues. And people could always get an account in the future after it's released and they've seen reviews/demonstrations from a friend/etc.)

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I've never played The Sims personally, only knowing about it second-hand from Let's Plays and the like, but this feels like watching it run through some sort of pixel-art retro shader. :grin:

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Quoting: ShmerlIn regards to future proofing - hard to say. On one hand you don't want to change monitors often. On the other hand they do improve gradually. I think the most practical is to have a monitor that's somewhat better than you current GPU can saturate. So over a few GPU upgrades it will sync up. But not too much better. Since by the time that will sync up, new monitors at that time will be better in some other ways too.

Thanks, some good advice. I'll have to think some more about what I want to get. :smile:

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Very interesting discussion of framerates! I'm starting fresh on monitors this coming year (after moving internationally and passing on my old one), and I was thinking of making the jump from 60 Hz to something higher like 144 Hz. After reading this discussion, might it be worth going even higher (like 240 Hz, say) as a sort of future-proofing? (I'm planning on using whatever monitor I get for as many years as possible.) Variable-refresh rate would be a given, which I gather should smooth over issues where I can't actually reach the maximum possible FPS, right?

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Mele Kalikimaka from Hawaii!

All I want for Christmas this year is for the ship with my gaming rig (and the rest of my stuff being moved) on it to hurry up and get processed at Los Angeles, so it can get redirected to me out here in the Pacific so I can stop gaming on this crappy MacBook Pro and get back to gaming on Linux! :happy:

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Quoting: feaneronOBS Studio is the first application in history to publish directly from GitHub to Flathub.

Huh! That's really interesting.

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This means Intel joins the ranks of AMD, NVIDIA, AWS, Epic MegaGrants, Unity, Facebook and Decentraland at the same level (with many more in lower funding levels).

Wouldn't that be Meta? :wink:

But seriously, that's great news.

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Quoting: zen_xenoHave you seen the amount of robotics Valve invested in to manufacture the controllers? It was a lot. [External Link] They didn't make that investment without a long term goal in mind. Those manufacturing robots can be reconfigured to assemble a new controller with different parts. Honestly, watch the video, it's cool.

How have I never seen this video!? That's amazing! :woot: And I love the Aperture logos on the machines. :grin:

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