That's very nice. But I thought the download/patch process in itself was power hungry :-). Yes, there always has to be a negative comment :-). Doesn't mean I am not thinking about getting me a hot standby steam deck. It basically replaced all my laptops and desktops for work.
I think it's several years that I've been earning money with my steam deck \0/. This can be turned into a meme somehow, but I do not have enough coffee in me to see it yet.

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It's not that they want to protect children, it's about that the UK that wants to know who the adults are. All parties in the UK are bad.
I remember a McCarthy claiming that downloading mp3 songs funds terrorism around the time that we were in Brussels protesting against software patents.
She wanted to have DPI to detect the downloading of mp3 songs.
The current "child protection" is exactly that, just they disguise it as a way to protect children.
I wonder how the UK would handle roblox? As that's a platform that can be harmful to children, unlike anything in the steam store.

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"AMD discovered several transient scheduler attacks"
Nice... Assigned CVE and all, disclosed and fixes.
This feels like AMD gained another round of trust.

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It's not just about games...
When MasterVolt pulled the plug out of the cloudservice of the Web soladin 1500, a month later my solar panels stopped producing.
It should be illegal that if you buy something, that it requires the cloud to be functional.

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\0/
My deck is docked 24/6.99 as it is my work desktop.
And sometimes I take it out.
And NMC doesn't like that.
LiFePo4 also doesn't like being held at "high" voltage.

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Valve (paid programmers) fixed the drivers for my RX580 eGPU for a T430 (2012 thinkpad laptop)... I could run GTAV full screen...
I could even see the pci transaction rate.... And conclude that anything above PCIe2 single lane is overrated except for software decoded video....
This was way before even the rumors of a steam deck started...
I genuinely thought they intended to fix drivers for VR...
Unfortunately my steam machine is still a useless brick for gaming thanks to the focus on nvidia by the manufacturers...
My steam machine couldn't even serialize fullscreen (4k) without graphical glitches...
My RX580 did with ease... And even my odroid xu4 could at least drive the monitor albeit with 2.5k
Even at the time of the steam machine, AMD was the better choice and it could have helped jump start it better...

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I call this GabeN white...

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Quoting: Maxine-PieOne note on Steam licenses though that I don't think many people talk about, whenever a game or a piece of content gets removed from the steam store; you still get to keep the ability to download the thing that you bought a license for. The same can't be said for other storefronts like Amazon's, EA's or Sony's storefronts.

GOG - from what I recall - doesn't let you download content that has been removed from their storefront like how steam does, and they rely on the idea that their DRM-free policy is what makes the content always accessible to users even when they are no longer available on GOG.

If Steam dies, your access dies too to games that use steam DRM. Only those DRM free in the steam store that are downloaded already will continue to work.
If GOG dies, you get to keep your copies.
But these are the only 2 companies that I trust my money to. Now it's primarily Valve, because of everything I spend there, 30% goes to my future: valve builds on and supports a free and open world with my money. So any Valve tax goes back to me earning money with work that's just better because Valve decided to invest in projects I use. Also it sets standards for expecting things to be open instead of closed (microsoft) or extremely closed (apple).

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Quoting: Mountain ManWhich brings up an interesting legal and moral question: If I have paid for a license to download, install, and play a game on my computer, then does it really matter where I download it from?

The answer in principle is simple: yes, you are only allowed to play the game the way it is licensed to you.
You are even not allowed to circumvent any DRM that's on that game if that license tells you so.

The question is: will any judge hold you accountable for not abiding to the license? This is not a question of being legally right, a judge will also try to make it fair. In a dispute this can be holding you guilty for the act of violating the license, but making it have no consequences. Also the essence of licenses is: are you enforcing them, and if you enforce them, are you acting like a bully. That last part, the being a bully about is what gave you those consumer rights. The bigger companies are bullies because they thought they could get away with it. Nintendo is a bully, but still knows how to pose like the victim, and hence nothing in law will change.

The right to make a backup came because of bullying.
The right to reverse engineer and make compatible came because of bullying.
Even the right to repair is a movement that gets things done because they can make a clear case that the customers are the victims.

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What would be interesting is if this works better than steam on Microsoft's own arm notebooks, because the microsoft arm based notebooks are of course top of the top, just not what's running on it...

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