As someone that never had a game console, I was completely stumped when God of War said I should press "RS".
Nothing was labeled "RS" physically on the device or even in the steam input configurator.

Turns out it was pressing the right stick down.

These kinds of things may be taken for granted by someone that's used to a controller, but it certainly caused me a lot of grief.

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There are many VPN technologies, did they ship all the NetworkManager plugins?
There are many that I know of:
vpnc, fortisslvpn, libreswan, strongswan, L2TP, OpenVPN, PPTP, SSTP, WireGuard, SSH, Iodine
(and more)
You could probably connect to most VPN's if you only have:
vpnc, strongswan, L2TP, OpenVPN, SSTP, WireGuard

I know the NetworkManager wizard allows me to setup any vpn type without having the plugin installed. When trying to use it, however, it then complains that plugin isn't installed.
I hope they disabled the wizards for the plugins they don't ship.

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I preordered a week ago, and they are already shipping mine to me. The backlog isn't that long anymore.
At least for a 256GB unit in the UK.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: grigiWhat is FlickStick?

It's a control scheme where the right stick, instead of controlling both pitch and yaw, just controls yaw. The 360° of the stick represent the 360° of rotation for the player character, so one can either rotate the stick to turn the character or just push the stick to, say, six o'clock to snap to facing that direction. You would typically combine it with gyro controls to give you pitch control and fine aiming control.

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you for explaining it. A way of trying to make thumbsticks compete with the response times of a mouse.

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What is FlickStick?

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Look at the lines under the rake

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I think you missed his point. You have what you have, especially as a kid. And you don't really care about sales as its mostly a learning/showing-off thing at that stage.

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I started coding on an NEC V20. It had way more power than I could utilize for years. Glorious 10MHz 640KB pc with a 10MB MFM drive that made bloopy noises as it operated.
Nostalgia is a great thing.

The notebook I gave my kids is... a decade old. It "works" though. A Deck would pretty much quadruple processing power over it though :whistle:

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My current notebook is nearly perfect for except for one really, really big issue:
It doesn't suspend/resume reliably. Not even under windows. And MSI never released a single firmware update for it. EVER.

If this one had the new 6700U instead (mostly faster GPU) I would really consider getting it. But the 5700U's gpu performance is too much of a downgrade for me. (Coming from a 4800H CPU + 5600M dGPU)

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThey say their customers are "ecstatic with the results". Either they're exaggerating a tiny wee bit, or we have adult game developers jumping around with glee and going "OH! Oh yeah! So goood!!!" over some scheme to encumber the hats they sell with DRM.

Sadly many games designed for mobiles adopt predatory strategies, and they really don't care if the game makes you happy.
It's better if it drives your anxiety up and you spend money on some fake relief over and over again.

I'm sure those devs would be ecstatic about DRM.

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