Anyone knows if the standalone apk has an updater? Aurora Store being finnicky as it is i tend to avoid playstore stuff as much as possible...

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The drag and drop surely is nice :D

Bottles really is a nice piece of software (even though using the GTK design ;P)

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As Stadia being Linux based didn't yield the hoped for increase in (released) native versions, it's not much of a loss in my book tbh. But i must say - it's a nice move to refund everything!

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Quoting: Lightkeybut AMD is the one with the IGP advantage.

Not really, seems the iGPU is about 30% slower than the one in alder lake desktop.

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The real interesting part is not how fast they will be, but how efficient they will be once limited back to their sweet spot. The 7950 is pushed way to high stock and burns 230w, too. Limiting it to 142w only costs 5% performance, even at 88w it' still only an 18% loss.
Hopefully raptor lake will do better in that regard than alder lake...

It"s just a shame both companies feel the need to push their models over the limit just to have the longest dick on the charts...

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Woohoo - about time :D

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Portal RTX sure looks fun, but those prices and TDPs are just ridiculous...

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Even if i used windows i would do anything before i would even consider letting EA-Crapware run at Kernellevel...

Good thing they don't really have anything relevant to offer anymore that is not riddled with bullshit like microtransactions anyway...

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I wouldn't be surprised if those changes are really intended to frustrate devs of alternate clients tbh...

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Quoting: LeopardI think answer to that is easy: You can just tell them " you have a drifting problem" while you actually don't have ( btw " you " here is an example, anyone can do it ) such problem, get the parts, sell them somewhere or just stock them in case if they go drifty.

As a verification process for such thing would be messy - user has a problem but wants to do repairing themselves, should we send the parts now? - i totally understand that approach. Like you can't get a camera module from Samsung, Sony, Apple etc with saying " i have warranty, give me part, i will change it" .

well, there will always bee black sheep. The question is how much you trust the customer (and of course how expensive the parts are). For example Fractal recently just sent me a replacement fan after i asked if it is a known issue with a possible workaround that a fan started ticking sometimes, despite my case being out of warranty for a year already.
Additionally, shipping, diagnosing and repairing isn't free, so if the money saved on that outweighs the money lost on dicks abusing the system, it even makes sense from a pure economy-standpoint.

So while your point is perfectly valid, it is not set in stone that sending in the whole unit to be repaired by the RMA team is the only viable course of action.

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