Quoting: GuestI'm not sure I get why they might be sold out already. Wouldn't people buy a replacement battery if the existing one....needed replacing? If they already need replacing, that's seriously poor quality.

And if people are buying them pre-emptively, then again that's not a good sign of quality. To me it's a huge "stay away from this hardware" warning sign. I don't actually think the hardware is quite that terrible though, so I'm left confused.

They get it right now, probably with very limited quantity.Some repair shops maybe want to get it just because they can and so iFixit is sold out even with small demand.
I assume that Valve think there is no need for more replacement battery and prioritize new units and ifixit just get some leftovers.
Reason why battery is now and not with initial release is probably just because they don't have enough of them.
Or maybe you can be right, but sold out right now mean nothing.

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Quoting: CreakI find the score pretty harsh actually compared to other devices...

• iPhone 13 Pro: 6/10
• Xbox Series X: 7/10
• PS5: 7/10
• PS4: 8/10
• Switch: 8/10

So the Steam Deck is as repairable as the Xbox Series X and the PS5, less than the Switch or a PS4, but a bit more than an iPhone 13 Pro.

I think it's pretty obvious that it isn't right. How do you get parts for all these devices? I tried for a PS4 and it is not easy at all, you got to ship parts directly from China and you're not even sure it's going to be compatible! And look at how difficult it is just to get into an iPhone! And the Steam Deck gets barely better than an iPhone! On the other hand, Valve has been open from the start to the idea of opening and repairing the Steam Deck, they sent the blueprints so anybody can print whatever they want, and they even offer parts now.

I must say, I'm a bit disappointed by iFixit here, it doesn't seem fair to me.

I don't think they use accessibility of parts as input.

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Some missing parts are so random... so why they are missing? My guess is supply issues, with priority for new units...

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Couple of my natives games are unsuported. Surviveing mars for example. It run on my OS, so what is different? Only one think on my mind is gamescope...

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I think Valve hate logistics with parts :grin: So they outsource it. Valve is happy, iFixit is happy, customers are happy.
And nintendo ... hate it because we can see how it can be done :-D

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Quoting: muadib1988Star Citizen has also promised linux support. everything on the official website has been removed

I don't know if theyr evere had in on page. They said it on video and nevere seen it on page. The promis has been after they do Vulkan renderer and it's not done yet, but every monthly report contains info what has been rewrited for Vulkan, so they doing it.
Other side is if they do linux support, but what i heard only showstoper for linux is renderer because most of other things are already linux compatible because their servers...

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic

We're very sorry to announce that we won't be porting Backbone to Linux in the near future.

'Near future'... Just say it, you're not going to do it 'ever'.

We did our best to do it in-house, but it took immeasurable amount of time and effort,

Your game is made in Unreal Engine 4... was there really no one in your entire team who possesses the ability to handle installing Linux on a PC, downloading and compiling UE4 for Linux following a youtube tutorial to do so, then building your game on it?

and making it work properly would require creating a dev environment to work in

... Yes.. that's generally how game development works.. ?...

which we don't have the resources for because we're deep in production for our next game.

You don't have the resources to dual boot a PC you already own with a free OS?

We are not in the financial position to hire another party to do the porting for us.

Not sure why you wouldn't be in a financial position to do so given you ran a kickstarter specifically to raise funding to do exactly what you're saying you don't have the finances to do.

We absolutely understand the frustration these news might bring, and we're ready to offer you these solutions:

HA-HA-HA.

In summary: "We promised a Linux version just to get a bunch more folks to support our kickstarter to effectively use those people as an interest free loan. Now we've made the game and sold enough copies to repay that loan, we're willing to offer refunds."

Seriously, people, stop funding kickstarters. Just stop doing it. It's even worse than pre ordering a game. There have been maybe a handful of game kickstarter projects that haven't ended up producing a completely rubbish outcome.

For kickstarter, you still can use history of studio as source of trust. If they delivered linux game before, i think we can trust them because they know what they need to do. This is case of Everspace 2 for example.

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Quoting: superboybotGood on itch.io.

Folding Ideas' video sums up my thoughts pretty well. IMO NFTs are basically a scourge, and as far as I'm concerned smart contracts taint the Ethereum (and Bitcoin soon I guess) blockchains irrevocably. I still haven't heard a legitimate use case for NFTs that isn't already a solved problem (digital ownership via licenses tied to user accounts) or predicated on a completely unrealistic scenario.

I'm relatively bullish on Bitcoin becoming a kind of digital gold, and monero looks slightly promising as an actual viable currency, but other than that I've pretty much made up my mind to wash my hands of this whole crypto thing.

I feel no ill will towards anyone, and I'm open to having my mind changed, but it's really incredible how infinitely bad crypto is unless you own a 400k ape NFT or you're the 0.1% who manage to sell the bag.

Bitcoin already has primitive form of smart contracts there - you can do timelocks and multisig transaction with it (it's used for LN for example), but there are no plans for implement turing complete ethereum like smart contracts into bitcoin itself (Not sure, but they suposedly has been in bitcoin long time ago, but Satoshi removed them for security reasons before bitcoin going public).

Only option for NFTs with bitcoin are second layers build on btc blockchain (RGB on development), or sidechain (Liquid).

For general purpose turing complete smart contracts have another usecase - stablecoins like tether. You can create USD, Eur,... on blockchain of Ethereum/solana/... blockchain (or on RGB layer), so you get monetary property of fiat money and transferability of crypto, which is one of good thin you want if you live in 3. world with hight inflation but without access to banking services with foreign currency. It has been used in Venesuela alogside bitcoin what I know by citizens.

For monero case, i like it, but there are problems with scalability because privacy model. Cryprography is to hard.
- Transactins are too big, so blockchain for same number of transaction need more diskspace and nodes need more power to verify it.
- Another problems are hardware wallets (ok, smartpohones don't have it). They have problems to sign transaction (Trezor model T can sign it, Trezor One does not, because insufficient system resources, there is suposedly way how do it, but they did not have time to implement it yet).

Because of this, Bitcoin with LN is by my opponion better suited also for curency usage, you have privacy (you send money via TOR like network with opened channels to target wallet without direct conection, everybody in path know only the previous node and the next node. However, it does not know the first or end node of the payment path.), LN transaction are also quick, comparable to credit card (you don't need wait to block by mined, into blockchain are writen only open and close transaction, with opened channel which you have opened for monts or years you can do milions of transaction to every other node conected to same network)

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Quoting: GuestNFTs are nothing but really really really bad non-standardized fiat currency created for free by scammers.

itch.io is exactly right, anyone or any company trying to push it is a scammer and should be boycotted at the very least.

For currency you need atleast some fungibility. NFT does not have it, so it's not curency. It's also not enforced by government - it's not fiat.
On "anyone or any company trying to push it is a scammer" I disagree, you can look at lightnite.io It use some form of NFT, and i don't see it like scam. It's Battle-royale game with items as NFTs. (When it's been on steam they had Linux listed i think... but i don't see linux listet in minimal requirments... )

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ArtenBitcoin alredy established as legitimate curency. It's legal tender in El Salvador. Another country reportedly make it legal tender this year.

Yeah, I heard about the El Salvador thing. So . . . does anyone actually use it as legal tender? Go into the supermarket and pay with crypto? Lay a smidgen of a bitcoin on a street vendor for some tacos?
A loopy president can declare anything he wants. Doesn't make the problems with trying to use Bitcoin for normal transactions disappear.

As I understand it, the crypto thing in El Salvador hasn't exactly been running smoothly [External Link]. Which seems to be par for the course, to be honest.

This source look biased for me. To be clear I don't say adoption of bitcoin in el salvador is perfect, government wallet app (chivo) is horibly buged, so most problems what I know are software bugs and probably we can blame rushed release, not bitcoin itself. chivo - chivo transaction work good, onchain transaction also, but Lightning Network payments (instant cheap transactions) has been horrible what I last heard from people who has been in Salvador in person(couple months back).
On other side, with different wallets for example Bitcoin Beach wallet(other El salvador wallet, mostly used in El Zonte), or any international wallet, like Phoenix wallet you don't have this problem (if you don't interact with chivo via LN).

Here you have video from youtuber who has been in el salvador and never used bitcoin before, so he is in similar situation as somebody who never used credit card and try use it in country with language barier for first time, he even not know about LN and paid everythink onchain (horibble idea, comparable to international bank payment from internet banking instead of credit card. On other side when we consider Chivo bug, maybe it's good choice, but they don't use chivo in El Zonte...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seB8nECSB10 [External Link]

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