iirc it was yuzu who linked tools to do it, but the application itself didnt do it. Yuzus main problem was often linking to resources and advertising stuff, and partially locking it behind a paywall.

if Strix Halo is a real product (mega APU with 40 CU igpu, basically 6700 XT CU count, but modern rnda) when accounting for the nerf of switching to system ram over graphics ram performance, youd get ~PS5 performance at a 100W cpu.

you’d need to probably sit down at least 3 AMD gpu generations to bring that power consumption down to 30W where it would more practically be seen on handhelds. AMD gpu generations are roughly 25% generation over generation given same CU count. Id reckon 2028 at the earliest where it would be physically viable. (wont be cheap, would be like 1000$+ device)

generally speaking, anything that ran okay on the base ps4 will probably run on the steam deck.

ask bleem who actually beat Sony in court but went bankrupt. its not about the legality, its about the wallet.

theres a lot of factors that impact tolerance. for example motion blur. I personally hate a lot of post processing effects, so having motion blur off makes low fps gameplay pretty jarring.

Currently im going through pokemon violet, not on my switch, but on emulation, and the 30fps is really rough, and the 60fps mod has tradeoffs. If im complaining about ot on emulation on a reletively high end pc, I couldnt even imagine how bad the performance was on native hardware, given it was one of its biggest complaints.

i wouldnt say im an expert at it as ive only had my media server for a month now, but how i approached making it user friendly was buying a domain name, and using a cloudflare tunnel to link your ip addresses/port to a subdomain.domain combination.

e.g i have overseer accessible by overseerr.domainname.extention and have it linked to the servers ipadress and port number. if i wanted to add another one, i would for example add a new subdomain and do the same (e.g plex.domainname.extention and point it to the correct ip/port combo)

although this has the cost of owning a domain, it doesnt require you to open a port so its better for security reasons

EA, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Sony(particularly, Sony if youre buying digital, Sony doesnt give a shit if your purchases suddenly go ”missing")

A day lol

Nuzu shut down by owner for being called out for setting up a patreon lmao

buying tech products by brand allows brands to sell you a shitty product at premium price points. companies will always shit out bad eggs at times, and its your job to know which product line are bad and not let brand loyalty bypass that.

at the bare minimum, if you are buying by brand, buy it solely based on customer support, as some companies are significantly better at that than others, which is an objective trait.

its more so the convenience factor. this also doesnt consider the hard drive mounting mechanism that youd spend time on as well, which limits case choice. with an m.2 drive, the drive can be installed outside of the case trivially

sata would be used more for secondary storage or for systems setup as network attached storage. the nvme m. 2 formfactor for ssds is more convenient for users as its both smaller and does not require the user to wire 2 cables to use it.

the 290 to 290x situation was basically the same. You had to get a cpu/gpu that was fully working, but artificially limited to to provide for the numbers of the lower tier product due to demand. with all of the unlockable chips, its was very specific time windows where it was possible to get a functional one.

usually AMD nowadays severs the unused parts for core unlocking. AMD occasionally had parts between 2009-2013 which could be unlocked (e.g athlon tri cores to quad cores, 6950 to 6970, r9 290 to r9 290x) but hasnt really happened since then.

In areas in eastern europe and russia, piracy is very common. Its the main reason why if you ever look at steam price charts by country, countries like russia and ukraine consistently place near or at the bottom for converted pricing, while countries like australlia get the short end of the stick

Its the reason why why have to also have to put a ailable to select countries, as there are countries where raffles are basically forbidden. Anytime theres some odd requirements in the contest ToS, assume its because of countries respective lottory or gambling laws

Saved in the cloud if youre a NSO subscriber* Aint paying for the sub? Tough luck kid.

Being against the 3ds wasnt a fault, it was initially an opportunity (the launch 3ds sold terribly, that nintendo had to apologize and give early adopters the early ambassador titles for free). Sony chose to willingly not capitalize on it.

Windows doesnt blankent statement run every game faster than linux as native sometimes isnt the fastest method.

Take for example, dx11 and older games. They lack a asynchronous shader cache which heavily helps minimum framerates and 1% lows. Because of older api games going through the dxvk translation process, games them would have a working cache and bypass some inherent problems with a game. MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 and guild wars 2 gain benefits, even single player games like FF7R translating from DX11 > Vulkan performed better than the DX12 native.

Elden Ring was one of the first games to show this problem and was documented. When Elden Ring launched, it effectively had shader cache broken, causing microstutters. Users on Linux, especially the steam deck, did not receive that problem because Vulkan already fixed the probelm without the devs needing to fix it.