circuitfarmer

“Better supported” is an understatement. AMD on Linux requires no handling of drivers whatsoever, so far as the user is concerned.

That DLC is actually $1.49 during the sale, at least in the US.

It is far more convenient to pirate than to buy media legally, due to the extreme and purposeful fragmentation of streaming services and their constantly changing libraries. If you want people to pirate less, make your service(s) competitive.

Fantastic. One of the weirdest things I’ve heard from people casually interested in Steam Deck is: can I put Windows on it? Things like this at least suggest to those people that, in fact, not everyone using the Deck is wrong when they say the SteamOS/Linux experience is great, after years of work.

Of course the competition is good too!

Personally I’d stick with SteamOS. It’s tailor made for the hardware. Nobara is cool, but I don’t think you benefit from it much (unless you really don’t want the locked filesystem).

Fallacious question. In real life there can be no good options. That doesn’t mean we should support one for being less bad.

Seems to be that way. I agree with your insinuation that “they aren’t trying to sell as many ads as Google and Facebook – yet”. I don’t see any special ethics beyond keeping their brand loyalty afloat.

Exactly. Not sure why it would be on me for refuting a statement.

Apple doesn’t rely on selling or advertising your data as a business segment.

That was a claim offered without evidence.

Hey there ya go! Providing a source for the argument you made first! Thanks.

So you don’t have a source either? ;)

Because Apple doesn’t rely on selling or advertising your data as a business segment.

I find this very hard to believe.

To my knowledge, that isn’t a consistent pattern (someone please correct if wrong).

Personally I have focused on fast SSD storage and utilized the vast, cheap, slow storage available with mechanical drives for backup.

At the end of the day, if an SSD fails, you’re effectively just screwed. If a mechanical drive fails, there is some possibility that the data is recoverable. But moreover, mechanical storage is so cheap by volume that you can just have redundant backup and never worry about it, really.

Yeah. I wish they had mentioned it actually. They went to the trouble of mentioning that they improved the battery adhesive situation.

Yeah, that’s kind of a major detail for anyone worried about reparability. Surprising choice. Not a deal breaker, but definitely a step in the wrong direction in terms of design (overshadowed by other good choices).

What I’m hoping is that the screen is a drop in replacement option for the original.

Out of the box, no. But I know some tinkerer is going to figure it out. Will it ever be practical? Probably not. But I’ll enjoy seeing that Frankendeck.

Most anti-piracy measures are useless at stopping piracy.

They were $5 each when discontinued – I bought 2 more then (which iirc was the limit per person). That said, I’m frankly never reselling mine. It took me 20 years to find a controller that let me play strategy from the couch comfortably, and I need to maintain at least one working one indefinitely (until there’s another good option).

So, I totally get why they’re pricey now. Is it worth it? There’s literally no alternative, so in that sense, I guess yes.

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