abfarid
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- Comment on Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future 1 week ago:
In comparison to Valve, even entire CD Projekt Red is tiny.
- Comment on Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future 1 week ago:
You are free to support or not support whoever you see fit. If supporting Linux is hard requirement for you, so be it. But in my personal opinion, they do deserve support, in the very least because they sell most of their games DRM-free, giving consumer the ability to keep their games forever.
- Comment on Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future 1 week ago:
They do the good that they do. Is there a minimal amount of good one must do to be promoted from “fair-weather friend”? GOG is not a behemoth like Valve, they have to pick their fights more carefully. Also, they are preserving the games for the vast majority of people, on the platform those games were designed for. And since Proton/Wine progress is going well, the games are by extension preserved on other OSes.
- Comment on Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future 1 week ago:
GOG does game preservation, which is nice.
- Comment on Valve says it’s still waiting for better chips to power Steam Deck 2 4 weeks ago:
My guess is they are gonna switch to an ARM SoC, similar to one in Frame.
- Comment on Steam Machine 4 weeks ago:
According to Dave2D’s review, RAM is upgradeable, and GPU has dedicated VRAM.
- Comment on Steam Machine 4 weeks ago:
Dave2D mentioned that Valve said it isn’t aiming to directly complete with consoles, but rather sff PCs. So the price will likely be in the $700-900 range(?)
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
Apple has its own can of worms, but privacy usually isn’t the issue. At least in comparison to other tech giants.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
As I said, those are all 1st party applications. I don’t see it anywhere being OS-wide. And what’s “smartlook”? Do you mean Spotlight? I haven’t seen any AI in Spotlight, but I also haven’t installed (the janky) Tahoe yet.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
On MacOS, at least for now, AI isn’t prominent at all. I’ve been using an M4 Air for a month before I remembered that Apple Intelligence was a thing and had to google how to use it. So far it only seems to be partially available in 1st party Apple apps which I don’t use anyway.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 4 months ago:
They aren’t trying to prevent regular people from using unlicensed Windows, it’s mostly for corporation. As mentioned before, they are better off letting ppl use it and gather data and stuff. Keep people dependent on the OS.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 4 months ago:
Some features and settings. Like, for example any desktop customization.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 4 months ago:
What they mean is that it’s like WinRAR, you can use it without a license forever, but you’ll have features locked and get constantly nagged to purchase license.
- Comment on Hotel chain ditches Google search for DuckDuckGo — ‘subjected to fraud attempts daily’ 10 months ago:
DuckDuckGo has a browser? Or did they mean “search engine”?
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 1 year ago:
You can use your old USB-A to C cables, it’s not mandatory to use the new cables. For me, they often stay in the box, because all of my chargers already have cables anyway.
Everything else you said it’s just examples of how other manufacturers still bundle e-waste. This is in no way a counter-argument. I’m not saying companies aren’t assholes, the problem isn’t that they don’t include chargers. The problem is that they exclude chargers and keep the price the same without any significant improvements to the phone itself.
Vast majority of buyers these days already have chargers, and the bundled charger will only bump the price, only to be chucked into a drawer to stay there forever. If a consumer does need a charger, there are plenty good options on the market with multi-port options.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 1 year ago:
Can we please stop complaining about lack of chargers bundled with phones? If the phone is overpriced, then sure, maybe it’s fair, but if the price of the charger is subtracted from the price of the phone, then that’s the right thing to do, the charger can be bought separately if needed. Everybody has like a dozen USB chargers at home, it’s standard now. No need to bundle e-waste.
- Comment on Hori Announces Controller Made Specifically for Steam 1 year ago:
Useless without trackpads. I can just use any other controller instead of this.
- Comment on Sony gives up on forcing PlayStation Network for Helldivers 2 1 year ago:
Of course, Sony is corporation and doesn’t do things purely to appease consumers. But they also care about their reputation, so getting negative press is damaging to them.
Unlike with the Helldivers situation, where people could refund, the examples I listed had no direct way of causing financial damage, only reputational one. And it still worked, cause at the end of the day, reputation converts into money. - Comment on Sony gives up on forcing PlayStation Network for Helldivers 2 1 year ago:
Putting personal experiences side, I already provided 2 examples of cases that would’ve affected exclusively console players and they pushed back enough to cause a reversal.
- Comment on Sony gives up on forcing PlayStation Network for Helldivers 2 1 year ago:
Yeah, cause “PC players” are somehow completely different people from those who play on consoles. Literally every person I know personally who plays on PC also has consoles. So the chances are, vast majority of gamers just play games, whatever the platform.
Sony just sometimes reacts to pushback, like they reversed the decision to remove Discovery content, or how they kept the PS3 and Vita stores running after people complained.
Stop this gaming elitism.
- Comment on Yeah, but... 2 years ago:
It was a Dendy, wasn’t it?