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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can guarantee this will be a hilarious shitstorm of false positives wasting IT departments' time, because their detection of it is massively flawed.

  At least once a month my - completely stock, and un-rooted - phone tells me I can't use Outlook/Teams because of root. Every time, a reboot is required to resolve this. One one occasion, TWO reboots.

  Ignoring whatever reason Microsoft think they're blocking this for, it's going to regularly block regular users, who are not going to stand for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Money. Money is where it comes from.

  "I am rich, therefore my opinion is valid and you should listen to me"

  EXTREMELY LOUD 'INCORRECT' BUZZER

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point. Games clearly need to start decoupling the UI scale/resolution from the general screen resolution.

  In a somewhat parallel issue, I've found that playing games on the couch (usually with Steam in-home streaming, from a PC elsewhere in the house) I have to reduce the resolution because the game's UI is far too small at TV-watching differences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two kinds of people who would like a refreshed Steam Deck, in my experience:

  1. People who seem to think it needs to be faster. Since it appears to be crafted to provide suitable performance for the 720p display it has (which I don't personally think needs to be changed, considering the whole "portable" use case), this seems to just be a "bigger number better" argument and those people should probably go out and buy a Lenovo Legion / ROG Ally / whatever.

  2. People who are otherwise happy, but think it should have a newer, more efficient processor to get longer battery life, and make less heat/noise in the process. There's a measurable gulf between the current Zen2/RDNA2 CPU and a theoretical modern Zen5/RDNA3.5 (or even RDNA4) model in that regard; it could be tuned to deliver roughly the same performance as the original (or a little more, for the handful of games that tend to miss their performance target slightly) but deliver longer battery life.

  We got a hint at 2) with the OLED model's CPU using a newer manufacturing process improving thermals and battery life (of course it did also have a bigger battery). I think the number of people willing to pay a bit extra for what could be an even larger improvement in that area is probably more than some would like to admit.

  (I personally fit in that latter category. Considering a full work day including a public transport commute and lunch break, not a whole lot of extra battery could well be the difference between having to carry a charger and not)