Unboxious @ Unboxious @ani.social

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Really? Which distro has a button I can press to open a menu to change the power budget on my Ryzen 5 5600? Which distro has everything configured for me to be able to use my VKB joysticks without needing to mess with the registry in the proton prefixes of Windows games?

There is no distro that supports arbitrary hardware as well as SteamOS supports the Steam Deck.

It's not as simple as just releasing something. They need to develop it first, and making it a good experience with arbitrary hardware is actually pretty hard.

I read this as “SteamOS is bad because of reason I personally don’t like that many people don’t understand, so do more research about Linux”

It's easy to dismiss this as something that won't ever matter to you, but this is something that can cause problems in all sorts of ways even for gamers. The first thing that came to mind is not being able to install custom drivers to support weird hardware, like a racing wheel or something.

They're just excited because it's kind of like they released Skyrim again and they haven't had their fix in a while.

Maybe the reality is that 80-90% of their programmers actively use tools like Github Copilot and the CEO got really excited about what that might mean. I mean, how could he possibly measure this?

The problem is if the user asks the AI a question about the language they're learning they'll often get confident bullshit as the response and they won't know it's wrong because they're still learning.

Yeah I dropped that one entirely.

Eh. I haven't listened so much lately anyways since Chris started obsessing over Crypto.

It's important to not allow "perfect" to become the enemy of "good".

What makes you think they're not going to do something worse in the future? Knowingly pointing people towards an abusive company is signaling to that company that this is fine and we're willing to bend over further.

I played the demo of this game during Next Fest. It had stunning visuals, but the gameplay didn't really grab me.

I use apps that aren't available in my region for language study, so this could end up being a real problem for me.

Their support sucks though. I had one of their controllers die on me after only 8 months of moderate use and after a way-too-long back and forth they demanded $15 to send me a new controller. Eventually we settled on $5, which is still $5 more than it should have been.

Every friend I still keep in contact with is someone I met in college, so this makes a lot of sense to me.

And that's assuming that all 17 million mormons the LDS church claims to have actually exist. It's kind of annoying to get deleted from their rolls, so a lot of people who leave don't bother. Also, many of those 17 million live in much poorer nations than the US.

Okay, but what are the profits? That's what actually matters here.

You want hardware manufacturers to provide shitty screens in perpetuity just so Linux devs can avoid implementing proper scaling? Yeah, no.

Share the source next time. It's just common decency.

This really sucks; it's not good for the human body to be in microgravity for that long.