narc0tic_bird @ narc0tic_bird @lemm.ee

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No, via the internal display.

Oh Bazzite is great, no doubt about it.

But it's not endorsed/supported in any way by ASUS so ROG Ally (X) compatibility isn't a given. ASUS could release a firmware update tomorrow that breaks compatibility (very unlikely of course).

No touchpads. OOTB experience questionable and Bazzite is a community project, compared to first party support from Valve for the Deck.

And the display isn't definitely better. Yes it's 120 Hz, higher resolution and VRR, but the Deck's OLED has proper HDR support and 90 Hz is probably enough for this type of device (as is the resolution, although I'd take a higher res screen as well for 2D games). The main thing that the Deck's screen is missing is VRR imo.

With the iPhone 14 no longer being sold the specs of the rumored SE 2025 make a lot more sense.

This feature makes use of homomorphic encryption, so apparently the photo itself can't be "seen" by Apple's servers.

It's still very confusing wording as in the Settings app it states "Allow this device to privately match places in your photos with a global index maintained by Apple", which to me implies that the device either downloads the whole index and then looks up places on-device or at least queries it online without sending any photo data, but it seems to send some encrypted and/or hashed variant of the photo(s) instead.

It seems to be done in a privacy-respecting manner, but being on by default and primarily the poor wording in the Settings app is not good.

I do think the article is a bit over-dramatic though when the author starts mentioning "that Apple computers are constantly full of privacy and security vulnerabilities", which - while not entirely wrong - is true for basically every (complex) system.

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YouTube is by far the slowest website I visit, it's so bloated.

Braiding doesn't really increase the cable quality per se though..?

It's $90 because it has fairly thick wiring and as Margot said is likely an active cable (with a chip in the plug). It's actually fairly cheap considering the feature set.

I use as few Electron apps as possible. I replaced VSCode with (depending on what I'm trying to achieve) Helix, Sublime Text or a JetBrains IDE.

I have this cable: https://www.spigen.com/products/arcwire-usb-c-to-usb-c-cable-pb2202

It's 2 meters long, 240 watts and supports Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 (40 gbps).

I couldn't test the 240 watts charging as I don't have any device pulling more than 100 watts, but the Thunderbolt 4 part definitely works.

Apple sells a 3 meter Thunderbolt 4 cable (albeit limited to 100 watts of power) that isn't optical either (I think there's some special circuitry in the plugs though).

*Linux ISOs

Astro Bot looks pretty darn good though (in both art style and graphical fidelity), so not sure if it's a good example.

Great to see Baldur's Gate 3 made the list!

It actually performed decent until Apple gimped the SSD part to a mere 32 GB (down from 128 GB) in newer iMac models.

Exactly. But it's the cheapest solution for the studio/publisher and most gamers blindly accept it, with some even actively defending the practice.

Same here. I feel like having to enter it so many times isn't just more annoying but also makes the users more susceptible to phishing attacks ad they'll naturally pay less attention where they're entering the 2FA code into when they do it so routinely.

Just dd any ISOHybrid to an internal disk.

Big advantage being that it's plug-and-play via the kernel and Mesa packages, just like AMD.

Microsoft’s ‘VP of Next Generation’ Xbox exec will also attend.

"Please welcome Microsoft's Idontknow Theirname to the stage!"

Idontknow Theirname: "It's been a great pleasure to work with Lenovo to bring Xbox' vision to life on this amazing device. [...]"

"And now, please welcome Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais to the stage!"

Pierre-Loup Griffais: "Yeah the Legion Go 2 will come with SteamOS preinstalled, no Windows/Xbox bloat."

Mine is 95% Linux, 4% Steam Deck (so 99% Linux I guess) and 1% Windows cause I tested if Baldur's Gate 3 would work under Windows with an Intel Core Ultra iGPU after I couldn't get it to work under Linux (works fine with other GPUs though).

Or better yet: nix the Nvidia app :)