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  • Android won't be easy, but you can slap together a python script that runs tesseract or easyOCR and runs it through a pretrained LLM like T5. Those are well-known and well-documented, so chatGPT can probably write the script for you without too many hiccups.

  • Some games like Ultrakill are short and sweet, but others like Factorio can keep you busy for weeks. Both of them felt right for me, but then again I have quite a bit of free time.

    If you like shooters, check out anything from New Blood, Turbo Overkill and Postal brain danaged. Those games are segmented into individual levels, which is great for when you just have half an hour.

  • First of all, tips will automatically get enabled during some updates.

    Secondly, tips notifictions telling you to use microsoft crap are not the only ads. You get fullscreen ads for office after booting that are made to look exactly like an installer, you get edge literally spamming you with popups when you try downloading another browser (that's closer to malware than an ad but I'll let it count).

    You get ads in the settings menu as well and if you try to edit a video like you could on windows 7, you get the "fuck you, pay a subscription".

    You also get ads in your start menu and of course, don't forget the start menu search that will rather show you a bing page full of ads than actually search for your files.

    Please stop defending this bullshit, it benefits no one but microsoft and is actively making the world a worse place.

  • I'd say firefox doesn't qualify as OS but I get your point, distros do ship it by default.

    The good thing is that those ads are just defaults, not permanently baked in. I can get rid of them in about 2 minutes. Mozilla doesn't sell your usage data so they need another way of funding themselves and I don't think there's a better way to do it.

  • You won't be getting 60fps in Elden Ring most of the time and as time moves on, there will be more and more games that won't hit 60fps on the steam deck but can still be played. Starfield is a notable example.

    If you aren't bothered by that, go for it.

    The deck is an absolute beast for indie games and the controls are incredibly good, so you can play stuff like factorio almost as well as with a mouse. If you fly often, factorio alone could make the deck worth it. They call it cracktorio for a reason, it just makes time fly.

    I haven't emulated much, but emudeck made it super easy (I'd almost say foolproof) for SNES and C64. Wii games are a bit of a pain because of the controls, but older stuff is generally fine.

  • Any microsoft application. Constant bugs, crashes and a tendency to break everything if you accidentally use them in any other way than microsoft intended.

    Also, ads in a fucking operation system? I don't see how anyone can find that acceptable.

  • Ubuntu uses wayland, which can cause issues with stuff like that. Try using a distro that comes with X instead.

    Nvidia updates still break things, but it's a lot less often and usually an easy fix by rolling back the driver.

  • From a money perspective, probably. But there's also the PR perspective to consider, and they threw away an easy win there. Starfield can run decently on the steam deck and if they cared to optimize it for that, it would have been a big win.

  • They are sabotaging their own sales by not doing it. Starfield is such a hyped game that many people who don't usually game much will want to play it and those people tend to not have the most up-to-date hardware. The PC I built in 2018 for about 1100€ is pretty much exactly the minimum spec for starfield. And given that minimum specs usually target 30fps for some reason, I'd need this mod if I wanted to play it at a reasonable framerate.

  • Handwriting but digital. I used to use a 2in1 laptop (Fujitsu T935, the weird mechanism is a great conversation starter) for that before I eventually stopped handwriting altogether, but I can see how a tablet is more convenient because you don't have to deal with windows BS or make linux work well with a touchscreen. An ARM SoC also helps a lot with weight and battery life at the cost of not having a full computer.

  • Agreed, but it's easy to understimate how ignorant most people outside the hobby are. Hardware Canucks once made a video about the basics of it and a third of it was just plain bullshit. The comments were full of praise, not a single criticism in the first 200.

    I honestly believe some people will take this article at face value because they don't know any better.