For me the biggest gripe is frame pacing, can’t seem to ever get it to be as consistent as running on-device.

It’s only about whether the game runs on SteamOS, handhelds and screen size, input and performance thereof don’t matter for the rating like it does for Deck Verified.

I’m not sure if it’s just because Ubisoft has a special contract but for Trackmania I’m able to pay the subscription either through Ubisoft directly or through Steam.

I understand the subscription model is required since every player is bound to cost them money for every round, but apparently even if you’re already subscribed to GeoGuessr you have to pay again for the Steam version which is absurd to me.

I expected it to be a silly video with lots of misinfo but he’s just spitting for 20 minutes straight, really pleasantly surprised.

I cannot wait for Firefox to finally support WebUSB.

^(I literally cannot wait, it’ll never happen…)

It’s gotten a lot more stable though some games still cause freezes while others don’t at all. I currently also have to run KDE with direct scanout disabled to get rid of some flicker and fullscreen related freezes, though I haven’t noticed a difference in how it feels compared to with it on.

One non Linux related issue I don’t see mentioned enough is that at least some cards suffer from pretty bad coil whine at normal fps values (~120 is the loudest on mine). I don’t hear it through my headphones but it’s something to be aware of if.

Performance has improved and it’s usually been around what I’d expect aside from ray-tracing, which is still a weak spot but close enough to be playable. ROCM (AMDs cuda equivalent) is working now and FSR4 recently got a breakthrough by vkd3d devs so it might be next.

I don’t regret my choice at all but I’m a tinkerer, if you want it to be 100% ready instead of 90% it’s probably better to wait a year.

Someone saw the latest John Oliver! Really great video, I’m glad high profile allies like him still exist for the sake of my American trans friends.

I got a Sapphire Pure, wasn’t quite MSRP but with 799€ including 19% VAT still better than I expected in the months leading up to the launch - and it’s just a beauty…

A friend is running a Red Devil on Linux and they have the same idle power draw so I assume it’s just some kinks in the initial drivers but it’s already looking pretty good in that regard, similar to my previous card (Vega 64). The video I saw, and yeah mine is behaving similarly, undervolting drastically increases clocks though stability testing on Linux is not fun so I haven’t looked how far I could push it yet, but really excited for the undervolting potential. I’ve seen it’s possible to get near stock performance with as low as 240W.

Monado definitely has benefits with its asynchronous reprojection and being FOSS but overall I prefer SteamVR when it works cause it’s just more seamless for gaming with its overlay. I’ve had a good experience with recent SteamVR versions where everything apart from Home usually just works, currently on the beta branch.

You ever wondered how 90%* of chickens in the US are female? Almost half of them are transgender!

*not the real number, it’s (un?)surprisingly hard to find.

I hate how power hungry the regular desktop platform is so having capable APUs like this that will use less power at full load than a comparable CPU+GPU combo at idle, is great, though it needs to become a lot more affordable.

It was fairly easy for someone to know you blocked them since they wouldn’t be able to react to your messages or suddenly couldn’t dm you anymore, I assume that won’t apply to this.

The real fair pricing would’ve been to only charge for the credits you actually use.

Yeah I can’t remember this behaviour either with Firefox on Linux. In fact when I save a half-loaded image to disk it will literally save just half the image.

Well they’re in the EBU*, so that’s only one letter off… maybe soon?

^(*an associate of the EBU, couldn’t let my technically incorrect joke stand)

But the one time I don’t say it I in fact did not remember it correctly.

He definitely says “completely out of touch” (in an italian accent) and I think the fact that he’s saying that to a camera means he’s targeting the CEO-favored news coverage. I’m surprised not more people are picking up on that possibility.

Better add more green leaf symbols and sustainability pledges to their products to even it out.

I always had to fill out multiple pages of forms to get those free 1 year “trial” certs from startssl.