i love the madness that is mounting the stock cooler onto the back of the case with the heatsink still on

If you need an actual example story on how something like this can happen.

you know the old stuff where teachers are like, you need to do math manually, youll never always have a calculator in your pocket (of course in retrospect its almost the opposite given smartphones). this particular case was TOO accommodating, and allowed her to use text to speech services to do work, so she never learned how to “read”

no, completely valid, but pricing is a psychological question rather than a math question for some.

reason for example products are priced with X.99

some people se it as cost X amount, others (like youself) see it as X+1 amount. the 0.99 is the extreme end of the psychology and choosing 8 in the case of peak increases number of people who dont see it at the higher price

when it comes to food, you have to consider the culinary classification over the biological one.

e.g the berry situation (e.g strawberries aren’t berries, but bananas are, culinarily its the opposite). mushrooms are all classified as vegetables culinarily. Tomatoes are fruit biologically, but culinarily vegetables

it works if your games are fundamentally different like in this case. the cons about modding is that expectations of sequels are higher than normal because youre no longer comparing the game to the previous, but to the modded version of the previous.

for example, outside of performance reasons, City Skylines 2 had that fate.

not the poster but gen 1 framework 13s has a cmos battery issue that when fully depleted, the laptop will not boot from off state because of how the recharge circuit was wired to the battery.

so if your laptop was in sleep for an extremely extended period of time, you wouldnt be able to turn it on without either replacing the cmos battery or soldering a single wire to fix it.

as a person who uses a framework 16, and deals with returned lease laptops as a job, people are overstating how “durable” thinkpads are.

of course image of course is a joke, but thinkpads advatage isnt necessarily durability, but how cheap replacement parts are because of how many are leased and eventually returned.

frameworks friction is cost and availability, but strength is ease of repair. lenovos is part availability and cost.

because the steam deck used in the project had a broken screen.

a hacked switch can run linux. as for the steam deck running the switch UI, i’d imagine its just a screenshot

usually when it comes to this situation, its part branding that its meant to hook into a specific game and using the games name/trademark to functionally sell something.

if it was advertised as a geneeic vr thing that latches onto games, thats one thing. its another to advertise it as VR mode for Cyberpunk 2077.

i dont think either side was wrong. but more that how the dev acted after the fact doesnt paint himself in good light. he could have silently removed the mod and people would have critisized him less (there are hardliners who will complain, but both are in the right to do what they did)

yes, now i can know its natural

in bings credit, it gave me the archive links to rock band 4s removed content for uhh… file existance purposes that google outirght scrubs out.

the mistake was assuming the upper limit ended at 100

prices can go down, they just dont publicly announce why.

for example, after covid functionally ended and the cryptoboom crashed, Nvidia and AMD over ordered on dies. so there was a flood of Ampere and RDNA2 gpus they needed to get rid of. because of the flood, it killed the launch value of Lovelace and RDNA3.

Ampere stock was legitamitely bad that when EVGA left the gpu sales market, one of the biggest reasons was because Nvidia forced AIBs to buy up their ampere stock if they wanted any lovelace stock.

never attenpt to make money off any company whose trigger happy litigious. projects doa the moment you even have to consider it.

gamers depends most games (>90%) will generally run. kernel anti cheat games mostly wont. Nvidia based gamers might run into a few more hurdles. modding select games might prove to be slightly more challenging (mainly the ones that revolve around executables to work) but generally speaking most things in windows have an analog in linux.

its because people dont know what they want. Linux has the problem that people want different things, ao theres dozens of distros to choose from.

windows is an example of giving little choice, so people begrudgingly “upgrades” because they ultimately dont really know what they want.

tldr, linux can be choice paralysis. single os is like being forced to drink soylent and only soylent, its got what you need but you might not like it.

version upgrades might change major things so its not pushed onto everybody. if you want a single thing based in rolling updates, thats basically the Arch model. the thing with rolling updates of course is being on the bleeding edge means things also break easier.

i typically imagine the mess of qualcomm drivers is part of the reason why its hard. regardless of the OS, be it windows, android and in this case, linux, driver support has generally been spotty for snapdragon products.

im curious on what the upstream stuff valve is pushing with its steam frame, as its of the few known companies actually paying for development for arm on linux. the device isnt out yet, but should be opened up within the quarter supposedly.

i actually did this like 2 days ago and the guy agreed to at least try it out. people just need to talk about it and be honest about what is good/bad about the current state