Signal has been a good option because you can get “normal” people to use it, which hasn’t been true for many of the alternatives (except Telegram, but that’s a mess).

Maybe they are planning to take back that spectrum they gave to Boost/Dish on a pinky-promise that they’d actually become a competitive network, during the Sprint and T-Mobile antitrust case.

Which would fit with the FCC’s increasingly mob-like behaviour under Trump.

It doesn’t help that the gains have been smaller, and the prices higher.

I’ve got a RX 6800 I bought in 2020, and nothing but the 5090 is a significant upgrade, and I’m sure as fuck not paying that kind of money for a video card.

They are violating the GPL by not including source code for their modifications. I’m not sure about using the word “stolen” in this context though, but I suppose language evolves.

A dick move in any case.

Well, I did say “maybe with a real d-pad”, it’s just the thumbsticks that aren’t necessary.

I actually did play with the Steam Controller for years using the trackpad as d-pad. It was more of a comfort thing that made it less than ideal which was due to the shape/texture of the original SC, but I could live without it personally if it’s done right.

I’ve even played shmups with it, with the right settings, but I get there is a learning curve and its easier to use a physical d-pad.

I run it even on a Steam Deck since there is a bit more flexibility to customise and it fixed some audio bugs I had with SteamOS (might have been fixed by now).

I understand the trackpads somewhat since they take up space, but the lack of back buttons is inexcusable.

Personally though, I’d buy a trackpad only deck (maybe with a real d-pad) but I know I’m in the minority on that one.

Needs to provide FSR 4 to compete with Switch 2.

It can’t unless FSR4 is backported to RDNA2/3. There’s some work on Linux to do that, but there is a significant performance hit at the moment.

I was talking about Nacon (the new/old WRC publisher) not EA or Codemasters, but agreed.

It’s just saying it’s not supported, not that it doesn’t work. Depending on your country, I doubt that warranty voiding claim is enforceable either.

Also, if you get one of their units that has an ARM chip inside instead of an intel one, there is basically no chance you’re ever going to be able to use anything other than the software that they have by default.

Their x86 models are fine as you imply, just avoid ARM and you can install any OS you want.

Seems to still have Denuvo and even has EA anticheat, which means no Linux support, even for single player.

Seems to be just going back to the previous publisher, which didn’t exactly release amazing rally games when they had the license. Maybe they’ll surprise me, but I suspect Dirt Rally 2.0 and Richard Burns Rally will continue to be the main options for a while longer.

The ZOTAC handheld looks interesting, and while it’s nice to see decently sized touchpads, they are very low on the device and it seems like that would be uncomfortable to use.

A bunch of back buttons would have mitigated the issue a little, but it seems like there is only two, which is a shame.

It’s a bit of both, along with the Linux AMD drivers being superior in many cases to the Windows drivers.

I’ll add for completeness that vkd3d-proton handles DX12 titles, and of course OGL and Vulkan are supported natively.

For me, it’s not the steam machine itself but the peripherals like the steam controller that would come with it. There still isn’t a proper replacement for the original SC that has: trackpads, gyro, back buttons, and full steam input support.

Everything else is missing trackpads and aimed at emulating a console controller, so you get weird situations where one mode supports gyro because it emulates a switch controller but doesn’t support the back buttons and analog triggers, and another supports the back buttons and analog triggers but not gyro.

Funnily enough, the steam deck itself is the best option as a controller if you want all of these features.

Of course, a new steam machine wouldn’t be required for a new SC to happen, but it makes sense to pair them, as they did originally.

It’s because of testing the game on different versions of Proton, which is treated as a hardware change. The fault lies entirely with Denuvo, and with anti-consumer DRM in general.

I use it for my self hosted apps, but yeah, it’s rarely useful for websites in the wild.

Not to mention decades of older content, and nobody could have possibly played everything good that has ever been released.