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Well, not anymore, they discontinued the Duo line.



If only we could fully block it from talking to Meta’s servers. It’s the cheapest headset I can find to purchase but I don’t want Meta having a 3D map of my house 🤮


They’re cool, but using them to sell a product is bullshit


Oh you should read the next part

The pandemic gave us an unnatural pop for gaming, where we thought, ‘oh my god, gaming is the biggest thing in the world’. Yeah, when you’re locked down, it is the biggest thing in the world. But in a regular world scenario, you’ve got to combat against all the other distractions that are available to young people. And I’m afraid that we’re not facing that threat head on as an industry.

Motherfuckers see unnatural conditions caused by a once-in-a-lifetime event, think they’re the hottest shit ever, and when the numbers come back to normal levels they see other forms of entertainment as a “threat” that should be “faced head on”.
Lmao. How can an industry be so full of itself?


Does this sound stupid to anyone else?
Like, the crowd you’re “losing” to TikTok was not interested in buying a console regardless, am I wrong?


  • A bespoke user interface
  • A gaming-focused OS
  • [Play] More than just Xbox
  • Bring old Xbox games to PC
  • Multiple hardware tiers
  • “Made for Xbox”

Steam Deck already does 1, 2 and 3.
Now pair it with constant nags (Enhance your experience by signing into a Microsoft account, Subscribe to Gamepass! Have you tried Copilot???), and Microsoft’s inability to ever add anything new to their controllers (bye bye Gyro and Touchpads) and you’ve lost me.



Petition to shoot the next tech bro with a “innovative” idea



Buzz for the Pro? All I’ve seen is people sneering at the lack of games taking advantage of the extra capabilities and the price.
I still think the base model is a better deal.


OK but Take Two is greedy as all hell. Their previous launches taught them that gamers are willing to double-dip so why would they pass up on the opportunity to earn twice?


100 bucks for a game, lmao.
Surprised they didn’t skip the middle man and made it subscription only already


It would be much easier to use Java mods to do this than wait for a MC recomp, check out Splitscreen Support


That’s what I was going to say!
I thought it was public already


I hope one day they suffer a massive data breach and these movies leak in full, even if they’re unfinished. Fuck 'em.



I think the only thing that could come close to what you want would be an automation centric app like Tasker or Automate. Neither are FOSS, but they’re really good.

Edit: Found exactly what you need on F-Droid, it’s called HTTP Request Shortcuts.



Who the fuck is the Mimic? Is this game based on the books?
And when I thought this franchise couldn’t get any more confusing


Ugh, tell me about it!!!
Those SC2 leaks happened a while ago but we’ve still to hear anything official about it at all, sure hope they haven’t scrapped it…


Lol, same, I’ve played some games at such abysmal resolution it became a testament of how good the art direction was, making it possible to recognize things amidst that jumble of pixels.

Funny how we grow accustomed with what we have. I was hyper-aware of my disk usage when I had a tiny HDD, nowadays I’m like “Why am I low on storage???”, then I go check and find 200GB of junk I no longer need on my downloads folder. Whoops.


Yeah I have, for a looong while. I understand a stable framerate is much better than a “high” one, but like, were not talking about a “Low-end” PC here, we’re talking about the current, still marketed generation here.

How come 30’s still the target when all the marketing is talking about how powerful it is and how amazing the upscaling is? And it’s a fixed target on top of all that, like common man


Never have I ever wanted “Portal 3” to be a thing more than after I played this.

I don’t know how well it would play on the desktop, since it’s reliant on Steam Deck specific controls

Valve actually made the game adapt itself to the hardware present.
I played it on my desktop with a DualShock 4. The game let me use my mouse to write my name instead of touch. When it came to the section requiring the back buttons, it let me use the regular triggers instead. Looking at some YouTube videos, it seems it’ll let you use sticks for aiming if your controller doesn’t have gyro.
The only hard requirement is a controller of some kind, as the game will put up a huge red watermark asking for one if you launch it without one connected, other than that, any standard controller works.



These companies can barely make the basics work on their apps, let alone all of this


Try searching for them in Telegram.
For some reason, it seems the custom ROM community prefers them to XDA nowadays, and while I think this migration happened much past the heyday of these devices, maybe someone has a retro ROMs channel


This type of thing has just about killed any desire to continue using Stock Android for me. Couple years now it seems they’re half-assing all new features: Either they bring a years old feature back (that they shouldn’t have killed in the first place) as a shadow of its former self, or they add a feature that does the bare minimum, then take multiple updates for it to have functionality that should have been there from the first release.

* Circle to Search is just rehashed Google Now with a whole lotta marketing and less functionality.

* Lock Screen Shortcuts have been a thing forever, but only NOW in A13 they made a proper UI to let you customize then, previously you only could in custom ROMs, Root, ADB Trickery or the SystemUI Tuner. And how many shortcut options do you have? 8.
Why is Google insisting on making these features have 0 third-party support???

On Apple, thanks to their App Intents API third-party apps can expose quick actions on the Control Center, as a Lock Screen shortcut and a one-press action for the Action button.
Android has let third-party devs add custom Quick Setting Tiles for years, so you’d think expanding this API so they can also define Lock Screen shortcuts and Power Double Press shortcuts would be the obvious way forward but NOPE!
8 puny little Lockscreen Shortcuts and that’s it.
Google Assistant and Camera for the Double Press Power. Now they’re adding Wallet, upping the total to 3, how impressive.
How the fuck is Apple doing customization better than Android???

* Multitasking is so clunky it might as well not even be here.
Previously you could Split Screen your current app, drop to your launcher and select another one to take the remaining space, then they removed this for no reason, so if Split Screen your current app and the other one you want to use isn’t already running, you gotta cancel the action, launch it, then start setting the Split Screen again, all in all it’s such a slow, workflow interrupting process that 9 times of 10 I don’t even bother.
The best AOSP is annoying as hell to use (and all they’d need to fix it is undo one boneheaded change) meanwhile all the other OEMs are doing Floating Windows on their skins. Even Motorola who keeps their skin close to AOSP did it.
Why the fuck hasn’t Google? They’ve had a half-broken implementation of this for years in the dev settings but are moving at an absolute snails’ pace with it, and I really think it wasn’t the Pixel Fold and Tablet they wouldn’t even bother finishing it.

* What’s new in A15? So little it should have been called 14.1

At this point I’ve given up on Google ever bring true new innovation in AOSP.
When they’re not tweaking things for the worse, they’re

  • Locking down Android more
  • Adding features so “Automagic” they’re useless if you don’t fit their perfect usecase
  • Locking features to the Pixel (ffs Circle to Search ain’t even exclusive and they still pointlessly locked it down to specific phones even though it can run anywhere the Google App/Assistant can)

Swear I’m gonna jump to OneUI on my next phone and I’m not even very fond of Samsung’s offerings 😒


My apologies if I’m getting this wrong, as I don’t play Gacha games, but isn’t that worse?
As in, if the players know that a certain reward they’re trying to get will be rotated out soon, won’t that drive up the FOMO even more?


Looks starkly… Non-Nintendo-y?
I dunno, changing from the full colored joycons to black with accents and more rounded corners caught me off guard. This looks like a handheld from GPD or ONEXPLAYER


Dude you don’t get it, the AAA devs will literally go bankrupt if they have to waste a fraction of their profits to do the bare minimum!!! Why won’t anyone think of the children???


I’ve been thinking about picking one up lately, no idea why. I’m gonna take this post as a sign!


Is there a Atomic spin of Manjaro? I do not trust a regular install of it to not blow itself up in weeks


They couldn’t make this SD Exclusive even if they wanted to, specially now that Valve is bringing SteamOS to other handhelds. Repackaging software only intended for a specific distro is common practice, even more so in Arch land.
Even if they bother implementing checks, you know people will just spoof those too.


special sauce in there to capture the active window so that you never lose focus

All hail Gamescope!




To be fair I’m being a dickhead.
I’m sure Minecraft’s slowness has more to do with how it was built/tech debt and such than Java itself, as the mods that massively boost performance show.



I mean, to this day I haven’t played a Minecraft clone that left me satisfied so I doubt Mr. Bored Depressed Billionaire over there will manage to capture lighting in a bottle twice…

(And I doubt he’s using his free time to learn a new programming language either so it’s gonna be Java again god help us all)