I’ve never heard of any QC issues unique to TMR. Sure the Guilikit doesn’t have the best QC, but none of their controllers really do, and it’s a $30 controller. You can get 3 of them and it’s still less than the steam controller. The gamesir is about $30 cheaper and is actually decent quality.

TMR isn’t unique to the steam controller. Plenty of 3rd party controllers have had them for years at this point.

The steam deck is like a foot wide so the vertical grips are comfortable with that. The vertical grips of the controller that’s 5”(?) wide doesn’t seem as great.

Reviews are already out. At least reviewer reviews. The touchpads are slightly bigger.

Like the OG steam controller you have to use steam to launch for it to work like a normal controller.

According to the GN video the joysticks don’t work as a normal xinput device unless you have steam open the game to translate it. You’re locked into using steam with the controller. This is my biggest qualm with the OG steam controller. (well besides me hating the touch pad)

I mean why would most people want it over a “normal” controller you can get for half the price and works with more than just steam games?

And by 10:00.1 it will be sold out.

Does anyone know if it functions as a normal xinput controller on windows without using steam?

The Controller requires Steam or the Steam Link app. I tested it on GeForce Now via my iPhone and while it did connect over Bluetooth

That doesn’t bode well, but thats also on an iphone.

This might have been the end of it actually. I don’t remember seeing that stuff when the R9 series started.

Shouldn’t the sims 4 be considered free to play? The base game is free, only the dlc is paid.

This is revenue. How many people are buying those games now? Older games are also usually heavily discounted so that’s even less money. And if the game was bought second hand then it’s entirely irrelevant.

The average person really doesn’t give *that *much of a shit about privacy. If they did FB, Google, etc wouldn’t be so big and profitable as they are. They Apple care about privacy.

To Lemmy users sure. But who outside of Lemmy, privacy nerds, and android enthusiasts even know what Graphene OS is?

Even my friends who are Android nerds had never heard of it until I started asking them about it. Graphene is a niche of a niche of a niche.

Their modern hardware is largely nice. But their lack of software updates is awful. I had a budget moto phone that got 0 major android updates. It got an update from 7.1 to 7.1.1. Pulling up random phones on GSM arena it still seems to be the case.

The exact level you charge it to matters less than what the battery ends up sitting at. Batteries are happiest at about 40%, but very rapid get unhappy the lower they go. The closer you can keep it to within the 40-60% the better.

Depends on how long you plan on ignoring them.

Gonna use it once a month? Yeah 40-60%s a good range to keep it in. More than a few months? Depending on the idle discharge, but probably want to charge it higher so it doesn’t go flat. 0% charge is a lot worse than 100%, especially for LiPo batteries.

Or just hit shift F10 and enter “oobe\bypassnro” and let it reboot. Still works on home or pro.

Unrelated to the AI

What’s up with his chin? The chins off center and then the beard is even more.

Back to the ol pysx GPU days. Except physx made the game cooler.

unwelcome AI integration

This isn’t an integration. They’re just using AI to write some of the code.

Yeah don’t use a magic eraser on anything that isn’t like a hard tile. Magic erasers are basically one step below sand paper. They will destroy the texture of plastic if you put any pressure on them. Soap and a towel go a long way. You could also use windex of any other light window cleaner. DO NOT use anything that contains ammonia.

Don’t use alcohol on the screen either. 70% or less is typically fine, but I’d stick to a very diluted mix. Like 50% or less. Google says store bought screen cleaners use Sodium Lauryl Sulfate or Cocamidopropyl Betaine. Idk how to buy those for myself, so I just stick with a teeny tiny touch of dish soap on a lightly damp towel or microfiber. Then follow it up with a dry micro fiber. The store bought stuff works wonders for cleaning the smudges that soap left behind.

Did you go to their parts website? They sell parts for even their shitty(er) laptops.

https://www.hp.com/us-en/parts-store/

And yet still not as serviceable/durable as older ThinkPads.

Uh, have you ever replaced the motherboard on older ThinkPads? You have to tear the entire machine apart and it’s a 30+ minute job. Around the time they removed the water spouts they switched to the bottom opening instead of top opening and replacing the main board went down to a 10 minute job. Even just replacing the thermal paste on some older machines required full disassembly.

They may not have water spouts that let you pour a gallon of water through the keyboard, but they do have plenty of plastic shields that prevent water from going further into the computer. If you knock over your soda your computer will probably be fine.

New low end laptops have always sucked. I hope more people become open to used and refurbished devices. A 3 year old used business machine kicks the shit out of a new similarly priced POS. New low end laptops are born e waste.

You’re lucky if it’s a 5600g. They still make systems with CPUs based on zen 2. (insert AMDs CPU decoder)

And sometimes even 10/100 ethernet cards assuming they still have an ethernet port.

I can’t imagine how many 1/10ths of a penny Dell was saving on those POS.

What in the world is “sluggish” on that computer that woouldn’t be on 10? The new bloated notepad? That doesn’t even take a quarter of a second to load on my current laptop?

I love how any time there’s bugs in software people just assume it’s AI.

Trust me, they’re perfectly capable of being incompetent au natural.

Even if they were handed the info on a golden platter it would take years for them to actually build up production. And by the time they’ve built it up it will be old tech.

Define “best on the market work station”. I’ve used 11 on a 10th gen ulv i5 laptop and it ran just fine, no worse than with 10 on it.

From the minor direct X improvements, all the way to actually supporting hybrid CPU architectures and 6ghz there’s a lot of ways 11 performs better.

11 uses barely more resources than end of the run windows 10.

Hell half the reason I upgraded for certain games and programs.

Yes, yes they are.

I’m not qualified to explain this well. But there’s the concept of velocity of money. The higher velocity that’s supposed to mean the economy is doing good. Generally it’s between lots of people so it’s spread out. In this case it’s only between a small handful of companies, and as soon as it starts drying up then bad things can happen really quickly.

Yes, yes they do. And many are considering that they’re doing this.

Apple causes most of the shortages of new process nodes because they almost always buy them LONG before they’re ready. Any time TSMC has a new node they buy out their entire supply for months.

I played games for years at 30 fps. Yeah more is better. But a GT 310m can only do so much and I wanted to play Battlefield 3.

I mean realistically there’s only one choice. And they’re going me too! to everything Nvidia does, but 10% less.

Intel cards are alright (on windows at least). But I don’t think they have anything that would be an upgrade from your 3080.

It’s been trending the opposite for a while. Intel has mostly stolen AMD’s market share. And AMD has largely gone “me too!” to Nvidia raking customers over the coal.

It’s a security thing to have that warning. You’re not supposed to be able to bypass it for a reason.

If you don’t have the warning you can just relock the bootloader, but updates probably won’t work.

Only one affected AMD, forget which. But Intel knew about the vulnerabilities, but chose not to fix the hardware ahead of their release.