You don’t need a fast connection…

I mean if you routinely and for long periods work in areas with no WiFi, that could be a problem.

Not paying for shit from 2k or anything with Denuvo but I’ll take a magnet link if ya got one.

The smart thing is to build a powerful desktop, then just use thin clients and tailscale to remote into it.

If a game that once worked on Steamdeck and now no longer works after publisher intervention then refunds need to be issued.

If it’s up to me I would leave SteamDeck out of it altogether. If the publisher changes the terms of sale in any way, it should be refundable. But at the very least, if you bought it on SteamDeck and it later stops working on SD, I would agree and would add that as well. But Valve would have a hard time enforcing that against the publisher since, again, it was never advertised as supported by anyone but Valve.

Of course, then we have to have a deeper discussion about things like game-breaking updates, so ultimately Valve needs to serve as not only legislator but as the judge, jury and executioner as well.

It’s complicated.

Okay let’s have a rational thought experiment:

On the one hand, BF1 was never advertised as being Linux compatible.

On the other hand, EA has retroactively changed the terms of the sale in such a way that breaks the game, ruins the experience, solves nothing, has extremely questionable security implications, and you who paid for the game did not consent to.

Personally I think they should have to refund games for this and Valve needs to put their foot down and be good stewards for the community.

Better late than never?

Of course it does? I want to see reviews for new games…

I think you replied to the wrong person.

no rss = dead to me

Man I don’t even care about any of that, personally.

I don’t buy modern games because of the cornucopia of shady bullshit they keep throwing at gamers. Invasive DRM, anti-cheat, 3rd party launchers, account linking, changing the ToU after the fact, releasing completely broken games, pop-up ads for DLC and MTX in game, etc. etc.

They kept declining app updates and running the dev around in circles until they gave up.

They also have some pretty crazy trade-ins sometimes. I got my P7 for ~$100 plus a free set of Pixel buds.

I mean that would make sense but reality often doesn’t reflect what makes sense. Planned obsolescence is a thing. As is malicious corporations. Many OEMs are creating differentiation in their product lineup by simply removing features from lower end models.

If you can wait until Black Friday, Pixels always have significant sales.

Thanks I hate it

Gamers put their stamp of approval on Ragnarok, cementing it as the new normal.

Doesn’t sound like corporate greed is killing it at all. Sounds like corporate greed has made it exceptionally profitable.

Gamers want microtransactions, or they wouldn’t make them.

I’m not going to agree with this non-article that it’s always streaming that much data.

What article are you talking about? The one in the OP doesn’t say that.

Meanwhile, scattered reports of MS Flight Sim 2020’s bandwidth consumption point toward a more conservative ~100 Mb/s in densely populated photogrammetry areas, such as major cities. Usage in lighter areas could dip as low as 10 Mb/s, though the official Microsoft bandwidth recommendation for that game was 50 Mb/s.

Because game streaming introduces latency and instability, which can be a huge problem in something like a flight sim.

Much less of a problem when all inputs are processed locally, and only the textures and models are being streamed.

Because we have no other choice.

Honestly it’s not that bad in most places but certainly there are plenty where data caps are a problem.

official Microsoft bandwidth recommendation for that game was 50 Mb/s.

which comes out to 23GB/hr.

I mean, assuming you’re using the maximum recommended bandwidth 100% of the time…? Doesn’t seem very realistic.

Yeah man, all the way to zero, because that’s how much you pay for no internet.

I’ll just throw it out there, why wpukdnt you want it to stream back as fast as possible?

Speed is not the problem. The problem is the sheer quantity of data needed to play a video game. Some people have data caps. Others may not be able to run the game smoothly, and others still not at all.

This is like the same stupid RAM argument. I WANT you to use as much as you can! What is the point of paying for the pipe if you don’t use everything you can?!

It’s not stupid to not want software consuming more RAM than is necessary.

There are a hundred different ways to do this. My personal favorite is https://wormhole.app/ because it’s pretty.

when was the last time you used it on Android

Literally several times/day, every day?

and was it on a modern device?

Pixel 7

you can block people, you just have to select the lower icon

No you can’t. Much like “all mail” it simply doesn’t do what it says. As I said, it just moves them into the spam folder.

are you talking about how it shortens '[email protected]

In your own screenshot it just says “Discord”. There is no email address to be found. This makes it stupidly easy to dupe vulnerable people. You can enter any name in that field and any photo in your profile, making it stupidly easy to impersonate, for instance, PayPal or USPS, which I get all the time.

I’ve never seen messages not show up in a search or in all mail.

Oh well if you’ve never noticed it must be a figment of my imagination…?

It doesn’t search spam or trash by default

Yes that’s the problem.

It shows me the sender email address just fine when I tap on the header.

Once again, yes, that’s the problem. Most people are not going to do that.

It’s actually better on iOS, like every other Google app, which should embarrass them. But forget the app, GMail in general is fundamentally broken and hasn’t improved in any way that I can ever recall.

But yeah, just off the top of my head:

• The search function is completely broken. Like, I type in the exact name of the subject and it’s nowhere to be found. And it doesn’t search the trash or spam folders either.
• There’s no way to block senders! It just sends them to the spam folder instead! Why would anyone think that’s a good idea with the modern state of spam/scam emails!? I have to create a new filter for every spam sender…
• “All mail” does not show you all mail. What in the actual fuck?
• It hides the fucking sender’s email address! Like WTFBBQ!? How is this not a GIANT security vulnerability!?
• If I click on an email, it won’t show up as read unless I sit there and stare at it for 5 seconds.

How is any of this acceptable from the most prolific email platform on the planet!?

My company insists on sending all communications through email, and also insists on using Gmail, which means shit just gets buried and impossible to find all the damn time.

It’s off, because I use uBo.

As I mentioned earlier, I am not using any VPN-based ad-blockers.

Which ones? Do they disclose that they contain DRM?

The paid brave VPN service?

No I use Proton w/ Brave browser.

You’re talking about ad blockers that leverage a VPN connection

I’m not. I’m talking about ad-blockers built into the browser. Specifically Brave. Haven’t tried any others but I assume they function the same way. Brave also supports custom ad-blockers but they don’t work. I’m not smart enough to understand why. I just know that uBo works and they don’t.

Most “capable adblockers” do not work with a VPN. I have AdGuard Home and have used Brave but neither are able to block ads with an active VPN.

Chromium browsers are not going to support uBlock or any other browser extensions like FF browsers will…

Yeah I figured that might happen. They need to find some way to salvage this.

But if its just like “exclusive skins”, I could give a shit.

I think you meant “couldn’t”.

I do wish games I could turn off their constant begging for my money though.

The “constant begging” is why I don’t even look twice at these games.

It wasn’t some sort of ethical quandary. The point of the game is to shoot people.

Reminds me of the opening scene of one of the CoD games where you just walk into an airport and start opening fire on random people. I did not continue playing that game.