CEO is a huge union buster in Sweden and also laid off all his support staff for AI.
Plus, they’re loan sharks. They make money off of desparate people.
Genuinely the worst “Swedish” tech company, even worse than Spotify. (Their stocks are listed on the NYSE, so they’re actually American companies americanifying Sweden)
pricerunner is owned by Klarna, use pricespy or camelcamelcamel
In the EU, the 30 day price history is required to be included by law
$30/month if you want to play games on release, $15/month if you’re willing to wait a year.
The enshittification comes for all paid services.
Right in this spot, my parents were shot
right in this- oops, your parents were- oops
Wow, unreleased product is faster than released products. Not really that surprising.
not before the studios are purged, unfortunately
to be fair, I don’t think any US state has VAT.
Bazzite is great for gaming
Ah, I took it as a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference.
Mechs are universal!
AMD field detected! Pattern orange!
The AMD zen 6 laptop flagship “Medusa halo” leak also has an RTX 5070 sized GPU, and it can actually run games and and run Linux.
ARM cpus are pointless until manufacturers decide they want to support anything other than their carefully prepared windows walled garden.
This feature has been supported in Linux and Steam for like 5 years. Gaming on Windows sucks.
Yeah i agree with you, but there is a limit to community support. The Steam Deck specifically has a big community, but most hobbyists don’t like to spend a ton of time maintaining ancient hardware drivers.
I believe my 11 year old Thinkpad T540p still runs mainline kernels too. The GPU is not supported by the 2018 Intel Iris userspace driver though, so I would need to run a legacy driver that does not support vulkan. Its still packaged by Arch, but it does limit my options.
I’d say 10 years until new games stop running with all features, and 20-30 years until it stops running mainline kernels and loses network access to Steam.
Other handhelds with closed-source drivers probably stop running mainline in 5-10 years.
You’re probably going to have a noticeable performance impact from running games off of USB.
It may work, but there are software dependencies that will become end of life. The first to go will probably be the GPU drivers. In 10 years or so, Linux will discontinue the GPU drivers and you will not be able to run the latest Linux kernel.
I think SteamOS does automatic firmware updates so you would have to make sure you don’t unexpectedly lock it up
Yeah the nerds usually find themselves in very powerful social circles if they survive school. Circles of emotionally mature experts with strong careers.
Kids’ needs are of course very important, but abandoning engaging hobbies in favor of some phantom desire to fit in is dumb.
I think both windows and Linux turn on a number of kernel hardening options when secure boot is on.
It’s required for digital goods I believe, but I’m not really sure.
https://www.price2spy.com/blog/omnibus-directive-pricing-transparency-in-the-ecommerce-industry/
https://www.techspot.com/news/98956-steam-show-eu-users-game-30-day-low.html