I meant to say, any more videos supporting the movement which may have caused an influx in support. Sure, there are indeed videos by some semi prolific developers with a following attempting at crashing the initiative, but as you mentioned, we are trying to get the initiative to pass, not tank it :)

Edit: mandatory link to the initiative (this is the kind of initiative that matters and will lead to action if the threshold is reached!) https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

From when I last checked a few days ago, it went from approx 450k to over 550k! Impressive!

Let’s keep the momentum going, so far this week, we’ve seen videos from:

• penguinz0 with 17M followers
• jeffgeerling’s second channel with 116k subscribers

penguinz0 has certainly caused a large influx, and I’m hoping Jeff will also have an impact.

Any more?

Great to see transparent information about framerates distinguishing AI frames from original frames.

One question is, how should one understand the GPU vram usage, when it is reported as 16.0/15.7 GB?

Denuvo specifically costs money as it’s some kind of subscription so from what I understand most games will drop denuvo one day or another the moment it costs more than the cost of piracy, which is probably once the wave of initial sales has passed.

The imagine if their cloud runs the game using proton. The provider with the lowest overhead would have lower costs and thus a cheaper service. If Microsoft doesn’t do it, someone else could.

Oh yes the 2.0 was also great! They added the rewind feature which is pretty cool.

Both of them can work on the steam deck, though they don’t out of the box.

For dirt you have to add a launch option WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=4

https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/issues/328

And for dirt 2 you need to add a fix for Xbox live.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/10ehkot/has_any_one_gotten_colin_mcrae_dirt_2_working/

https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/Win32-latest/xlive-Win32.zip

You’re a gem of a contributor, love the style and content and thank you for making this specifically for Lemmy, much appreciated! :)

Edit: and regarding what I’m playing lately, I’m playing Colin McRae Dirt from 2007 which I recently managed to get working on the steam deck. A fun racing game!

What issues do you encounter when you say they “don’t work right”?

How reliable is sleep? Does it actually go to sleep? Is the battery drain in sleep acceptable? Does it come out of sleep without issue? Is it fast to go to sleep and resume from sleep?

My experience with the steam deck has been absolutely stellar regarding sleep, to the point is has been a game changer. So fast to pick up for a quick game and put back to sleep even if playing just for a minute. It’s reliable and the battery drain is acceptable maybe (roughly 10% per 24h but didn’t measure it explicitly).

The video game landscape is already filled to the brims with more games than I need to play for the rest of my life and you want me to hurry up to pay for a game as it comes out, to ditch out the full price when my computer would suffer for the lack of latest gen hardware when I could easily find a large amount of fantastic games for less than 10 bucks and comfortably max out their settings?

Like, the witcher 3 with all its DLC, a fantastic game which is 10 years old but got a free graphics upgrade and with all its DLC, worth hundreds of hours of gameplay and a memorable experience is less than 10 bucks, as we speak, both on steam and gog.

Most people already have more games than they have time to play. Patient gamer has never been more rewarding. We fall too often for the fear of missing out the experience and hype of a new launch…

I finished GTA 4 and 5 like a year ago, on my steam deck. I couldn’t care less if these games came out like 10 years ago. It gives me the flexibility to play them how I want to.

I find this to be great and am particularly comforted by the following:

Can my SteamOS Compatibility test results be worse than Deck Verified?
No. SteamOS Compatibility results will all be the same or higher than Steam Deck Verified results.

If it were throttling, you would see reduced clock speeds and/or reduced power. However, I’m not seeing any graphs for frequencies and power. Have you checked?

If you don’t know what tool to use you could check LACT: https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT

I would encourage you to support GoG before you have to rely on them, otherwise if everyone does like you they may not be able to sustain their business.

It’s a bit akin to waiting for a crash before putting your seatbelt on.

Funnily, my mind first made me consider pressure by Microsoft to raise the steam version cost to make it a less attractive proposition compared to the windows version, before realizing this was a tariff reaction. Goes to show how I imagine Microsoft’s powers and intentions in my mind :)

Seems he’s using the same orange tan as the other orange guy haha

I didn’t take it as a critique of Ente, not to worry! I’m not affiliated in any way, I just wanted to provide some context to people who may be concerned about the vendor locking aspect specifically.

Of course how you manage your media, your needs and your finances are all a very personal matter, I also self-host my photo backup, but I use ente in a complementary fashion, and I don’t backup everything to it. It just makes it convenient to collect, share and aggregate media between ente members and non-members.

Cheers!

In the case of ente, they have gone above and beyond to give full control to their users of their backing up process and backed up media:

• they provide a sync feature from ente to a local destination on your computer using the desktop app. It can run continuously to reflect all changes to your media and its organization in ente.
• they provide a CLI, so that you can program and implement your own export behavior it seems.

To me, it really shows they care about the users and do their best to avoid vendor lock-in.

And I personally feel much more confident in a company when their business model is a paid one. I’m a very happy customer, I have also convinced multiple people who seem happy too.

Don’t give them ideas!

Running on prem is certainly possible, but requires a dedicated sysadmin team for anything serious. It is very important to be able to have availability guarantees and some expert you can count on to solve your problem with a phone call.

Related: Uber recognized how battery levels affect customer psychology in pricing but claims it doesn’t use it to hike prices for low battery devices:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/uber-phone-surge-pricing/