Only if you bring her name up.

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This is the Steam Deck community. Technically speaking, giving her money is not required because Deck is not a traditional games console.🏴‍☠️

SteamOS is not a good general purpose distribution for random PCs. Internationalization is basically non existent. For an external keyboard the layout is hardcoded to US in Game Mode and for people who don’t know where to look it’s basically impossible to find where to change it in Plasma/Desktop Mode. Language files including spell check dictionaries are unavailable for anything but English, presumably to save storage space everywhere for the 64GB Deck.

If you manually set the system language to anything but English, you end up with a weird mishmash of languages because the .desktop files still contain all translations, GUIs of bundled apps stay English, and Flatpak apps respect the language setting.

The sole thing SteamOS has over other distributions is the fact that you can order a Steam Deck and everything is already right there. Once installation on random PCs comes into play, SteamOS loses against Fedora and alike hands down because those have the wizards to set up language, encryption, dual boot, etc.

Tell me Asus is making a SteamOS handhelds without telling me Asus is making a SteamOS handheld device:

Added support for the power button on Asus and Lenovo handhelds

Improved input support for Asus and Lenovo handhelds

Not off the top of my head but I distinctly remember that the Pixel A phone scored higher than the flagship Pixel model.

I would need to look the video up but I’m also between appointments, so I can comment for a bit but not do research.

Not off the top of my head, sorry.

The biggest downside of Fairphone IMO is that they don’t maintain their hardware support in LineageOS and for the retail product then branch development off, add a bit of custom branding and adapt whatever Google requires these days. It would greatly improve custom ROM support in general.

Sometimes last year Marquez Brownlee (I think it was him, I don’t think it was Dave2D) was conducting a blind test among his audience which Photos they thought looked best. Some top brands were jumping up and down from one test scenario to another but the Fairphone ended up in the midfield constantly. True, that’s not a glowing recommendation of the camera but at least an insurance that one doesn’t get utter trash either.

I wasn’t making a comment regarding forcing, I was sharing an anecdote how Microsoft themselves are offering free workarounds for features they want to get paid for.

So by default I can’t use it even if I want to use it.

You can use the feature for free by using Microsoft’s Copilot chat bot, making the subscription requirement even more stupid.

Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!

Paint has two AI models depending on your hardware, whether you have a “Copilot Plus” PC or not.

Where are you carrying that eGPU?

Meanwhile: Politicians who never had a day of honest work their entire life.

Have to disagree when you consider eGPUs.

eGPUs with a handheld? Yeah… nope.

The benefits of Intel (mostly Thunderbolt) are irrelevant for handhelds, though.

Using worse components just to be different is not really a good sales strategy.

So torrenting movies would be legal then. Great.

New update coming for that soon!

I’m fully aware of the feature that has been promised for years and is supposed to land in 5.3. I’m still using Krita, just not solely.

Krita is my graphics app of choice these days.

So much of Krita is great and then there is the text tool which is still a heap of trash.