I was referring to the niche served by small brands like AYA NEO and GPD. They made (imo) zany but ambitious Windows handhelds before AMD had their mobile APUs / SoCs ready and before Valve’s Proton & SteamOS endeavors were production-ready.

So they ran Intel SoCs (slow, pricey, and hot) on a basically vanilla Windows 10 image, sometimes with a proprietary interface that let you kinda use the device without touch and/or without a wireless kb+m. Hmm, getting deja vu with ASUS, MSI, and Lenovo right now 🤪

This article talks about how it used to be that gaming was split into two markets. There was consoles, dominated by three corps (Nintendo, MS, Sony) and PC.

This article talks about how the markets are becoming less and less distinct and how Valve is seizing an emerging opportunity to dominate all forms of gaming with Valve’s Steam Deck and SteamOS.

The Deck basically validated the handheld industry that was previously very niche, underpowered, and kinda jank with a first-party, fully supported system with robust hardware under the hood. It also gave Valve a predictable hardware platform to build SteamOS as a replacement for Windows as a low level OS. The only problem being that SteamOS was still very dependent on being run on Deck hardware. Now though, they’re taking the first steps to letting it work anywhere, starting with other handhelds.

By pushing SteamOS adoption on handhelds, it targets Nintendo’s hardware niche. Nintendo is somewhat secure though since their first party titles are what move their systems.

By slowly replacing Windows, it erodes Microsoft’s OS monopoly, which threatens the Windows Store as an alternative marketplace. At a time when Microsoft is already a decade into a dying Xbox brand, and one that is also constantly on the back foot (only company without a handheld and very dodgy support for existing handhelds) And a Microsoft that acquires studios, only to shut them down.

Sony is the least affected since PS5 is the winner of the 9th gen of consoles + they already sell some of their games on Steam. And also, Sony is Japanese, so Sony gets all the japanese titles, once again, unlike Xbox.

I might be behind on the Tech News, but did Qualcomm really win the license dispute with ARM that quickly? Over the Nuvia/Oryon IP?

I wish I had a source but AFAIK it was planned, but MediaTek might be reconsidering, since Qualcomm’s X Elites haven’t exactly sold very well. Adoption is too slow.

I wish they put out Mini ITX boards or NUCs. I’d love to mess around with these SoCs in Linux.

There probably isn’t an automated solution for this, but you could just get the SHA checksum of your BIOS dumps and compare them to others’ checksums on the internet.

As for how, well, you can use the shasum command in the terminal on linux. for windows, powershell has get-filehash. and 7zip for windows has a checksumming function as well.

So far, so good; made a new save and the performance improvement is already very noticeable. There’s still problems - loading that save will have me stuttering for the first minute - but overall seeing the game run so smoothly on my ancient Sandy Bridge system makes me so hyped for when MP is re-enabled and some mods are ported forward.

The changes to combat are also so obvious in hindsight. Why would working out make my arms sore, but taking the lives of a hundred boids wouldn’t? There’s going to be way, way more painkiller abuse moving forward than in my previous playthroughs now.

There’s no concievable way for Filipinos to move on from Facebook when it’s the only platform that’s mostly usable with free data. It’s been a while since I had to use it, but iirc the experience was mostly complete sans Post media. Comments loaded photos just fine and most people uploaded the post’s photos in the comments as well, as a courtesy.

So yeah, bar facebook making an incredible mistake, zuck’s trojan is here to stay.

And Reddit just got lucky that they implemented New Reddit on the Web and first-party apps on Mobile right as it took off here in Ph, so most pinoys don’t know what they missed out on Reddit’s more focused, simpler times and with the relatively recent death of the 3P API.

As I read somewhere on the internet, Reddit does have an interest in expanding the Philippine userbase. But I think it’s a vague plan at best and at some point, Reddit wont get the ROI they want.

Reddit isn’t new or dazzling like Bluesky. It popped off in 2019 and the pandemic helped it maintain momentum but it has the same problems Lemmy has right now.

The biggest subreddits are chugging along but its not gonna foster any small communities the same way a Facebook group will. and I suspect most lurkers will just go back to facebook eventually.

WTF is that title, Guardian??

Anong issue sa titulong “Sara Duterte pledges to have Marcos Jr Assassinated if She Is Killed” or something similar?

Android Authority 's TL;DR (conveniently) doesn’t mention the actual downside to this update. But it’s fine imo, since this was actually a pretty insightful read.

My TL;DR:

• Google’s ARR/VRR implementation is hopefully more compatible with the GKI system vs. current per-vendor, per-device implementations
• To add this support, vendors must implement v3 of the Hardware Composer and Hardware Abstraction Layer APIs.
• That means also undoing existing kernel changes for their devices and retooling it to support HWC & HAL v3. Lots of engineering time.
• This solution still isnt perfect. There’s a notable limitation in something called the “panel’s Tearing Effect”, but im not an expert at displays so CTRL+F it for the paragraph in question.

The type of person to rock Calibre would probably have airplane mode on constantly. Mine’s been that way and I still have epubs sideloaded on my Kindle from when I first got mine all those years ago.

It’s not confirmed. Its just pessimism, albeit very well argued and precedented.

Everything except the Mac line has a locked boot process. So your iPhone or iPad must run the latest iOS, must have an Apple ID, must source apps from Apple, and Apple has gotten so good at securing their devices that its basically killed hobbyist jailbreaking.

Anything you do on these multi thousand dollar devices is only because Apple allows you to— reluctantly, I might add.

I’m not aware of good posting conventions, so I posted this without a timestamp. However, for people without SponsorBlock installed, I suggest you jump ahead to the 36 minute, 45 second mark.

Here’s also some more verbose details:

Title: Community & our shared dreams for the Filipino youth
Subtitle: 2024 Fr. Antonio Gonzalez, O.P. Memorial Lecture

EDIT: I’ve edited the post with a different, more streamlined title (imo) and added the timestamp. Again, if this is unwelcome behavior, please dm me or reply to this comment.

(I don’t use lemmy very often, so please be patient if I don’t reply… for days…)

I didn’t take my time to read this with my full attention, I’ll be the first to admit; But I think this article is being way too dramatic and paranoid. And thats coming from somebody certifiably overdramatic and paranoid.

EDIT: to add, it does have some reference to past and current events in the technology space but it quickly devolves into baseless, referenceless speculation.

Also, is this just a “stole this topic from xyz social media” article but from Hacker News instead of Reddit?