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13 points ·
Reminds me of a local pro-privacy group I came across a while back, whose only public online presence was a Facebook group.
Like I get it from a "reach" standpoint, and I think it's fine if you're following a POSSE system, but I feel a lot of people don't do that.
2 points ·
It definitely looks like it's going to be a standard USB HID type device, if their SDL support is anything to go by.
2 points ·
Windows is pretty much the same as Linux, it exposes the raw events from the device and it's up to the app to handle them. Pretty sure the overlay handles that by sitting between the OS and the game and e.g. translating everything to Xbox style controls if the game needs it (And getting out of the way if it doesn't)
Outside of that, well Valve added support for the controller to SDL, so anything using it will be fully supported. But then the game needs to actually be using a new enough version of SDL, otherwise it'll just see a generic controller device, and that can be hit or miss.
4 points ·
Going by the store page, the frame is using UFS, aka a hardwired SSD.
22 points ·
Yeah, it's got 256GB or 1TB of internal storage, so you can just use the microSD card to move the game from i.e. the deck to the frame.
1 points ·
These days a steam console would be much more attractive.
And you're right, I want one.
6 points ·
They had the "Steam Machine", but effectively nobody bought it. Maybe now with the Deck people would be more open to it, who knows.
7 points ·
1 of the main things i think is how memory is laid out is different somehow? so every memory access needs extra clock cycles to accomplish in standard arm64
It's down to "memory ordering", as different cores interact with RAM there's rules that govern how those cores see changes made by other cores. ARM systems are "weak", so rely on developers to be explicit about the sharing, while x86's "Total Store Order" is considered "strong" and relies on the hardware to disentangle it all so software can make assumptions and play fast and loose.
You can do software emulation of strong memory ordering on a weak system, but it's slow. What Apple did was provide a hardware implementation of strong ordering in their ARM chips, and Rosetta enables that when running x86 code, so users don't encounter that slowdown.
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11 points ·
We were mistaken as the entry for Austria and nobody wants to admit that mistake
8 points ·
Syngenta has consistently denied any link between paraquat and Parkinson’s, pointing to regulatory reviews in the U.S., Australia and Japan that found no evidence of causality.
Well I don't know about the US or Japan, but I can trust my government to do the right thing.
The chief executive confirmed the science underpinning the regulator’s decision rests largely on an earlier report prepared for the APVMA in 2016, which also assessed mice studies linking paraquat to Parkinson’s disease.
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That report acknowledged Dr Cory-Slechta and her co-authors’ findings from 2002 that paraquat caused hallmarks of Parkinson’s in mice that were injected with the chemical.
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But the 2016 report’s authors ultimately dismissed those findings, on the basis that an unpublished paper, **funded by Syngenta**, could not reproduce them.
1 points ·
They've done some amazing work.
10 points ·
It's "FEX", Valve have apparently been testing it with Proton.
The Asahi Linux team have their own packaging/tooling around it, but theirs is slower at runtime because they have to run the games inside a VM as well.
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5 points ·
Hmm, for me it just says "This item is not available for purchase in your region", not sure I know that currency.
3 points ·
What you see in stuff like Google Maps or OpenStreetMap isn't plain Mercator, it's a variant called "Web Mercator"
And the US DoD doesn't like it because it introduces even more deviations than plain Mercator.