That seems like a reasonable assertion, given piracy fears that would likely drive up the price, or the lengthy searches needed to find the right IP holder to grant permission for release.

I mean, if what we’re using is pulled from a chipset on the motherboard whose storage space isn’t rewritable from the OS interface, wouldn’t that be called firmware? You are using a flash chip to boot after all.

Yes

“Let’s get this out onto a tray.”

“Nice.”

Reminds me of the “crate depression” in TF2 where the hats became worthless overnight but the crates became worth more than a AAA steam game

That’s probably one of the reasons why this was done. It removed the chokehold of scarcity by making everything attainable (you can now “trade up” from common to best items without having any RNG involved)

Cuphead, Papers Please, Freedom Planet, and Quake 1 and 2 work perfectly with that configuration in steam on both my Debian-based and Arch based linux installations (Games installed to disk using their provided installers and then having their windows executables added to steam with Proton 9).

If you have something esoteric about your setup, explain it here, and we can look at it.

Dude, you know you can integrate non-steam games into your steam library to deploy proton/have them in your game selection, right? It’s literally two clicks.

Wouldn’t that lead to a “Clipper Chip” situation where somone figured out how to isolate the issue? I think the Graphene team already did it.

Correction: GrapheneOS has implemented permission controls for sensors. It also has sandboxing and permission scopes to prevent many of those leaks.

However, Graphene is not available to everyone, and it’s still problematic due to bystanders/passerby.

That’s in “3d print your own because the market (outside of China) won’t manufacture and support such a niche unit” territory.

(Or the “just use your damn phone” which would probably be said by some tone deaf ppl)

3d printers? Pipes, nails, and cordite/fulminates?

Factory built firearms I can believe, but I don’t believe that the populace would be incapable of constructing their own, nor would be unwilling to if push came to shove.

It is a modern phenomenon, but there is no effective way to fully disarm a population without vetting and restricting the imports and purchases within the entire economy (including the internet/communications infrastructure), which I’d imagine the UK doesn’t want to do.

I’m sure it’s nothing a bit of cheese-grating the graphics and a little Lossless Scaling VK can’t fix.

Gotta love the catharsis of emulating Nintendo’s flagships on competing products, though. Hard to do that for Apple’s hardware (although less relevant).

It’s a nintendo launch: decent games at “fuck you” prices, anti consumer software restrictions, and overpriced hardware that probably will break on you and need replacement.

(Also the emulators fucking slap on steam deck, Switch 1 games and below run great)

4GB RAM? That’s a whole vanilla Minecraft Java edition server right there, for free! :)

I’m currently in the inverse situation - was an active Mint user, but I’m running into gaming-related roadblocks due to Mint’s update philosophy, so I might be jumping to CatchyOS.

Nah, Ubuntu is perfect for a Mac user - they love the abusive, arbitrary decisions made by their OS designers lol

Holy shit voyager dude. Could I get a virtual autograph? Love your app!