TL;DR: Valve's upcoming Steam Machine, set for release in 2026, aims to combine affordability and ease of use. Recent leaks suggest prices around $950 for a 512GB model and $1,070 for 2TB, comparable to high-end devices, though official pricing remains unconfirmed amid memory supply challenges.
I like how this article does not talk about the anti consumer practices engaged in by Nintendo, that might push some customers away from their consoles. /s Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA. There is already a switch in my household, but the price along with ...
I bought the Switch 1 on launch and loved it, it was everything I was looking for on a console. However, every single joystick broke. I bought several joy con packs and they all drift heavily. Even the pro controller drifts. Nintendo Iberia refused to even repair them. They gave me the option to either replace them with a 20 euro discount or pay 20 euros for them to ship them back.
Awful product quality, awful support, zero accountability. Guess what, I'm spending my money elsewhere.
I would be okay with defective controllers if Nintendo bothered to fix them. Through the entire lifespan of the console they sold controllers that would eventually drift. I own 3 pair of joy cons, they all drift. When sent for repair they were all deemed unrepairable, even those under warranty. That's inexcusable.
In the new iteration of joycons they STILL don't use TMR or hall effect sticks.
So Arch just moved to NVIDIA 590 and dropped Pascal support. I’m running an older Predator laptop with a GTX 1070 (Pascal) + Intel iGPU. After the update, NVIDIA is basically gone, but Intel fallback still gives me a working desktop. ...
AMD cards have support directly in the Kernel, its usually plug and play. You just have to be careful about brand new cards (ie: released very recently) to ensure your distribution of choice has a new enough kernel and mesa.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't cachyos deploying the exact same solution? The only difference seems to be that their package manager offers to swap the packages.
I played a bunch of HoMM 3 but I don't think I understood how to really play the game. That game is a lot more complex than it initially seems and it's not trivial to me when to add new heroes, explore and split your units.
May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else ...
I like the rolling updates, to be honest. Endeavour has been a wonderful and simple experience. Aside from some NVIDIA issues with Wayland it has been a blast.
Final Fantasy X is probably my favorite Final Fantasy of all time. Just don't play X-2, assume the story ends immediately.
The HD remaster has some "cheats" to smoothen your experience, if you ever want to give it another shot:
No random battles
Infinite gil
All non key items
invencibily (to make up for low levels)
This way you can enjoy the story and move quickly through the game.
If you don't enjoy turn based battles nor grinding I think this IP is just not for you. Definitely nothing before Final Fantasy 12. Maybe Final Fantasy 12 is ok, though I thought the story was on the weak side.
JPlus is fully compatible with Java, offering modern language features like null safety, boilerplate code generation and other modern language features to reduce developer burden and maximize productivity. ...
I want to write functions that fail at compile time if called with a null object. You can use annotations to kinda do this, but they do not produce compile errors.
The problem is that when an project is too big and a method is called from multiple contexts it's very easy to lose track of the context where the null check has been done and where it hasn't. This leads to a lot of duplicated null checks around the project and the constant paranoia of "can this be null here?".
A much better way of doing this is using the Optional when an Object can be "null" and a direct instance where it cannot. This way, at any given context you know for absolute sure if a null check is needed or not. However, even with annotations this does not throw a compile error...
But you can't look at a method signature and instantly know who handles the null check. You need to inspect code and calls to know for sure. This will lead to paranoia, sooner or later
Sure but the social aspect in games is often pretty toxic.
I played quite a lot of Dota 2 and while communication and cooperation greatly improve your chances of winning... More often then not it was just someone raging hard over minor mistakes.
Dota is not casual at all, it's quite competitive. It's the reason the communication is so toxic.
Couch co-op games are very nice but in my personal experience friends don't make a habit of gathering to play them. It's a infrequent ocasion, online gaming is much much easier. Boardgames are a cooler experience if you're gonna have people frequently at your place.
Over the past few years I have gone through a bunch of different apps and protocols to find the best one for "securely" communicating with my family and friends. ...
First of all normie not an insult or a derogatory term. The term "normies" is often used in many niche communities to refer to someone outside the community. It has nothing to do with being smart, privileged or experienced. It means more like "the average user" or "the typical person". Example: a person in the boardgaming community may refer to you as a normie, not because you're dumb but because you don't play hobby boardgames (check out Brass: Birmingham, what a game).
The problem isn't about comprehending the problem, most people understand that Facebook is selling their data. They just don't care. They would rather have their data sold than to have the trouble to move to yet another communication app. WhatsApp is working just fine, Facebook is sparking joy. They don't care.
"Normies won't do X" is a perfectly acceptable way to express that the hurdles are too high for the average user. The average user wants a sleek UI, a user friendly experience and most of all they want to be in the place everyone is already at. The average Joe doesn't want to be the first guy on Simple X, they actually really want the hassle free platform everyone is already at.
Also, the next great communication app is constantly changing. It used to be IRC, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Signal, Matrix, Simple X, Session. I'm sorry to say that the average person is not willing to migrate that often. Facebook works, their friends are already there, they stick to it. This isn't elitism, it's just stating what I see.
They can say the same about me, right? I have so many communication apps on my phone, why do I draw the line on Facebook Messenger?
Most likely you're the only person they know on Signal and it makes more sense to them that you move to Facebook rather than moving their entire friend-sphere into Signal.
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We all hate google and youtube, but overall as a community we're all simultaneously lukewarm and non-committal about pushing towards using an alternative. I admittedly cling to invidious frontends for dear life. ...
The main barrier for me transitioning to Linux as my main OS is finding a suitable alternative to AutoHotKey (AHK) on windows. I use AHK for all kinds of automation but haven't found a usable alternative in Wayland. ...
If you want to create keyboard layouts, keyd is very good for that. You can create several keyboard layers and use whatever key you want as a modifier.
I use it to mimic the windows "US International with dead keys" layout that I've grown used to but it can do so much more.
I still see people asking which distro to use, is it ok if they have an Nvidia card? How ready is Linux for a gamer? I have been 8 months now on Linux, it's about this hard to have an Nvidia card: click update. The way I switched was to populate the second m.2 slot on my MB and install Linux there, I chose Nobara, that way I had ...
Gaming on linux is surprisingly good right now. Other than those games that require kernel level anti-cheats, most games work really well.
.... But in case it wasn't clear, the user suggesting linux from scratch is joking. Use Linux Mint or Ubuntu if you're starting your linux journey. Try it on a virtual machine, for instance.
Arch btw...
Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone ( www.tweaktown.com )
TL;DR: Valve's upcoming Steam Machine, set for release in 2026, aims to combine affordability and ease of use. Recent leaks suggest prices around $950 for a 512GB model and $1,070 for 2TB, comparable to high-end devices, though official pricing remains unconfirmed amid memory supply challenges.
Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period ( www.nintendolife.com )
I like how this article does not talk about the anti consumer practices engaged in by Nintendo, that might push some customers away from their consoles. /s Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA. There is already a switch in my household, but the price along with ...
Pascal (GTX 1070) on Arch after NVIDIA 590... what’s the sane long-term path? ( lemmy.world )
So Arch just moved to NVIDIA 590 and dropped Pascal support. I’m running an older Predator laptop with a GTX 1070 (Pascal) + Intel iGPU. After the update, NVIDIA is basically gone, but Intel fallback still gives me a working desktop. ...
Introducing Proton Sheets ( proton.me )
Introducing Proton Sheets ( proton.me )
What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?
What game do you absolutely love that you know yourself is bad, but love it anyway? ...
Why go through the trouble to use Arch?
May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else ...
What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?
Make Your Java Code Null-Safe Without Rewriting ( jplus.hashnode.dev )
JPlus is fully compatible with Java, offering modern language features like null safety, boilerplate code generation and other modern language features to reduce developer burden and maximize productivity. ...
Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?
Why Signal over Jabber/XMPP?
Over the past few years I have gone through a bunch of different apps and protocols to find the best one for "securely" communicating with my family and friends. ...
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Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs ( www.theverge.com )
Using rsync for backups, because it's not shiny and new ( tinkerbetter.tube )
You might not even like rsync. Yeah it's old. Yeah it's slow. But if you're working with Linux you're going to need to know it. ...
Steady ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
When is it time to switch away from youtube?
We all hate google and youtube, but overall as a community we're all simultaneously lukewarm and non-committal about pushing towards using an alternative. I admittedly cling to invidious frontends for dear life. ...
The Netherlands will withdraw from 2026 Eurovision if Israel is allowed to compete ( nltimes.nl )
Spain threatens to withdraw from 2026 Eurovision if Israel participates ( www.yahoo.com )
Independence Pay. Made in Europe
An ad seen in Berlin. Positive news
AutoHotKey Alternative on Wayland
The main barrier for me transitioning to Linux as my main OS is finding a suitable alternative to AutoHotKey (AHK) on windows. I use AHK for all kinds of automation but haven't found a usable alternative in Wayland. ...
I have an Nvidia GPU, can I game on Linux?
I still see people asking which distro to use, is it ok if they have an Nvidia card? How ready is Linux for a gamer? I have been 8 months now on Linux, it's about this hard to have an Nvidia card: click update. The way I switched was to populate the second m.2 slot on my MB and install Linux there, I chose Nobara, that way I had ...
When you haven't told anyone you use Linux for a while
To be fair. This can be applied to apple and windows users sometimes.
Can't we do anything as google is killing AOSP and custom ROMS
It feel like we’re losing to Google, day by day. They aren’t killing AOSP directly, but they are making it useless step by step. ...
Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 ( youtu.be )
[Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - August 2025