Buelldozer

TCL Nextware G

Thanks! They are a bit more than I expected but still not bad even at $249.

They sound neat. I’d like to try some, what did you get?

Got a link to an article or something discussing that?

That isn’t exactly true with Steam. Valve does allow a dev to offer a discount at a different store as long as that same discount comes to Steam in a reasonable amount of time.

Straight from the docs:“It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.”

Samsung Dex already does this with Android.

Very odd comparison…

Not really. There are more people using Steam than own a PS5 or Xbox X. So in what reality does Steam “not work for most people”?

you just need to sign up and you’re considered a user.

You’ll note that I used Steam’s ACTIVE user statistic. That’s not people who just “signed up”, those are people playing games on Steam.

Steam works just fine for most people.

Steam doesn’t work for most people? You sure about that? It has 132 Million active users, that’s nearly double the number of PS 5s that have been sold!

I’ll have to try the UET mod but the author’s changelog doesn’t inspire much confidence.

“Game-Key Cards” so it’s a licensing dongle with a fancy name and peculiar shape.

I feel ya. Two still in their boxes JetKVMs and a new Pi 500 is just the start for me. Soooo much stuff, so much money, and hundreds of hours of research into all of them.

It’s the other steps that make it ADHD.

Oh man, this one is a direct hit.

Slackware 3.1.

And for a lot of people I would still recommend Windows.

Eh, only if someone needs it.

For instance my 75 year old father is happily using Linux Mint on his laptop. Why? Because all he’s doing with it is web surfing, watching youtube, and checking his email. At home that’s all most people are doing, especially older people. I set his up so that it backs up his stuff and auto-updates. It just works and if it does get broken I can recover it with minimal effort.

It’s the same for me at home. My main PC is Linux Mint where I do almost everything. For the occasions I need Windows I have an Intel NUC attached to my KVM. For work I’ve got LM installed on my work laptop and when I need Win11 I have a VM setup in QEMU/KVM with it.

Are there people who have workloads, or gameloads, that only run on Windows? Sure there. We all know that.

But there are a lot of people, especially home users, who could easily run Linux and don’t.

There is no comparison between a top of the line SGI workstation from 1993-1995 and a gaming rig built in 2025. The 2025 Gaming Rig is literal orders of magnitude more powerful.

In 1993 the very best that SGI could sell you was an Onyx RealityEngine2 that cost an eye-watering $250,000 in 1993 money ($553,000 today).

A full spec breakdown would be boring and difficult but the best you could do in a “deskside” configuration is 4 x single core MIPS processors, either R4400 at 295Mhz or R10000 at 195Mhz with something like 2GB of memory. The RE2 system could maybe pull 500 Megaflops.

A 2025 Gaming Rig can have a 12 core (or more) processor clocked at 5Ghz and 64GB of RAM. An Nvidia 4060 is rated for 230 Gigaflops.

A modern Gaming Rig absolutely, completely, and totally curb stomps anything SGI could build in the early-mid 90s. The performance delta is so wide it’s difficult to adequately express it. The way that Pixar got it done was by having a whole bunch of SGI systems working together but 30 years of advancements in hardware, software, and math have nearly, if not completely, erased even that advantage.

If a single modern gaming rig can’t replace all of the Pixar SGI stations combined it’s got to be very close.

If you can buy a Tesla cheap enough the usable parts, such as batteries and motors, can be moved to a different frame or vehicle. Even an ICE vehicle that you’d like to electrify. It’s all just parts.

That sucks. If I can’t control the ads with settings, dns fuckery, or firewalling then I guess I’ll leave their ecosystem.

Some TVs already have the ability to connect to sidewalk. More worrying is that every newer “Smart” TV has the ability to cast to it so if anyone ever does that using an internet connected device like a SmartPhone then bam…your TV just got an internet connection and can now send out stored data and potentially grab a firmware update.

Surprise!

It gets its internet connection from the PC; both HDMI and DisplayPort allow this.

but now that Roku has pop up ads for simply moving around the app menu

Huh? I have 3 Roku Ultras, a Roku Stick, and a Roku TV and none of them do that. Have you gone into the Roku settings menu recently and checked your advertising settings?