And how will my individual purchasing decision avoid “the Android situation”? 🙄

You’re not getting my point. I’m talking about the linux infrastructure, not individual purchases.

instances/hubs/rpcs cannot block a user account or community

Great! I was looking for a social media platform without the possibility of moderation. 🙄 /s

I’m not sure if those people actually want Linux, then.

I get it, but no one is stopping asus from making the drivers public.

I also get why asus likes the “blessing” of Valve for marketing purposes, etc. But I have a bad feeling that this could result in a new part of the linux world where hardware manufacturers don’t contribute to the driver ecosystem.

I don’t want a world where the only sensible way to run your rog ally is through SteamOS and all the other distros have driver issues.

I’m looking at all these “news” reports and think to myself: “… but bazzite is already there! How is this news?”

EndeavourOS is nice, but I wouldn’t suggest noobs to start with an arch based distro.

I guess we’re old now, if folks don’t know trollface anymore.

That’s what I meant with “prior art”. Nintendo’s second patent basically explains how any old JRPG worked.

It works on arch, though. The NixOS build has some weird hiccup they couldn’t resolve yet.

Especially since the AR gimmick doesn’t really work with PCVR and the black and white passthrough is good enough.

You can block internet access via adguard home (DNS blocking), or via your router. Unfortunately, to sideload apps (like ALVR), you need to activate dev mode which needs registration and therefore internet access.

But ALVR works really great with the quest 2 (unless you run NixOS and a Nvidia GPU) 😭

Copyright is already cooked, no matter where it’s located. But the way japan acts as if Pokemon invented JRPG battles is simply ridiculous.

the fact that patents on game mechanics are even allowed is just awful for the industry as a whole

Yes, definetly.

“moving characters to a virtual field when an event is triggered” (entering a battle)

How is that a legit patent, when there are so many obvious instances of prior art?

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Phenom X4? That thing probably can’t really handle YT HD streams.

You could get away with nothing but the Pi, depending on what you’ve got lying around.

Guess it depends on how much hardware you already got lying around. I could scrounge up an SD card, an old phone charger, a fan, keyboard and mouse from my supply and I’ve got a 3D printer.

I’m all for recycling though. I’m just not sure if a $100 i5 system could handle all that bloat on the web.

Also: I really like AV1. 😅

Cheaper than a raspberry? O.o

You could recreate them if you had the training data, which is pretty much never disclosed.