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Sometimes I grab a pizza from the refrigerator isle at my local Lidl. They’re definitely not fresh or gourmet quality, but for 2.90€ and 15 minutes in the oven, you really can’t complain

Orange juice is nothing like apple juice, and yet both still sell

No surprise there. It’s backed by a reputable company, built well, supported well, and continues to receive updates that affect not only the handheld itself, but the rest of the linux gaming scene all together. Plus it’s an absolute steal for the money.

Other brands had it all written out for them, but they all opted in for a quick buck, with generic bullshit with no understanding of what made the Deck so appealing

Sometimes horrible things happen to people who least deserve it, but these people literally voted for what is happening

I really appreciate this one. Have done this on my other devices too, and while it does cut battery life by a little, your battery health will remain high for considerably longer

Yet again proves that capitalism is a cancer, and they’ll never be happy with anything, except for endless exponential growth

Even back around 2006, my biology teacher did exams on paper only, with questions that are free response only. Even AI and cheating aside, people get way too lucky with multiple choice exams

That’s just the reality of these tech circles. The goal isn’t to complete. The goal is to eliminate your competition, one way or another.

It’s happened with smartwatches, it happened with Nest, it happened with voice Assistant/Home devices, and it’ll continue happening with the rest of what they make too

That’s the good part. There’s plenty of choice, and it’s easy to swap

What is happening to GNOME is truly one of the biggest fumbles in OSS. They could have just continued improving things, but instead choose the path of most resistance, refused to commit to any logical strategies for further improvement, and are now stuck in a loop of nothing getting done

Yes. I didn’t like it nearly as much, if at all. I’ve heard mods make that game infinitely more enjoyable though, so maybe i’ll try it again some day

I fully agree with that. There are some games that are fully worth the price, even if the hours/$ isn’t quite there, but in most cases it’s not anymore

For indie and cheaper stuff specifically? The Binding of Isaac is over 1k hours between my two copies. Rimworld, Factorio, and Terraria are all close to 500h as well. If Minecraft counts as one for you, this is an outlier with roughly 4k hours since 2011.

Otherwise, I am quite into MMOs and story-rich singleplayer RPGs, so there’s a handful of them with well over several thousands of hours played too.

The amount of options isn’t the issue.

For most 25-40€ games I buy, i can get a great experience for the next 30-50 hours.

Indie games absolutely crush the statistics, where some sub-15€ roguelikes have such insane replayability, that i’ve clocked over a thousand hours into a couple. Not to mention how incredibly creative, unique, and story rich some of them are.

Meanwhile, what used to be 60€, and is now 80€+, is some “cinematic” 20fps on console slop, that you can barely get 5 hours of real gameplay out of. I don’t wanna sit there and watch a movie with an occasional A button press. Or even worse, play something like the Assassins Creed reboot, that had 500 hours of gameplay, 490 of which is just useless collectibles around the map.

It’ll take another massive quality scandal, or just a generation of shit products, but sure

I have used MO2 to mod my games for the past decade, and i still use it with just as much success on Linux. Strongly recommended

That’s just such unnecessary friction. If it already works, just stop treating people like they’re guilty first, and have to be acquitted later

On Nix, trying it out is the easiest case scenario of all. Try out the community flake, and roll back if it isn’t up to your standards yet

That’s kind of the point though. One of the foundational pillars of a good distribution is mature package management, and that includes not relying on self-updaters that will pollute your system with untracked files

You can already do that now. Either install the cosmic group, or cosmic-session-git from AUR for a newer version from upstream