Ngl a 90s PC beige steam deck would be amazing to run emudeck on

I tried this but even permanent marker kept rubbing off

Idk where you live, but a number of countries give you a 14 day cool-off period where you can return purchases for any reason.

A lemmy.ml mod, being an absolute joke of a mod? Say it ain’t so!

and 40fps feels like it’s a lot closer to 60fps than it really is.

Counter-intuitively, 40fps, not 45fps, is the mid point between 30fps and 60fps, so it really is closer than what a lot of people think.

On the surface that seems impossible, but looking at frame times tells the story.

Let’s divide 1 second by 30, 40, and 60:

• 1 / 30 = 0.033s per frame

• 1 / 40 = 0.025s per frame (0.08s less time per frame than 30fps)

• 1 / 60 = 0.017s per frame (0.08s less time per frame than 40fps)

Channel? I think you may be thinking of the other tech Linus

Or does Torvalds have a channel now

Being the creator of the most successful open source project in history gives you a bit of leeway.

Besides, Linus had a major personality change years ago and has since endeavoured to be a lot more polite to people, and it certainly shows.

IIRC, the M chips also have a couple of specific hardware accelerators for some parts of x86 code that ARM devices would usually struggle with. That’s something that other ARM chips (presumably) don’t have.

So the most comparable console there is $456, and this is $700.

That is bad.

The PS5 Pro barely costs more to produce.

$700 is bad. $913 is awful.

Just because the PS3 (a console universally panned as being way too expensive) was similar doesn’t mean PS5 Pro pricing is alright.

No, but it’s been getting stronger relative to the dollar consistently over the past 2 years. But we aren’t seeing that in prices.

I’m not expecting it to be like ~2007 time where £1 was $2.

But things should definitely be better than it was 2 years ago, relative to USD pricing.

The PS5 Pro pricing is testing the waters for PS6 pricing. If they can’t sell well, they can easily drop prices (the PS5 Pro barely costs more than the PS5 to produce). They’re just gathering data on what people will accept.

Doing that with the PS6 is too risky. Sony botched the launch of the PS3 and it backfired on them hard letting MS get a foothold with the 360. MS then did the same with the XBone launch and the PS4 ran away with it.

If people signal to Sony now that the PS5 Pro is way too much (it’s £700/$913 here ffs), then the PS6 will be cheaper. Don’t accept their greed.

If you think $700 is bad, it’s £700 in the UK… which is $913. 🤢

Also:

• median household income, UK (2022): £32,400 ($42,265)

• median household income, USA (2022): $74,580

A PS5 Pro is 26% of the typical UK household monthly income.

A PS5 Pro is 11% of the typical US household monthly income.

The US pricing is bad. The UK pricing is absolutely insane.

The OLED Deck starts at £479. Still a lot but not as egregious. The LCD Deck is currently £262 ($344), which is pretty great.

Based on my pricing…

LCD Deck: starting at £262 ($344)

OLED Deck: starting at £479 ($630)

It’s certainly better. But by enough to justify an 83% higher price? You may as well be saying why buy a MX-5/Miata when a Porsche Boxster 718 is better.

That’s a poor comparison, as Black Myth has just come out and games take a long time to develop. And the Steam Deck 2 literally doesn’t exist yet.

If Nintendo announced a Switch 2 tomorrow, saying it’s compatible with existing Switch games, do you think sales of the Switch would go up, or down?

Dolphin is such a well fleshed out emulation monster that I’m consistently disappointed with other emulators that don’t let me tweak things quite to the same degree

And yet despite the options, it’s not overwhelming like a lot of other highly-configurable software often is. They’ve done such an amazing job.

For anybody confused – or I guess for anybody who wants Dolphin as a Flatpak immediately – Dolphin is already available on Flathub, it just currently isn’t verified. It’s packaged by a third party.

Honestly it’s great to see more first party support for Flatpaks/Flathub.

It’s weird that Valve hasn’t with Steam tbh - they already use Flatpaks/Flathub on the deck, and they’ve asked people not to use Ubuntu’s Snaps (competing app packaging standard to Flatpak) version of Steam, or system packages for other distros - saying that you should only use SteamOS, the latest Ubuntu with a .deb package, or the Flatpak (which is unofficial!!). Just make it official, Valve! Telling people to use it when it’s unofficial seems weird.

Anyway, compliments to the Dolphin team, it’s probably the most impressive emulator I’ve ever used.

And the 3DS emulator that the same team also created!

Tim Sweeney being so against Linux is baffling to me.

You’d think that with Epic battling against Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems that he’d think “huh, we really shouldn’t put all our eggs in the Windows basket, what with Microsoft clearly trying to go down the locked-down mobile-like route for Windows”, but he doesn’t. He’s just relying on Microsoft’s goodwill (lol). It’s crazy.

It’s testament to Microsoft’s incompetence that they still haven’t got an “Xbox handheld OS” so-to-speak, or at the very least offered a trimmed down windows with an Xbox UI frontend to handheld OEMs.

The Steam Deck is a success, there’s other handhelds on the market (a common review criticism often being how poor windows works on them), Sony is in discussions with AMD for hardware for a handheld (albeit it’s a long way off).

MS’s incompetence in gaming is staggering.

Open source just means you can get the source code, it doesn’t mean you can take over a project.

Asus can’t just take SteamOS, apply some driver tweaks, change some options, and release it as a SteamOS device.

A lot of SteamOS is proprietary, and Valve of course owns all the IP related to the branding. Asus literally needs Valve’s blessing to do it.

Asus are certainly welcome to help Valve with their code, but Valve could also say no this is our project.

And of course they can fork the open part of SteamOS and brand it as something else, and not install steam/steamUI, but that’s half the reason people use the steam deck. It wouldn’t be SteamOS without that.