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Gosh, "Hacker News" has become such an abstract garbage can for farfetched longwinded bs articles..

Today I'll unsubscribe, I won't miss your preference for normie filler content..

Stopped reading at "Use Brave", "Use Mullvad Browser".

Know your local noob by which browser fork he uses.

Upstream security response will always be better, your "builtin" features doesn't mean its more lightweight and it adds more attack vectors to a less vetted product.

Interesting. I think the software is absolutely tasteless. For a long time it had to update "twice", asking you to restart steam 2 times in a row. It defaults to showing an "ad" on startup. Its chat had a bug that had hidden messages everytime someone wrote you, so you had to reopen the window several times to see it.

Headbangingly bad software and UI design. I've seen people from Fiverr create better UI in 2 hrs.

Not to mention there's a terrible 5-10% sale 99% of the year thats more expensive than everywhere else you can buy the game.. Just great.. What a treat to gamers, gotta feel real lucky to get -5% off 365 days a year!

You are still downplaying the effort of Wine massively. Wine is several millions lines of code compared to Proton and it isn't just "syscalls", its decades of trial and error and bugfixing making a mature codebase that Proton is based on. You might think only DXVK matters, just because you are one of the manchilds who buys these extremely hollow GPU-intensive soulless games at launch just to be disappointed every single time.

You just plain out refuse to see it, cuz you totally drank the kool aid.

Steamdeck have literally zero AAA-games compared to Nintendo, because thats the joy of owning a Steamdeck! Smearing diapers in Nintendos face and pirating their games like a true neckbeard, right?

Steam neckbeards are such manchilds. The "idea" of a Steamdeck sells more than the actual games and this is what this article proves. Sad, but true.

The catalog of games on Steam suck, objectively. Unpopular opinion maybe - to those that are addicted to browsing shitty new soulless games on Steam.

>There's certainly cause to celebrate Wine's accomplishments reverse-engineering Win32. But it's far from the only thing required to get games running, and I think you've oversold it's importance.

Thats like saying you think I've oversold Chromium because Brave has done the heavy lifting (I bet you use Brave too, I sure don't nor ever will).. You sound incredibly confirming to the gamer-stupidity that revolves around the Steamdeck community.. You literally discredit Wine a decades old project to shine on a fork that is a few years old. You're exactly the type I'm talking about- get a grip.

Totally. Steam store looks like a god damn aliexpress marketplace and is tasteless design.

The Store UI is disgusting and intrusive compared to all other competitors who actually have a decent overview and design..

You can collect gems, cards and other misleading virtual currencies.. Tons of misleading business practises and time-consuming bloatware distractions hidden behind that terrible UI.

Steam is first and foremost DRM. A game-prison. You don't own a single thing. Gamers have totally drunk the kool aid.. They forgot back when Steam was bloatware forced on Half-Life and Valve games and it was despised for a decade before they became complacent little worshippers.

this is what happens when you ship experimental software as "stable" on a handheld system. could have told you in advance. expect game-breaking crashes and bugs sooner or later the more you use it.

> The Steam Deck is a great gaming system. This isn’t because of it’s great battery life. A Nintendo Switch would probably have better battery life. It’s not because of its great performance. I don’t usually play AAA games, so I wouldn’t know.

First paragraph pretty much confirms my belief that some people who aren't hardcore gamers don't buy the Steamdeck to play games, they buy it because they are Steam/Valve fanboys.

Steam doesn't give a flying f if it runs the games on Xorg or Wayland - the Wine project made Wine run on Wayland, not Steam. What Steam does is hire Crossover developers to hack compatability to newer games, because thats all that matters from a business perspective and Valve is as corporate as any other.

Don't forget that Wine has been a a several decades long project before Steam hired some Crossover devs to fork it and take the limelight from the original project, the gamer-stupidity seems to forget this and give all credit to Valve which is ignorant and disrespectful to the work Wine has put in over several decades.

Lots of Linux ports have been cancelled since this is becoming the norm.. Rocket League and many other games simply don't see the reason to maintain their Linux ports. Linux ports are being cancelled more than ever.

Honestly, this shift towards running everything in Wine disgusts me. If you told me before the Steamdeck released that they would try to sell a handheld running wine on battery I'd be pissing myself laughing from how inefficient and terrible that sounds. Software crash can happen at any time, thats life with Wine.

Another thing is that I know people who own Steamdecks who have zero clue what games to play on it. It ends up being pirated Nintendo games or emulator games. Often they have to fiddle with control maps, settings before playing.

My idea of a handheld is that I don't want to tinker with it. I want the integrated out-of-the-box experience - maintaining another system despite my own PC is not something I prioritize my time on, same reason I don't buy an Android phone, really..

Native Linux ports matters!

I will gladly uBlacklist (browser extension) medium, substack cancer off my searches

Less of a product probably doesn't exist on the internet. Its one step from a link shortener.

He also paid an advertisement (still running on youtube I assuming, seen it within the last week) "Anyone who visits this page get $1200" or something in that range..

He's a clickbaity youtuber profiting on 'free money scams' I hope he gets banned.

YouTube Posts - go away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Martin_(hacker) https://youtu.be/dF2YQ92WKpM Hector Martin of Asahi Linux. Some talks on reversing M1, I thought it was one of the best I've heard this year.

Vim is way more customizable and portable than any gui editor imo. An extreme amount of filetype support is builtin to the vim runtime, try to peek how many definitions there are in the src/runtime path on github.

I think its well worth it. Even for the macros, normal commands there is no more efficient way to edit text.

If all touch keyboards had vim-mode we'd all be more productive on smartphones. People who use vim over ssh on mobile devices knows this. I've remapped the record macro (q) to (qq) on mobile devices and put my normal-mode leader key on q, it works really well.

True, however at some point you have plugins that take near 1s to load like syntax highlighting and its just not possible to reduce that to 100ms

This tip beats all tips https://asciinema.org/a/274255

You can move the line below your bindkey defs so you still have keys.

All laptops suck nowadays. Lenovo and Dell learned from Apple that laptops don't need to last to be expensive.. since Ultrabooks happened laptops have serious QC issues.

1. Write cheatsheet while you learn.

2. Hang out in #vim :)

Give it to me for a week and I will tell you everything wrong with it including all the bugs you haven't found yet.

IDGAF about their "sent DOA and fix later" on-site support. It will NOT fix terrible QC of their motherboards.

Nope. Its all buggy and shitty. Dell XPS had coilwhine for several ages despite numerous complaints and other laptops with same chipsets didn't. The cause? Cheaping out on inductors. Lenovo has firmware issues I just returned my laptop which gone black screen due to some suspend/sleep state at random. This is a huge issue btw affecting more than 20-30+ models. Actually Lenovo support guy I asked for his recommendation said he got the M1 Macbook Air lol, the other one I spoke to said the only one he didn't have complaints about was their flagship P1 model. The previous Dell I tried ordering had GPU DOA. Honestly I don't give a shit about the on-site support the other guy mentioned, its just a bandaid on the problem that all laptops suck, but more often than not no matter how many times you replace a motherboard you can't fix these glaring issues! Its the QUALITY of the motherboard that sucks!

Macbooks aren't perfect either despite having better wifi, audio (and lower noise-floor). I would not choose a Macbook unless an employer gave it to me for free, but then I would without a doubt choose one. Will the logic board fail after 1 year warranty or a year after? Or have other quirks? Most likely!

Android is the same btw, ask me why I run iPhone despite being the largest android fanboi previously.. everything was terribly broken and half-baked.. The only android device I own now is my SONY X900H TV and since latest update it has started to reboot itself at random.

I'm fed up with this..

Would be an odd reference without context, but I'm not sure. I just hope he is alright.

Yeah he seems very depressive, going through some personal stuff.

I think his (pinboard) Twitter-bio said something dark like "The light inside is broken, but I still work" at some point.

You're right, nothing is made to last.

But Macbooks aren't any better.. You'll be paying for a new logic board exactly 1-2 years later out of warranty.

Lenovo has firmware issues which makes an extreme amount of laptops go black screen on resume suspend.

Dell XPS has had coilwhine for ages.

All laptops suck nowadays.