That’s interesting that you thought split fiction was harder than it takes two. My partner and I thought the opposite, since split fiction seems to let you get away with skipping a lot of things when one of you is dying (i.e. checkpoint reached by one player counts for both of you). In saying that my other theory is my partner has actually gotten better at games since we played it takes two.

Because retailers are middle-men by definition. Large online resellers just have much less overhead, so the cut they take for being a middleman is much smaller. They often also have the bargaining power to reduce their cost price with the supplier. You should look for things that are produced in large quantities locally, and find ways to purchase direct from supplier, if you want to save money buying locally rather than spending more to support local business. Buying from independent local retailers is for indirect social and economic benefit. We should all endeavour to do it as much as we can but it’s also very hard to justify when cost differences are large.

Honest question, not trying to be adversarial. Do you have any sources behind not trusting networking equipment (I’ve seen the claim from others apply to electronics more broadly) from AliExpress? I don’t buy much from Amazon or AliExpress so I’m not directly impacted but I’ve seen that caveat a lot and haven’t seen reasons why.

Edit: none of the responses to me are specific to AliExpress which pretty much confirms my thoughts that the caution exercised should be equally applied to any retailer.

Can I please query the win10/11 because it’s a shared console? What about it being a) shared or b) a console makes win 10/11 a requirement?

A consistent console-ish experience with pc-like access to games is more a case for Bazzite or steamos than a case for windows.

just decided

Appears to imply they have yet to make it

It’s a joke reference to sellers who will list items for very cheap, but with very high postage costs, to try to trick people into viewing their product more favourably. Nothing actually wrong in this instance.

That’s really unusual. I’ve found, if anything, most of my games run better since switching to Linux. Nothing runs so much worse and I have rarely needed to apply launch options. I wonder if your games aren’t running on your iGPU inadvertently? That’s the only thing that comes to mind that would cause that much of an issue.

That’s really unusual. I’ve found, if anything, most of my games run better since switching to Linux. Nothing runs so much worse and I have rarely needed to apply launch options. I wonder if your games aren’t running on your iGPU inadvertently? That’s the only thing that comes to mind that would cause that much of an issue.

Edit: I just realised you weren’t the same person who posted the top level comment, disregard

A commute-by-car is a great time to charge a smart watch, too.

My 2 cents is that connect works great and this person must have some weird alternative agenda given they’re suggesting premium features and ad free browsing despite your comment.

Audiobookshelf supports EPUB files and other ebook formats. You can put them alongside audiobooks (offering a UI option to either read or listen) or use purely ebooks although obviously a little overkill if you aren’t using the audio features at all

Jusant is cool. Deck runs kinda loud but the gameplay is very enjoyable on controller.

You’re a legend - been rocking default nvim for months on nix and had tried a couple of times to understand how to configure it but nothing stuck. Had somehow missed nixvim and got a colour scheme and a couple of plugins going before work this morning thanks to you.

Now to learn how plugins actually work!

Make them in a portable language. Something like Java for example. Or you can write in rust and compile for each target.

I’ve gotten a CalDAV server, audiobookshelf, and selfhosted obsidian live sync running on my laptop while I wait for movers to bring my shit to my house. Then gotta migrate it all across to my mini PC afterwards. Doing a modular NixOS setup to replace/complement what I used to have running on proxmox.

Once everything is on a dedicated machine I’m going to make a nice little homepage for it, inspired by a previous thread here.

I’d argue you could sell the ps5 and the games and make enough money to mostly (possibly entirely) cover the cost of building a more versatile device, but it’s also a bit of effort when you already have a setup that works for you

Edit: also, the system we’re talking about should comfortably run 1440p60 for the foreseeable future. Newer flagship hardware is targeting higher resolution and much higher frame rates.

If you buy parts that are a couple of generations older there is absolutely a middle ground between the ridiculous new GPUs and the steam deck on performance, that you could probably build for a similar price to the deck. I would aim for an AM4 build to take advantage of how cheap ddr4 RAM is, with a 3xxx or 5xxx Ryzen CPU. Something like the 3080 is a great card for a cheap price but I personally would go for an AMD card. A few hundred extra (again in AUD) gets you a good 7800XT which is a pretty damn beefy card, but might be better to drop down a couple of models to save on power consumption.

Going even further, you can take someone’s ATX PC secondhand, swap out the motherboard for a smaller form factor and slap it in a little case.

As for OS, if you want it to be exactly like the deck you could run Bazzite, but SteamOS is either available, or about to be available.

Oblivion was released on consoles and had great controller layouts. I played it for years on PS3. Not sure if Morrowind has a similar experience.

I came here to say schitts creek! Took me 3-4 tries to really get into it but I’m glad I did.

Textbook case of a cognitive bias. If you’re going the speed limit, every car that passes you is speeding. You don’t see all the other cars doing the speed limit.