Not a laptop-class one, no. That’s why I said custom. A PS5 Pro uses an APU and is more powerful than most people’s desktops.

It absolutely would. 16GB of VRAM and another 16GB of system RAM adds up. Plus the other associated costs.

The rumour is nonsense and Valve isn’t making a console with a 9070.

I know Debain 13 likely won’t come out until August or September, but with Debian 13 hoping to use Gnome 48 (which is either still in alpha or just entering beta) and Plasma 6.3… does anybody else feel like Debian is getting quicker at moving to new DE releases?

Nice. I’ve already been happy with GTK4 so far, and it looks like GTK5 is removing a lot of legacy baggage. I hope this makes things more maintable for the devs.

Like I said, it’s likely cheaper if you’re not going to sell many units, but if you can recoup the design costs through selling a decent amount, it can easily become cheaper.

Less in the way of packaging costs, fewer VRMs and other power circuitry, a less advanced cooling setup, and – probably most critically – you only need one pool of memory, not dedicated RAM for the CPU and separate VRAM for the GPU.

Interesting that it uses a dedicated 9070 (ugh that name), rather than being a custom APU, like the other AMD consoles and the deck. Surely this just adds cost and design complexity.

That said, perhaps they’re being cautious - if you can’t sell a lot of them, a custom APU isn’t worth it. It’s also probably much faster to bring to market if you’re using off-the-shelf parts.

world leaders including Emmanuel Macron, Narendra Modi and JD Vance.

🤔

I have ran into them during nesting season dozens of times, I’ve lived within 2 minutes walk of them for the past 8 years. They hiss if you get close (say within 2m), but that’s about it.

The swans in the same lake have been far more aggressive.

I always see people online saying they’re evil, loud, and super aggressive. I live about 90 seconds walk from a lake with about a hundred of them, and I’ve never seen them be that way ever, unless you get close to them when they have young - even then they only hiss. To me they seem like an extremely chill bird.

Maybe the ones that were introduced to the UK are somehow more chill than they are in North America.

People love populism and easy solutions.

And when you’re a good enough grifter – as Farage undoubtedly is – even when you do get your own way and things turn to shit, you can just blame everybody else before latching onto the next grift.

Labour are pretty damn far from being socialist, but to say they won’t implement any leftwing policies isn’t particularly true, surely?

There’s rail renationalisation, a nationalised energy firm, there’s an increase in workers’ rights, there’s the windfall energy tax, actually taxing the wealthiest farmland owners, etc.

Far more could be done, and some other aspects of their government is basically just more of the same, but it’s unhelpful to pretend there’s no left-wing policies coming from them.

Let it run out. Businesses should be allowed to fail. That’s capitalism.

If the state want to buy the assets for a bargain price, so much the better.

I think they mean HDR and some ancillary things have taken longer to implement.

This is true, but it’s important to remember that a huge amount of this work on Plasma was spearheaded by Valve. Gnome doesn’t have that going for them.

Gnome also generally doesn’t enable things until it’s implemented in a way that they feel is very polished and isn’t a workaround. Plasma’s HDR implementation was pretty whacky for a while.

There are some areas where Gnome is ahead of Plasma, but most PC users don’t really care about it, so it never gets mentioned (understandably so).

Accessibility in Gnome is better than any other DE, IMO, and it’s getting better. Not many people actually use these options though, and even the people that use one accessibility feature don’t often use other accessibility features. So Gnome being pretty great in that regard flies completely under the radar.

“Adaptive” apps are something Gnome is great at, too. Take virtually any Libadwaita/GTK4 app, and resize it, they work remarkably well at any size. Size it really small and it’ll even (extremely seamlessly) turn into a pretty great phone UI. I find it pretty incredible tbh, but it’s of little use right now because Linux phones aren’t really a thing. If we get a future of Linux phones, though, Gnome seems really well positioned for that.

Some monitors say they’re HDR, when in fact they support it so badly it feels criminal to say they support it. It is a terrible idea to enable it on one of those.

Niche means expensive.

There are some in this community who are willing to go into “2008 web forum user in a PlayStation vs Xbox thread” over basically any consumer electronics they buy. Not just in terms of PC handhelds, but stuff like graphics card vendor too. It’s wild.

Bought a steam deck? Well then everything else is utter SHIT and those people are MORONS. Anybody that doesn’t buy a Steam Deck should be Windows only, even if that disadvantages me too!

We should be welcoming of people running whatever OS they want, and welcoming of manufacturers giving the option of SteamOS. Even more so when it will benefit Linux (and by extension Steam Deck) gamers.

As for the “poor Linux support” - that’s exactly what people are talking about reversing. If it officially supported SteamOS and had up-streamed drivers in the kernel, it wouldn’t have poor Linux support.

As for the other stuff, sure, perhaps you’re right. But nobody is saying you have to buy it. It’s still a benefit to you as a SD user to have more people using SteamOS.

To everybody dismissing this because they already have a steam deck: do you not think more SteamOS devices is a good thing for Linux/Proton gaming? This benefits Steam Deck owners too.

I have a deck and would 100% buy a Deck 2 assuming the price isn’t crazy, but I absolutely want more SteamOS offerings from other companies too.

It’s nice seeing an open source, modular laptop where it appears they actually tried to make it usable, rather than being the size of a briefcase.

That’s true, and part of why I say I don’t have any proof/that it’s just a feeling of mine.

Maybe I’m just being overly pessimistic, but there’s a few companies that BIFL on Reddit seem to really like and never shut up about. Maybe my fears are wrong though.

Regardless, this Lemmy BIFL community is so small it won’t even be on companies’ radars, so I’m not worried about it here for the time being