I'm assuming it is from how it was used, I just don't think I've ever heard the phrase before. It must not be popular where I live or in my usual internet communities.
Maybe it's a British thing, or maybe I'm just old and out of touch.
Didn't that lawsuit get thrown out?
This could be something different, but apple often feels like they intentionally hold upgrades back and instead release them in small improvements over multiple releases.
From another article I read, these patents sound extremely basic and to be simple concepts, the kind of things that shouldn't be patentable.
Some of the listed patents included stuff like round speaker, that connects to the internet, and can be controlled by vocal commands. Not exactly innovative stuff that needs to be safeguarded against thieves.
I mean running the same game at the same settings/resolution/etc the Deck will get significantly better battery life. You can offset this somewhat by using task manager to close background processes in windows, but it still takes a lot more power to run stuff on the ROG Ally than the deck.
An example from Ally reviews was Stardew valley ran at 6-8w on the deck, but was pulling 16-20w on the Ally with same settings. Using task manager to close windows processes for the Ally down to the 12-15w range, but that's still a huge jump. This isn't even taking into consideration that you can tweak deck performance settings to run Stardew valley at a much lower power setting, I've seen people go as low as 3.8w giving them 10+ hours of battery life.
Yeah, I feel like the Steam Deck is the only handheld PC that could be a decent experience without trackpad, since it provides a console like experience. It's pretty unacceptable in my opinion to have windows handhelds forcing a windows desktop experience without a trackpad.
I think Valve has good intentions and wants a lot of things done soon, but they just don't have enough people on their Steam Deck team to get things done at the speed they want.
Yeah, I was puzzled why Valve chose KDE to be the default desktop for a touchscreen device. Ultimately though I figured they just wanted a Linux desktop that would be more familiar to Windows users.
There is a full desktop mode available, it runs Linux so any game that can be made to run on Linux will work.
The battery seems like better than a marginal improvement. Valve claims 30-50% longer battery life, but some early reviews are reporting better improvements than that (IGN reports that Cyberpunk went from 1.5 hours to 2.5 hours, same settings).
I think it was just an overly enthusiastic fan base turning people against the game.
I mean the first line in the Reuters article is:
"Oct 9 (Reuters) - A California federal judge has thrown out a $32.5 million verdict for wireless-audio company Sonos (SONO.O) against rival Google (GOOGL.O) after finding that the Sonos patents at the heart of the case were unenforceable."
That sounds like the case was thrown out.