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I, too, can't handle 30FPS on many games. Fortunately, there are still lots of recent games that can hit ~45FPS, which--while not great-- makes it much more bearable. And if it's too poor of performance, I will often just stream from my desktop while in bed or on the couch. But again, I primarily use it for less demanding games to begin with (e.g. I've been playing a lot of Dragon Quest X on it recently).

I'm not saying it's worth it for everyone, but if the choice is between its closest competitors and the Deck, I think the Deck offers more value for the money spent.

100%, this. Not even most of the P2025 ghouls really support Trump's absurd obsession with tariffs. But it's the only real weapon he has to threaten countries with that don't bow down to him. It's why I'm surprised the billionaires-- I mean Congress--haven't taken away this toy from him yet, since a fucked US economy will hurt their bottomline eventually.

Microsoft should be charged with criminal negligence. This is the same level of idiocy as them using China-based engineers to support their government contracts.

Have heard it struggles with the current games.

Truly depends on the game.

But yeah, there are quite a few AAA/higher graphical fidelity games I just won't bother, even if it's technically playable at a "smooth' 30FPS. Like Kingdom Come 2 ran pretty decently on it, surprisingly, but damn did it really make the game look pretty rough.

I expect there'll be a new Steam Deck in the next year or two.

But, honestly, I still use my Deck a shit ton, especially at work. It's hands down the best portable emulator machine and there are tons of indie games that run great on it. It also works great as a small laptop in desktop mode. I use it almost daily at work.

Wondered if this was actually real since I saw the post and realized what community it was posted under, haha:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bus-ticket-20-squats/

Mostly true

In Cluj-Napoca, Romania, a so-called "health ticket" was introduced that allowed individuals to use public transportation for free by completing 20 squats. However, the organizers only implemented it in one city for a limited time. As of this writing, it's unknown if the program will resume at a future date.

It's too bad it was only kind of a social experiment vs a real government-sponsored health campaign that was still ongoing. I think it's a pretty great idea. However, I can also see it getting some negative backlash if the government funded it since those with certain disabilities wouldn't be able to utilize it. I think it'd be easy enough to incorporate a variety of healthy exercises that are more accessible to get around that aspect, though.

Tidal is owned by Square (the mobile payment app/company), and I think Jack Dorsey (Twitter founder) owns that. So, probably safe to say it's already pretty corporate.

It's about damn time, there were times I'd just go watch the trailer on YouTube instead when it would be glitching out.

Now if they could just fix the UI when navigating screen caps in full screen on Steam Deck, that'd be great.

The name of the program is called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Alcohol isn't needed for survival and is therefore outside the scope of that program. I'm actually quite surprised some states allow it to be used for booze.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, fwiw, just pointing out why most states don't allow it to be used for that.

Not to mention a huge chunk of those Pokemon at that time were just evolution phases, sharing very similar names as their base (e.g. Charmander, Charmeleon, and then Charizard). Additionally, each evolution phase looks pretty similar to the prior. That in comparison to, say, many different varieties of ants, wasps, birds, etc. that don't look that different at a distance, especially to an 8-year-old.

That sounds like a great read, thanks for the information

But again, that story above makes sense as to why it was initially triggered (i.e. Google's automated child porn detection bots flagged the picture and account). Was it done wrongfully? Sure, that seems to be the case. But, that's not really relevant to the original post since that's not what happened to this person. I feel like we'd be seeing way more news about authors having their books randomly locked out from them because Google just randomly decided to enforce a specific ToS violation on their account.

I doubt they do, too. I'm just pointing out how ridiculous the picture above sounds without knowing the full story.