It will make it look more fluid. It will feel like it’s running at a lower framerate, and at the framerates BG3 runs at on the Deck, around 25fps or 40ms per frame, the increase would be quite noticeable.

NFS Most Wanted, the original, is fantastic, though it requires manual installation as it’s not on Steam.

Sadly the redux modpack version is just a bit too heavy as it includes a bunch of shaders and stuff you can’t disable. It runs, but you get maybe two hours. Vanilla barely taxes the deck.

But only hackers and cheaters use Linux, didn’t you know???

In our efforts to combat cheating in Apex, we’ve identified Linux OS as being a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats. As a result, we’ve decided to block Linux OS access to the game. While this will impact a small number of Apex players, we believe the decision will meaningfully reduce instances of cheating in our game.

It’s also one of the only two requirements for the “Verified” label. Specifically, “the game must ship with a default configuration on Deck that results in a playable framerate.” That’s literally the only thing about performance in the entire process, the rest is all UI and usability stuff.

Default to low and get a playable framerate - whatever that means - and you can get your game verified.

Link only streamed.

This is a Steam TV.

BT 5 has max bandwidth of 2Mbps, which would in theory be enough for “CD quality”, i.e 44.1khz/16 bit raw uncompressed audio, as that’s around 1.4Mbps. In real life conditions it isn’t. AFAIK aptX lossless gets close by doing some compression.

But if you go full audiophile levels and start demanding lossless 192khz 24 bit audio, that’s 10Mbps and not even remotely possible over BT no matter what you’d try.

CE mark is often self-approved, it is neither an actual certification nor is there a process or money required. It’s simply a promise from the manufacturer that the product “conforms with European health, safety, and environmental protection standards.”

It either does that and they can put a CE mark on it, or it doesn’t and that product is never going to be available in the EU as-is.

Graphics are graphics, that’s what limits most of the games and devices. Optimize something to run on the Switch 2, and that should work on the Deck too.
That benchmark used to be the PS4, but most developers have dropped support for last gen hardware.

Few things:
The Deck can’t support 65W charging either. It prefers, and maxes out, at a 45W charge, specifically 15V@3A. It can charge using 12/9/5V standards as well, but obviously does so slower.
5V charging is only recommended while the deck is off/sleeping as there is a batch with bad charging chips that can overheat and burn out otherwise (as it has to boost the 5V up to 7.4V and above for the battery)

Slower chargers still work even while gaming - they just extend the time it takes to drain.

If a powebank advertises mAh, it’s using the nominal voltage of a single lithium cell, 3.6 or 3.7V. If they use Wh (and aren’t blatant scams), then that’s the only thing that matters. What you get out is always less, due to the conversion losses.

LCD has a 40Wh battery, OLED has 50Wh. Get at least 20% more if you truly want a full charge.

The deck has power passthrough, once it’s full it uses the charger only. Sometimes this means it “refuses” to charge to 100% and instead stops just shy, that’s kinda normal.

For my smol hands, the Skull & co back button extensions.

I bought a 3 meter extension cable from a thrift shop. Europlugs are wonderful for how slim those are.

BT latency depends so much on the exact model of headphone it’s almost impossible to give an accurate answer, other than “If it supports AptX LL, it’s going to be as good as gets.”
I personally can’t notice it while using Airpod Pro 2’s (around 125ms) with my Deck unless I’m playing an actual rhythm game. Then it completely messes me up and I switch to wired ones.

my gaming PC is currently outdated (970)

GTX 970 is faster than the GPU on the Deck, though…

Which is a nice change, usually every alternative starts up exactly because the worst of the worst got banned from the original and had to migrate to somewhere else, and then it’s an uphill battle for anyone else to make use of that platform.

^{*cough* Lemmy *cough*.}

Are there even any payment processors they can use for that? I remember it being an issue when the sanctions hit.

They are based on the comments the creator has left before instead of being a generic output from an LLM based on the message it is replying. So they are your comments, but with AI “enhancements”, instead of it just suggesting you directly copy-paste some old comment. But at the end of it obviously they are AI generated, that’s how the tech works.

Huh, apparently yeah, Ryzen processors should have it. I’m guessing it’s disabled by default then. …or my bios being from 2019 might also have something to do with it :p

Anything without a TPM 2.0 module on the motherboard. For example the Lenovo T470 from 2017 doesn’t have it. There are zero other reasons why it, and countless systems around that age and even older, couldn’t run Win 11.
And anything made before October 2014 definitely doesn’t have one, as that is when TPM 2.0 was released in the first place.

[EDIT] Also my gaming PC from 2020 doesn’t currently support Windows 11, because the Asus Prime X570-P motherboard from 2019 doesn’t have one either - it just has a header I could buy (~$20) and slot one in. Scratch that, apparently it does have fTPM support (with a newer bios?).

If the government spills this persons blood on the street, what do you get? The only thing that happens is that the punishment for fraud is now death.

For this single case in an isolated vacuum, sure.

Outside that you’d get no more fraud, and no more future fraud victims, because the punishment for it wouldn’t be worth the risk for anyone to try.
Like I said, if the punishment for a parking violation was death, every single driver would make damn sure they would never, ever get one. Apply that for every “deliberate” crime and you end up with a society with essentially zero crime.
Also a lot fewer people alive, but zero crime.

Where the line goes is completely up to the justice system, how badly they want to prevent that type of crime, as it goes with every crime and punishment.

How does putting someone in jail or having them pay a fine to the government help “make the victims whole” any more than the death sentence would? If that was the point of the justice system, we would only have payments of wealth or services from criminals to victims and nothing else. In fact, I can think of quite a few crimes where the victims would love nothing more than the permission get to kill the criminal themselves in the most painful way possible.

The number one priority of a justice system is to prevent crimes from happening in the first place - a task it has to constantly balance with freedom and human rights as the ultimate solution is to get rid of all criminals - and the more it wants to prevent a certain type of crime, the harsher the punishment for it should be. But as I said, usually the death penalty is used for crimes done by people who aren’t thinking about the consequences.

If you use it as the threat for financial crime, soon you will have no more victims of financial crime, as the criminals are all either dead or too afraid to do it.

Should it be used, for that or in the first place, that’s a completely different argument all together.

It doesn’t act as a deterrent due to the crimes it’s used as a punishment for - no punishment stops a mentally Ill serial killer, someone in mindless rage acting on impulse, or someone who is certain they will never get caught. The studies all agree with that.

But if you would get sentences to life in prison or death from a parking violation or not paying your taxes, there would be zero people doing them as both are conscious actions, and definitely not worth the risk.