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I’ve had the issue with the plug falling out, actually bonked my Deck’s screen and cracked the protector while I was fishing headphones out of a bag on a flight.

I use a cable with a 90 degree tip and found that, for the outlets that are on the seat, I can attach the cable to the tray arm with a Clove Hitch to help the plug stay put and catch it if it falls.

For starters, there’s more to gpu performance than memory speed and quantity.

believe that everybody should skip them

This strikes me as a bit weird. Everyone uses graphics cards for different things, everyone has different priorities, and most people who have a PC have different hardware.

I’ve got clients who edit video for work, and others who do it as a hobby. In the professional sphere, render times can have a pretty direct relationship with cashflow, so having the ‘best’ can mean the hardware pays for itself several times over.

I’ve got clients who only play one game and find it runs great on their current setup, others who are always playing the latest games and want them to perform well, and still others who play a game professionally/competitively and need every frame they can get. Some are happy at 1080p, others prefer 4k, and some may want to drive a high-end VR headset.

For some people, taking advantage of a new GPU might also require a new PSU of even a total platform upgrade.

To one person, a few hundred dollars is disposable income whereas to another it might represent their ability to eat that month.

These are all variables that will influence what is appropriate for one person or another.

If someone were to have ~$600 to spend, be in need of an upgrade to meet the requirements of an upcoming game they want to play at launch, and have a platform that will support it, I’m likely to recommend an RTX5070 to them.

If someone were to be happy enough with their current performance, I’m likely to recommend they wait and see what AMD puts out - or potentially even longer.

Personally, I’ve always waited until a game I’m excited for performs poorly before upgrading.

You can always use the Windows 11 Upgrade assistant to force it

I don’t know that it is. BigscreenVR is not an Apple product, so your comment doesn’t feel particularly relevant.

They probably chose iPhones because they’re the most common device that has the capacity to get a 3D scan of someone’s face. They’re probably able to get semi-consistent results with this approach, whereas opening things up to the wide variety of IR devices in laptops and Android phones would increase the number of variables and make OP’s frustrating experience even more common.

This article is just plain bad. The author’s own conclusion contradicts the headline.

The Steam Deck has finally been surpassed

I don’t think I would personally buy an Asus ROG Ally X over a Steam Deck, at least not now.

In the end, I don’t think I would ever consider a handheld gaming PC without trackpads.

That’s because this situation is only applicable to offline environments where updates would otherwise be deployed manually.

This issue does not affect systems that receive updates directly through Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog.

So, the overwhelming majority of systems and especially all of those used by average consumers.

If this is a hard / full system freeze, there will be nothing you can do because the system has fully locked up. Test whether or not this is the case by pressing CapsLock and seeing if the status indicator light changes states.

Freezing like you describe is often a hardware issue, I recommend that you start by testing your RAM with Memtest86

Go back and play Cyberpunk!

My experience with that glow-up is exactly why I’m going to be waiting to go deep on a Stalker 2 playthrough.

The rough state of Stalker 2 reminded me a lot of Cyberpunk’s launch, so I’ve gone back to the playthrough that I started back when 2.0 came out. Still haven’t experienced Phantom Liberty or gotten to Act 2, be replaying everything that was janky at launch and getting to re-experience it as it should have been has been wonderful :)

What is there to drip? Y’all pissing all over your hands or something?

I haven’t found that it comes back on its own after being uninstalled but I also deliberately have it on all my daily drivers, so it’s possible that’s happening with the annual feature updates.

In notification settings, there are two options that use the “welcome experience” and “tips / tricks” language - disabling those does away with a lot of the fullscreen subscription solicitations.

A lot of average users do benefit from being asked to opt in once or twice, but I agree there ought to be a more accessible “no thanks, never ask me again” option for power users.

I also wish that stuff was scaled back or stripped out of the professional editions of Windows, LTSC editions don’t have it but the license requirements don’t make that a particularly accessible option.

Linux is definitely the right move, it brings me great joy to see more and more folks discovering that as an option that is bot only viable, but also better. I hope to see Windows 10’s EOL become “the great Linuxing”

That doesn’t happen.

You’re free to use your documents folder as much as you want, it’s still local to your disk / filesystem. Without available space in the cloud storage plan, those items won’t upload to the cloud and will have a red X as their status icon.

That happened because you unlinked OneDrive 6 months ago, or it deauthenticated and was never signed back in. Without being connected, it never got the memo that those files were removed so it never deleted those things from there.

The same thing would happen if you uninstalled any other program and then deleted the now local-only files, or if you restored from a 6 months old backup.

I think OneDrive is just fine.

I primarily use it for my Windows PCs, I have it installed on my Macs. Rarely need anything in there from Linux, but it’s nice to be able to pop in from a browser and grab something.

I work in an IT Support role for a lot of users, and I think that OneDrive is the ideal backup for the average Windows user / basic consumer. It covers the folders that most people care about, offers versioning of files, and even ensures that I’m not needed when they transition to a new device even if their previous device does not turn on anymore.

In the US, Dropbox’s cost of entry is $120/$144 per year depending on whether or not you go month to month. The majority of users don’t need a 2TB storage plan.

OneDrive starts at $20/$24 for 100GB, $70/$84 for a 1TB plan, or $100/$120 for a 6-user family plan that totals 6TB.

I want my nutrients returned to the earth.

That means that green burial, human composting, burial at sea, and aquamation are all options.

I absolutely do not want cremation. It’s an energy intensive process that also renders the deceased’s accumulated nutrients unavailable to other organisms.

This thread also reminds me that I need to revoke the organ donor status from my driver’s license. As much as I like / appreciate the concept, a viable organ donation requires dying in a hospital. I would prefer to pass outdoors in a natural setting that I feel connected to or, at worst, in my own home.

Reminds me of “And Yet It Moves”

I like this game a lot. Played the Colin McRae and Sega Rally games as a kid, this game captures that feeling.

Normally play rally sims in my sim pit, it’s nice to have something very casual to play on Steam Deck

That, and there are still many parts of the US that are underserved in internet access. I have a friend who lives ~15 minutes outside of a major city and, until recently, the whole family shared a flaky ~2Mbps connection. They begrudgingly adopted Starlink because that was the only decent option.

From the article, the large size is specific to the Xbox version:

The large download size might be due to how Xbox releases its updates. Xbox updates are often bigger compared to those on PC and PlayStation 4/5.

They side they roll out of, evidently