The fact that it is a open linux device and I can launch in to KDE is the reason I got it. If it was some proprietary OS like other games consoles or Windows, I wouldn’t have bought it. The Steam Deck is such a breath of fresh air compared to how hostile other consumer electronics have become.
Apple is the one holding back the user experience on their operating systems, not third party developers.
Funny how we are moving back to bicycles, as cars aren’t scalable solution.
I have been enjoying Tech Won’t Save Us. It mainly focuses on the politics and unethical behavior of Big Tech/Silicon Valley. It has been an eye opener.
Now, the Initiative for a New Social Market Economy (INSM), a market-liberal lobbying organization, has created a pop-up museum designed to turn up the heat on the German government
While funny, the group behind it certainly sounds scary. We don’t need more neo-liberal policies.
Why are Messages and FaceTime dependent on WiFi drivers? This seems insane.
The US government is one of the buyers
While I prefer to doing the reading/searching/summarizing myself, rather than have it presented to me, the current website revenue model is so broken with ads, tracking, and other pop ups. The user experience is really horrible.
“While answering a question about whether any executives had been laid off or had their compensation lowered, he said that, since rolling layoffs began this year, a “higher proportion of directors and VPs have been impacted than levels one through seven.” He also suggested that having to make the cuts is punishment itself. “Part of leadership is also making the tough decisions that are needed.”
Lol, if only the people being fired had someone to fire, then they could punished instead of fired.
Doesn’t this waste more power being connected rather than actually sleeping? With a laptop lid closed, there’s no screen to show notifications on. What’s the point of this?
From what I understand you have to re-purchase if you already own it on Battle.net, which is pretty frustrating. As playing on the Steam Deck would be much easier in Steam.
They are openly racist. This was an ad of theirs depicting foreigners as black sheep and kicking them out of Switzerland.
https://qz.com/617050/switzerlands-largest-political-party-insists-on-depicting-foreigners-as-black-sheep