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At first I was a little irritated by this, that Intel could just try to change a standard that's been in place for years...until I read that Intel also created the current ATX standard....so I guess I can't get too upset about it. I personally think it would be better if there was an open standard developed and maintained by a group of manufacturers, like VESA. Then products could be all developed in unison without much disruption.

Steams 30% Cut Is Actually The Industry Standard

Some games are exclusive to Epic because Epic pays the dev for that exclusivity...that is also anti-competitive just like exclusives for xbox, playstation or the windows store. And the pricing must not count sale prices, there are always games being sold for less elsewhere. Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition Epic game store: $49.99 Humble Games: $49.99 Steam: $70.97 Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI Anthology Epic game store: $49.99 Humble Games: $49.99 Steam: $98.70

These are Alienware models. Looking at the requirement, there's a loophole. They can sell the system without a preinstalled OS.

Well a 10-pin cable would be more manageable....as long as it's 10-pins on each end, and not like the current 24-pin that is most of the time 28-pins at the power supply. Sleeving wouldn't be as tedious.

Just install Linux, no need for TPM 2.0 or Secureboot.

I think @BWG is currently folding on as many GPU's as I've owned in my entire life. I just counted, I've owned 13 GPU's starting with the Sierra Screamin 3D that I bought the week it launched in 1996.

Even with only one pump, you can survive a pump failure if you have enough rad space and high rpm fans. I've woken up to a dead pump with the system still chugging along at 100% load. I've also had an almost complete blockage, but kept the system going for days before I cleaned it out since we were in the middle of the Pentathlon.

If it happens for SteamOS, combined with Valve's current plan to have every Windows game on Steam playable on SteamOS by the release of the Steam Deck...there's little reason for gamers to continue to cling to Windows with Microsoft's data mining, windows "updates" and other proprietary nonsense.

I plan on switching from pfsense to opnsense. My pfsense works great, but it's no longer 100% opensource so it's getting the axe.

This goes beyond what I would do on my Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror clan server back in the day. Sometimes I would set it for knives only, which sometimes was a lot of fun. There was one close quarters style map where I set it to only allow Desert Eagles and grenades. I could set each map to have it's own load out, or do it on the fly through the admin panel while in game just to freak out the pubs. Oh...the fun of dedicated servers.

But not having anything exclusive to the platform is a good thing. It's an open platform that you can use anyway you want. I'm sure soon @BWG will have a basement full of Steam Decks running folding@home. We need to get away from exclusives, not encourage more of them.

That is a lot of paste. At first, just looking at the die...I was thinking that's not that bad...I've seen the whole die area covered before. Then I saw the next pic of the cooler.

It's probably released 10 years too late, but I'm not sure adults are it's target audience.

I'm guessing this is also Microsoft's endgame for home users, subscription based computing.

This can also be docked like a switch and used as a desktop computer. If portable gaming is your thing, you don't have to buy new games since you have access to your Steam Library. Steam Deck WWW.STEAMDECK.COM Steam Deck is a powerful handheld gaming PC that delivers the Steam games and features you love.

It's probably just me, but visiting a computer enthusiast forum on a phone just seems wrong.

I have one of those. It really blows....in a good way.

But is being difficult or costly to repair related to "right to repair"? Do we want our devices to be portable? Or do we want to go back to these days again?

Chromebooks use Coreboot, which is open source, as it's "BIOS". There is no "right to repair" issue associated with the software. It's only limited to what someone decided to add. Since it's open source, there are modified versions available. Also Chromebooks are Linux, not all Wifi adapters have had drivers released by the manufacturer or been reverse engineered by Linux developers.

It doesn't say until the last sentence that they were stealing electricity, otherwise there wouldn't have been a reason for the shutdown.

It's really only phones that are a problem repairing....or specifically Apple. But then you can go to any phone repair kiosk in the mall and have a screen replaced on an iphone. You can buy parts to just about anything if it isn't too old from https://www.ereplacementparts.com/ and https://www.repairclinic.com/ with video tutorials. I've bought parts to fix my furnace, washing machine, dryer, lawn mower, string trimmer and a Bosch SDS hammer drill from these two places. Plus you can buy parts from manufacturers. I repaired a Ridgid sawsall with parts I bought from Ridgid. The US has had the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act since 1975.

We need some 80's hair bands in here....from back when Rock was cool.

WooooHooo.

I don't think it's the size of the target, but the ease of penetration. Wouldn't Amazon's Linux servers be a big target? Imagine shutting down Amazon's worldwide network. But as I said before nothing is bug free, but security measures can be used to limit what can be accomplished if there is a breach. Windows is a little more lax in the security department in order to be more user friendly and less intrusive.