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    Russia's government investigating creating own game consoles and delivery platform

    Russia is perfectly capable of setting up a national console + infrastructure, I'm sure. A credible games industry capable of providing quality content, though, would be a different matter altogether.
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    Any Linux gaming experts willing to answer a n00b question?

    The recommendation for edge is to only run it if the normal edition doesn't even boot from usb when trying to install it. If, after installing the normal version, you discover that you need a more recent kernel for hardware support, you can install it via mint's update manager and keep the...
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    Linux market share passes 4% for first time

    Yup. Funny anecdote: ubuntu's software manager comes pre-installed as the snap version. Back when I was still on xubuntu the manager was so slow starting up that by the time one could browse the library I usually had already forgotten what piece of software I wanted to look up. Minty is...
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    Brushed Titanium PC Cases

    Used to have one of their aluminum cases a few decades ago. Cost was not the problem, the darned thing letting through every tiny bit of noise was. Nowadays that would be less of a problem with ssd's and better airflow-focused cases (allowing for much lower noise fans), but the mesh and...
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    Radeon RX 7900 GRE Review

    Gamersnexus written review: https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/amd-radeon-rx-7900-gre-gpu-review-benchmarks-vs-rx-7900-xt-7800-xt-rtx-4070-super
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    HP wants more of your money

    Recently obtained canon usb scanner and brother network printer. Installation went so smoothly on both my significant other's windows and my linux system that I don't even recall whether I had to install drivers for either of them. I never saw the point of a combined device which often takes up...
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    Get Ready for "Gamerlicious" Nvidia Control Panel

    That cruft running in the background is, guaranteed, going to be doing something more than sitting quietly at an inopportune moment. Worse offenders are windows update, adobe creative cloud, and any video conferencing/calling software. Seems to be a law of nature that the timing is such that...
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    Get Ready for "Gamerlicious" Nvidia Control Panel

    I'd go even further: I would prefer steam without the obligatory application entirely. Barring that, a version of the application which runs invisibly in the background or, if it must absolutely intrude, with only the minimal mode. No shop, no social, no shit.
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    Get Ready for "Gamerlicious" Nvidia Control Panel

    And don't forget to bash on the ads. With amd, even the installer has ads in it. Yuck.
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    Case side panel broken twice, how to cover the case now?

    Alternatively, chuck on a wooden panel. Something fractal design would charge you through the nose for.
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    Latency Pipeline, "Input Lag," Reflex, & Engineering Interview

    Why, lol to you, too. I am happy, though befuddled, to have amused you. Back on topic: Quite a few classic emulators can do this nowadays. It's even been integrated into retroarch, if I remember correctly.
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    Latency Pipeline, "Input Lag," Reflex, & Engineering Interview

    ? You think that they're going to risk ftc scrutiny by lying about this or you're referring to them interviewing an nvidia engineer suddenly, somehow, making the video sponsored?
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    Latency Pipeline, "Input Lag," Reflex, & Engineering Interview

    Maybe because it isn't sponsored by nvidia at all. Gamersnexus doesn't do sponsored content pieces (of the kind where the entire video's existence is paid for and bought by the sponsor) and doesn't even sell in-video ad space to nvidia (or amd, or intel). Source...
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    Homeworld 3

    Problem is: will the spreadsheet clowns over at embracer let the devs properly fix those things?
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    AMD Ryzen 8000G Processors Launched for the AI PC Era + 5 series updates

    I'm surprised that they are still using a monolithic die for this. Dividing things up along the natural cpu, gpu, ai-processor lines looks, to my admittedly inexpert eyes, to be far less problematic that dividing a cpu or gpu into chiplets. They've been doing it with last year's desktop cpu's...
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    Ayaneo unveils the Next Lite, a budget-oriented handheld that comes pre-installed with SteamOS

    Aaaand it'll not ship with holoiso after all. As reported by gamingonlinux: Bunch of clowns.
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    New Youtube anti-adblock tactic- being a resource hog- debunked, was Adblock issue

    As someone who regularly uses a decade-old dual core laptop, I have definitely noticed youtube getting more bloated in the past year. Not sure if the slowdowns are due to ad-block-blocking or not. Regardless, I have had to switch to the minitube application for a non-manure experience.
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    Intel reaffirms Xe2 Battlemage "is coming"

    From what I gather, many are newly produced cards, but using chips recycled from dedicated mining cards that had no video connectors.
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    Sound card vs. USB DAC

    For me, once one gets to non-manure quality in the rest of audio equipment, I greatly prefer a usb DAC. The reason is that I've yet to encounter an internal sound card where all those electromagnetic wave thingies inside the computer don't cause some audible hiss. I'm currently using a fairly...
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    No thread about the framework laptop?

    Have you also tried under-volting? Since you're also restricting the maximum clock, the voltage should be able to go quite a bit lower than with boost clocks enabled, resulting in a tidy improvement in battery life.
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    Upgrading and Adding Case Fans vs Buying New Case?

    Better make sure; a surprising number of (even premium) cases still come with non-pwm fans. Amusingly enough, I've seen quite a number of budget cases that do have em. For example, the montech 903 air (base or max) has been gathering tons of praise lately.
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    Baldur's Gate 3 10% off - warmish

    Seems to me that it is discounted primarily to get the game on front pages during the holiday sales rather than the having the lower price generate extra sales. It gets featured with a nice banner and all over at gog, but still drowned out in the winter-sales violence on steam.
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    Tempest Rising.

    Bunch of fucking clowns. Both over at embracer and the idiots that decided to sell themselves off.
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    Best games to test new display?

    Epic pinball and supaplex via dosbox-staging with crt-shaders and vrr enabled.
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    Light No Fire (Hello Games)

    Anticipating the "harmonica" trailer for this, featuring the main tune from the lotr movies.
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    Thoughts on the Steam Deck, Legion Go, Rog Ally, etc.

    You got the point fine and have rightfully concluded that you have no interest in this sort of device. By the time they can play the games of today at 60+ fps, you will have precisely the same stance because the games will still run badly compared to your (possible upgraded) pc in the basement...
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    Intel "Core Truths" calls out AMD rebranding of old CPU architectures

    It may be true, but it is not the entire story: given power consumption's relevance for a mobile cpu it is disingenuous at best to forget to mention that those cpu's are produced with an upgraded process. Apart from that, here's core truth #3 that would be a logical consequence of the other two...
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    Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AMD’s 7900 XTX analyzed by Chips and Cheese

    They don't; in their "one year later" arc video they reported that the intel issue with starfield had been fixed.
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    Deck OLED

    Meh, if you're going to reference click-bait videos then I supposed we're even with the supposed "vague article". Since you're clearly too angry to coherently read, I suppose that the conversation is finished. Have a nice day.
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    Zalman P30

    That's going to end well for the video card ...
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    Deck OLED

    If people didn't get the impression (either through malice or by accident) that there would be no hardware refresh for some time to come, then how the-infernal-nether-regions could they have been misled about it? A quote from this very thread: Valve has always been open that they were working...
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    Any spartan well-made cases out there?

    Silverstone recently released a new version of their fara r1 case: https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/FARAR1V2/ Don't worry about the glass side panel; there's also a version with metal one available. There's also a "pro" version coming up, with fans included...
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    Deck OLED

    I do, however, wonder where the impression came from that there wouldn't be any update to the hardware. Valve may have been vocal about there not being a generational upgrade for a few years, a switch-style refresh was never ruled out. Last time I checked (end of last year), they even mentioned...
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    Canon stepping up to ASML

    Right up until the moment canon starts charging more for, and drm-ing, the required consumables. We're talking about a manufacturer of printers, after all.
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    More than 5 years since launch, the Epic Game Store has still not turned profitable

    From what I gather they don't even have a proper windows launcher. One where people think, "this ain't so bad," when they start it to play those free games. Edit: "proper" as in "very good" or "marked by suitability, rightness, or appropriateness".
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    Serious issues deciding between 7900X and 7800X3D

    Heh, the advantage of having waited so long is that you can buy much more computer power per buck today than two or even one year(s) ago. One piece of information was added here that is rather critical, imo: you plan on multitasking. I am happy to be corrected, but in this case I'd say go...
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    Serious issues deciding between 7900X and 7800X3D

    If your productivity work is not time-sensitive enough for a 20% speedup to not instantaneously make you decide to go for it, why bother sweating about it? The 7800x3d may be "not that great for productivity", but that's only compared to its current competition. Compared to what you have now...
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    XBox is banning "Unauthorized" Controllers and Accessories

    Because, of course, it is impossible for the producers of cheating hardware to take an existing "authorized" controller and solder wires to the contact points of the pcb's of said controllers. Wouldn't even add any extra cheating lag worth speaking of.
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    Upscaler for Linux is awesome

    Paint shop pro?
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    Help me upgrade a vintage 2020 quiet build

    In general, I would try to tweak the case fan speed curves so that the video card's fans wouldn't need to ramp up as much. I much prefer to hear the lower pitch noise from the bigger fans above the higher pitch from the video card's fans. Then again, I've got a reverse motherboard mesh setup...
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