I recommend spending 30m and deep diving into the settings. Just go through each category one by one, read what’s there, and consider how it might change your experience.

Honest question. What germicide is going on in South Africa?

I don’t see any comments at all. Were they removed?

This is another “freedom fries” moment.

Remember when he was losing the primaries so bad it was almost sad, then the leading democrats inexplicably started stepping down and endorsing him rather than anyone else as soon as they started losing against Bernie? One by one, they gave us Biden instead of who people were actually voting for.

I really wish we had ranked voting. We still might not have ended up with Bernie, but we definitely would have ended up with someone more people would have been happy to rally behind.

Fuck. Now I want potatoes.

Someone should make sure he at least knows what those words mean first.

Bro did a nazi salute on stage twice. Wtf did he expect?

NGL, I think it looks really unprofessional. Imagine “flower lawyers” putting a tulip in a cartoon suit and giving it a menacing expression, it would look just as dumb. Likewise, a dragon could make for a much classier design if approached in a different way.

Their deliberate word choice of “upgrade” to supported operating system is mildly infuriating.

These words bring me back to the days of the OG iPad and the discourse surrounding that. Nobody knew what it was good for, and just saw it as an oversized iPhone. It kinda was, but it was unexpectedly fun to use and eventually became quite useful.

No it doesn’t understand the question. It collects a series of letters and words that are strung together in a particular order because that’s what you typed, then it sifts through a mass of collected data and to find the most common or likely string of letters and words that follow and spits them out.

Was probably self-defense then.

Yeah I stopped impulse buying games from sales since then. I have plenty to play already, and I’d rather not risk buying something stupidly now that I won’t have the means to refund by the time I get around to playing it, should it not work right for any reason.

Jokes on them. My peers ARE doctors!

At least it’s not the other way around.

Casual Deck owner here. Arch Linux is my answer.

The original argument compares windows to iOS, but gets weaker when comparing windows to macOS, which is still pretty corralled, but more or less open.

I asked about Xbox because Microsoft doesn’t sell a phone, and Xbox is an example of a Microsoft-run closed ecosystem. So I was curious about how their closed ecosystems compared.

If Microsoft sold a phone, I wonder if it would actually be more open like windows and Mac, or closed like their own XBox and the iPhone.

Yeah I wasn’t entirely familiar and it’s not anything I got upset over (again, my fault). It’s just weird because they know I never installed or played it until I asked for the refund, and by nature of software, 14 days doesn’t mean I could have broken or destroyed it or something.

The game was the Grandia HD Remasters. It didn’t even occur to me to scrutinize compatibility on Deck when I bought it because it’s just a 2D JRPG from the PS1 era that supposed had been modernized.

I was denied a refund for a broken game on Steam Deck just last winter. I had never played or even installed it, but I had purchased it and let it sit in my backlog too long before trying.

By comparison, I can’t recall a single time I’ve been denied a refund request from the iPhone App Store. They’ve also never sold me software that couldn’t run on the hardware they also sold me.

I understand how it’s my fault according to steam’s ToS, but it still doesn’t seem right to me.