I fully agree!

As much as I want to support Linux/repairability friendly companies, I want to avoid creating e-waste even more.

That’s why, for my administrative uses, I might never buy a new PC again but only get Linux friendly used ones.

As for gaming, I’ll still probably get a Steam Machine on top of my Steam Deck (got it used) as you need something more powerful and can’t just get something from 2012 if you want to be able to play recent games.

I’ve been using OnlyOffice for years and was quite happy with.

I’m thinking about switching to LibreOffice. Anyone knows if LibreOffice would be able to connect to kDrive? Maybe through WebDav?

Oh yeah I’d love such a thing!

You could log to one service and use it to give to every open source project, no matter if they use Patreon or another platform.

Still it would be sensitive to handle as there would be credit cards informations…

What I’ve created is a Firefox bookmark folder with the « donate » page of every project I wanna support.

I’m trying to force myself to forget about this game.

For me MGS ended with number 4. The prologue from MGSV was good but the rest of the game is just bad, without any deep and interesting story…

I fully agree! In Mass Effect 3 you really feel like a part of the crew!

In the others too but a tad less. Still walking around the ship has always been a pleasure that I haven’t really found in any other game.

The Mass Effect trilogy is so great and the Legendary Edition is perfect on Steam Deck. You can even lower the TDP to improve battery life and still get good graphics.

I rep’ayed them a few months ago and I was real’y impressed by the scale of it.

To be honnest, Mass Effect is some kind of Cyberpunk 2077 with better gameplay and story.

People don’t like the third one, but for me it was the best one.

Yeah but the Deck will be really interesting for this, since I play most of my games at 30fps with 7TDP when the Deck could perform better.

I guess, people doing what I do should not be taken into account…

That’s a really good question as I was also curious about it since we only hear about Asahi on the M Macs.

I don’t know what you can run on the Snapdragons Linux wise…

Welcome!

Lemmy and the Fediverse are a perfect replacement for Reddit.

For Facebook I don’t know as it’s more about the willingness of people around you to try something else.

My son is pretty lucky as I’m the only dad around with a Steam Deck and a Playstation 5.

He didn’t even have to ask for these as I’m the one gaming the most.

I guess none of his friends is gonna get a Steam Deck or a Playstation 5 soon with the prices or the availability of these things…

The only good part is that maybe people are gonna learn to enjoy what they already have and devs could learn to keep developing games for old hardware.

It always surprised me but I never bothered asking why.

Thanks for doing it and thanks to people providing an explanation.

It surprised me to see this. The good news is that apparently it doesn’t affect the revenue of creators…

Still, I don’t really know what to think about it as I’d just want the creators to move willingly to another platform.

Agreed. When you download, you don’t really know what you’re getting. Also you don’t get consistency between all of your movies. That’s the difference when you rip your own stuff.

With the bluray drive, there isn’t much choice on the used market in Switzerland so I’m just trying to go with a good brand and check reviews if I find some.

In my country, used i7 or i5 are around the same price, but I can’t find an i5 with 16gb of ram to future proof it and make it useable for something else than a media center if I want to recycle it in the future.

Still I hope the i7 isn’t consuming too much or producing too much heat.

Can your project be downloaded and used or is it just something you’re working on for yourself for now?

To be honest it looks great and at first I thought about how impressive it is.

Then you think about how it modifies what was created and how it could lack consistency with a character looking a certain way in a part of the game and differently later.

I don’t know know what to think about these technologies like FSR and DLSS…

I don’t think I mind the fake frames as it could give you more performance on something like a Steam Deck, but the rest is tricky…

Thanks for your answer! I only realized now that since it’s gonna be near my router, an Ethernet cable can do the job in case RPM Fusion and installling the Broadcom drivers isn’t enough.

Just put an offer on an auction site for a MacMini with 16Gb of Ram, an i7 and a 265gb SSD. We’ll see if I get it for less than 100.-🤞

Okay thanks!

What kind of technical hurdles do you mean? Apparently makeMKV makes it quite easy but I’d be happy to have feedback

I read your article and it was interesting.

I didn’t know the RAM on the 2014 MacMinis wasn’t upgradeable. Thanks for letting me know.

Also what did you mean by don’t bother with the hotter i7 version as I saw a lot of them for quite cheap? Are they bad or just too powerful for what I’d do?

As for the Broadcom module, I’ve done it on my 2012 upgraded MacBook Pro and it was easy in Fedora. Don’t know about other distros though…