Thanks for reminding me on the FTL control scheme, I saw something on it lately but forgot about it.

The return of gameinformer is interesting. I’m really nostalgic for gaming magazines, and have really missed them since they all pretty much died.

That’s modern CEOs in a nutshell. Damage the company long term to get those good short term returns for shareholders.

They have a survey right now asking people if they would be willing to alpha test and what they would be willing to pay, and there are only one-time payments on the survey. They’re somewhat high payments though, $30-60.

The dev is looking at a one time payment afaik.

The old Decky extension for Junk Store required a one time payment of $6 for GoG early access, and anytime the extension would come up a lot of people would complain about that.

There’s a lot of pushback against junk store for switching to a paid model, but I’m fine with it. Obviously FOSS is great, but we don’t have any issues with games requiring payment and being closed source.

Heroic and the original Junk Store plugin will still exist, but I’m looking forward to seeing what the stand alone version of junk store is like. The plugin is already a big step towards having epic/gog games feel like they’re natively supported on the deck, and I’m hoping the standalone version can take that even farther.

because it was more popular

Meanwhile the Deck is outselling all other handheld PCs combined

Yeah, I’m just guessing that sleep is less disruptive than hibernate, because the ram never even has to be unloaded and reloaded.

Edit: seems like I’m wrong, doing some searches shows that people with the ROG Ally are disabling sleep and forcing the Ally to hibernate mid game. Doesn’t work for all games, but does for more games than sleep. People also report that the Ally was frequently waking up on it’s own from sleep and overheating in their bags, and that wifi would stop working after sleep, so definitely sounds like hibernate is the way to go on windows devices.

I know HP printers are generally considered the worst printers you can get, but I don’t really know how good their other product lines are.

It’s different departments, so possibly they could make a decent handheld? Mainly it’s just good to hear hardware companies are aware of how bad windows is for gaming devices.

A lot of games do weird things on windows after sleep or crash outright, I’m assuming hibernation would also mess things up.

HP has gotten in trouble multiple times now for firmware updates that intentionally brick their own printers, usually in an effort to stop people from using 3rd-party ink. Their system for verifying authentic ink is unreliable though so everytime they do it they also brick a bunch of printers that are overpaying for HP ink.

Generally HP is the poster child for the worst inkjet printer company.

I’ve heard the opposite, people having lots of issues with official dock while 3rd party docks will work fine.

I’ve got a $20 3rd party dock, and it’s been doing fantastic for me.

Definitely agree. Most printers are sold at a loss with the plan to milk the buyer long term through ink and other services. EcoTank printers are more expensive, but Epson makes their money at the time of purchase. The ink is extremely cheap, and there’s no way for them to tell if you use 3rd party ink at all. We’ve been printing out textbooks with ours, which would be financially disastrous with a traditional inkjet printer.

Overall I’ve bought two, one for home and one for the office at work. The cheaper ink has paid for the printers several times over now.

Linux too, at least in most applications I’ve tried. Some will ask you when you ctrl+shift+v if you want to paste formatted or unformatted text.

It still might be worth trying another DE/WM for a bit to see if the issue is KDE exclusive. It might help you narrow down the cause.

Probably not it, but what DE/WM are you using? I had a very similar issue on KDE, but it would go away if I switched DEs.

You won’t see much about protests until we’re closer to the next election.

Honestly, the best part of the OLED model is that it gets at least 2.5 hours of battery life on the more demanding games. The LCD Deck’s 1.5 hours minimum just isn’t enough time in my opinion.

I know SDHQ has a pretty large recommended sale list.

It’s not focused on indie games, but it does include a decent number of them thanks to how many games it includes.

It works on Linux which already a step in the right direction imo

Fantastic game, glad it’s finally getting updated and getting the cliffhanger ending resolved.

That said, the original XBX still looks extremely good (at least when emulated at modern resolutions). For an HD remaster I haven’t actually noticed any real visual improvements other than the character models being better.