I'm not sure I'm following, it says developers can opt out!
Jrockwar
joined 1 year ago
I don't think anything with the word "intel" can be taken seriously in value comparisons...
When I got my last laptop I ended up with a MBP because there were no high end options for Linux laptops with AMD. Now the options are better, but back then, the only realistic alternative to a MacBook Pro would have had a third of the real-world battery life if not less, even if I decided to spend £3k. That didn't seem like an acceptable compromise so there were virtually no laptops in existence that could compete with an M2 MBP.
16 GB of RAM are kinda meh, but I can't think of many $600 devices that can run three 6K monitors simultaneously at 60 Hz, plus then one at a lower res but still 60 Hz.
I would say that's what many urban roads (35 mph / 60 km/h) look like in the US.
How do people have the time to organise vigils and get into "coalitions" and politics in the workplace?
Granted I don't work at Microsoft, but I feel me and everyone around me is overworked enough that when we have the time to stop working... We head home (or close the laptop if WFH) and rest, not engage in additional activities in the workplace.
Yeah, this sounds like a problem for only the 5% of the world who live in a specific country.
Well it might have been 3 years or might have been 7, I don't remember exactly. 5 was my best guess!
Oh, there's a Lawnchair legacy! It makes more sense now, but they could have changed the icon of this one to make it less confusing.
We really need to think about a better name than "Early access". At this point I think I've used Lawnchair for about 5 years, 5 years after the initial event is only "early" in the context of geological eras.
It's not a waste of resources if you learn something. Think of this as research rather than product development. You can try many things (from VR, to miniaturised computers, to cloud gaming, controllers with wonky form factors...) to see what results in a good experience. You don't need to get anywhere near a full fledged product to understand those things, so the waste of resources isn't massive anyway.
I'd bet at the moment people decided "this is useful, I even want this for me, so let's turn it into a product" the steam deck looked more like a screen, a gamepad and a raspberry pi all taped together or jammed into a 3d printed prototype chassis.
If people have spare capacity to work on these projects, the material cost at such a point can be under <5k which is peanuts for a company like Valve.
It's not exactly this but have you considered barefoot shoes? They have a super-thin sole so they naturally take some height off you, compared to "normal" shoes. I wear them for completely different reasons (as a cis man who has found these to help with feet pain and posture after being a kid with flat feet), but I thought you'd appreciate the tip.
Groundies make them with "normal" looking soles, but it's all an optical illusion - they have a strip around them so the sole looks "thick", "normal" and "fashionable". Essentially a less exaggerated version of that drawing:
Caveat: they're more niche and therefore expensive. Also not everyone enjoys the idea of walking without cushioning and feeling the texture of the ground.
If they keep duplicating the ask, soon they'll be asking for a googol from Google. Hehe.