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A free game is a free game

If that's all that matters, what's different between downloading the free game Epic affords you versus simply browsing FitGirl and downloading any game for free?

Not really, the Vitas are actually quite bad for emulation. They do have the advantage of natively running PSP and Vita games, which are possible to emulate but not ideal on these SBC handhelds.

But as far as everything else goes, the Vita's CPU is surprisingly underclocked and the GPU drivers for homebrew are quite undercooked. A simple RetroArch shader that a $50 handhelds handles just fine is enough to overwhelm the Vita, and don't expect to emulate anything more complex than the PS1 with good performance.

This might be a big suprise, but if you want a "first party" handheld to emulate you want a New 3DS, not the Vita. The New 3DS will natively run 3DS, DS and GBA games, and emulate the PS1 better than a Vita. Though again, it won't handle the shaders and advancements that even a cheap chinese handheld can handle nowadays.

I really wanted to like this given how many issues my RG35XX SP is having, and I love the GBA SP style, but I simply can't stand those analogue sticks unfortunately.

Apart from all the other benefits, one underrated feature of SteamOS over Windows for a handheld is how GameScope handles windows:

On Microsoft Windows, if a game from 2008 boots a menu for configuration before the game itself, it's usually this tiny Windows 98 square that you need pinpoint precision to maneuver. Worse still, if a launcher or firewall or whatever decides to pop up a window on top of your fullscreen game, the screen flashes three times, the mouse focus can attach itself to the wrong panel, and it can be super annoying.

On SteamOS, any window will scale to your full screen size - including those ancient ones. There will be no firewall or defender or whatever prompts, but if a game launcher does decide to spawn a new window, focus is not lost and changing between windows using the Steam button is simple, fast and the input will always work on the correct window.

It's the absolute best way to turn PC software into a console experience. Windows solution to this same "how to make a PC feel like a console?" is adding yet another layer on top of everything with the GameBar, then make it inconsistent by changing the UI on gamepads, then make it even more inconsistent by changing your saved layout after every update. The GameBar fixes zero issues.

A free game on Epic is too expensive as far as I'm concerned.

The source for the information in this article is a translated interview with a representative from Anatel, our local brazilian telecommunications regulator. Being brazilian, I can confidently say this means absolutely nothing, you can safely ignore this article, and the representative himself probably does not understand half of the words he used.

It's hard to even mention an entity as completely inadequate at their own job than Anatel.

If we are so extremely focused on making sure money gets used, could we first deal with the people hoarding most of it?

I see ai actually in anything other than promo material.

My brother have you been in a deep slumber for the past two years? Windows is filled with AI, so is Microsoft Office, Google search results, Gmail and Docs, the Android assistant was replaced by Gemini, Canva is filled with AI, all Adobe products have AI image generation, Samsung's S24 line is exactly the same as the S23 but with AI slapped in, you go to a subway station and half of the ads are made with AI with atrocious teeth, fast food drive thru machines are now AI, pretty much any online customer support is an embedded version of ChatGPT. Entire news sites and blogs have the posts generated by AI - things got so bad YouTube videos with millions of views in the true crime genre were telling fake stories created by AI, with images and narration generated by AI, and the comments were mostly AI. LinkedIn is also pretty much entirely ran by ChatGPT, even the profile pictures are using these "pay 5 bucks and upload a picture from your webcam and we'll generate a photo of you wearing a suit in a corporate background" services.

And don't get me started on Reddit, if you mention ANY software now you get about 10 immediate replies from bots that say some generic thing like "That's a great question, I like using insert website AI for this as it works really well and is super affordable!".

You're either extremely bad at noticing AI usage - in which case god bless your soul but for the love of all that's holy please start trying to recognize it - or you haven't been online in a long time.

You're doubling down on it? The structure was figured out after Rosalind Franklin, an absolute genius on X-ray diffraction, collected all the data that Crick and Watson used and purposefuly didn't credit. It wasn't LSD, it was their female colleague, who gave them the missing information required to infer the proper shape.

Single you out? You're the one replying as if you're correct in your interpretation.

But sure, if that hurt you: you and the single other person who misread the comment are both equally wrong. Better?

You're correct, and that's why sometimes they work really well and sometimes they make the problem much worse and profoundly annoy the plumber you'll eventually call to fix the issue.

A strong base + lipids stuck together in a pipe means a solid block of soap after a while, sometimes too big and clogged to be effectively rinsed with water, meaning you just made the blockage worse.

can't see how the way you wrote that comment all but explicitly states that the LSD usage was a bad thing?

Don't bring your preconceptions to my comment, or at the very least, don't accuse me of subtext with your own delusions as a source.

My comment was mocking Steve Jobs' productivity, as in, what was he actually working in. LSD parties and interfering with HR is not working directly with the engineering and quality of the products. That's the extent of the comment. Your perceptions on LSD are irrelevant to me.