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And Epic has had a lot more financial resources available when they launched their store. Estimated valuation of $15 billion in 2018, Valve’s was half that in 2022.

I don’t really see an excuse for Epic to have ever had missing features, they entered the market with plenty of templates for what does and doesn’t work

To my knowledge you still can’t easily discover / reuse existing game files, the launcher usually redownloads them anyways.

Even the Xbox app supports this (for most games)

It’s where you happen to touch that matters. Less of big deal touching components’ ground pins or handling the GPU by its heatsink/shroud, but if you discharge into one of the PCIe connector’s main data lines your GPU is not going to be too happy about it. Same is true of many of the pads underneath the CPU but, again, it really depends what you happen to be touching when you zap it.

I don’t think that was supposed to be your takeaway from that video

There’s playing it a little loose with ESD (not using a mat / resistive grounding strap), then there’s completely throwing caution to the wind (working on a carpet without any sort of ground nearby)

Glad you weren’t wearing your wooliest socks though

Biggest problem I encounter is people failing to signal their exit

So I end up being C because I yield to a bunch of bozos who didn’t communicate they were’t going to come my way

You successfully printed the Combine checkpoint from Half Life 2, failing to see the problem here

Limits app installations to those on the Microsoft Store and also disables Terminal / Powershell.

Makes for a super simple tamper-proof system that is similar to a Chromebook but a little more versatile. It’s a good solution for users who are all-in on the Microsoft ecosystem - think those who live their lives in Edge, Word, Excel. The restrictions keep them out of hot water.

Those restrictions are obviously annoying to those who want to install regular x86_64 apps from an .exe / .msi file or use Powershell / Terminal / CMD.

Switching out of S mode is very easy: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307

The issues i get through linux come from my failure to understand it

I’d argue that’s true of any user’s experience with any OS, including what you just experienced with Windows.

Getting out of S mode is actually very trivial, certainly moreso than many of the changes one might be expected to make in Linux. There’s a certain type of user that “S Mode” is intended for. You’re not that user, and Linux is likely to be a negative experience for that user.

As a kid, I remember seeing previews of this on early OXM demo discs and in the magazine itself. I never came across the game in the used games bin, but always had an interest in playing it.

A year or so ago, looked into it as a potentially fun Steam Deck game but was steered away by disappointing Xbox reviews.

Seeing this, I now have the game wishlisted and am looking forward to picking it up on sale!

This review is what did it for me. Love the way you tied it in with your mug :)

Linux has been ready for education for a long time! Most of the public high school machines I interacted with in the mid 2000s were linux based. There was a dedicated Mac lab for creative work.

Great, you can spearhead the mass emigration back to Europe / Africa / Asia

(not really getting much of a Native American vibe from your comments)

Trump Slump?

I considered the cost of the hardware and the time I would spend getting it all configured, then collecting the content from various sources.

Ultimately decided that $189 was worth it. I already have too many WIPs and something like this has been sitting on my ToDo list for years already, this is a great shortcut

Getting out of S mode is a few clicks away though. There’s a certain kind of user who actually benefits from it, and nobody is locked in.

RT’s restrictions were primarily architecture based (ARM)

Looks like Gossip Girl

Lugaru

There is no better archive utility than 7-Zip IMO

Just wish there was a MacOS version

I’ve played every Battlefield since 1942. The series does a great job creating large-scale warfare while keeping it action-packed, avoiding the longer lulls found in other milsim games. There’s a degree of intensity to the combat that I don’t really feel in most other FPS titles.

They’re regularly on sale on Steam for $1.99.

Battlefield 4 is coming up on 12 years old and still has a fair amount of active servers. Might just be me getting old but I find the gameplay really holds up. Compared to Battlefield 3, the whole battle pass / premium currency aspect was really souring at the time, but it’s not all that bad now.

For me, each release since then has been increasingly disappointing, though I still played them and had my fun. I was hyped for WWI combat in BF1, but they had to go and put fully automatic weapons with reflex sights in every soldier’s hands. Thought maybe we’d wind up with bolt action only hardcore servers, but that didn’t really pan out. Battlefield V brought things back to WW2 again, but it felt ruined yet again with an overabundance of attachments and letting everyone spawn with any other faction’s weapons. Completely immersion breaking.

The best modern Battlefield game was BattleBit Remastered, which wasn’t even developed by EA/Dice and had very simple Roblox graphics - seems like things aren’t going so good anymore.

If you like Star Wars, the Battlefront games are pretty amusing.

A lot of the Battlefield games have a single player campaign that ranges from generic FPS to actually having some pretty cool mechanics sprinkled in.

I didn’t suggest anyone reseat the clip between each step.

read the original bios, verify it and save

I’m recommending that this sequence be performed twice, reseating the clip before the second run, and performing a comparative of both .bin backup files.

The imperfect mature of these clips opens up the possibility for an imperfect read. Depending on the system, you may meed information from the original BIOS so you really don’t want to be stuck with a bad backup.

It does!

Downside is that you can end up with a bad / imperfect connection, which can result in a bad .bin (reading) or a bad flash (writing)

Removal of the IC is always more ideal when possible.

If you absolutely must use the clip, I recommend reading two .bins, reseating the clip between each read, and comparing the two in a hex editor to ensure you’ve actually gotten a good read.

Most flash tools will have a verify step to ensure you’ve actually written the right data.