It feels a bit like Ali Express pricing with games being listed as $100 but being discounted year round for 50% off to give consumers the illusion of getting a deal.

It also seems like a lot of titles don’t go down in price as they age as often as they used to.

I wonder if they will ever release a definitive edition of The Sims 3 or 4. Even with a 90% discount the number of DLCs keep complete versions of the game rather expensive.

Tangentially related but I was browsing the list of Steam curators and I was surprised by how many of them are dedicated to discouraging people from buying games from specific countries.

That’s how I ended up with so many games in my backlog

Are you looking for a percentage amount or a dollar amount? Which would seem more appealing?

Kind of a neat concept.

Reminds me of projects that use open source engine recreations to create their own standalone games.

For example the dhwem3 (Doom 3) standalone game Rivensin.

It reminds me a bit of Garmin acquiring Pebble and discontinuing support. This does sound significantly worse though

Reminds me a bit of DamonPS2 possibly stealing the PCSX2’s team’s code

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/DamonPS2

It depends on what you want to emulate and if emulation is your primary concern. There are a lot of handheld emulators out there that are cheaper and can offer a smoother experience thanks to their custom firmware.

If you are looking for something to primarily play a specific console like GBA/DS or want to play less demanding consoles like PSX and below I’d say there are better options.

Does it in anyway phrase the question to reference real hardware or original versions?

I feel like a lot of people emulate (including using Nintendo Switch Online) or play modernized remixes of titles like Super Mario 99

Is there a chance that Arch says that so they don’t have to take on the responsibility of endorsing yay while also acknowledging its prevalence?

Like if Nintendo made a statement saying they recommend against third party mods or repairs that deal with joycon stick drift because they don’t want to be held accountable or contacted about issues consumers run into a result of them.

Any reason you would recommend Slackware specifically?

I’ve watched a few Youtube videos on the history of it and the advantages of it but I don’t recall much. It seemed like a lot of people who had used Slackware a long time ago simply continuing to use Slackware and people using at as a learning tool because of how user involved it is.

Would you recommend people start with Slackware itself or a Slackware-based distro?

Why paru specifically?

I didn’t read the documentation so I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to use sudo with yay.

-Ss can be added to pacman to search for packages. Pretty useful if you don’t want to DuckDuckGo them every time.

As for applications one neat one I don’t see recommended very often is xkill. You can use it to kill applications kind of like you would with the task manager in Windows. htop is probably a closer comparison to the task manager in general though.

There are a lot of Arch-based distros that are incredibly easy to install if you want a very easy setup process that doesn’t involve a lot of terminal work.

Sorry about the wait. I kept forgetting to post it when I wasn’t on mobile!

I’ve got three monitors

There’s no shortage of virtual assistants capable of doing almost exactly what Rabbit’s R1 claims to do. Google and Amazon are also injecting their own virtual helpers with generative AI smarts to make them even better at handling complex requests more easily. But Lyu sees the need for a purpose-built device for getting things done that’s separate from your phone and therefore less distracting. He argues that just because your phone can do the same thing doesn’t mean it’s the superior experience.

It’s an interesting concept that might be popular with people who buy modern minimalist phones but I feel like a virtual assistant fills this niche alright already.

I feel like the extra step to use a device like this or a virtual assistant wouldn’t make it efficient. Especially if there’s any kind of processing time after a query.

It comes down to price. You can buy used ThinkPads and replacement parts for them quite cheap a lot of the time.

It’s been a while since I’ve looked at devices from places like System 76 but if I recall correctly they are still over a thousand dollars when a used ThinkPad T440P for example can be found for around two hundred dollars.