3070 Ti is still a surprisingly capable card. If you compare 3060 Ti, 4060 Ti and the 5060 ti to it, they are all really close with the 3070 Ti actually being the fastest. Gone are the days where an xx60 of a new generation was vastly faster than a 70 or even 80 of the previous one.
The major difference is VRAM, 8GB is to little little for 4k gaming, but it’s still perfectly fine at 1080 or 1440p, especially with some FSR/DLSS thrown in.
Sleep mode means ram is being powered, as otherwise it will clear out, and it keeps Bluetooth and WiFi on as well for the wakeup stuff.
There’s a rather complicated tweak for allowing hibernation, that saves stuff to disk and actually shuts the deck off properly.
All hail the Gabecube.
It doesn’t. The website would ask for an id check, you would generate it on the processor side and give the randomized ID to the site so it could go check it’s valid and let you through. It can be used to verify an account permanently but without one, it would kinda act like a temporary 2FA code.
How would you propose I prove to you at a reasonable certainty that I am an adult, without showing you my ID, or showing it to someone else you trust to tell the truth?
And also somehow prove that the ID I gave was not fake without the government that issued it telling you that it’s genuine?
Well, I actually could do it because I’m old enough that most of my accounts are already over 18 years old, but I don’t think requiring every new Pornhub user to wait 18 years is a reasonable solution.
If there is exactly one global service that does all the checks for every single internet user, which every single website uses, and the information going through them is always known, then sure, they could certainly block stuff.
But it’s quite clear by now “we aren’t going to implement age verification on the internet” isn’t going to happen, that verification is going to be implemented eventually, and in the rather near future. And places like the UK and many US states are extremely unlike to roll back the already implemented solutions.
So the question now is how it can be done with the least amount of invasion to privacy, and crucially, without the website needing your actual ID.
The way EU is planning on implementing it is seemingly rather okay on the privacy side.
Basic idea is that instead of sending your actual ID to every random shady website, which is fucking stupid and you should never ever do, you verify your ID once to a trusted processor, and the websites only receive a simple “Is adult: yes/no” answer connected to a randomised ID from them.
Combine that with one additional hop between the website and processor and you eliminate the processor even knowing what websites you requested the check for, and therefore the risk of a data leak is minimal.
There actually is one under development.
And also one already on steam but it’s from a russian dev team, so…
Give the EU some time.
And if they don’t remove it, oooh I wanna see the GDPR report microsoft sends me after three years when I ask for it. Before I demand they delete my data :)
Huh, seems that quite a few LShift + LCtrl + LAlt + LWin + <key> have hardcoded links: Y opens Yammer, L for Linkedin, T for teams, O for outlook and so on. TIL.
Possibly, kinda depends how it’s implemented, does it need the software to trigger some AI software or not.
Back when Microsoft got some copilot hotkeys put on laptops, they send the perfectly reasonable “LShift+Win+F23” key combination :)
Valve is paying the tariffs for now, like most businesses do, but as an overall tactic it’s unsustainable for the long run. And half of them aren’t actually in effect yet anyway because trump keeps pushing the dates back.
Apparently they renamed it to “sharp” at some point, probably because “fsr” doesnt mean anything to people who don’t know exactly what it does.
First set scaling mode to “integer”, and change the resolution of the game under 1280x800. If the image shrinks, the game is actually changing the window resolution and not just render resolution. If not, try changing between windowed/fullscreen.
Then change it to auto/fit/stretch/fill, and change “Scaling filter” to sharp, and you have FSR1.
FSR1 is a simple frame upscaler, it’s used as one of the methods for resizing the image when you render something at s lower resolution and stretch it to full screen, along with bilinear and integer. Very few games actually use it directly.
FSR 2/3/4 are temporal (time based), they need to be implemented directly by the game engine but if they do have FSR2, (like Deep Rock Galactic), it works on the deck.
FSR3/4 officially needs an RDNA 3/4 based gpu, which the deck doesn’t have, but the plugin/mod converts DLSS calls in to a RDNA 2 compatible version of FSR3/4.
FSR3 without the frame generation part might also work on the deck natively, though I’m not sure if I’m misremembering.
Official support would require AMD dropping the RDNA 4 gpu core requirement from FSR4, it’s not something Valve can do anything about.
Even if it did happen, there would be quite a small overlap between games that have FSR4 and ones that are able to run on the Deck well enough in the first place.
FSR1: select it in the sidebar as the scaling method, set any game to a resolution smaller than 1280x800. It’s system wide.
FSR2: find a game that supports it natively.
FSR3: find a game that supports it natively, or use decky-framegen decky plugin to change DLSS to FSR3.
FSR4: use decky framegen to change DLSS to RDNA2 compatible FSR4.
If you are going for Lineage, you might as well go with some more customized variants like CrDroid or EvolutionX, as long as there is an official build. They are Lineage but with more stuff.
It’s all about the battery temperature.
Even if you are running the deck with the APU cooking at 80C and fans blasting at full tilt, the battery stays relatively cool. But stuff it in an insulated box and start charging it at 45 watts, and the battery will quickly start heating from the inside over the recommended 30-45C maximum.