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Is there another option that’s cheaper for someone who wants this form factor and to not fuck around building a PC and wants to move away from consoles?

It’s not like it’s expensive in a vacuum. Gaming is just expensive these days.

I think you are forgetting what the goal is here.

Yup, the times are a changing.

Eh, rumors are the battery life will be low for the Frame. So, this addresses that.

They really are making the UI so much better.

But I hate the shepherding to make an account, or use their Muse installer, etc. It takes effort to know you can skip those things. And their game is to have your average person not know they can skip those things, while supposedly letting nerds and power users stay happy.

I don’t think these people deserve downvotes for answering questions.

Yeah, I need to use similar for those.

A short, like 2 or three foot, USB extension cable might help you out if you do run into USB 3 interference issues.

It’s a shame it’s only 8GB of vram. But that was already constrained before the memory apocalypse.

That’s not a rebuttal. If it was, then Facebook would be dead. Twitter would be dead. Reddit would be dead. Windows would be dead.

That doesn’t sound too fun, other people were the point for me.

They are addressing a diverse audience with their messaging. Not just you.

It’s 2026 and we still don’t have the technology to support server demand surges like this in a way that is appealing to implement.

When I first saw such things happen over 20 years ago, I figured it was always incompetence. Now I know it’s just reality.

Ah I see. That all makes sense, but yeah, these are products and they do a cost benefit analysis, and deem this stuff to be too expensive. And I think sometimes they deem it too brittle.

There’s also the problem of ban evasion not being solved either. So even with good ban actions, people just return. I’ve seen this first hand in a platform I hang out in.

It’s always an ongoing problem, and some people are really dismissive of how difficult it really is when you consider all the angles.

I appreciate the discussion and input.

Are you aware of any platforms or games who do it “right”? And if not, is it just because of the time commitment, like you already stated?

So, dedicated authoritative servers like another comment said?

I was using it as an example of a huge failure. They added anti-cheat recently. After a decade. And I’m pretty sure it’s one of the kernel level ones…

They may have even avoided adding it because they didn’t want to piss off users with kernel level. And they didn’t want to spend the money on dedicated servers. But who knows why they let it be a hackers playground for a decade.

So they didn’t do what is claimed to be the right path. And my point was developers don’t want to spend the money on the right path.

Where did I suggest they were an example of good security?!

AFAIK, it’s not kernel level on Linux/SteamDeck. It’s only a subset of the protection.

Edit: what’s up with the downvote? Am I wrong? Is EAC on Linux the full toolset?

I see. So games using something like Photon are out of luck? Dedicated authoritative servers are mandatory?

It seems like authoritative dedicated servers are out of fashion these days. Especially in the indie scene. But maybe that should change to support more fair multiplayer spaces with less grief from hackers.

GTAO is the most profitable game in the history of games, and it does not use dedicated authoritative servers. Even though they could afford it.

And if you are correct, Valve can’t push this solution. They can’t implement it for developers. Valve is shit out of luck with that approach.

Wait, what’s the smarter effective way that they are ignoring? Why hasn’t Valve pushed this solution in the name of Linux support improving?

I have interest in the problem of hacking in social games. And I’m not sure if I’m aware of the smarter solution you alluded to.

I find that trackpad icky. I hate how PlayStation users have been forced to mash the mushy button that it is for the past 10 years.

It’s never lived up to the potential.

I have a bunch of nice controllers that all work on my gaming PC and Macs, etc.

But I’ll probally buy one of these too. I feel like it’s compulsory in a weird nagging way.