wizzim

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[–] wizzim 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What guarantees you that your cheap Chinese-made charge-only cable does not actually contain some malware injection in the hardware (connectors or cable rim) :p

[–] wizzim 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry for the naive question, but is it not possible to send the excess electricity to the ground (in the electrical sense)?

[–] wizzim 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

:⁠-⁠)

Well she is having fun now, but soon it'll be my turn enjoying the life, tinkering the Steam Deck to configure the emulators. Bliss!

Thanks for the Cassette Beasts recommendation. It was already on my wishlist but I'll bump it up.

[–] wizzim 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the news!

Since I am in holidays, away from my gaming computer, I've only played Bloons TD6 and a bit of Vampire Survivors....

On the other hand, my daughter took my new Steam Deck and played:

[–] wizzim 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Isn't the guy drinking a beer missing a finger?

I never watched the show so I am not sure.

[–] wizzim 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Wrong, some were mentioned:

These systems offer some seriously compelling stuff - updates that either work 100% or roll back automatically, no more "oops I bricked my system" moments, better security through immutability, and way fewer update headaches.

[–] wizzim 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] wizzim 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

And the viruses that write themselves to the boot sectors of the hard drive?

[–] wizzim 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Does anyone have an idea what would happen if one runs a Windows virus with Wine ?

[–] wizzim 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Good, now make the engine open source Iike Carmack did for Doom 2 & 3 🤪

/s it will never happen as this game, although being great, is full of proprietary frameworks/3rd party libs.

[–] wizzim 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The point was trying to make is that PC is often a second rate citizen in these collectors editions.

My guess is that if you're customer of these editions, you want a "beautiful" object full of goodies, and, as a collector item, you won't open them or use them anyway.

I guess this is the reason they started to make them without a version of game included these last few years.

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