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Yeah, no, pretty sure they just didn’t test on/optimise for Arc. The underpaid support rep probably looked at “Intel GPU” and thought it was an integrated GPU of some kind. Maybe they just looked at “770” and came to the conclusion that 770 is lower than 1070 or 5700 and must therefore be too poor to run the game.

However, since Intel’s updates apparently made the game run, it’s possible that the problem lies with Intel in this case. Their drivers aren’t exactly the most reliable part of the equation and corrupted textures sounds like a low-level issue with Intel’s implementation.

I’m sure it’ll run fine once Intel updated their drivers. Maybe they should do what AMD did, and send over a bunch of programmers to make the game run well on Intel and give it XeSS without mods.

• Doesn’t work with Wayland unless you’re a masochist
• Steam UI is laggy, mostly because of Nvidia shenanigans; HoloISO and such don’t support Nvidia at all.
• Requires proprietary Nvidia driver (the open source driver only works for 20 series and up)
• Steam/Lutris + proton + compatibility tools work fine. Windows grade performance from what I can tell, maybe a few FPS lower or higher but nothing shocking
• Idle power consumption is a bit high because of Nvidia shenanigans
• Proprietary driver taints the kernel (because of its proprietary nature). If you have secure boot enabled, disable it or set up signing the kernel modules with your own keys; there are no pre-signed Nvidia kernel modules because of Nvidia shenanigans.
• CUDA works if you’re into that sort of thing
• No usable DLSS for the 10 series cards, but FSR works just fine

Modern Bluetooth has multi stream capabilities, though I doubt affordable headphones will provide that feature anytime soon. The other two issues are just UX problems, solved in part by just using NFC to pair.

Most of people’s Bluetooth issues aren’t actually Bluetooth problems (anymore), they’re “Bluetooth device manufacturers suck at UX design” issues. That includes mobile operating systems, too. Buy the right devices, and you’ll run into very few of Bluetooth’s downsides while getting all of the upsides. Buy bad devices and you’ll wish you had an alternative.

In my experience, most 3.5mm headphones sound like shit. They start sounding good right around the price range where Bluetooth becomes an alternative. But hey, the free 3.5mm dongles that come with decent phones gives you the option to use your old headphones.

You need Firebase for notification support on 99% of phones. It supports unifiedpush as well but you’ll have to build it yourself if you want to get rid of Firebase support entirely.

This reminds me of Ben Eater’s videos. Building barebones computers is hard!

If you’re interested in a deeper dive into how computers work, I recommend these videos:

Building an 8-bit breadboard computer

Building a 65c02-based computer from scratch

The world’s worst video card?

I’m pretty sure you can still buy the parts for the breadboard computer from Ben Eater’s website if you want to play along.

You can turn the AAB into an APK, though. It’s a bit weird that they don’t do this as part of their build process, but it’s not that hard and it’s not like this is the release version of the app.

I’m honestly quite surprised that nobody has taken bundletool and turned it into an app yet. I believe this app (which does much more than just install aabs) will let you load the AAB directly: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.apk.editor/

If you’re concerned about the lack of APK files, maybe consider opening a pull request to generate APKs out of the generated AABs in the Github pipeline. I’m sure it’d be appreciated.

If Firefox breaks too many pages, turn down the privacy protection settings.

It’ll come at a privacy cost, but the privacy cost will still be lower than switching back to Chrome.

ChatGPT works fine in Dutch. It may not have enough training data to be useful in Bengali, Kurdish, or Tamil, but it’s certainly not restricted to English.

Eh, I found the original Saints Row characters all annoying. The player character and the wacky missions were all that ever interested me, I honestly didn’t give a fuck about Johnny Gat or anyone around him. All I wanted was to rule the gang and have fun on the missions. If I wanted a realistic open world game that mostly takes itself serious, I’d play GTA V again.

Bullshit tech was introduced in SR3 and only got worse from there. If anything the remake toned it all down a little. Saints Row is best when it balances its GTA parody style and its gritty storyline, and in my opinion the worst parts are where you’re supposed to take the game seriously.

The student loan/millennial relatability pandering was a tone shift for sure, but once you left the introduction and got to the game, that stuff all faded to the background.

Notepad got unix line ending support a while back. It doesn’t do weird old macOS line endings (\r only) but Unix line endings work these days.

Microsoft wants you to use Word online. It’s free if you have a Microsoft account, like Google Docs is.

You can’t associate local docx or rtf files with Word online, though, which they really should’ve done before nuking their preinstalled docx editor.

I’ve tried to download AbiWord after the news about this came out a few days ago but I’m pretty sure it’s dead now. The website seems to have vanished completely.

Didn’t expect an article this good from the website that brought us my laptop’s SSD is too small and that’s other people’s fault.

Game reviews are wild. Just try rating “Zelda: Breath of the Wild But With Crafting” anything but 10/10 and you’ll have fans attacking you from every direction, confused by the narrative that other people don’t like the thing they like.

Everyone around me seems to be enjoying Starfield immensely but people are still raging about it for reasons I can’t be sure about. Some shitheads are mad that you get to pick pronouns but there are people outside thst group thst are also partaking in the review bombing.

I think it’s the same thing that happened to Saints Row. It was a pretty meh game, especially for the price, but it wasn’t the terrible torture that other people made it out to be; it really was just “another Saints Row game” but with better characters. However, once game media started making fun of it, Gamers with a capital G wouldn’t shut up about it. For a while you couldn’t stream the game without getting a chat full of people who needed to make sure you knew the game you were enjoying was actually a bad game.

Now, the Gamer with a capital G has run into a problem: they really like Starfield but all of the websites they read say it’s bad. The cognitive dissonance is scaring them, and in their confusion, they lash out against anything they can find. Obviously the game is Bad because they were told it was Bad, but the game is actually fun so the reviewers are terrible people who should die for giving the game a score that’s too low.

It’s hard being a Gamer; you have to work so hard to show the world how good of a Gamer you are!

Its not the parents job to be your best friend.

You know, I’ve never heard a good parent say that.

Disrespecting your child’s right to privacy is exactly how you end up with fucked up kids. If you can’t trust your own parents, you’re going to end up with a terrible life as an adult.

Maybe, but I’ve also seen plenty of stories from unhinged parents that too away their kid’s door because they refused to give their kids any privacy.

If they just want OP to leave his room then there are better ways, forcing physical access is a red flag to me.