Both of those games are CPU bound. Think about the amount of calculations for the thousands of entities (and tens/hundreds of players) Ark has to handle at any given frame. For CS2 it’s more about calculating as many frames as possible as responsively as possible while the GPU can effectively just focus on minimal eye candy.

GrapheneOS has a community maintained compatibility list. Mine was on the list and it works well, and its updated quickly if something breaks or a new provider manages to work.

This is what the fediverse needs more of :)

Wouldn’t both the Asahi Linux project and the prior examples of android managing to be ran on iPhone 5 models and below be solid examples to the contrary?

They don’t have custom firmware because it’s locked down, not because of their product line’s existence.

If iPhones were as easy to mod as Pixels, then the sheer amount of potential users would probably mean a custom firmware would be swiftly developed.

So yeah, we should name and shame them, even if Apple has no interest in opening the gates.

The retail pre-paid debit cards can be bought with cash at various convenience stores, at least in the US. Growing up I used to use them before I had a bank account.

There is no name attached. Just the payment method at initial purchase (which can be done with cash).

Learn to use ebay and enjoy the used discounts, dude. It’s such a refresher.

There will always be businesses liquidating inventory, cryptominers dumping their cards, and average joes hoping that they can sell their old PC rather than recycling it. It sucks that most of the stuff will not be new, yeah, but you can still get powerful hardware at an affordable price.

My lemming on the internet, prepaid debit cards have been a thing for multiple decades and are perfect for anonymous purchases online at any storefront. You don’t need explicitly Valve-endorsed cards.

The wikipedia search method to find the official sites has never failed me.

Depends on the state. The Florida Mindset is not a universal one.

Southeners… Southeners never change.

“There is a way… to play games on linux without steam deck verification.”

“Is is possible to learn this power?”

“Not from a casual user.”

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She’s ready for ComputerCraft!

How’s OpenStreetMap for that and walking around? I’ve degoogled a bit ago and have been using Co-Maps for cycling and driving navigation, but I never tried using it for nature preserves and trails (or walking around the streets where I live in the US).

LinuxDistros+Proton enters the chat…

Well the beauty of PC is that you could always jump ship to another distributor/developer if one turns into shit.

EA is already there, so it’s easy to play games from other devs instead XD

You’ll need to rip and decrypt.

I suppose, although you can’t expect everything to be maintained in perpetuity. That’s why the repair guides are out there and the battery/SSD specs are available to the public for aftermarket replacements.

If this was Apple, I think we’d all be singing a different tune, since they sue anyone who tries to create a aftermarket repair ecosystem.

(For the record: not supporting the decision, but rather explaining from an engineer’s lens why they probably are doing this and how it’s not as much as a pain point vs. repair hostile products)

Tbf, I believe CachyOS has taken the reigns of “Arch based gaming distro that doesn’t have immutable OS restrictions”, so that’d probably the easiest solution for that.

On the slackware note though, my uncle still uses it (I think it was Puppy last I checked). He was a former chip designer at IBM and Intel, and got on the linux for privacy bandwagon long enough ago to show me the ropes of linux as I was growing up.