heh. This reminds me of electric cars. I’ve been happily driving one for 9 years.
Lots of people online and in person tell me “Electric cars aren’t there yet. They won’t work.” Well, you must be correct then. I just handed down my first EV to my kid and bought a second one.
Battery situation could be better.
Sodium batteries seem promising, though density is lower than Lithium.
Anyone who says electric cars aren’t there are making inaccurate statements at best and at worst are telling non-factual ones. The truth isn’t that electric cars aren’t ready, is that the energy distribution isn’t ready. Only urbanized areas are prepared to offer that much energy at scale and living in an urbanized area you shouldn’t need a personal vehicle for most of your travels anyway.
Side note, this is why I think plug-in-hybrids are the baby step we need to achieve first. Even with their obvious flaws they fill the gap between an internal combustion engine and full electric.
I bought a PHEV back in June (Ford Escape), have driven 1500 miles since and have yet to add any gas. For most daily trips the battery gets me there and back without using any gas. I love it and am excited for full EV for my next vehicle.
Wish I could empathize, but I refuse to trust a car I can’t fix myself. There’s entirely too many computers and entirely too many points of failure-- it’s a good thing that I’m medically ‘advised’ not to drive. I wouldn’t be able to switch over until someone released an EV with the kinds of home-maintainability that like. A 60’s Mustang once had.
I’m not tryna have to have the shit towed to a Firestone-- or god forbid the manufacturer themselves-- just to have to pay hand-over-fist to fix the errors borne of their shoddy fuckin work.
I refuse to trust a car I can’t fix myself
Isn’t that basically all cars nowadays? It’s not about the type of engine, cars have gone “no serviceable parts inside” for at least a decade.
Yeah, and my last car was from the 80s lmfao. After seeing the way my coworkers were practically beholden to mechanic shops just to keep their cars running like every six months, I said ‘no thank you’.
Good news, oil changes on electric cars are not a thing. Wiper blades, wiper fluid, air filters, rotate tires is about it. Maybe brakes and brake fluid at some point but haven’t needed it in over 5 years yet.
Only thing I’ve needed at the mechanic is rotate/balance tires and replace cracked windshield as I don’t want to own the equipment for that.
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It’s all situational.
My wife could absolutely rock an EV for her 3 mile drive.
However, for road trips we don’t have enough charger coverage where we live, so alas we have an ICE
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When is the last time you drove either down an unpaved washboarded road for 30 hours one way without any charging locations, and then back, and how did it fare? Also let me know how it works at -45 C.
I’m sure it works well for suburban/city streets, doubtful it works well for the above.
I’d be curious to know the stats of how many driving trips are done in cities vs your washboard example.
Well, “30 hours” disqualifies >50% of trips, because most trips are under 3 miles.
I’m not saying it’s not a good option for the majority of people, I’m saying that there are definite use cases for gas vehicles which electric vehicles cannot fulfill at this time. The majority of my trips are short and are in a city, however if I had an electric vehicle, I’d be fucked the 2 times a year I have to make a drive like that because you can’t carry batteries for an electric car like you can carry gas cans, and they won’t be building charging stations in the middle of federally protected natural reserves. Furthermore, there are definite problems with electric vehicle range in low temperatures even for travel within a city. If electric vehicles met those requirements I’d be buying one immediately, but as it stands, a gas vehicle is simply more capable and is a better value when it comes to the money as a result.
Renting a gas powered vehicle could be an option for the two times a year needed.
It’s the same argument when discussing why people need a pickup truck as their daily driver for the one time a year they need to haul a trailer or move a couch. When faced with the possibility of switching from a half-ton to a sedan, suddenly everybody needs to carry their refrigerator with them everywhere.
Valid counterpoint.
When does something become mainstream? The Steam Deck has sold millions of units.
Steam deck 2 with 1080p that can be (better) output to a TV.
We’d need a suitably powerful APU upgrade in order to make running a 1080p screen viable. Most of the reason the Steam Deck performs as well as it does is because games are only rendering at 720p.
My wishlist for a Deck V2 would be a
- Higher res screen (if it makes sense as I mentioned above)
- Higher refresh with VRR (partially handled by thr OLED 90hz but no VRR)
- Second USB-C port supporting USB4
- Fingerprint reader
- QoL improvements like smaller bezel, modern wireless chipset, etc.
AND a Steam Controller v2 as a companion with the exact same buttons/sticks/touchpads as the Deck.
you thinking like, mini hdmi port directly in the chassis? or just an hdmi to usb-c adapter in every box?
also have you seen the aftermarket screen upgrade? it looks great, but apparently the (already kinda slim) battery life really suffers. I’m still very tempted hahaha
Honestly I couldn’t give less of a shit of most triple A games or esports games not running on Linux because of EAC. I’ll gladly keep throwing money at indy devs that make games that don’t suck.
I played Fifa on my friend’s Xbox the other day. We had to wait for an active connection before we could play each other. Players were removed from the roster because of updates from the server. Once his game pass was verified, we still had to log out and log in a few times, navigate the strange menu hierarchy to actually play against one another. Same pattern when trying to play NHL, same with Madden.
I remember when you used to buy a sports game, and everything you needed just loaded from the disk. Menus were easy, and you were two clicks away from starting an offline game.
This is why FitGirl repack’s are a god-send. Declutters the bullshit, repacks the parts you actually want, and let’s you play the game like you’re not renting it on the whims of a fussy game lord.
+1 for FitGirl the GOAT! I wish I had money to throw her way, because the work she’s doing is great and I hope she can keep it up for a long time to come.
Ditto and ditto. She’s the best games archivist this world has
A lot of my problem there is a solid half the games I play and make mods for run through EAC, so I’d be losing outright hobbies, not just slop.
I can understand that tbh.
One thing I do miss is the larger modding commuinity. Like R2ModManager works on Linux so a lot of Unity-based games have mod support and it all works with Proton basically out of the box. There is a Linux build for the Satisfactory Mod Manager too which I thought was kind of weird lol.
Exactly. I fucking hate microsuck for putting me in this position, but I pretty much only use my PC for gaming and watching stuff and the games I really like have this EAC bs…
“Just get a console then bro” lol… Lmao even.
“Just get a console then bro”
Guhhhhhh, yeah, sure, let’s play into console wars and exclusivity bullshit and dumping nearly a grand every three years when a well-built PC will last you ten. Nahhhhhh, familia.
I recently started pc gaming again, I had played some switch and ds stuff but the last time I had gamed on pc was almost twenty years ago. Even given that I’m focusing on 2d games, I thought there would be a lot more hiccups trying to run windows games on a machine with intel integrated graphics. I like indie games much better in general nowadays, I’m not even going to worry about what I’m missing without buying a graphics card.
running bannerlord with mods just fine, because some hero had already done the work for me and just gave me the terminal commands to make everything function
That is the best hexbear emote I have seen to date!
We have the best emotes, folks. The redditors said that we couldnt have them, the lemmitors said we couldnt have them. But who has them now? 
@cordlessterry This is what I’ve found recently. For years I stuck with Windows basically for gaming and no other reason. Finally threw in the towel a couple weeks ago and installed Zorin OS, expecting a massive uphill battle to get my games to work. Instead, it was just … fine. The most I’ve had to do is change the compatibility settings on a couple of games in Steam to use Proton Experimental.
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Linux has been ready for a while now It’s gaming that isn’t ready
Meanwhile in the real world, people be like “what’s a linux?”
I could have sworn the last panel in this meme said “Stop having fun”. Mandela effect?
reddit bros would literally rather believe they slipped through the cracks in reality than that they misremembered one word for its synonym
Darth Vader may or may not have said “Luke, I am your father”, but he said something to that effect
There are two versions of this meme drawn in almost the same artstyle. Here’s the one this meme is based on, which says “quit having fun”:
This is in fact a redraw of an XKCD cartoon which is one panel and thus harder to make memes out of which says “stop having fun”:
It’s not just you.
Mandela effect. It’s always been Quit. Stop just sounds more natural
Ooh that’s an old one, nice find
I’ll take “Conversations that never happened” for $500, Alex.
Just dual boot and call it good.
I pretty much am exclusively on linux just because I prefer the workflow of gnome.
Sure a few games don’t work but it’s usually a competitive game I have no interest in.
Being able to use my computer without adds or shitty updates is a godsend
Not being able to play Valorant and Siege is a good thing
I still have to keep Windows around for (ironically) performance reasons.
Some sim games like Rimworld and Stellaris just have a big hit on linux for me, native or Proton. And in a sim game, that means slow turns and stutters you can’t avoid instead of slightly lesser graphics. And it’s not sublte, native stellaris is like a good 30%-40% slower with even higher spikes last time I benched them back to back.
I do find the steam deck is kind of buggy, at least for my use cases (usually docked, mostly used for emulation, and so on). But I’m thrilled that it exists, so I’m trying to support it as much as possible.
