Browsing sb. Connecting to a tv to play movies off a network. Maybe retroarch
Doesnt it have a microled screen too
Thatâs just the Pros that start at $1999 which would be overkill for that but I love mine fwiw
You can get an Air for ~$999 or less on sale. Costco has the 256GB SKU for $850 right now
The processor in the Air is still very fast; it just doesnât have as many GPU cores as the âProâ variant, but very few applications make good use of the GPU power right now
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I had to look this up because holy shit! But, no, looks like they used mini-LED but plan to use micro-LED in a year or two.
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Iâm rolling with a Microsoft Surface laptop, and Iâm sure if you go for that you will be almost as annoyed as if you ran with a mac
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the macbook air has a battery that lasts double everything else and it doesnât have a fan, whereas 100% of compact windows laptops have a fan that 1) will never shut up for any reason unless the laptop is floating in the air somewhere, 2) has some proprietary bullshit fan controller that sucks shit and that you canât bypass with anything else
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gonna be honest here, my surface is dead silent almost all of the time.
i keep thinking about how the M1 destroyed every other processor without breaking a sweat and intel responded by bringing out a line that does beat it in single core or whatever but also just burns power. idk fun to see the market encouraging competition. i might be wrong in the details or general structure here
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no, thatâs basically it â Intel can still beat anyone else for single-threaded performance if they want to, but they arenât really competitive with AMD on multithreaded performance or GPUs, and they arenât even close to competitive with Apple on power consumption
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in all honesty, I would strongly recommend an M1 Air if you already have enough computer for any intensive gaming / GPU tasks (or just a console but yâknow), you arenât unwilling to use a non-Windows machine at this point in your life, you are willing to use a terminal for any exotic configuration stuff, and youâre comfortable with local streaming for any use case it canât cover off. if you actually like to use macOS or do open source development, even better, although those advantages are much less pronounced than they were a few years ago. itâs still by far the best laptop-that-complements-a-desktop on the market, I donât think anything really comes close for price/performance/build quality.
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Was playing Dead Space 2 on deck, swapped the control scheme to one with gyro. Itâs a perfect experience. I love this thing so far.
Iâve spent like 6 hours getting my emulator shit how I wanted. Totally expected. Everything except Dreamcast games are working perfectly.
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Iâm a linux baby and trying to get these Marathon source ports running on my Steam Deck but the normal instructions lead to a failure. I get an error about not being able to run c compile scripts. Any idea how I might get this running?
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might be more to it than this but you probably need
pacman -s base-devel
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apparently the Steam Deck uses Arch (cool! I love Arch! I donât write docs for Arch) but this is a pretty standard Linux question, âhow do I get the compiler packages set up for my distro,â usually itâs a one-liner like @idiot shared but it does vary which one-liner
Iâll give these a shot. Thanks!
Edit: Yikes! Now âKonsoleâ (this OSâ name for terminal I guess) opens for a sec then closes right away!!! Edited Edit: fixed it.
If I recall, I had trouble compiling Marathon on my Linux distro(Linux Mint) a few years ago. I donât think I ever got it working but didnât spend much time on it. I donât think it was a matter of missing dependencies either. I bet with time it will be easier to get a lot of this stuff working on Steam Deck since it is a fixed platform though.
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In a perfect quintessential Mac experience, I wanted to find a simple software mixer to output capture audio and a mic as one device for Discord.
Found Rogue Amoebaâs ninety-nine dollar Loopback, the freeware version of which adds in noise after ten minutes to make sure itâs unusable.
Next I looked at MainStage from when I bought the student Logic/Final Cut/etc. bundle.
Finally, I found this support article about the Audio MIDI Setup utility that comes with the OS and is perfect for making an âaggregate device.â
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any diagnosis tips, v long time since iâve had to fuck about with this stuff so much:
a couple of times over the past three weeks or so my desktop has shut off for a second (with the psu âclickâ) and booted back up again. event viewer has a âwe lost power m8â kernel-power log entry and not much else.
thermals are fine, bios is i think almost entirely stock beyond xmp timings that have been stable for two years and things are otherwise stable, no crashes or lockups in apps or games? doesnât seem to be happening at particularly high loads or anything
hmm
My gut feeling is that some electrical widget like a resistor/capacitor somewhere on your motherboard is probably dying. Unfortunately, thatâs one of the hardest things to firmly diagnose or fix short of full replacement
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just in terms of complexity/expense/returnability: swap out the PSU first, motherboard second. itâs definitely a hardware issue at least.
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yeah thatâs what i was thinking
what a headache eh
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