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Zangoose

@ Zangoose @lemmy.world

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  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • Because if you are on a steam deck and just install it on the SD card to begin with I guarantee you it's faster to pop out the SD card and insert it into the other device than it is to copy the files over a network, especially if one of those devices is a VR headset.

    Besides, more options to do the same thing isn't necessarily a bad thing. People can pick whichever they like best. If someone has games already installed on an SD card in their steam deck and want to quickly move them over to a steam machine or steam frame then this would be super convenient for them.

    This is also specifically an article about the steam deck, steam frame, and steam machine so all of the devices would be using SteamOS and not Windows anyway. Not really sure why you're bringing up Windows.

  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • Instead of redownloading the game twice on a steam deck and steam machine (or steam frame) you could just take the same micro SD card out and insert it into the other device and play from there

    Edit: You could also copy a game's install files over to the SD card and move them directly if you really don't want to run the game directly off the SD card

  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • This is pretty useful for people with bad internet (or data-capped, because that exists for some reason), especially with some games taking up 100+ gb

  • Google will let ‘experienced users’ keep sideloading Android apps, even from unverified developers.

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  • The company says it is now developing an “advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified.” This installation flow will include safeguards to protect people who are being coerced into installing a dangerous app, or tricked by a scammer, along with “clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved.”

    Seems like there will also just be a toggle somewhere (probably developer settings) that lets someone install from any source

  • Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller

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  • FeX is userland only though, I'm wondering how they're getting it booting arch in the first place since arch doesn't support ARM officially (Arch Linux ARM/alarm is a separate project that has had serious maintainership issues with their packages to the point where a lot of core packages break due to being partially out of date)

  • Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller

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  • I know they said they're using fex for x86 emulation but how far down does that go? AFAIK arch Linux doesn't have official arm support yet (alarm exists but they've had a lot of problems keeping packages up to date) so I wonder if Valve is planning on helping with upstream arm support

  • Seems a great many of you need this.

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  • Isn't the content blocked because imgur refused to implement ID-based age verification so as a result they just blocked users in the UK? Or am I missing something else here

  • Facing problems using Bazzite for software development

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  • To be clear this was not a recommendation lol I completely agree with you

  • Facing problems using Bazzite for software development

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  • If you want to do both at the same time without knowing which side any given task will fall under use NixOS

  • With the Pixel 10 series, Google’s setting new sales records

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  • Or source code at this point, AOSP is still missing the 16 QPR1 release that came out for pixels at the beginning of September

  • With the Pixel 10 series, Google’s setting new sales records

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  • Release QPR1 source code first though it's been 2 months 😭

    (Or at the same time, that would be good too)

  • CISA Warns of Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks to Deploy Ransomware

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  • I think a lot of the confusion comes from the ambiguity of the phrase "memory leak." Rust is designed around preventing insecure memory access (accessing out of bounds for an array, use-after-free, etc.) and devs call that a memory leak. But another form of memory leak is just not freeing up memory when its no longer needed (e.g. continuously pushing a bunch of things to a global vector and never clearing it). That is more of a fundamental program design issue that rust can't do anything about. (and really, neither could any turing complete language)

  • CISA Warns of Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks to Deploy Ransomware

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  • 'Use-after-free' bugs are a specific type of memory access bug that Rust was designed around preventing. It literally refers to trying to access a block of memory after it has already been freed by the memory allocator. Unless you go out of your way to use the "unsafe" keyword in rust (which in most cases, you shouldn't) then this type of bug is not possible.

  • CISA Warns of Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks to Deploy Ransomware

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  • Do you know what a use-after-free bug is? Rust was literally designed to make this type of memory bug impossible.

  • CISA Warns of Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks to Deploy Ransomware

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  • But then the kernel wouldn't be free! Free as in 'use-after-free'!

    (/s in case it wasn't obvious)

  • Recommend that new users join geographically local instances

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  • That's exactly my point. Giving away the exact town you live in to strangers on the Internet is not good advice to give people generically.

  • Recommend that new users join geographically local instances

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  • Maybe I could see country or even general region, but town?? Why would I want to publicly give away my location like that?

  • You have $10,000 to make your town/city a better place to live. What do you do with the money?

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  • My town has $20 million of debt in our education department alone that we didn't know about until this year after a board of education administration change 😭 so I think 10,000 might not make too much of a difference to them. That being said I'd probably donate to a local foodbank

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • The problem with CachyOS is that it's arch-based, which is fine, but I wouldn't recommend it for people who aren't willing to deal with arch problems and be familiar (or willing to learn) using the CLI. I normally just point people to either mint or bazzite depending on how many games they play.

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • once installed, what everyone and their uncle forgot to mention during the rave reviews (and you kinda glossed over) is that a steam account is fucking mandatory. like, you can't even log in, switch to desktop mode, change resolution, nada. ...

    This is not true. When you download the installer from their website there is a prompt asking you if you want a Desktop-first install or the Steam-mode first install. The desktop install boots directly into KDE or Gnome just like any other distro, and doesn't require a steam account, but will come with the steam launcher pre installed.

    I get that it's not great UX to put install options like that in the website but If you're going to go on a long rant about how awful it is, please at least put a fraction of that effort into seeing if you're actually right.

    If you chose to download the steam gaming mode version I think it's understandable that the expectation is that you have a steam account. The whole point of that mode to begin with is that it replicates the experience you'd get on the steam deck, so you can make your own home-console PC or install it on a handheld like the Lenovo or ASUS ones. It's not really designed around regular desktop use.

    Side note, I haven't used it much yet but so far bazzite has been working fine on my i7 7700hq + 1050ti laptop with the same ram and storage as yours that I got because it couldn't run Windows 11. It should be about as powerful as yours, maybe slightly weaker on the CPU side and slightly better on the GPU side. Have you looked into it being maybe some weird driver issue with your laptop's power management? It could maybe have something to do with that.