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Leaked images reveal Lenovo’s Steam Deck competitor with a hint of the Switch

It looks sick. I actually have no problem that it's thicker if that means that the battery life is longer (although weight is a concern over thickness, of course). Lenovo hardware is hit and miss though (and I say this having used a Legion laptop for the past few years).

Also, Steam Deck will still remain king until the other companies can make a good track record of consistent software improvements which are needed on a device like this. I see all of these other clones - the Ally, the 50000 Aya devices - and I still am not tempted until I know that they will be supported long term. I really think that this support sets the tone for these devices - is this market going to be a 'it's a year old and already outdated so I'll just buy a new one' kind of thing? Or will it be 'this is good for a quite a few years and I'm happy with my purchase and not immediately getting fomo'? I really hope it's the latter.

Another thing is that, and maybe I'm misremembering, but didn't Nintendo patent some part of the detachable controller design that scared companies from doing anything similar for a long time? I could have sworn that was happening for quite a while...

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Don't use Proton Experimental for Baldur's Gate 3 (anymore)

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The game is fun, but I would definitely not say that it runs great. It's runs at a bare minimum 30fps with low/medium settings and dips below 30. The FSR implementation is awful and basically unusable - it blurs your character beyond recognition. I have to use the Deck's frame limiter and FSR to get it to run decently. The game is not well optimized.

But as I said, the game is cool. Worth a play if you like rpgs.

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Redditors, how do you like Lemmy?

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And often, you'll find multiple communities on the same topic and you have to try to figure out which one looks like it will be better down the road

I think that inevitability what will happen is that apps will have to create a "group" feature where you have clusters of communities at once. So if there are 2 gaming communities, you could group them, then click on that group to view all of the posts as if it were one subreddit.

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Google Maps has become an eyesore. 5 examples of how the app has lost its way

My biggest gripe is that it can't handle multi part trips with turn by turn directions. By that I mean - let's say I want to go across town to my destination and that involves using the subway that I need to walk to. For some reason Maps doesn't give you turn by turn walking directions to the subway part, but will show you the map with your location to the subway then to destination. You have to start and stop turn by turn directions to each part separately. That's such a pain in the butt and is nonsensical.

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Nexus Mods: Starfield Performance Optimizations

I saw this. For anyone wondering, the game has inis in the main folder that determine the graphical settings in-game. So "low" graphics settings are "low.ini", for example. This mod replaces them with tweaked settings - low goes lower, ultra goes higher.

I tried the potato (aka the replacement for low.ini) settings on Steam Deck and they greatly improve frame-rate, but at the cost of resolution. It sets the resolution scale to 35%.