The farmer was replaced sounds pretty interesting, I’ll check it out.

I bought Tunic and Crosscode.

I jumped straight into Tunic, and am having a great time. I recently finished Outer Wilds and was wanting another knowledge based progression game.

Yeah, the bank that manages my mortgage has mandatory text message 2fa if you’re on a new computer. And something about Firefox keeps it from remembering my machine, so I have to do the text message 2fa everytime.

Right now it’s working fine, but they had a period of a few months where the text messages would take 10-15min to send after you tried to log in, and the log in attempt would expire after 5 min, making it impossible to log in. All of which could be avoided if they would let me use a 2fa app.

That was a common issue for me on an older build of steamOS, but I almost never have any issues with it anymore. Sorry to hear you’re still having issues with it.

Assuming it still works, you can always startup desktop mode nested within game mode, and that will have it running through Wayland.

What dock issue are you having?

That does sound super annoying. There’s actually a Decky plugin that will let you delete the shader cache, might be worth using for the easier game-mode access.

Elden Ring just updated a day ago for the DLC, and it introduced multiple issues. If you haven’t played a lot of sessions in the past day you probably wouldn’t have noticed the issue.

What storage issue are you talking about?

Only the OLED model. The OLED model’s Bluetooth chip supports BT low energy mode, while the LCD model does not. Low energy mode is required for the wake up functionality, or it would consume far too much battery in sleep mode.

They use the xbox brand for microsoft store pc games too, and it’s probably those + gamepass that it would run. Those should let you lower the graphics.

Also if the device is successful, it might actually get more devs to release their games on the Microsoft store instead of just on Steam, which would be a win-win for Microsoft.

Living the dream

A big part of the Deck outselling the competition is price. An Xbox handheld could be sold at a loss (like the deck) with the plan of making the money back on Microsoft store/Xbox store sales.

Gaming laptops are both too big to be portable, and yet subpar for a desktop experience. I feel like they’re an inconvenient compromise between something focused on being a portable gaming experience and a desktop computer, and they fail to meet either need well.

My experience with them is they’re too large to be portable in any sort of convenient way, have terrible battery life, struggle to compete with desktops for performance (without spending a huge amount on the laptop), frequently have overheating issues (especially as they age), and lack the upgrade freedom of a desktop requiring you to buy a brand new laptop every few years.

My personal experience is based on an $1850 Asus gaming laptop I had 10 years ago though, so maybe things have changed since then or other brands are better.

To be fair, gaming laptops kinda suck (at least they did when I owned one). I would probably recommend a steam deck + a desktop over a gaming laptop.

Must be, there were at least 3 new handheld PCs announced last week.

I would expect it to be a loss leader. The cheap price combined with brand recognition, advertising, and a streamlined experience could make it a successful product I think.

If it’s Xbox branded they could probably get away with it.

This actually isn’t about Genshin, but Wuthering Waves instead.