Transfered from Feddit.ch as they closed up shop unfortunately.
The dedicated GPU on that is much more powerful than the integrated APU on the other ones I listed. However, since Reaper doesn’t seem to care much about the GPU (from my basic research) you’ll be plenty happy playing old games with the iGPU (it’s very powerful still) and benefit from the NPU for AI with the two examples I gave.
That’s unfortunate to hear. I doubt anything will compete with Steam with all the things you want. People need to choose to put value where it really matters and have some inconveniences. Pirating certainly won’t get you what you want. Supporting DRM free services (and the games devs) will do more good. You could download your GoG games through the Heroic launcher and it’ll use wine proton (or whatever it’s called). Also Nexus mods has a new mod manager that’ll work on Linux but it’s only in alpha stage currently.
I don’t know anything about Reaper besides a quick search. Most people say memory is important and I don’t see any mention of GPUs.
Minisforum makes great mini PCs. Get one with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with lots of memory/RAM and storage to suit your needs. The APU is very capable for gaming, plenty strong for 10yr old games, and these also have an NPU for AI work.
https://www.minisforum.com/collections/elitemini-series/products/elitemini-ai370
That would be sweet. Even just a touch screen panel would be awesome
Get an Everdrive or blank CD and flash ROMs to them to play on your original systems.
I think giving up swipe to text is a small thing to make your life more private
That’s a nice thought. Thank you for sharing
You should abandon Apple for Linux anyways. Apple doesn’t care about you, your privacy, or anything but them making more money, from you. This has been proven time and time again by evidence and whistleblowers.
Then let’s support the good companies to make it the rule and not exception. The market won’t change until the consumer tells them what’s important
GOG has no DRM. Once purchased you can download the files and own it. You could even write your games to CDs if you wanted and play like the old days.
Edit. I was setting up a new laptop for my Dad. I remembered we used to play an old fighter jet game when I was young. I looked it up and found out it was Falcon 3. I then found GoG sells it. So I purchased it on my account and loaded it onto his computer with no reference to GoG, no clients, etc. It was a surprise for him when he got his new computer.
So are most services and then at some point do some type of rug pull with BS EULA changes, etc. that change the functionality of what you’re using. This is prevailant in everything now a days. I’d say with Steam the writing is on the walls. They have so much power in the PC gaming market (like with the examples you gave) it’s only a matter of time.
I do see how useful and user friendly those services you mentioned are
Read their EULA, you license your “purchase”. You don’t own your games. Steam also injects their own DRM onto the vast majority of games.
I was thinking Steam but Epic, EA, Ubisoft; they’re all riddled with crap
Is this what you’re talking about? https://kkc.com/blog/apple-whistleblower-details-intimate-data-spying-profiling-in-new-interviews/
Now let’s go one step further and quit purchasing games with DRM from a particularly large PC gaming service
I learned this recently from a fellow Lemmy user when I made a comment on the topic. https://www.androidpolice.com/signal-threema-nothing-to-do-with-whatsapp-eu/
Yup. Keeping old cars going on fossil fuels is so much better than millions of new cars being built every year, and in order for them to be built they ship them around the world to seperate facilities. I could go on and on
I didn’t know this either. Thank you