That just seems like at least double the cost.

Wouldn’t that be the point of focusing on the interoperability layers and recent investment in Arch?

it does not remotely get the same kind of battery life as it does in OSX

Yeah exactly. So you need to invest into finding the fixes to that. Which is what Valve appears to be doing? It might be a fishing expedition or just a virtue signal to the foss world, sure. But they did do the thing.

And yes on AMD. I did leave that window for myself to crawl out through. I think if the trip down ARM on Arch ends up being a fishing expedition, they flip over to a known quantity for a refresh.

Obviously anecdotal, but if the next Steam deck was Intel based, I wouldn’t buy it.

This seems like it would put the price far out of reach.

With their recent donations to Arch Linux were focused on unblocking some issues with supporting Arch on ARM (notibally stuff needed for better automated builds) would suggest they want to stick with Arch.

Next you need good emulation layers for x64 and x86 as that is what all games are written in. Which there are leaks that say they are working on this as well.

Thats two legs of support for an ARM architecture.

But that is two big blockers that could take years to solve.

Sure. But what you are describing is “uncertainty”. Uncertainty in isolation isn’t a form of evidence. It could take years. It could not. Its not just Valve looking to solve this issue. MS has committed to ARM based interoperability; so has Apple. MS and Apple obviously want things to work seamlessly between ARM and x64, x86. The heat/ power to performance gains are just too much to leave on the table and both of those Software/ Hardware manufacturers saw this coming. If this was a project coming out of Valve & Arch doing the work; sure, I’d give it a time line of a couple to several years. But Valve while coming in with backing and there are other players looking to overcome and address the same problem. With teams like MS and Apple also working on it, I expect this to be figured out on a faster timeline. Months/ few years.

Within a couple of years and I don’t think it will be arm based.

Sure. If thats your bet thats your bet. My bet is solidly on ARM. Its what the evidence we have points at, even if there isn’t a ton of certainty around it.

Its gonna be ARM based. Just no other way to get the power to performance. Maybe some of the AMD architectures. Also, expect soldered RAM.

This is her youtube channel. If you haven’t read the paper on this algorithm, I think you can get a good intuitive understanding by watching the two videos she has on there from (what looks like) her thesis, and I think it becomes clear why she was selected to lead this project.

Specifically, these two videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGvPinTJUs

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NhQ7WkbHms

So, consider that these two videos are basically the “one-dimensional” solution, or one pin-hole camera example. In the approach that her and her team to image the black hole, they used many, many radio antennas’, all acting in concert in a not-too different version of what she did her for the work on her YT channel.

Is that a threat to pull the leash?

That’s a weird way of saying “I wasnt able to find any evidence of the claim”.

blatant false accusations

Show me. Show me the accusation. I’m asking them to address something they said, not engage in some performative purity test.

What they said:

Democrats won’t deport millions of brown people and force my child and those like her into conversion therapy. So yes, Republicans will be worse.

And this “there’s only one genocide that matters” shit is getting old.

And this “there’s only one genocide that matters” shit is getting old.

Sure sounds like engaging in apologetic around the issue of the genocide of the Gazan people to me.

Squid has time-and-again proven they do not support the actions of Israel, yet you aggressively accuse them of it anyway?

Show me that accusation. Because it doesn’t exist and its not something I said. Its something they said I said. But my profile is right there. Dig around. I never said that. I did say they were white-knighting on behalf of Democrats (because they were, and they do that).

So if you are going to make some claim, its super easy to just back it up. No ones comments or histories are hidden. Its all right out in the open.

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You can just uhh… not respond? And if you did respond, you might consider offering a explanation for why you think addressing the issue of the genocide of the Gazan people is just “shit is getting old.”

Because otherwise this:

And this “there’s only one genocide that matters” shit is getting old.

Sure does look like a statement dismissing of the genocide of a people.

I just want to know what you meant when you said this:

And this “there’s only one genocide that matters” shit is getting old.

When you say “shit is getting old”, it seems like you don’t care about the genocide of the Gazan people. Like you are tired of hearing about it.

What did you mean when you said that?

And this “there’s only one genocide that matters” shit is getting old.

This seems pretty dismissive of the genocide of an entire people.

You said:

Democrats won’t deport millions of brown people and force my child and those like her into conversion therapy. So yes, Republicans will be worse.

And this “there’s only one genocide that matters” shit is getting old.

You told me “feel free to quote me”, and so I have.

For you, this genocide doesn’t matter and is “getting old”. Your words. Not mine, not anyone else’s. You are responsible for them, and try as you might, you wont be able to make this conversation about something it isn’t.

Never said anything of the sort. In-fact, I’m pretty sure this is harassment.

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