I had a GPD Win 2 and its performance was extremely exaggerated in the advertisements. It performed similarly to an overclocked Raspberry Pi, though it did run Windows 10, which was the main reason I bought it. The build was solid but goddamn did it get HOT sometimes. After about a year it stopped turning on and became e-waste. 😢

https://gpd.hk/gdpwin2

@LukeAlmighty @xianc78 @caekislove @LukeAlmighty @xianc78 The easily available and official replacement parts for the Steam Deck give it a slight edge over the GPD handhelds. Maybe someone might upgrade the Deck via some weird mod?
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@caekislove @LukeAlmighty Really? I heard nothing but praise from it, but this was long before the Steam Deck was even announced and handheld PC gaming was still seen as a novelty. And people were disappointed with the under-performing Dragonbox Pyra (which I think still hasn't even come out yet).

LOL, I remember being hyped about the Pyra in like 2014. I actually own its predecessor the Pandora and it still works to this day! I guess I've always had a fascination with the concept of a handheld PC , and thanks to the popularity of the Steam Deck, the market will probably be flooded with them soon!

@caekislove @xianc78
An idea existed for decades, but noone ever dared to make it properly...

Funny ain't it?

Until the Steam Deck (and now I guess the GPD Win 4), everyone who tried seemed to be stuck in the mode of making PC-like cell phones using system-on-a-chip setups running software designed for way more powerful hardware, which of course was always going to disappoint. Even the Nintendo Switch is basically a cell phone that can't make calls shaped like a game console.

@caekislove @xianc78
I think the breakthrough was GPD Win 2, that served as the first proof, that it's time to take the market seriously.

@caekislove @LukeAlmighty
>Even the Nintendo Switch is basically a cell phone that can't make calls shaped like a game console.

The Nintendo Switch is a rebranded Nvidia Shield tablet just with a custom BSD fork (at least for the kernel) instead of Android and maybe just slightly more powerful (the original Shield was from 2014). Hell, before the Switch came out, Nintendo ported some of their Wii and GameCube titles for the Nvidia Shield exclusively for the Chinese market.

@xianc78 @caekislove @LukeAlmighty I heard the switch is running a modified 3ds os.

The Sony consoles (PS4/5) do run bsd and that's why they get pwnd with freebsd exploits.

@PhenomX6 @LukeAlmighty @caekislove It's using some FreeBSD components. There is even a license for the FreeBSD kernel in the EULA. I assume they needed some Unix-like OS if they were going to use APIs like Vulkan.

@xianc78 @LukeAlmighty @caekislove everything does tbh. That's one of the arguments for the gpl and against it depending on how much corporate dick you suck.

@PhenomX6 @LukeAlmighty @caekislove I don't think its a matter of sucking corporate dick. If it's a small project that you don't really care about and doubt that corporations are going to use it in their proprietary products then you are more likely to use a permissive license. Like you really think a big corporation is going to take code from some shitty Pac-Man clone they found on GitHub?

There are also cases where you simply can't use the GPL even if all your components are FOSS because one or more library that you are using is licensed under a GPL incompatible license. Like for me, I can't use the GPL for my MonoGame projects because MonoGame is licensed under the Ms-PL which is a FOSS license, but is incompatible with the GPL. The closest licenses to the GPL that I can use are the MPL or the Ms-RL.

@xianc78 @LukeAlmighty @caekislove oh for sure, that's what happened with the cddl and zfs.

@xianc78 @PhenomX6 @LukeAlmighty @caekislove I've also seen people who work on companies that they avoid gpl code...

@PhenomX6 @LukeAlmighty @xianc78 @caekislove Agree.
The one big thing all the BSD's do wrong is the loysenses.

People mean well, so they make their stuff open source.
People are moral beings and don't like to put restrictions, so they use a BSD or MIT loysense instead of a GPL.
Then big corpo's, governments, mainstream media, big pharma, and the rest of the evil that whoreship Satan go like "Oh, these stupid slaves write code for us for free with no expectation back at all? MUAHAHAHAHA!!".

Of course they will use GPL code as if it were BSD or MIT code, they don't care as the entire soystem (courts, police, military, glowniggers, and so on) serve them, not the developers.
But with BSD and MIT they at least don't need to put any effort into pretending to care about what the loysense is saying.

@ryo @PhenomX6 @LukeAlmighty @caekislove @xianc78 Ultimately, the GPL did not protect Linux from corporate control and it did not enforce freedom in software. Licenses make no difference at all. You could theoretically have a good license, but there would be no contributions to it because corporations would never use it and most developers will only contribute to corporate software because they don't care about principles and morals.

We don't have legal issues, we have issues with people being huge pieces of shit, that is the real problem in software, and in everything, really. What is the solution? Blowing up the planet with nukes and crashing this plane with no survivors. Launching it towards the sun somehow would be better, actually, but a compromise is fine. No, no laughing, it's not a joke, it's the only way. Not a single bacteria or cell can survive. Life on this planet was a mistake. Especially Jewish life.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zc6KUlXP--M

@TerminalAutism @LukeAlmighty @PhenomX6 @caekislove @xianc78 That's exactly my point.
I call them "loysenses" for a reason.

Thinking that using a GPL loysense will refrain bad actors from using your code is like thinking that hippies putting flowers into AK47's will somehow make military soldiers refrain from shooting, or thinking that putting a lock on your door will prevent thugs from getting into your house.

I said it so many times over the past 15 years, a lock doesn't prevent criminals from getting into your house, it only prevents innocent people from entering your house.
Criminals will find other means of entering your house.

@ryo @LukeAlmighty @PhenomX6 @caekislove @xianc78 I call them loicenses because making fun of the British never gets old. And they did ruin the entire world along with their Jewish and Venetian masters, and I do hold a grudge, especially when they still lick the royal boot. Also, they are so full of shit that I have come to dislike even their accents, because every time I hear it, it's some disgusting evil bullshit being vomited out of some demon in human skin. It just reeks of dishonesty at this point, especially in women. If you're British, stop doing that. Just learn how to speak American like a real person. The same goes for Canadians and Australians and New Zealanders, just stop.

"They are the most ignorant people I have ever conquered."
-Julius Caesar

"They cannot be taught to read and are the ugliest and most stupid race I ever saw."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

And about their masters:
"The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be fair, I think the GPL initially is partly what made projects like Linux and GCC big in the first place. Now it's mostly irrelevant, though, the corporations already have everything they need and those projects are already under their control. And if you make some software, the loicense will probably not make much of a difference unless it's something that corporations would be interested in, but at the end of the day, you licensing your software a certain way is not going to stop them. What are you going to do, sue Google or Microsoft? Good luck with that, they own the injustice system and they have a lot more money for lawyers than you do. So it's all irrelevant, really. Distractions to keep the goyim arguing about irrelevant shit.

@TerminalAutism @LukeAlmighty @PhenomX6 @caekislove @xianc78 English is the language of spells.
https://youtube.076.ne.jp/watch?v=35cnsY6jb9s

@ryo @LukeAlmighty @PhenomX6 @caekislove @xianc78 Very interesting. That reminds me of Mark Passio. Check this out. It's about the word bill, or the word B*L in general since the ancient languages that this comes from did not have vowels. It's very related:
https://youtube.076.ne.jp/watch?v=x_A4dgdsYzQ&t=12738

There is definitely something horribly wrong going on here. That is what I feel when I look at the occult aspect of all this.

@PhenomX6 @LukeAlmighty @xianc78 @caekislove i dont like the idea of forcing anyone to give back whatever they do with my code so i use bsd3
anything i needs to be closed source for my benefit will be closed sourced anywahs

@caekislove @LukeAlmighty I always wanted a Pandora because it natively supported Pygame (which I was using at the time). I just wanted to see my games on a console/handheld of some sort even if it was an obscure one.

@LukeAlmighty There are also more alternatives like the OneGx 1 Pro. It's also expensive though and I don't know how it compares to the Steam Deck. But yeah, expect more handheld gaming PCs in the future.

https://www.1netbook.com/onegx1-pro/

@xianc78
Well, in that case, Deck isn't ooutdated, is it?

419 Euro + SD card is a completelly different price range.