Is everything the way I want it? No, I could stand to lose a few pounds and be a bit stronger, make more money etc.

But I am comfortable and feel no angst.

Almost 190k on my explorer before I wrecked it. Never had any major mechanical issues, or even many minor ones.

Same, except I always buy more ram than I think I’ll ever need.

Currently my desktop has 64 and I don’t think I’ve even used 32 on it with a vm running. Every other machine I destroy my ram. By the time I need more I’m probably going to upgrade CPU/board too.

Sure in the gigantic wall of text. Also it doesn’t tell you why, or what to do about it. All they’d have to do is say “run dist-upgrade to update these packages.”

I’ve never heard of any QC issues unique to TMR. Sure the Guilikit doesn’t have the best QC, but none of their controllers really do, and it’s a $30 controller. You can get 3 of them and it’s still less than the steam controller. The gamesir is about $30 cheaper and is actually decent quality.

TMR isn’t unique to the steam controller. Plenty of 3rd party controllers have had them for years at this point.

What about purely receiving emails? Receiving them isn’t anywhere near as bad as sending. My friend uses his own server/domain for his “spam mail”/dgaf accounts. He can use whatever address he wants and it goes into a catch all bucket. It makes it easy to track when your email is sold/leaked, but none of the finickyness of like plus tags in gmail

Like the OG steam controller you have to use steam to launch for it to work like a normal controller.

According to the GN video the joysticks don’t work as a normal xinput device unless you have steam open the game to translate it. You’re locked into using steam with the controller. This is my biggest qualm with the OG steam controller. (well besides me hating the touch pad)

And those 2 inch touch pads are that much better? Assuming they’re exactly the same as the ones on the Deck it’s not gonna be a great experience. It takes it from excruciatingly painful, to just very unpleasant but tolerable if you’re a masochist.

I mean why would most people want it over a “normal” controller you can get for half the price and works with more than just steam games?

ECC DDR5 is usually pretty slow, and the “GPUs” are barely even G so they’re only really useful for computer. When that hardware gets retired it’s not gonna be useful for much of anything sadly.

The U.2 drives can be adapter to pcie at least. Can’t wait to scoop up a 20TB SSD for $200.

Not anymore. Ubuntu replaced the no OS option.

Also curiously the only Windows option is Pro. Before you had Home or Pro.

The chassis is the only real difference. The boards are all compatible. The core 300 series Intel board might be exclusive to it for now, but they said it’s compatible with the old chassis so it’s just that they just don’t offer the board separately yet. No wait they have a listing for it so I’m just blind. https://frame.work/products/laptop13pro-mainboard-intel-ultra-3?v=FRANJZ0007

Did they ever post sales figures for no OS vs Windows? You can’t assume no OS = Linux, but considering the target demographic I bet 80% of them planned on using Linux on it.

This might have been the end of it actually. I don’t remember seeing that stuff when the R9 series started.

Yes.

Sure, but being good out of the box is very important for normal users. Power users love the crazy customization. Normal people don’t really care.

If you’re repairing something it’s always worth it to spend more on good components. Saving 10 cents a product isn’t worth it when you do <100 a year.

If you want good Linux support avoid the Surface at all costs. Holy shit is it a pain to deal with. Yeah there’s Linux Surface, but do you really want to go through that trouble just to get it mostly fully functional?

Or just hit shift F10 and enter “oobe\bypassnro” and let it reboot. Still works on home or pro.