I‘ve ordered an M8 to Germany last year, the import fees were 147.17€. The whole process was handled by DHL, so I just had to pay that fee online and got the package a day later or so.

I think we‘re in a very different situation right now. Proton has become so good that it‘s just not necessary for most developers to do anything to get their game running on Linux. When Macs peaked in the hardware survey, the compatibility tools were far less powerful and developers had to actually invest time and resources, if they wanted their game running on Mac.

I also think that the Steam Deck is absolutely being recognized by many developers. Even big publishers proudly announce their games being playable on it. And having games optimized for Deck often improves them on Linux in general.

So I really wouldn’t worry about developers not specifically targeting Linux. Even without that, gaming on Linux is in the best spot it has ever been and is steadily improving.

Am ehemaligen Chef des BND kann man ungefähr abschätzen, wie es um die technische Kompetenz derer steht, die allen Ernstes „Hackbacks“ fordern.

Although I'd love to see that happen more frequently, this is simply not realistically doable for most commercial games.

Almost all of them use licensed third-party libraries which are integrated deeply into the game's code base, but which can't legally be distributed as part of an open source project. So in order to be able to open source a modern commercial game, you'd have to put in quite a lot of work finding all of your code integrating with commercial libraries and either replacing or removing it. And if that's not enough, you'd probably have to have your (expensive) legal team check the entire code base for any infringements just to be on the safe side.

All that work for no monetary gain just isn't a very good business case. So, unfortunately, I wouldn't expect a lot of modern games to be open sourced any time soon.

It‘s possible to use VR headsets with the Steam Deck. It‘s just far too weak for a pleasant experience.

It‘s worth noting though, that, according to this interview (37:30), Valve is probably working on a new VR HMD which will make use of the things they‘ve learned from developing the Deck. So I‘d guess there‘s a standalone headset coming from them at some point in the future.

You just need to learn from big automakers and use Volkswagen!

They also always have a countdown on the top of the page, suggesting their unbelievable 80% off deal is about to end and you should buy it now or it‘ll be gone forever! Quick!

It‘s not ending. It never ends. It just resets at the end of the day. The guys running this site are dickheads.

Looks like someone needs to be introduced to the wonderful world of pre-commit hooks.

Great picture, but that‘s actually Tower Bridge, not London Bridge.

Die Angst, durch ein Verbotsverfahren sogenannte „Sympathiewähler“ an die AfD zu verlieren, ist leider offenbar weiterhin zu groß.

Es wäre nötig, klarzumachen (Demos, Briefe an Abgeordnete etc.), dass die Regierungsparteien für noch viel mehr Menschen unwählbar werden, wenn sie weiter nichts gegen Rechtsextreme unternehmen.

Der Argumentation, dass ein solches Verbotsverfahren nicht unbedingt erfolgreich wäre, kann ich auf jeden Fall beim besten Willen nicht mal mehr im Ansatz folgen. Natürlich ist bei keinem Gerichtsverfahren vorher das Urteil klar, aber wie sehr müssen die Erfolgschancen denn noch wachsen, wenn inzwischen selbst der Verfassungsschutz die Partei als rechtsextrem einstuft.

This is absolute nonsense.

In Germany, between 38-48% of plastic is recycled (source). Sure, that‘s far from all of it, but still far, far better than nothing.

The recycling rate might be lower in other countries, but just giving up and putting everything in the regular trash is probably the worst thing you could do.

I‘d be really surprised if Apple tried that.

They have to know that it violates the DMA. And the penalty for violating it can be up to 10% of their yearly worldwide revenue (not earnings!) for the first violation and up to 20% for repeated violations. I don‘t think they‘d risk that, especially as the EU really isn’t known for its leniency when someone intentionally breaks their rules.