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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • We had something similar in Germany but apparently the “encryption” was much worse. The audio was unencrypted and the image was complete with just the lines being jumbled around. So if you had a key file with the correct order for the lines and a capture card you could watch it for free.

    They had all the new movies earlier than other TV channels and some porn at night. As far as I recall I only used it to watch one movie. Not One Less. A great Chinese movie about a substitute teacher in a poor rural town fighting to get a kid who left to work in the city back to school.



  • Small tangent, I didn’t have the energy to read your whole post, so you might have addressed that. But often it’s cheaper to go with an established multi purpose device instead of building something new.

    I used to build and sell Raspberry Pi gaming handhelds that were as cheap as possible and literally just held together by some string. My purpose was to get enough money through the sales to be able to build one for myself. Sure, the building process was fun. But when I crunched the numbers just buying a cheap smartphone and controller was much cheaper and more performant and versatile than the self-built solution.

    Just buying a cheap phone or tablet is often the cheaper solution.

    Heck, even Valve just bought off the shelve tablet displays and turned the image in software for the Steam Deck.





  • The Steam Deck literally is a PC. If for some inane reason you can’t get it to do what you want you can install Windows on it.

    I think the only reason emulation is “worse” on it than on PC can be that a desktop PC has more power. Almost all emulators in general usage are open source and have Linux versions.

    There are also no problems with running pirated Windows games. By now the only games that are problematic on Linux are multiplayer games with kernel level anti cheat that hasn’t been configured to work on Linux.

    The Steam Deck is better than the Switch in almost every aspect. It just doesn’t come with detachable controllers. That’s it.

    So if you want a portable console with detachable controllers buy a Switch. Otherwise there is no reason not to get a Deck.