But were they selling Steam Keys? Sounds to me like Ubisoft was selling a UPlay version of the game for cheaper than the Steam version, which probably didn’t include a Steam Key.

If the UPlay version also included a Steam Key, then yes, Ubisoft would have broken the terms of contract, but that seems unlikely to me.

I think its fair enough for Valve to require that Steam Keys, which use Steam infrastucture, are not sold for less than Steam sells them for, since Valve wouldn’t be making any money on them, but would still have some of the costs associated with delivering the product (and depending on how much Steam infrastructure they use, matchmaking, anti-cheat and other things).

But requiring that keys for other Stores, with their own infrastructure, are never cheaper that Steam is definitely monopolistic, shitty and probably illegal.

Its weird to me that all articles I have found about this issue don’t actually mention this crucial detail.

I think they have an OLED version as well

Its the Atomic Purple Translucent Front and Back Cover from JSAUX, unfortunately they don’t seem to stock it purple anymore and the amazon listings also say currently unavailable.

https://jsaux.com/products/transparent-cover-series-for-steam-deck

The swap was a lot more difficult than I expected. It took several hours and you need to get the screen out of the stock front cover and its glued in pretty strongly. I actually accidentally broke my stock screen when doing the shell swap and actually replaced it with a higher res one.

https://www.deckhd.com/

I also changed the thumbsticks to Hall Effect ones while i was at it, which required the slightest amount of soldering to get the thumb sticks to remain touch sensitive, although I think modules that come with extra sticks presoldered exist now.

https://www.gulikit.com/productinfo/854122.html

Yep, love it. I even modded my Steam Deck with a translucent purple case.

funnily enough, usually I can’t reproduce these, but this one I could. It’s not quite as unhinged but still definetly very wrong

“Multiple Input Methods Navigate with your TV remote via CEC, a game controller, a keyboard and mouse, or even your phone via KDE Connect.”

Should just work out of the box, I think

how much cheese is too much cheese?

Cake - I will Survive

Since when have Xbox controllers worked for PlayStation? Plus Steam is free and Game Pass isn’t, so a false equivalency

Then don’t buy the Steam controller. I would assume 99.9% of those interested in the “Steam” Controller will have a Steam account

I know the German translation is “Dänische Delikatessen” which translates to “Danish Delicacies”, but googling tells me the english title is “The Green Butchers”, which I think is the original title translated

Have you tried Wacom?

They have their own TablePCs and manufacturers make Tablet PCs with their digitizers.

There is a community made linux drivers for them, compatible TabletPCs are listed here: https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom/wiki/Device-IDs#tablet-pcs

They also make touch screen monitors that start around $300 (up to thousands) that connect to any PC and should also work under Linux, afaik. Or you could get the cheap ‘old school’ tablets made from plastic that simply move and control the cursor, though they take a while to get used to, IMO.

This literally doubles (if not more) the workload to run these benchmarks, not to mention having to write new automation procedures and Steve just not being familiar with Linux at all, all for 2-3% (tops) of his audience.

Be glad that he is doing them in the future and don’t be a demanding, entitled prick.