Yep, Windows 8 had a mobile/tablet version.

I also mentioned in another comment that they could simply do the same thing as with the Deck, have it start with a handheld/controller friendly UI (hmmm where could Microsoft’s Xbox division find that?) and give the option to switch to regular old Windows to do desktop stuff. It’s not as if playing on the desktop without a mouse and keyboard attached to the Deck is a fun experience either!

Well Windows 8 phones were considered to be awesome by those who had one, it’s the lack of support from third party that killed mass adoption.

Also, if we’re looking at the past to decide what is and isn’t possible then gaming on Linux is impossible.

Let’s not pretend that using the desktop on a Deck is a wonderful experience either, Steam’s big picture mode is just a front end that improves the experience and Microsoft could do the equivalent by reusing the Xbox UI with the option to fall back to Windows 11 proper and then people could launch another launcher from there if they wanted. Heck people could launch Steam in big picture mode from their Xbox handheld if they wanted!

They haven’t done anything to adapt it to handheld controls and a small screen

And all other launchers and any PC game that doesn’t run on Linux…

Their competition is the Deck and other handhelds that run full versions of Windows, there’s no reason to believe they wouldn’t give it the same kind of capacities (i.e. a real handheld PC) in which case it’s the Deck that will feel like a walled garden considering that not all games are compatible and not all launchers work on it.

I say that as a Deck owner that plays with it pretty much once a day.

Called it months ago, they’ll develop a handheld version of Windows and have their own handheld!

If the controller feels as good as my Elite 2 then I’m sold

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Never had to configure anything with ublock…

So yeah, private, non commercial, in the home, for content you would have otherwise been able to see for yourself in the past by the “regular” means available to you.

Which is vastly different from going on the internet and downloading a movie with your favorite torrent program when you wouldn’t have otherwise been able to see it…

For personal use, so not for distribution and a copy made on your own, not procured from someone else, right?

The one I’m thinking about was in trial in a bio engineering community somewhere in Latin America (easy way to get financing, get people to pay to be your guinea pig)

Found it!

https://www.luminaprobiotic.com/

They do exist, from memory they have another type of bacteria instead and there’s even a project trying to transfer it from people with it to people without it.

Also as you said evolution doesn’t try to fix stuff and there’s a whole lot of stuff that could have evolved for the better (heck, we’re not even that well adapted to be standing up!), but if it doesn’t prevent reproduction then it gets passed down.

Ferrari be like “That’s not normal?”

Oh the irony!

Too drunk to get it up 👍

You are a completely captured voter, you have no choice but to support the Party. They have you hostage and you love it.

No, in fact I don’t vote for him because I don’t live in the USA, I just argue with idiots who think they’ll save Palestinians by not voting in the next US election.

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As someone else said, getting the Republicans elected will not improve anything if people don’t change things from the bottom up (it will actually make everything you’re angry about worse). The Democrats won’t change their stances if they lose that election unless new people take the place of the politicians in place at the moment, they will just rely on people being angrier at the Republicans than they are at them after Trump’s next term, the result will be four years of things getting even worse and the Democrats having to fix even more shit when they get back in power in 2028.

Same difference, cutting your nose to spite your face.

Yeah, better make sure red MAGA wins instead so you can get genocide denial, destruction of international law, destruction of local law, a brand new genocide in Europe and less woman and minority rights.

That will sure teach that 81 years old a lesson to see even more people suffer for the rest of their lives until he croaks in a few years!