Dudewitbow

to be fair, the ally x is a revision of the same product. same chip. making some functional changes like that is similar to saying the steam deck oled is a new generation of devices.

its more the intent on why that benefit existed in the first place (primarily to benefit local restaurants near the HQ) due to a deal the company makes usually between the city to subsidize their physical office space. By using it for other goods (hell im even suprised it was greenlit for WFM use cases) the person is bypassing the intended benefit for the city in whatever city the office is in.

realistically the company is just looking reasons to fire some people without needing to pay for for severences, but the point is sorta like what happened with the PPP loans. they were meant to be apent keeping employees on payroll, but they were misused by some people for other things.

statistically no, but its possible to get a random group of poppyseeds that are extra potent. its why for example, South Korea bans it (as they dont even want the chance for them to get collected)

ifk how they verified it, but at least with some tech companies in the bay area, you basically paid for food on your own and gave them the receipts, to whih then they would refund you.

I find it pretty hard to imagine this not being caught near instantly if it was also applied in the socal branches of tech companies.

for some context, part of the reason why the free lunch is offered because they also DO serve lunch on campuses at these tech giants, but there are deals in place so that the employees help the local business (instead of the tech giants monopolizing peoples lunches in house) so the offer to eat off campus and paid for thus becomes a thing.

their investments is into a later for x64 to arm cpu translations, but still does not settle the problem that the gpus on arm based systems still have soo little development into games, which would then limit your options to amd, intel and nvidia based arm designs if you wanted an SOC with existing GPU support already in the environment. the moment you choose to have a tiled approach of mixing cpu and gpu from companies, you sort of instantly throw away the efficiency gains from switching to arm in the first place.

AMD and intel basically havent pushed out an atm based device yet, and Nvidia notoriously hates doing semi custom designs for clients.

personally i think youre far more likely to see the arm compatibility layer for basic pcvr games on a theoretical index 2 before a steam deck uses arm.

people overexagerate the power efficiency of arm because of controlled environments. for gaming handheld workloads x86 is more than enough.

Snapdragon on windows has already shown(ignoring games that outright dont work) then when under a gaming load, the efficiency gains arent there.

Another example that its not a magic bullet in terms of strictly hardware is the M1 in non OSX environments. If you look at the M1's efficiency while using Asahi Linux (a distro of linux specifically tailored to apple m series cpus), it does not remotely get the same kind of battery life as it does in OSX. Its why for example, the steam decks battery lofe reletive to size is better than windows handhelds.the bottleneck wasnt the hardware but more the OS

what valve really wants is if they could get a handheld with only AMD C cores (that is power efficient cores with less cache but like 70% of the size of a full core) such that the power budget would go to the iGPU more than the CPU, as a majority of games are gpu limited in performance rather than CPU. AMD just has never made a C core only consumer part (only servers have gotten them).

as long as analogue didnt use the devices actual hardware design and code, its completely legal. theyre not selling you games, theyre selling you a piece of hardware capable of playing said games with their own hardware design.

i dont want to say emulation in a soft sense because its not software emulation, its hardware to hardware emulatoion.

i mean hes not a very bright guy. he was complaining about if they made metal gear solid delta(3 remake) political when metal gear as a series is one of the most political series ever.

windows was only the least safe because it had the largest user marketshare, therefore was more effective to target them.

in the age where less people are using pcs and optimg for mobile, it makes more sense to target mobile, especially since its way more likely to have sensitive information than an arbitrary computer would.

its also the reason why in the U.S, the default messaging app is the most used. people are lazy unless forced to be given the option at the start.

if a game gets delisted you still have it on steam (common for games that get remasters, or expiring licences).

a very recent example is horizon zero dawn (owners of the original have the original). historical owners of skyrim legendary edition still own legendary edition and is not a copy of special/anniversary edition

if the store closes, iirc Gaben has claimed that in the case they shut down for some reason, they will remove steam drm from the executables, but thats a game of trustmebro.

the tradeoff is that they make less per item sold in store than other grocers, and often they take clear losses on some things (e.g 5$ rotisserie chicken, 1.50 hotdog soda)