I have massively better quality, stability, and latency with the RemotePlay app over the internet from PS5 than I do with Steam in home streaming actually in my house. It’s still not good enough for high precision games, but Steam isn’t close.

PS4 can’t stream for shit because it can’t do the encoding.

No, the OP did.

Edited for clarity.

It would be a handheld console that would play their console library. They’d beat the Steam Deck’s sales volume as fast as they could manufacture them. Also, the Steam deck doesn’t do the triggers, which is a meaningful loss in plenty of PS5 games.

My actual point, though, was that the build quality for the price is really good.

I love my Steam deck, and bounce between how heavily I use it vs the switch* or PS5 depending on the games I’m into at the moment. But misrepresenting its utility as a modern living room PC (like the OP) doesn’t help anyone and is just going to leave people disappointed.

The PS5 is probably my smallest library (and mostly PS4 games, a lot of which were before I had a PC), but it’s definitely plenty capable and I don’t regret the purchase at all. (The controller is also the coolest non graphics addition to gaming I’ve experienced in a long time).

*The switch desperately needs a 3rd party replacement for the controllers, though, because the joycons are bad brand new.

I won’t buy a portal. I probably would have bought a “PS4 in portal form factor” for twice the price, but streaming isn’t worth it.

But I have a friend who did, and have had my hands on it, and it is a genuinely really high quality implementation of the mediocre concept.

PS remote play is fantastic (for what remote play is. Streaming still sucks.)

If I’m playing modern games on a TV? PS5 easy. But still the pro over the deck.

I love my deck. As the handheld it’s intended to be. It’s not powerful enough for an acceptable experience running a AAA 3D game on a TV screen. You can ignore the resolution and artifacts and just generally low visual quality and poor frame rate on a small screen, because playing the games portably at all is a huge step up. You can’t ignore any part of it on a TV. It’s fine for indie games, older games, 2D stuff, etc.

But it doesn’t have the performance for a good living room experience if you’re looking to play modern AAA games. (Ignoring all their bullshit rootkits on PC that block a lot of multiplayer games out completely, which are the games you have to pay for on PS. You just can’t play most of them on Linux at all.)

I’m optimistic about the idea that game developers will stop being allowed to install fucking malware.

I don’t trust Microsoft at all, but you shouldn’t be able to consent to that bullshit in an EULA no one has ever read.

I couldn’t get it to translate the original source, but the link I saw being passed around made it sound like he was asked specifically about free to play, and gave a bunch of reasons that it would be hard to do.

He’s talking about PS plus.

The “12 month plan” is meaningfully less expensive than a year of paying monthly, so he’s using the cheapest option if you want to play online games (excluding sales, at least).

Use smart lights. Have the light gradually ramp up intensity until it peaks a few minutes before your alarm goes off.

Also make sure you’re going to bed with enough time to fall asleep and get a full night’s sleep consistently.

Fraud is pretty broad and covers most things that deliberately misrepresent reality to take money from someone else.

The premise that the school can sponsor programming that parents aren’t entitled to know and discuss the curriculum of is bonkers.

I’m fine with “selling cheats for use in an online game constitutes hacking” as an attempt to degrade the service for everyone else.

I’m not fine with them winning as a copyright issue. That is potentially a very damaging precedent.

You can run Python reasonably well with pythonista or Pyto (I like pythonista, but Pyto supports some PyPI libraries). Apple’s Swift playgrounds is pretty decent for Swift. They’re all only up to a point, but you can do plenty of actually interesting stuff with them. I use them on my current iPad (and run the Python scripts on my phone).

But 4th gen is old, so it’s quite possible none of that works. Maybe web stuff with something like Textastic if you pay for shared hosting somewhere, or a low end VPS isn’t crazy expensive and lets you run code. If it’s consistent power that’s your concern, raspberry pis can be paired with one of those portable USB batteries if it can be charged and send charge at the same time.

If those options are still too expensive, really no clue. It’s hard with no money at all.

Sure thing, bro. 👍

Again, you’re ignoring Switzerland’s actual position and their actual history.

Switzerland doesn’t enforce other countries’ laws.

It actually is. Switzerland isn’t part of the EU, and their cooperation agreement with europol is limited to specific things.

They absolutely will not cooperate with bullshit harassment laws against their citizens or businesses.

Not in Switzerland against regulation they consider the dumpster fire of horseshit it is.

Only if they give a shit about some random country’s shit law.

There are some treaties in play that allow copyright law to be enforced in some other jurisdictions, but that’s a far cry from a VPN. Switzerland isn’t going to help you enforce nonsense judgements against companies that don’t break any of their laws or laws most of the first world respects.