Maybe the real fan was the ARMs we grew along the way 😻😸

Have you considered adding a heatsink? Maybe a fan??

The same roadblock has existed for ARM PCs as Linux PC - the mountain of legacy stuff that only runs on x86 Windows. Which is something Steam’s Proton has directly addressed.

Now that they’ve wrapped legacy software in an OS compatibility layer (Wine/Proton) and that is being wrapped in an instruction set compatibility layer (FEX) that mountain of software is ready to roll!

Best part is, valve’s contributions are virtually all being pushed upstream, meaning unrelated projects will all benefit from the work.

2026 - Year of the Linux ReactOS desktop!

After investigating various releases, I suspect that that) slightly modified likely mostly means ‘directly welded to the motherboard instead of socketed’ and it is otherwise probably mostly stock.

I imagine the direct welding is a cost-saving measure to make the product more competitive with consoles.

Given that they announced that the recovery image should now work with a wide variety of systems and that they have stated in multiple places that they plan to eventually release a general version of the OS, they’ve done the work of making it compatible with mostly all AMD stuff. My bet is they’re also working with Nvidia and and their driver support is the holdup.

I imagine that’s because that’s what they tried back in 2015 with the Alienware steam machine.

Because they were forced to do the work of making a custom cpu for the handheld, now they have the contracts and relationships to tailor a CPU for their 2026 machine. But you can tell they still want it to be primarily a PC because they only “lightly modified” it.

At the time, Microsoft and Sony were playing this “more graphics = more better” game and Nintendo decided it couldn’t compete on that front. You can see a bit of the “compete on anything but graphics” mentality in the Wii and Wii U, then they took what worked and refined it into the Switch and Switch 2.

I mean there are a few good actuate positive predictions. The family of laws that collectively are called Moore’s law is decent offhand example.

You’re basically right. Back when unions were a thing, they dubbed this behavior “working your wage” I.e. not volunteering for unpaid labor. “Quiet quitting” is a neologism designed by a think tank to shift the burden of responsibility to the employee

It’s a phrase meant to replace the old phrase “working your wage”, because that way of viewing it makes the whole situation less dramatic and more noble … and generates less clicks. Classic newsspeak.

(currently scrolling from the throne) Fixed that for you