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The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.
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I turned a refurbed gaming laptop into my last console. Runs nixos that boots straight into fullscreened gamescope -> steamos big picture ui. Best damn gaming srtup ive ever had
How much did the laptop cost you?
My old work laptop has an 11th gen i9 and rtx 3080 (laptop) and it goes for about $900 on ebay these days. Basically the same as a PS5 pro.
🤔 crazy to think that building a PC was cheaper before RAMageddon
Was about 2000 usd brand new, which i think amounts to about 1000 bucks in good comdition now?
Its an acer nitro 5 an515-55, p nice specs for when it released (2016-2020 ish i think).
Actually my gf's old work machine (she does a lot of 3d modelling), we got a replacement free of charge because of manufacturing error regarding the battery, so its just been laying around. Perfect for this usecase as i just removed the battery, bypassing any funkiness in there.
So yeah lots of unknown variables there. If i had completely free choice id have gone with an amd gpu based machine. Muuuch less setup involved. The only real challenge in the setup was getting the nvidia gpu to play nice lol
sry for the infodump you triggered my 'special interest' trap card :P
That's so cool and so fortunate to get! I'm not big into PC specs, but I understand it plays most games rather well, no?
No worries at all - I love me a good info dump :)