Drivers should be baked into the kernel, yeah, assuming the latest version was installed and regular updates ran after install to make sure all is up to date

Only extra thing I installed was the command that gave me steam and all the related gaming stuff, was a single line with gaming meta in it iirc.

What were you trying to test and on what resolution?

Running a 9070xt on cachyOS, works great

If memory serves you basically need the kernel release and stuff from like, December 2025? Somebody can correct me if that’s inaccurate.

Works if you’re photosensitive to any degree, which most people are.

Is it really that different though?

Lets say you get the 1 month pass, play any games you want and are part of that “service” for the duration, once it runs out you lose access to the games (unless you crack the downloaded files for them which would be like not returning the “rented” game I guess)

Personally just feels like the same scam cable tv was and now transforming into streaming services with ads.

So an involtini or roulade, can confirm they’re delish.

Don’t microslop and friends peddle some game pass and similar subscriptions? Game rental with extra steps.

Geese are at least forthcoming with their intent to mess you up

What was the joke again…

“Humans can survive off a diet consisting of potatoes and butter, as demonstrated by a years long case study commonly known as Ireland”

Something along those lines.

I’ll see statements like this thrown around, meanwhile the PS5, Xbox series X and even the upcoming steam machine are all AMD hardware.

C H O N K Y

Very much of a similar mindset - don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

While GoG is certainly not without its faults or shortcomings, at the end of the day they’re trying to stay true to their mission and delivering on it consistently.

I actually went to look into the examples mentioned above.

Hitman was apparently playable with “some targets” and other stuff locked behind online functionality but the base game was playable without. So this part definitely feeds into the “screwing people in new and exciting ways” that you mentioned.

For Deus Ex MD - apparently the binaries themselves were actually the DRM free ones, but the package that they gave GoG basically redirected all the DRM calls to Steam, which… resulted in a weird situation where it’s half stripped of some DRM measures while the other half required an actual crack to kill those calls that were redirected to a different platform entirely… so overall I wanna chuck it to a lazy “let’s get some brownie points and release it on GoG but let’s use this intern to package and ship it cuz we can’t be arsed to do a proper release” type of scenario.

Do I blame GoG for not checking it throughly? Yeah, a bit, but at the same time the onus should be on the providing party to deliver an adequate product that’s up to the requirements of the platform and if it’s not, maybe have a financial penalty clause for non-adherence in the distribution contract or something, I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer or anything.

If it was really mandated by the company and not a bug, GoG support would not have provided any workarounds to get around it while the situation was being looked into and hashed out with a permanent fix deployed in a subsequent patch.

If you’re talking about the phantom liberty DLC bug with the galaxy launcher, that’s been fixed since patch 2.01

Also they’ve been separated out of CDPR recently, we’ll see how that pans out for future releases.

Unfortunately up here the Benjamins to beaver bucks conversion rate sucks. And then we have to pay 15% tax on top.

So anything that’s trying to follow that logic breaks apart real quick, even when there’s 10% off on launch, still comes out to more than the full price would be… :(

Gotta rely on old people and their bum knees to predict the weather.

I understand what you’re trying to say, but “most” people don’t actually have TikTok or Twitter or proper comprehension when it comes to stuff they’re not intimately familiar with.

These headlines are ass.

It’s meant to evoke a sensationalist response in people who won’t bother clicking on these articles and only rely on metadata, comments and headlines.

The “Libs of TikTok” account is doxxing… would’ve made it hell of a lot clearer but nah, the confusion is the point.

One thing about the electricity check, get an outlet tester with a ground indicator and use that, some places don’t have grounded plugs, your UPS and some power bars might tell you this info as well, would be a tad late at that point though.

Also look for burn marks on the sockets while you’re testing, improperly set up outlets also sometimes spark a bit when things are plugged into them.

I’d swap the chromebook and mac at the end there. The ewaste that is a chromebook is at best a glorified netbook, the macs at least have some decent hardware options that can be leveraged.