LOL. Tell us you never used it without telling us. Some of us don't want to run 30m long HDMI cables from our computers down stairs to the living room. Compression artefacts? Lag? Not sure what you're talking about there. Likewise with network bandwidth given Steamlink required about 40Mbps to stably do 60fps on 1080p. If your network can't handle that then a HDMI cable isn't your concern, you probably have problems keeping the power running in your home.

Also can we briefly address the hilarity of you thinking that Steamlink isn't suitable for TVs, but somehow is suitable for VR (yes it is, and it works great) despite the latter requiring 2 orders of magnitude more bandwidth and being insanely sensitive to latency? Your post makes zero sense.

This has nothing to do with Valve. Valve never made a Steam Link app for any TV. Samsung worked with a 3rd party to create a Steamlink app, the only part Valve did was consent to their name and logo. But an updated app is completely useless anyway. Long before Steamlink was announced as being dropped Samsung royally fucked up the ability to pair game controllers with the TV. Both Bluetooth and USB game controllers had their right analogue stick mapped to TV volume control.

So yeah Steamlink was a great thing between 2022 and 2023 if you played games that didn't involve looking up or down. Most people abandoned Steamlink on Samsung TVs long before Samsung called it quits (what a strategy, it seems like the general public is blaming Valve for this).

So what? You think the ship's crew are the ones paying the toll? That's done by an office somewhere in another country. The ship isn't doing any transaction here.

If course he is. Bitcoin may take a while to be committed to the chain, but that doesn't mean you can't have an exchange in a friendly country guarantee the exchange while the technical issues resolve themselves in the background.

What's the laptop distinction? These days countless people use laptops with docking stations or external screens for complex professional work.

As for the activity of designing FPGAs, that's not a very intensive task. An entry level consumer laptop can trivially do the task. That doesn't change the fact that the underlying database for these tools are massive.

Don't be such a gatekeeper and maybe look at what people who are not you do with their computers.

Who said Macbook Neo? Read the question: "What are you doing on a desktop machine that uses 256gb?"

But even something as simple as Photoshop consumes a shitton of space these days, especially a scratch drive can quickly consume upwards of 100GB if you use generative fill liberally.

Test show you can maintain Xbox series X framerates on Cyberpunk 2077. You're very quick to judge what people may or may not use something for.

Also no one said "Macbook Neo". The question was "What are you doing on a desktop machine that uses 256gb?"

You're joking right? 256GB is not suitable for even a standard application drive with user cache these days on normal workloads. Install Photoshop on the drive and 10% of your disk space is gone. That would be fine, but if you use generative fill on multiple layers the scratch disk ends up with AI model information cached, you will very quickly use up 100GB just of temporary scratch space to use a simple image editor.
God help you if you dare to install the Topza suite as well. The image resizing and noise reduction model alone consume 80GB.

These's aren't strange or unique things that normal people don't use. They are hobby tools for anyone with a camera. There's hundreds of other hobbies out there as well. The modern world requires storage.

That's before we start talking about gaming (Death Stranding 2 consumes 150GB of disk space, more than half of that drive for a single game).

By the way you do realise that Samsung's most major marketing feature is Bixby right? The thing I agreed with you is a cancer in this world? (How contrarian of me agreeing with you). And you think that means I work for Samsung?

Please don't use Slashdot drunk. Have some respect for intelligent conversation.

And yet I described a system. You should read the entire dictionary so that you're able to parse basic English.

I know it may be difficult for you to understand that everyone in the world is not you. Unfortunately for you some of us just have Samsung phones and devices, (and in my case a Huawei fitness tracker) and using Samsung apps is the path of least resistance for many.

One man's bloat is another man's important feature. I'm happy for you that you don't want to use these apps. Don't. It's your prerogative. However I'm less happy that people like you think your personal opinion and personal use case is the only one in the world.

So yes, I am a contrarian to you, I have a brain and recognise other people exist in the world.

It's not confusing at all. You said yourself it's a superset. And again it has a specific set of features that are fully backwards compatible. Google has zero control over RCS. Everyone can implement RCS as per the GSMA standard and send messages to and from Google devices with no issue. The fact that it doesn't support Google's end to end encryption has nothing to do with the standard and is of no impact to developers nor does it affect functionality of users.

False. The main problem was that Apple was deliberately degrading any message and capabilities related to RCS. It wasn't anything to do with encryption. They didn't implement some of the basic standard functionality, and when they did they also did client side degradations as well: e.g. auto-resize images to a significantly lower quality before sending them as an RCS vs an iMessage for absolutely no reason what so ever.

Just safer, not necessarily faster. OpenWRT is a great package, but the reality is that cutting edge routers do not support it. You want a top of the line 802.11be WiFi network expanded through your house with 802.11s mesh points, then good luck finding something that runs OpenWRT.

Firefox introduced vertical tabs in 2025
Edge introduced them in 2021.
Chrome had extensions for them before both of these dates.

Come on man your UID is missing a few zeros to not know your IT history. Don't let the old-guard nerds down like that.