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I've only played Chiv 2 on my desktop, but for EAC games I had to install EAC seperately. I'd assume the SteamDeck would do this for you, but maybe it didn't install properly?

That's a good point. What about long range RFID skimmers? You could argue the tag wasn't designed to work with a skimmer. I guess that's more like energy injecting?

That's a very good point, but a little misleading. A better number would be to add up all the top tier cards from every generation, not just the past 2. Just because they're old doesn't mean they still aren't relatively inefficient for their generation.

If we kept the generations exactly the same, but got rid of the top 1 or 2 cards. The technological advancement would be happening just as fast. Because really, the top tier cards are about silicon lottery and putting as much power in while keeping stable clocks. They aren't different from an architecture perspective within the same generation. It's about being able to sell the best silicon and more VRAM at a premium.

But as you said, it's still a drop in the bucket compared to the overall market.

Higher DPI can improve text rendering. I want this screen specifically for small text. It also doesn't force you to render everything at 1200p, you can choose to render some games at the old 800p depending on performance or scaling.

They do use capacitors to keep power. Here's a simplified diagram:

Year of the Linux HDR Desktop?

The most basic RFID tags will just send back an ID. The complexity can shoot way up and have all sorts of integrated circuits, mostly around encryption.

I guess it's more of a semantic argument at this point, but would you not consider a tiny computer (RFID tag) that powers itself solely off of radio waves not a form of energy harvesting?

The best advice I’ve seen online (ok, it was ChatGPT) is that it’s just not worth it to work with such small amounts of electricity, because the equipment required is too expensive and sophisticated (e.g, devices to read the charge of a capacitor without discharging it) to make anything that’s efficient enough to be worthwhile.

I guess ChatGPT has never heard of passive RFID tags? LLMs have some good uses, but they're not great at a lot of things. You can't really advance science and engineering by strictly regurgitating scraped text.

There are reasons to grab small amount of electricity from the environment. Why have a battery in a pacemaker if you can generate power via mechanical forces? It really just depends on the use case on how practical and feasible it is.

I understand the sentiment, but it seems like you're drawing arbitrary lines in the sand for what is the "correct" amount of power for gaming. Why waste 50 watts of GPU (or more like 150 total system watts) on a game that something like a SteamDeck will draw 15watts to do almost identically. 10 times less power for definitely not 10 times less fidelity. We could all the way back to the original Gameboy for 0.7 watts, the fidelity drops but so does the power. What is the "correct" wattage?

I agree that the top end gpus are shit at efficiency and we should could cut back. But I don't agree that fidelity and realism should stop advancing. Some type of efficiency requirement would be nice, but every year games should get more advanced and every year gpus should get better (and hopefully stay efficient).

Close, it was a Hyundai. So same issues as the Kias.

If you like RPGs in general, I think it's worth playing. No need be a fan of DnD.