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True. But Nintendo has sold very well from their proprietary handheld device and its store. So they probably think they can. Maybe they can. They already have a great UI in Xbox an…

Xbox runs Windows so MS could make everything work on a handheld device w/ Windows w/ an Xbox-style UI. Xbox ran Windows from the very beginning. Only the "chrome" is different.

Not lecturing anyone. Just citing from the article why that might be a stumbling block. I'm a happy Steam customer. No complaints from me and I have no dog in the fight. I hope Ste…

Yes, all of these workarounds are examples of why it's not a workable solution. Can you imagine if a Nintendo Switch required that much falderal? It wouldn't sell. The point I'm ma…

I think you'll be very hard pressed to use a tiny device without a mouse or keyboard effectively in Windows. Even Windows 11 contains numerous small and overlapping dialogs with al…

For sure! Being tied to MS is probably why they didn't do it. I seem to remember that's why Newell made Steam in the first place, so he wasn't tied to MS.

Right. I'm talking about the rest of the computer. How will you manage files on a Steam Deck? How will you access Windows Update? Is your "desktop" going to be covered in icons? Us…

Yes, that's what I meant. Surely home computers have been gaming machines since before Windows and that was also a heavy use case for Windows early on. What I mean was that Steam s…

We've lost the essence of journalism. Instead of a venue where multiple options are presented for review by the reader (along with editorial comment, of course), we now have platfo…

I know. But that's not a smoothly-integrated user experience and navigating the rest of Windows on that machine without a mouse and keyboard is going to be a pain. Steam didn't bui…

Lots of misinformation on YouTube is bad for people and isn't stopped. And I would hardly call Google, YouTube's owners, a "company with a conscience" since nearly their entire bus…

Indeed. Tech companies now silence politicians unilaterally, while governments made up of the same politicians do nothing to stop the widespread flow of toxic misinformation on tec…

The Oracle vs. Google battle has shown that compatibility is different from copying. Amdahl and IBM went through this, too, with mainframes. I see this as a victory for all softwar…

I'm excited about the Steam Deck but hesitant about this Linux decision. Despite Gabe Newell's objections, Windows works quite well as a gaming UI. The Xbox runs Windows and all of…

The three biggest reasons are centralized maintenance, fuel, and fleet costs. Taxi companies negotiate the entire fleet purchase at one time and replace vehicles on a schedule (lik…

It doesn't require any special "engineering" to make a ride hailing app. I guarantee you could get an Uber clone out of a high school coding bootcamp weekend. It's really that simp…

You have CORS issue: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://service.denigma.app/explain/demo/ . (Reason: CORS header …

Absolutely nothing. Firefox or Chrome.

The individual driver has no buying power to negotiate a lower price on cars, fuel, or maintenance and the big players are disincentivized to hand him one. The gig nature of the jo…

Uber cannot take advantage of the economies taxi companies have in fleet purchase, in-house maintenance, commercial prices for parts, and fuel contracts. None of these scale well n…

I would add that "they got funding." Lots of companies have one or the other (viable product, enough money) but not both.

The live example on the home page doesn't seem to work. I assumed JS was supported and typed this: const addOne = function(someNumber) { return someNumber + 1 } The "explain" box s…

We have several good Indian groceries where I live near Houston and I like to try new things, so I bought one of these brands once: Vadilal, mentioned in the post. Way too many sca…

Interesting that you bring up alchemy, which is now entirely possible. Lots of metals can be turned into gold (or other things) through radioactive bombardment. Problem is, it cost…