I think this is a bit more involved than extended file format support.

Also not entirely sure what I would use it for since I’ve mostly seen it with rips of Blu-ray movies and shows, never smaller files. I thought its main advantage was holding multiple video, audio, and data streams.

WebM shows that Matroska is excellent for streaming. It’s the same container, WebM just mandates a set of codecs (just as MP4 as an offshoot of MOV can theoretically hold non-MPEG codecs but nobody supports this in the real world). With formal Matroska support, something like combining a HEVC video track with an Opus audio would be possible.

WebM is just Mastroska with most features disabled that are not relevant to streaming and a mandated set of codecs, so basic Mastroska support would have been possible years ago, simply by accepting the Matroska MIME types.

A new power brick is needed anyway. That’s why FW now has a much more powerful one as well.

The 395 obviously would throttle if heat or power become a problem.

If GPD can put the 395 in a handheld, Framework can put it in a 16" chassis.

What are you talking about? Of course there is newer hardware than a Radeon RX 7700. The 7900 specifically.

The CPU also has no Ryzen 395 option either which Framework source for their unmodular desktop PC.

Surely there will be a desktop case for the old mainboard, as with the case for the 13" mainboard. Then you can to a little yoink and have yourself a good desktop PC.

Well, the idea is that you can upgrade components without replacing everything, so the initial cost is higher but the long term cost is lower.

That said, they took their time. The 1st generation is old now. The Radeon dGPU is probably weaker or on a similar level than the new Ryzen iGPU. There is no Radeon dGPU upgrade path other than “just use the old one”. They have a better upgrade cadence with the 13 inch model.

At least copyright is dying because of AI and few people seem to care. You can ask any of the big AI bots to recite Harry Potter. You need to be a bit creative with the questions but entire copyrighted works are in the database. You can bet your ass Windows is being developed these days using Linux code. Not because the developers are copying and pasting the code but because Copilot has been trained on Linux code and absolutely nobody is seeking GPL enforcement.

If it’s not shameful, why not disclose it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

If you don’t disclose it, you can claim copyright even if you have no right to. LLM-generated code is either plagiarism (but lawmakers proved that they don’t care about enforcing copyright on training data which has funny implications) or public domain because machine generation is not creative human work.

And when China and Arab states do it, it’s something to aspire.

That’s almost worse, Asus also makes a lot of garbage.

That’s not the point. The point is asking Microsoft about the price of a branded 3rd party product.

It was about Microsoft botching a launch

And Microsoft isn’t launching the product because it’s not a Microsoft product.

Well I hope Microsoft has next to no input on it then

Microsoft develops Windows game mode, so the user-facing bit of the system and of course such a major sponsor surely has general “don’t do anything that hurts our brand” clauses in the contract with Asus but other than that there has been not a single piece of evidence that the handheld will be anything but a more high-profile version of https://www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-3-mode-controller-xbox/ which is also just branded 3rd party hardware. IMO there is a decent chance the identical hardware will also launch as a SteamOS version with the buttons then carrying Steam branding.

That doesn’t make it any better

Whether or not it’s better wasn’t the question. The claim was that Microsoft was launching the product and being in charge of defining the price. They aren’t because it’s an Asus product with Xbox branding, just like https://www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-3-mode-controller-xbox/ is a regular 8bitdo controller with Xbox branding and not a Microsoft product.

That’s all.

It’s both. It was co-developed by the companies.

No, the actual hardware wasn’t. That’s the point of the entire exercise to not develop the product in-house. Microsoft only develops Windows game mode. https://www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-3-mode-controller-xbox/ is not a Microsoft product (or "co-developed with Microsoft) either. It’s yet another 3rd party product with Xbox branding and why would Microsoft have a say on the price then?

It’s not a Microsoft product. It’s an Asus product with a bit of Xbox sponsorship.

Mind you, a lot of sellers in Europe do actually support paying by bank transfer (which goes via SEPA) but a lot don’t

This is not about what “a lot of sellers” do, it’s what Valve could do as an easy alternative in one big region of the world.

though if you do the bank transfer from a banking app in your smartphone it’s reasonably simple plus some of those payment systems are really just a convenience layer - say an app scanning a QR-code for automated payment - over the whole “open the transfer screen and manually enter 20-something digits and an euro amount”

Making SEPA money transfer by scanning a Qr code from the bank’s app is literally a thing. That’s how I paid the dentist a couple of months ago.

That’s for bank transfers, not for payments.

Let be blow your mind: Transfer money to Valve’s EU bank account, get the game in return.

That works for account to account transfers

Yeah, so? https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-instant-credit-transfer

The online payment world is still a lot more fragmented.

Valve literally only needs an EU bank account. Doesn’t help the rest of the world but the outlandish claim was that within Europe Valve would need to support “at least one local payment system” per country and that’s just wrong.

The funny thing is that because Master Card is too afraid to actually accept any responsibility, using Master Card directly is still an option:

That means Master Card-powered PayPal Card should work.