China is selling missile parts and anti-drone lasers to Russia, though, so the alliance exists where it counts.

How well does this play on a Steam Deck?

Dude, read the room.

I suspect the Frame, with its x86 to ARM recompilation layer, is a trial balloon for higher-performance ARM hardware in more traditional form factors. More concisely, the Steam Deck 2, when it appears, will be a high-performance ARM device, with similar performance/efficiency characteristics to Apple Silicon MacBooks rather than phones/tablets. Of course, this depends on a vendor producing suitable CPUs.

They could sell them at a loss assuming the average Steam outlay per device exceeded the loss. This figure would be dragged down by people buying them as generic portable PCs, using them solely with emulators, using them as drone controllers (apparently the Ukrainian military do that), and such.

The original one is solid, but takes up a lot of space. Which is fine in a car boot or something, but may be a problem in a backpack.

Having said that, if you’re putting it in a bag where it won’t be rattling around, protecting the front is probably enough, so a half-case which covers the front will probably suffice.

“encompassed all of Poland” except for the half or so taken by Prussia/Germany and the Habsburg/Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Least surprising revelation ever.

Wow. Haven’t seen a proper medieval-style Blood Libel in the wild for a while.

A good start.

Hopefully this is like the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: the tipping point when the authorities realise that they no longer have authority.

“Adrenaline-style policing”: new policing methodology just dropped. What are the pros and cons of it versus, say, Peelian community policing?

Every country has its Big Balls.

If the US dumps NATO, that’s all the more reason to increase defence funding. Either that or start learning Russian.

You love to see it.

He gave his name to the sin of swaggarcy, of diverting church funds to pay for sex.

Isn’t Spain’s left-wing government on the ropes with a corruption scandal, and likely to be replaced by a hard-right government soon?

Crusader Kings III to be banned for promoting un-British values

When faced with the choice of good relations with the EU (including funding and cooperation) and standing with Putin, Magyar may, unlike Orban, make the pragmatic choice.