bigbangdangler

You’d basically have to repair it the same way it’s built, provided (as the other commenter said) the traces aren’t actually pulled off of the board. If they aren’t, then it’s a matter of soldering that component back in largely the same way it was done at the factory (without the automated machine of course, but by hand with heat and flux). It definitely wouldn’t be easy, but it could be a good learning exercise for the right person.

Yeah, good point. I’d take a shot at it with the right setup. Nothing to lose.

Yes. This is possible to fix with some skill and some flux.

I had that thought as well. We’re about to be in the period of doing absolutely random and sometimes worse thumbnails/promotional art just to show it is human generated.

Not a value judgment, just an observation

Man I’m looking forward to the review bomb on this one

Hard pass. Tim Sweeney can eat a bag of dicks.

It is. I’m a bit confused by that as well.

Tbh I’ve always has better luck with Proton versus native builds.

And it is true that performance via Proton can be better than on Windows, so it isn’t accurate that there is a performance penalty. In my experience it’s usually the opposite. Shader precaching is one major reason.

Now that their data centers are actually hogging all the RAM, they might attempt to do something people actually want and improve a product.

Only the 1337 know that they’re really called “stores”. That’s why the command ls exists: list stores.

Obviously I’m kidding. It’s short for list, somehow. Just remove that unnecessary IT.

Don’t be evil profitable

Don’t even need that if you stop using nvidia products.

Unknown but currently no reason to think that it won’t work without phoning home.

Obviously this is a risk you take if you’re an early adopter, but I wouldn’t expect it from Valve.