And we have more grenades. Eventually it can serve as a deterrent.

We are a very niche group. This product will appeal to a lot of people who aren’t here, but also to some who are. In the end, this will be good for PC gaming as a whole, and it will probably either hurt Microsoft or inspire them to make some serious changes. I’m betting that this also makes people a little more curious about their hardware and software. The steam deck proved to me that leaving windows could be pretty simple and not a downgrade. I’ve been looking to build my own steam machine ever since, and now I might not need to depending on the price.

I built my first PC in 2009. You’re right that it isn’t very hard, especially now with resources like what you linked plus videos on YouTube. But not everybody is interested in tinkering like that. There’s research to be done to even know what half this shit means. Your average gamer hasn’t built a PC and doesn’t know AMD from Intel. Younger people these days tend to expect something quick and easy, so they’ll be more likely to buy something prebuilt. People 35ish+ these days tend to be too busy working multiple jobs and/or school and/or managing homes, so they’ll be more likely to buy something that just works when they get an hour to spare.

It’s getting to be exceedingly rare for a person to have the knowledge necessary AND time AND money to build and troubleshoot a modern PC.

As somebody who probably could do it, I might still just buy a steam machine. Because I don’t need cutting edge shit and I just want to sip on whiskey and relax, not have yet another fucking project on my hands. My laptop is old and dying, and I’m looking for a reason to not buy a PS6. This would cover both.

If he died in his sleep on live TV in the middle of these cabinet meeting tugjobs, there would still be people who believed that the Clintons killed him, but it would be way fewer than otherwise.

I hope Joe Biden outlives him. Just to spite everybody who said that Biden was too old and senile but never pointed that same criticism at their old and senile blob.

You’re not supposed to wear a band shirt to the band’s show, and you’re really not supposed to wear a band shirt to the band’s show when you’re in the fucking band. Absolutely reeks of desperation.

Yeah, and when it comes to my phone, I’m the same way. Sure, I could get Graphene OS, but I just don’t see enough benefit to go through the headache of making the change and probably finding issues to troubleshoot. I’m not disliking my current experience, so why look for a fix? These people feel this way about Windows. They’re not giving Steam Machine a chance unless there’s an incentive, and it’s not gonna be significantly cheaper, so they’ll skip it.

But I think there will be enough people buying this that the industry will feel a shift. Enough people are pissed at Microsoft and/or modern console experiences and/or need to upgrade their system.

Agreed. I don’t blame CoD players or people who play other games that use kernel anticheat, and I don’t blame Valve for using something other than Windows here; the issue is lazy corporations choosing to use a shortcut for anticheat which doesn’t catch all cheaters and locks Linux out.

But the reality is that most people interested in giving this product a shot are not the people who play CoD, and if they do then they’re either happy on console or on their Windows PC already. Steam Machine isn’t for them, and the people interested in a Steam Machine aren’t interested in these games. It’s like somebody looking to buy a Corvette being told that it can’t tow a boat. Yeah, cool, that’s not what I’m trying to do with it, but I guess thanks for pointing that out so people who don’t know any better won’t try?

I wonder if it could support an external DVD/BD drive via its USB ports. I assume yes, but that would be an extra purchase for you.

My Steam Deck feels about on par with PS4 in terms of power, and they say Steam Machine will be more like a PS5, so it sounds like it would be an upgrade over your PS4. Just more expensive, especially if you’re buying a disc drive.

I think that this thing coming out will only be beneficial to PC gamers, especially Linux users. This will encourage further development and standardization.

Fewer choices is a drawback, and it will limit the market share, but I think most people who would be interested in a Steam Machine probably don’t care that much about the kinds of games that utilize kernel anti cheat. Some buyers might just be displaying sour grapes, and some console CoD-like players might be looking to make the switch to PC but this is a nonstarter for them. I do truly feel bad that they won’t get a welcome mat through this path, but it’s neither their fault nor Valve’s fault.

I’m not naive enough to think there could be a change to how these companies do anti cheat, but if Steam Machine sells really well, it’d be cool to see these companies at least start developing with Linux in mind. Microsoft fucked up with 11, doubled down with terminating support for 10, and now Linux distros are blowing up; then Valve comes in with this? Idk what % of market share Linux would need to hit for EA to start giving a shit about potential revenue that they’re just declining to chase, but I think we’re about to see unprecedented numbers that could tempt them. If nothing else, maybe a separate Linux release that isn’t cross platform, but is a sort of compilation game. CoD BlOps Linux: whatever the latest one’s campaign is, plus its multiplayer, and like top 10 maps from the past few games or something. Idk. Do a Linux release less often but still capture those customers.

Exactly this! I bought a used steam deck and found that I could trust Linux nowadays. Then I wiped my laptop before Windows 10 lost security support and put PopOS on it and it worked fine. All the while, I’ve been loosely planning a desktop build to replace that laptop from 2015 because it’s old af but just couldn’t justify spending $1500 on parts when I already have a PS5. My plan was to not buy a PS6 when that comes out and just build my own Steam Machine and throw Nobara or Chimera or PopOS onto it, but now I probably won’t have to!

This kills me every goddamn time. It’s absolutely neighborhood “friend” (choices limited by proximity) threatening to “Goldberg” you if you don’t let him “see your bike for a minute” but you don’t let him because he treated his own bike like shit to the point that it’s wobbly, bent, neglected garbage. He might be a bully if he were physically capable, but he’s not, so he just hurls insults and most people feel like it’d be unfair to kick his ass for it.

And his mom is weirdly way too into Elvis Presley and makes him wear arm floaties in the pool.

I could be just parroting a myth, but aren’t they all genetic clones? So anything that evolves to attack one has evolved to attack all, potentially quickly wiping out just about all of them. And I think this happened with the banana we used before this one so now they’re rare and super expensive.

Through standardizing the banana, we’ve removed biodiversity.

And that’s a big part of why I don’t miss reddit. Most chuds didn’t migrate because they couldn’t figure out how to do it, so a lot of the toxicity got passively filtered out.

I’m skeptical. They couldn’t find the shooter. Then they found a bag that looked like his, filled with monopoly money (no weapon). Then somebody at a McDonald’s calls because Luigi kinda looks like the guy. Luigi decides to hang out and eat his shitty fast food at a leisurely pace. Cops show up and supposedly find the weapon on him.

I think it’s more likely that they found the weapon with the bag, but opted to keep that quiet so they could plant it on whoever they grabbed. If Luigi is the shooter, and he still had the gun when he left NY, then why the fuck wouldn’t he have tossed it into a random river along the way? Wasn’t it a “ghost gun” that he could easily dispose of and not have traced back to him? Wasn’t that the point of it? Isn’t that why it would’ve made sense to leave it with the bag?

The job of the jury is to either find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt or let him go free. I have reasonable doubt. I’m not sure what evidence they’re gonna reveal that will convince me, but I’m also not gonna be selected for that jury. I just don’t believe in ruining the entire life of somebody whose only provable crime was that he enjoyed McDonald’s in Altoona.

It’s a lunchbox, not a purse. Get your facts straight.

UwU this poor wittle tigey-wigey is surrounded by big bad wolfies. I wonder if it’s enough to bring me the little death that I swell and ache for…

I can’t find video since everything is flooded with news people talking about it and won’t show the actual footage. Got a link?

Edit: found one on mastodon. It’s extremely NSFL. Do not watch if even remotely squeamish. I fucking hate that motherfucker and it was still pretty tough to watch. Very lights-out.

I installed Pop OS on my ten year old laptop two days ago. I’m not sure it’s my forever distro, but it’s running fine now that I got the right nvidia driver set up. In any case, now that I’ve gone through the process, I feel a lot more confident that I can build a Linux desktop instead of buying a PS6 in a few years. I’ll probably go AMD to simplify the setup.

And so now you’ve learned that you need to regularly flush the water heater and change out the anode rod every few years, right? I just bought my first house. Hot water wasn’t working right. Heating element was dead. Why? There was so much scale that the lower element was covered in it. Replaced the element, flushed as much out as I could reasonably remove, and then flushed again six months later while replacing the anode rod. This keeps the corrosion at bay.

Fahrenheit used the temperature of the human body to create his system, which makes a lot more sense than other systems.

What is 0°F in terms of the human body? I’m guessing that 100°F is supposed to be a normal human body temperature, but in reality that will vary from person to person and everybody I’ve met is usually 97-99 unless they have a fever.
In Celsius/Centigrade, 0° is the freezing point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure, and 100° is the boiling point.
In Kelvin, 0 is absolute zero, and it scales with Celsius/Centigrade because anchoring it to water just makes sense.

Fahrenheit is fucking silly and people only defend it because it’s what they were familiar with growing up, so they teach the next generation the same thing, thus perpetuating the cycle of tradition for the sake of tradition.