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  • Übercomplicated@lemmy.mltoGames@lemmy.world•Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’English
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    8 days ago

    I don’t think this is accurate. The majority of IRL gamers I know are casual people with crappy Minecraft-level pre-builts (hugely overpriced usually; I know someone who spent 1.1k on a 3060 Ti pre-built) or 10 year-old computers built by their neighbors. A lot of casual gamers exist and the steam machine will be very appealing to them as an easy upgrade.

    In a way, you’re right. A lot of people will be upgrading potatoes. Or replacing thin air next to their TV’s.

    Even I, with a custom built with a 7900 XT running openSUSE TW, am considering this for doing stuff in the living room (or similar, I live in a tiny apartment lol) with friends or just casual-TV gaming and media. I don’t have that right now, and even 900€ sounds appealing for doing that with a Linux-based computer (and gamescope!!!, which I can’t get working on my device) I have full control over, but know will work.

    I don’t know of something equivalently priced, but it there is something, please tell me. I think they have a market here. I personally, at least, have been waiting years for something like this to recommend to friends and to an extent to myself.

  • Übercomplicated@lemmy.mltoGames@lemmy.world•Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’English
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    8 days ago

    Research and development is probably very high when you consider Proton, SteamOS, and the semi-custom CPU and GPU. Something between $50 to $100 million would be typical. Silicone is famously expensive in R&D, Proton has continuous costs (and has for quite a while now) that rack up, and SteamOS is literally an operating system. That’s a lot of salaries to pay.

    I reckon they’re taking advantage of being private and playing the long game. Very, very long game. They’re not really in danger as long as Steam is successful, but I can’t blame them for wanting a decent gross margin so they can at least cover hardware costs. Especially with memory prices right now, I wouldn’t be surprised at 1000€ here in Germany, though I wouldn’t be happy about it. I would happily buy at 900€ (≈$1040), and be ecstatic at 800€ (≈$920).

  • Übercomplicated@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulationEnglish
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    30 days ago

    The question is rather What is “reality”: the dream (et al.) or the physical world (what you describe as reality). See Descartes first two meditations (and note that he relies fully on the existence of God to prove the existence of reality later). In this case, us experiencing a “dream” just serves to outline the point; Descartes, for example, also suggests that we are being fooled by an evil daemon. If it’s a dream or an evil daemon — doesn’t matter; it would likely be something entirely beyond our comprehension anyway. But genuinely proving the physical world as being reality is very difficult.

  • Übercomplicated@lemmy.mltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Don't fix the problem just change the parameters
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    1 month ago

    The problem you describe is very real, and not just in the US or the UK, but in most of Europe as well. A big part of writing is how to actually write, not just the letters et al.

    I mean the literal way you move you arm, the angle you write at, how you hold you pen, etc.

    I didn’t learn any of that, and as an intensely dyslexic and left-handed individual, writing was extremely painful to me. That is, until 10th grade where I taught myself calligraphy.

    It turns out that, when learning calligraphy, you do learn how to write properly.

    After that, my handwriting in school (and for the rest of my life) became much better: I didn’t have hand-pain anymore, I didn’t smudge the ink, and, of course, my handwriting was very orderly and neat. Teachers even started commenting on it!

    Most notably for me though: writing became fun. For me, as a dyslexic, this literally felt revolutionary.

    Anyway, that is what I think they should teach in schools.