Comment on Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode

9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I hate having outstanding updates for no real logical reason and it annoys me so much to go into the downloads screen and regularly queue up updates for the way too many games I have installed.

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  • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It makes perfect sense if you’re a systems engineer.

    Downloading games costs bandwidth.

    Steam services millions of customers daily.

    Valve, correctly, decided to do a bit of load balancing by prioritizing updates by how recently and frequently you play them, and spreads them out.

    This is nicer to their systems, and its nicer to most people who don’t live alone and have to share internet with other human beings in their home (or at work).

    You’d think it would be no big deal, bandwidth is “infinite” and “free” in most peoples minds. But there is a maximum throughput, and there is a cost in energy, time, performance, and money.

    Load-balancing, people. It saves lives.

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    • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Counterpoint, I couldn’t give two fucks about a billion dollar companies bottom line and if you have bandwidth problems at home I don’t give a fuck and you can configure your client and router to deal with it.

      No rain in the world valve can’t do what my Xbox does.

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      • brrt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Unless they changed it in the last couple of months Xbox does the same thing. When I still had my XSX there were updates sitting idly in the queue all the time.

        And countercounterpoint this is also an environmental issue. Unless you don’t give a fuck about that either.

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      • _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So you want to DDoS their CDN so you never get your update. You seem very smart.

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      • usrtrv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And this is how the prisonor’s dilemma is lost.

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      • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You sound like a very selfish person.

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      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A billion dollar company giving 2 fucks about their bottom line is probably how they become a billion dollar company in the first place.

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• domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They could also finally allow you to start games without updating.

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• _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well since they have this now, you can just schedule updates to run at night.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s not the same unless something has recently changed. The scheduling just stops it from scheduling them during the day, it doesn’t make sure everything downloads in a single night.

    And even then, that’s not a “do all it right now” button

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    • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There is definitely an option to have it auto-update. I don’t know about scheduling.

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• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  still don’t know why that is missing. it’s such a weird UX

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