Comment on I’ve already been using a “Steam Machine” for months, and I think it’s great

artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Console but PC

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly. Breast of both.

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• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  HDMI-CEC gonna be so fucking cool!

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• sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually supporting HDMI-CEC is such a big thing because it makes it the Perfect machine HTPC for Libreelec. No more need for separate remote to control your 4k HDR media player!

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait, is CEC rare thing?
  It’s been a long time since I’ve tried CEC on non-Pi computer.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s nothing to do with Linux, it’s to do with GPU hardware.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s confirmed.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most of that will be available with SteamOS in general I assume, and also probably, with packages, on any Linux distro. It’s really only HDMI-CEC and wake on Bluetooth that are somewhat exclusive. I don’t know how hard it is to build/add HDMI-CEC into a computer, but maybe that isn’t even exclusive. Wake on Bluetooth, I assume, requires some special hardware to support it, which I don’t think will be available or easily added to other computers.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These are all hardware features.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sleep/resume, background updates, and efficiency/noise/heat are not hardware features.

      Every computer has sleep/resume.

      Background updates is a software-based idle mode. It reduces what’s running to the bare minimum and only runs a check for uodates/the updater occasionally.

      Efficiency/noise/heat are all the same thing and has little to do with the hardware. The hardware they’re using isn’t any more efficient than what you can buy yourself. The software is possibly more efficient (for the Deck it is at least) to reduce power draw/heat/thermal throttling/noise. However, you can get the same yourself with Arch, only installing what you need. It’s not exclusive to Valve.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Every computer has sleep/resume.

        Try it on your desktop in the middle of a game and let me know how that goes.

        Background updates is a software-based idle mode.

        It’s not, it requires a special processor.

        Efficiency/noise/heat are all the same thing and has little to do with the hardware.

        Uhhh it has EVERYTHING to do with the hardware?

        The hardware they’re using isn’t any more efficient than what you can buy yourself.

        Not in this compact size.

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