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- Comment on GOG expand their Preservation Program with more games and now 3D scans of box art too 1 hour ago:
3D in the sense of applying 2D scans to the surface of a rectangular prism, or 3D in the sense of handling things like bump-mapped embossing or strangely-shaped boxes?
- Comment on Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I found that one. Still, I’d prefer it to be built into my WAPs instead of having to use separate hardware, even if I do have extra ESP32s sitting around.
I mean, maybe if I could just tack it on as an extra function on some other device I was already going to be using an ESP32 in, but (especially in microcontroller-land as opposed to full preemptively-multitasking PC land) that sounds like maybe more complexity than I want to deal with.
- Comment on Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector 2 weeks ago:
I, for one, am looking forward to a plugin to do this with OpenWRT and Home Assistant for my own purposes.
- Comment on In a first, US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the thread two days ago about the regime issuing letters of marque.
I also found this relevant thread from a year ago while searching for the other one.
Trump’s cronies really want to go all-in on the mercantilism, don’t they?
- Comment on You Know About Flock Cameras, Meet Nema Nodes: They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network 1 month ago:
A “NEMA node” is a standard power outlet.
This article is bait designed to trick surveillance opponents into destroying their own credibility by complaining about innocuous stuff instead of problems that matter. It’s on par with an article fearmongering about “dihydrogen monoxide,” except worse because it’s not satire.
- Comment on Steam Machine is currently selling an estimated 12k–15k units per week, based on its strong position on Steam's Global Top Sellers chart. 1 month ago:
According to the Gamers Nexus (I think) video I saw, they’re sourcing whatever RAM they can find, so some units ship with 1x16GB and others ship with 2X8GB and it’s just random luck which you’ll get.
- Comment on CD Player for the Steam Machine 1 month ago:
Wait, the gabecube isn’t exactly a cube? Well that’s just mildly annoying for no good reason!
- Comment on Should you DeGoogle your smartphone? 2 months ago:
As the owner of both a Pixel 8 running Graphene and a Pinephone, you really aren’t missing anything.
- Comment on Using a webcam, the Steam Controller can now seek out it's charger by vibrating across the desk 2 months ago:
Look, if you just want something that vibrates there are a lot of easier ways to achieve that.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 months ago:
I’m not sure anybody really cares about the streaming codec as long as it works with good quality.
But fair enough: I agree it would be nice to have a “Steam Link 2” that could do 4K60 (or better) and (as pointed out in a Machine review video I just watched) support HDMI CEC.
- Comment on Valve Steam Machine Review - Gamers Nexus 2 months ago:
Depends how many memory channels the CPU supports. On a small consumer CPU, no benefit, but start getting up into bigger chips like Threadripper or especially Epyc and some of them support even more than four channels.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 months ago:
What they should have done is made a new Steam Link with more capable hardware for cheap. That would have sold like hotcakes.
The Steam Link was pretty much a dumb terminal for VNC. In what way does it need to have “more capable hardware?”
- Comment on Valve Steam Machine Review - Gamers Nexus 2 months ago:
Apparently, some units will ship with 1x16GB RAM and some will ship with 2x8GB RAM. I understand their decision to scrounge both types of memory to be able to ship more units, but I wish they’d let customers express express a preference.
- Comment on The Steam Frame Will Have An Enthusiast Kit With A Hot-Swappable Battery 2 months ago:
Sounds like a worthwhile tradeoff for something you’re strapping to your face and therefore want to be as light as possible.
- Comment on Got my Steam Controller guys! Ain't she a beaut 🤩 2 months ago:
- It’s a full controller, no “only one joystick” like the 2015 model.
This is 16-bit controller slander.
- Comment on Got my Steam Controller guys! Ain't she a beaut 🤩 2 months ago:
I also have a pair of underused Steam Controllers, and a Steam Link to go with them. Turns out I just don’t care about gaming on my TV.
- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 3 months ago:
So, there’s a pretty big leap going from Strix Point (mid tier) to Strix Halo (high-end)
Holy shit, no kidding! I guess maybe that’s the reason Valve didn’t go that way: they wanted to put their product right in the middle of that graphics gap. Also, even that first one apparently has 12 CPU cores, so the whole balance between CPU and GPU performance is just off.
Still though, if we’re talking custom, it would’ve been cool if Valve could’ve had them build something equivalent to a “Ryzen AI 7” or “Ryzen AI 5”, but still with Radeon 8050S or 8060S graphics.
- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 3 months ago:
larger chip, lower yields
Oh right, I forgot about that part.
Not sure what kind of area one could expect for the CPU alone (without the integrated GPU) for this kind of process
I guess you could look up specs for a desktop Ryzen CPU that doesn’t have integrated graphics. Not sure which is the right one to pick, but I checked a few AM5 chips and they were all about 71 mm^2^ @ either 5 or 4 nm.
BTW, what actually is “Strix Halo” anyway? I’m confused about whether it’s what they’re calling all the latest-generation APUs, or just the high-end ones, or Asus co-branding, or what.
Are there not any lesser APUs (with smaller die size and higher yields) that aren’t “Strix Halo” but still have a similar architecture and decent gaming performance?
- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 3 months ago:
Unified still requires a significant amount of chip area per die
Even compared to having two entirely separate memory controllers, one for the CPU and one for the GPU?
- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 3 months ago:
They say it’s a custom design, so surely they could’ve custom-designed it to be unified rather than discrete if they wanted. I guess maybe they were trying to make sure it would only be bought by gamers by deliberately making it less versatile for AI?
- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 3 months ago:
Anybody else mildly surprised it isn’t based on an APU with unified memory, like a cheaper/slower Framework Desktop?
- Comment on Subnautica 2's first update will add a sprint button, because players are building their bases too big: "they might want to go a little bit faster" 3 months ago:
IIRC it would start to break if you made it too big in the previous game (and I’m not talking about the strength reinforcement at depth mechanic; I’m talking about Youtubers like Let’s Game It Out building a tube halfway across the map).
I myself had a base that reached from the surface biome down into the jellyshroom cave, and another on the island with a ladder from the beach to the summit.
- Comment on Valve Engineering 3 months ago:
No, the problem is that people believe “[concept] on a computer” is somehow magically different from “[concept] IRL” when it’s not.
When you buy a game from Steam, you buy a game, not a license, and the First Sale Doctrine applies just as much as it does if you buy a board game from Walmart. Any claims to the contrary are simply lies, and any government support for such lies is simply tyranny.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Indefinitely.
- Comment on Playnix launch their own Steam Machine-like Linux gaming console 4 months ago:
That’s an off-the-shelf case? Which one is it?
- Comment on Only 2 years after release Star Trek: Resurgence is being delisted 4 months ago:
And with zero advance notice, too! What the fuck?
- Comment on Microsoft admits its recent server-side "update" broke vital Windows 11 Start menu function 4 months ago:
Like I said, fucked up. Especially the “feed you ads” part, but even just the “take you out to the Internet” part is wrongheaded when you’re purposefully searching on the start menu instead of in a web browser.
- Comment on Microsoft admits its recent server-side "update" broke vital Windows 11 Start menu function 4 months ago:
It’s fucked up that search on the start menu even requires anything ‘server-side’ to begin with.
- Comment on Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones 5 months ago:
Some companies self insure.
I would especially expect that of a company like Amazon, that’s bigger than the insurers (and re-insurers) themselves.
- Comment on Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones 5 months ago:
Why would you not close the ticket as “WONTFIX” or something in that situation?