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- Comment on Looks like Valve is working on a SteamOS device codenamed fremont. Maybe a standalone Steam Box 1 week ago:
Yeah, that was my thinking too. Lilac is a generic enough platform that OEMs can do the bulk of their platform work with a lilac dev kit before they have real hardware in hand for the last 10%.
Valve hasn’t even announced their own steam machine yet have they? I’d be betting on ASUS to be first to market with whatever’s in the pipe from OEMs.
- Comment on Looks like Valve is working on a SteamOS device codenamed fremont. Maybe a standalone Steam Box 1 week ago:
Lilac is an AMD dev platform, it’s used to do early development before you have the real platform in hand to work with. It’s been spotted in the wild running 7000 HS, 8000 U and Zen3 embedded <55W SoCs - there’s no way to extrapolate new steam hardware performance info from this reliably.
- Comment on Google just made it easier to turn off personalized search results 2 weeks ago:
Most of the time Google is still the most useful. If I care about privacy I use duck duck go via TOR.
Apparently You.com and perplexity are pretty good on some topics according to friends, and I’ve used chatgpt to summarize and explain things I wanted to learn.
- Comment on Google just made it easier to turn off personalized search results 2 weeks ago:
This change makes Google suck a tiny bit less by empowering users to disable some of the surveillance driven adtech in search results.
Is it a meaningful improvement in how Google operates at scale? No, not really. The DOJ is advocating the complete breakup of Google, the divestiture of Android and Chrome as well as reining in Google’s AI training data scraping - turning off personalization more easily doesn’t even register on that scale.
- Comment on Google just made it easier to turn off personalized search results 2 weeks ago:
$50 says this response is due to the antitrust suit from the DOJ
- Comment on Leak: Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 and a ‘Roy’ for its Deckard 4 weeks ago:
I know right, I can’t handle another round of disappointment
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 2 months ago:
With Google’s new “don’t be paying for anything someone else will do for free” MO I’m doubtful
- Comment on PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse 2 months ago:
The only controller I’ve ever really enjoyed using is the steam controller. Just about everything else felt worse than playing using a mouse and keyboard. To each their own though, if you like controllers then more power to you.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 2 months ago:
I’m surprised they’re not pursuing govt grants and trust/foundation funding like a terrier. There has to be money out there for digital preservation work.
- Comment on snap rant 4 months ago:
Flatpak is a great choice for Steam in particular. The native install requires a full 32bit multilib install from your distros package repo, flatpak steam boxes all of that up on its own.
- Comment on snap rant 4 months ago:
Flatpak is slowly improving. I think the biggest problem with the flatpak ecosystem is lack of widespread understanding by new maintainers of how to package flatpak well - you see a lot of new packages by software authors who don’t yet understand flatpak permissions and package quality suffers for it.
- Comment on How many USB hubs can you daisy-chain to a single port? 1 year ago:
I had a hub on my desk next to my monitor so I just ran the extension up the back of the monitor and fixed it in place near the top edge. That was enough distance (maybe 18-20in now that I think about it) to resolve the interference. If you play around a bit you might find that even 10in is enough distance. Try a USB 2 extension cable too, that’ll keep v3 signalling at a distance.
- Comment on How many USB hubs can you daisy-chain to a single port? 1 year ago:
I worked around that by plugging in a usb2 extension cable that came with something I bought and placing the 2.4ghz transceiver maybe 2-3’ away from the hub. Same deal with the mouse and keyboard, they need to be a reasonable distance (some # of inches) away from USB 3 signals.
- Comment on How many USB hubs can you daisy-chain to a single port? 1 year ago:
+1, powered USB3 hubs have worked fine for me as well. Keep them away from any 2.4GHz transceivers though, I’ve had issues with RF noise from them wrecking wireless mouse/keyboard signals.
- Comment on Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours 1 year ago:
Chris Roberts hookers and blow fund isn’t going to fund itself y’know
- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 1 year ago:
Slow news day, eh IGN?
- Comment on Steam Deck as a laptop replacement? 1 year ago:
I mean, yes, you could do this. Is it viable? Sort of, but only while docked - you’re not going to get a lot done on the go on the deck unless you’re carrying a portable monitor, mouse and keyboard and at that point you’re carrying more than a laptop around.
Personally I really like my 16in screen on my work+games laptop and it has much better performance and cooling than the steam deck. If I had to pick just one it’d probably be the laptop.
But yeah, knock yourself out, it’s probably a fun project if nothing else.