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- Comment on Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing and other FAQs 1 week ago:
Just put the cpu by all the ports?
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 1 week ago:
Ugh, that is bonkers.
- Comment on Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing and other FAQs 1 week ago:
The future is where ram is now a scarce item and everything comes with a easy pop in/out external ram slot and people are expected to move ram between devices.
It’d be like a SD card reader on laptop on all new hardware, but for ram.
- Comment on Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing and other FAQs 1 week ago:
There goes my hope that they had some rock solid contracts for many years of ram in place before prices were stupid.
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 1 week ago:
I’m not a lawyer either, but I think you’re missing some aspect of intent that would be required to make it against the law.
Rivian for example was (is?) selling their cars at a negative gross margin because they couldn’t sell them for a profit for years. If you can’t sell something at a loss, so many businesses would be breaking the law when they start out.
If the intent was to destroy another company by doing it, then that could fall under anti-competitive laws. In this case, the intent isn’t to destroy other hardware, it would be to help stabalize the ridiculous increase in prices knowing they could make it up in game sales.
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 1 week ago:
Selling hardware at a loss when you make it up in subscriptions or sales in that ecosystem is incredibly common.
Sony is a prime example of doing this in the same market, they’ve sold generations of Playstations at an initial loss knowing games sale and subscriptions would make it up.
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 1 week ago:
That’s a really interesting idea to give preference to existing steam users with a legitimate history.
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 1 week ago:
When they find my “old electronics” drawer, it’ll be a goldmine of ddr2/3 ram
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 1 week ago:
I can’t imagine they would launch something without having at least a couple years locked in.
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 1 week ago:
Isn’t that what BigScreen mode essentially is?
- Comment on Hades II won Best Game on Steam Deck Award - The 2025 Steam Awards 5 weeks ago:
Ah, well I’m pretty sure you get get more lives if you played a bit longer, but you gotta really be enjoying it while struggling at the same time.
- Comment on Hades II won Best Game on Steam Deck Award - The 2025 Steam Awards 5 weeks ago:
True, but also I could only beat the last boss with the shield weapon for a very long time.
- Comment on Hades II won Best Game on Steam Deck Award - The 2025 Steam Awards 5 weeks ago:
How long did you play? You get stronger the more you die, so it should slowly get easier to beat the first stage.
- Comment on I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get? 1 month ago:
Hades is a great roguelite and is on sale for $9.75CAD right now. If you like that then there’s also Hades 2.
Try to find slightly older games and they’ll have steeper discounts.
- Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 2 months ago:
That sifting through crap isn’t just an AI thing.
Pretty much any big site with user generated content and moderators has to have people who deal with seeing that shit.
It’s a really shitty underpaid job.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
I’m angry that they are punishing devs for things I guarantee you they use.
It’s not a possibility.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
The client is constantly getting updates. Maybe the visual store layout hasn’t changed to you, but hasn’t updated in years is comical.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
Sounds like they should just remove it then. Having an unenforceble policy is a bad policy.
You want them to declare that the NPCs use an LLM to interact with you sure, that’s different, but this code part of the policy is bad.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
The point is, I guarantee you valve has ai generate code in their platform. It’s widely used. And unless you’ve gone and like vibe coded the whole thing it’s pointless to require declaring it.
Where do you draw the line? A function? A class? An optimized algorithm?
Steams policy is bad.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
Because their forcing the clients to disclose any use of AI for any kind of content including, art, sound and code.
That would include 1 line.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
I would bet that the steam client has at least 1 line of ai generated code in it.
Where’s their disclaimer?
- Comment on FCC could roll back rule requiring ISPs to list every fee, apparently, there are too many 3 months ago:
Sale of product: $100
Sale fee: $10
Fee on Sale fee: $9.00
Sale fee processing fee: $10
Processing fees processing fee: $8
Fee to aggregate these fees: $15.00
Invoice fee: $10
Invoice fee fee: $8.00
Email sending of Invoice fee: $3.00
Invoice Payment Fee: $30
- Comment on Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they want 7 months ago:
Any of the games that aren’t fully on the cart, require a download to even function in the first place.
It’s looking like (TBD) that this is how a very large portion of the games are going to be delivered.
- Comment on Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they want 7 months ago:
When the physical games require downloading to start using them, I think that starts crossing lines into bricking territory even if it’s not entirely accurate.
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 10 months ago:
Me: ask a question
Ai: wrong answer A
Me: it’s wrong because of X
Ai oh my bad, it’s C
Me: C is also wrong because of X
Ai: my bad, the final absolutely correct answer is A!
Repeat.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 11 months ago:
You’re telling me you want to update a type from ‘teh’ to ‘the’ but it’s in the same package as this important file? Fuck that, that’s another 3 weeks of certification.
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 1 year ago:
You can be breaking even without making up the initial cost.
It just means they aren’t going into further debt.
- Comment on Well that was fast, refurbished OLED Decks are now available on Steam 1 year ago:
Ya, burn in isn’t as big an issue now. For TVs what’s more likely is if you only watch movies with bars on the top/bottom due to aspect ratios that you might not use up the OLEDs there and they start wearing out at a different speed than the content. Then you start seeing bars watching full screen content.
But it’s not actual burn in, you would just need to play something special that hits those areas and not the center to even it out.
It’d take quite a long time to cause this though.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 year ago:
Ah, I can see how that may have come across like that. My bad.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 year ago:
Back doors is a whole other story.
Thats what this means. The back seats are hit and miss depending on the vehicle.