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- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 3 days ago:
Not anymore. That changed with the Xbox one and PS4.
- Comment on With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame. 1 week ago:
SSDs also have essentially no wear from reading.
SD cards just die out quickly because people don’t treat them the same as their internal drive. When you’re replacing the main drive to your most important machine do you go to aliexpress and sort by price low to high? Or do you do some research first and see if it’s a well rated drive?
SD cards are tiny so getting one in high capacities, speeds, and high write cycles is a lot harder without paying a lot more money. The SD cards I have in my dashcam have been recording 4k + 1080p video almost continuously for 5+ years and they’re still going strong. But I also bought drives rated for that kind of use.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 2 weeks ago:
Relying on Proton just offloads development/optimization to the community instead of the actual developers getting paid to develop it. Sure it’s cool the game runs better. But like pay people to do that.
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
What you lose shuffling between CPU and GPU you gain by not having your GPU and CPU sharing the same bandwidth.
Apple gets away with it by having an ungodly massive memory bus. I don’t think valve is getting a 512 bit memory bus on what’s probably a RX 7400/Ryzen 7600 tier CPU. Both of those combined would be like half that?
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I was looking at the DP specs not the HDMI.
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
Is it an APU, or is it a “desktop” CPU and GPU on one board? CPU specs are close to the 7600x but downlocked. And with dedicated vram I’d assume the GPU is it’s own separate thing.
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
I mean if you’re playing older stuff it will output 4k 240. You can probably run Crysis at 4k 240 on that thing.
- Comment on Crysis Remastered Trilogy gets a GOG release with the original Crysis now in the GOG Preservation Program 1 month ago:
Will the non remastered version run on original hardware? System requirements say Windows 10/11.
- Comment on AI crawlers destroying websites in hunger for content 2 months ago:
Moreover, AI crawlers are much more aggressive than standard crawlers. As the InMotionhosting web hosting company notes, they also tend to disregard crawl delays or bandwidth-saving guidelines and extract full page text, and sometimes attempt to follow dynamic links or scripts.
So they’re just lazily programmed crawlers. Ironically trying to block them can cause web traffic to go up not down when people use more advanced methods to get around blocking. When you switch from a simple wget command ripping the bare page to a full blown chrome browser loading all the pictures, JS, and other junk that shit adds up.
- Comment on Gaming handheld prices are out of control, except for the Steam Deck 2 months ago:
Don’t forget battery life. Most of those systems get some pretty awful battery life, or are comically large.
- Comment on FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding 3 months ago:
“Software encoding” is just kinda a colloquial term for running on the CPU. Because the alternative was dedicated hardware for the task.
As for the Vulcan part I have no clue how that works. Does vulkan have an Open equivalent or something?
- Comment on Changing Proton version for performance? 4 months ago:
I mean if you really want to sure. But at that point just start looking into enabling various tweaks manually yourself.
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 4 months ago:
Sure it was easy to mine, but it was also worthless.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 5 months ago:
shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs
No, it’s because over the last few years you’ve made your app progressively worse and worse. Almost the entire time I’ve been using this app I’ve seen it get worse and worse. And it’s clear that your push for AI has made it a more boring way to learn.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 5 months ago:
Valve did a lot of work to tune the APU in the steam deck for efficiency.
AMD just kinda took one of their existing laptop APUs and threw it into handhelds instead of laptops.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 5 months ago:
That my friend, is entering operating system politics.
But the TLDR is: resistance to change, lack of support, bribery, a combination of all 3, features, and much much more!
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 5 months ago:
DXVK (which also runs on windows) alone gives you a huge performance benefit. Playing world of warcraft on windows I’ll see about a 30% reduction in CPU usage and higher performance.
Proton doesn’t just get you to almost matching Windows’ performance. Proton easily outperforms windows even on higher end hardware where windows bloat isn’t a concern.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 5 months ago:
Proton is the compatibility layer that valve makes that lets you run games on Linux. Proton uses DXVK a program that converts Direct X API calls (windows only) to Vulkan API calls (runs on anything). DXVK alone gives you huge performance benefits (especially on older DirectX 11 and older games) and you can run it on windows.
Proton gives you a ton of other tools that can make huge performance differences.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 5 months ago:
the gains come from the reduced overhead that linux has compared to windows
literally the next line
…the games here are being run through proton
I really hate the dismissal of the heavy lifting proton does. Proton is what makes gaming on Linux so great. So many native linux games perform worse on Linux vs their windows counterparts. Then again, I’d expect nothing less from Dave2D
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a Battery Charge Limit control in the latest Beta 6 months ago:
… do you know how batteries work? Or how they degrade?
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a Battery Charge Limit control in the latest Beta 6 months ago:
Plugged in 24/7? I’d set it to 60%. If I have a mix of use 80%.
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a Battery Charge Limit control in the latest Beta 6 months ago:
Almost no modern device does a traditional S1-3 sleep. They all do S0 standby/modern standby in windows 8+ parlance. The system is on the entire time. So “waking up” to go to hibernate is basically the same as doing it from a normal on state.
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a Battery Charge Limit control in the latest Beta 6 months ago:
Short term vs long term gains.
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a Battery Charge Limit control in the latest Beta 6 months ago:
There’s a big difference between “safe” and “ideal”
All lithium ion batteries degrade quicker at 100% vs 80 or even 60%. But it’s not going to explode and kill you.
- Comment on ‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct 6 months ago:
Hiring someone who’s a “prompt engineer” is like hiring someone who says they’re good at googling.
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 6 months ago:
Esata was so cool for like 3 years. I needed more storage fast on my laptop and having only USB 2.0 that was a no go. But esta gave me one cable to an external SSD that did power and fast data.
Then USB 3.0 came out, then UASP, and that completely killed esata.
- Comment on Valve is looking to add an optional battery charge limit to the SD, to preserve battery life 9 months ago:
Even if it does loosen under high heat it’s still going to more or less stay in place, then when it cools down the adhesive will resolidify. When you blast a battery with a heat gun to remove it you just get the glue loose enough that you can pull it away without horribly mangling the battery. It’s still pretty well held in there unless you’re being violent trying to remove it.
- Comment on Valve is looking to add an optional battery charge limit to the SD, to preserve battery life 9 months ago:
You mean the same guy who didn’t remove the stickers from the bottom of a mouse, then said the mouse was shit. Then when he got called out for it doubled down instead of admitting he fucked up and relooking at the mouse? Or the same guy who’s had multiple accusations of having a hostile work environment? Then releasing a south park tier I’m sorry video?
- Comment on Might as well get a laptop??? 10 months ago:
Such an Acer move to put a tiny battery in such a big (relatively) power hungry device. That’s what I hate the most about cheap PC manufacturers.
My next question is is this going to be built like an Acer as well?
- Comment on Might as well get a laptop??? 10 months ago:
The iPad probably weights less than half what this thing does, and probably takes up a lot less space.
Also it’s probably faster and almost certainly gets better battery life.