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- Comment on Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone 1 day ago:
I’m with you on that but the price still seems steep to me.
Agreed. It seems like we’re all still speculating at this point.
Hopefully if RAM prices drive the price this high, arresting and jailing another batch of RAM producer CEOs can bring prices and the Steam Machine down in price to something reasonable.
I can dream, anyway.
In the meantime, I may still pay the premium just to signal my interest in having a less closed gaming option hooked up to my TV.
- Comment on Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone 1 day ago:
But why buy the Steam Machine over a PlayStation at that point?
I don’t buy locked-down hardware, with a locked down al game ecosystem, when open hardware is available, so the Playstation isn’t in the running, for me.
If itch.io and the like run on Playstation, that’s good to hear. I have assumed that they do not, from what I know of Sony in the past.
Anwya, I’m still pissed about the time that Sony shipped a Windows virus on their music CDs.
- Comment on Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone 1 day ago:
There will probably be a hefty convenience tax in the price of the SteamDeck, in exchange for my not having to learn a bunch of facts about graphics cards that I’m not sure I will never afford anyway.
Valve bought my trust with my SteamDeck. Let’s see if they spend it well when I eventually buy a Steam Machine.
- Comment on Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone 1 day ago:
Yeah. I’ve paid $1,000.00 for a solid gaming PC before, and got much worse results than I expected from “A SteamDeck that knows it is plugged in.”
Kind of a non-news item, to me.
I’m not buying a new model every year at that price, but if I expect it to last 5-10 years, I’ll probably end up buying one.
A bunch of this is going to come down to Valve’s build quality, warranty support, and whether these Steam Machine are repairable or not.
- Comment on Ubisoft Shuts Down Assassin's Creed: Rebellion Developer Halifax Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized 4 days ago:
Obligatory: Fuck Ubisoft.
I will stop saving my pennies for Prince of Persia or Assassin’s Creed.
- 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 week ago:
I would set aside $0.00 of the $50.00 for my free copies of Luanti (Minecraft clone) and Mindustry - Factory building tower defense.
You can buy Mindustry for around $5 on Steam or Itch.io to support the developers, but it is also available for free in the Arch software center (by briefly rebooting the SteamDeck into desktop mode).
- Comment on [Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame? 1 month ago:
I think that there is a somewhat decent chance that there will be an ARM Steam Deck Mini at some point.
Damn. I hope so. I play many indie retro style games, and my favorites are all on my Steam account. I would get so much use out of a truly pocket device with good retro controls and my Steam account signed in.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 2 months ago:
Yes. Boox is nice, if you want it for adding Android apps.
I side load on mine a great deal.
Fast things like games and movies don’t play nice with the slow eInk screen.
But board games, puzzle games, digital comics, and simple websites all work great.
I was surprised that background processes do fine, with some patience. I have something running to back up my notes to my NAS.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 2 months ago:
Boox are great!
I don’t trust the services they default to, but they’re full unlocked Android, so they talk to my NAS and other services I choose.
If you don’t care for the battery life or screen refresh rate, be aware that there’s now a setting so you can pick your preference (faster refresh means shorter battery life).
- Comment on Flow chart for choosing a Linux distribution 2 months ago:
I’ve used both, and been very pleased with both.
Mint stood out, last time I installed it, because every decision was easy and factual and about me (what time zone, what keyboard).
I essentially just pressed “next” a bunch of times.
Kubuntu was nearly that good last time I tried it, as well.
Between the two, I generally recommend Mint primarily because it keeps the messaging simple and consistent with the community.
Secondarily, because Mint doesn’t have Snap.
- Comment on Flow chart for choosing a Linux distribution 2 months ago:
I’m open to critique, as to making this chart as helpful as possible.
The entire “New to Linux” section should probably just be “Mint” for anyone without an Nvidia graphics card.
For newbies, live USB test and installer experience are key, and Mint is still unmatched.
- Comment on Does anyone have tried minecraft java edition on mobile? 2 months ago:
It’s worth noting that the full version of Luanti runs natively on Android, is fully free, and plays fully cross platform will all Luanti servers and other copies of Luanti.
One Android phone copy of Luanti can even serve the game to a few other players playing on PC or Android.
- Comment on SteamOS Update 3.7.15: The Sound of Silence 3 months ago:
Same. I think that’s the only reason my SteamDeck uptime doesn’t rival my Linux servers.
- Comment on SteamOS Update 3.7.15: The Sound of Silence 3 months ago:
Fixed a case where WiFi would fail to connect after sleep
Very nice. That bug was very annoying.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 3 months ago:
Yes. I will need to update my budget, as well.
How many zeroes should I add after the first one…
Perhaps I’ll list it as $0.000 this month, for a fun change.
- Comment on Amazon's strict RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document and insiders 4 months ago:
Plus, they can get the top talent back through illegal aquisitions of competitors every few years.
- Comment on I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File 4 months ago:
I’m not sure I want company in the “amazingly productive professional” club.
Let’s not share this insight too far, okay?
I’ll be quite content if everyone competing with me for money keeps investing their energy in AI tools.
- Comment on The most played games on Steam Deck for June 2025 6 months ago:
So…
Date Everything…is a thing, I guess? - Comment on Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy 6 months ago:
Time to go out and buy a “The Far Side” desk calendar, and mark the correct page, I guess.
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 6 months ago:
Ðat is delightful!
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 6 months ago:
I wouldn’t be concerned.
We’re at a point in portable technology where increased performance means decreased battery life and makes the system need to be larger and less comfortable to hold (makes it release more heat, which has to go somewhere).
I do not believe there is enough demand to expect a larger, hotter, SteamDeck with poorer battery life to be released soon, or maybe ever.
- Comment on The massive Satisfactory 1.1 update is out now with controller support 6 months ago:
This is an exciting update!
I’ve been wanting to play Satisfactory on SteamDeck, but the controls/user interface were low quality to the point of unplayability.
I hope they decide it’s okay to highlight things I should trying clicking on. It doesn’t break immersion to live in a sci-fi galaxy where space engineers also have taken some accessibility training.
I really want to play through Satisfactory, so I love to see this effort to make it SteamDeck ready.
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 9 months ago:
Oh, that makes sense. Local multiplayer on SteamDeck can still be pretty rubbish, so I probably just didn’t notice.
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 9 months ago:
I will warn that some of the Lego games are rather buggy on PC.
I had the same issues on my Windows PC. But they run great on my SteamDeck.