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- Comment on Steam Deck is out of stock in the US? 1 week ago:
Valve can take the risk on doing actual innovation because they functionally have a large pool of ‘fun money’, that does not come with a board of shareholders attached to it demanding that it constantly be making next quater profits be as high as possible.
You save up that fun money fund, and when an actual good idea gets committed to, you can now actually just fund at least a moderately sized go at it.
… and, because its … you know, their money, with no shareholder or lender strings attached to it… they could fail completely, and then just eat the loss.
As opposed to now having to reorient other segments of the company to make more money to make up the difference to the board or lenders.
- Comment on Steam Deck is out of stock in the US? 1 week ago:
Valve doesn’t have utterly huge manufacturing (or warehousing) capabilities the way MSFT, Sony, or Nintendo do.
They very likely just retooled the spaces they were using for the Steam Decks over into making Machines, Frames, new Steam Controllers.
As in, they probably just entirely stopped mfging new Steam Decks like… I dunno, 3 to 9 months ago?
The RAMpocalypse certainly isn’t helping, but I’d say its much more significantly due to Valve running basically a pretty small manufacturing capability compared to other … game-device makers.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 1 week ago:
Thanks for that a lot to think about
Happy to have an infodump/perapective appreciated, thank you!
=)
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s all true.
It is not just a console, it is a full-on PC.
Run your own home media mode, browse the web, make stuff in Blender, writr and compile code, etc, I do all of that regularly with my docked Steam Deck.
But I went with Mini PC rather than Steam Deck for comparison because, though it very much literally is a Steam Deck 3.0, in a lot of ways… I think its closer to a mini PC than anything else.
MiniPCs are basically small boxes often comparable to, I dunno, a large jar of pickles, in size. They… also do not have the functionality of a gamepad controller, or built in screen, as actual physical parts of them.
And they basically always have integrated cpu+mobo, RAM is usually laptop SODIMM form factor, and then either the cpu they use is actually an apu, or an npu, as opposed to laptops often having a discrete but laptop sized gpu, or full-on pcs typically having full-on gpus.
Or, its becoming more common for a mini-pc to juat be designed with either an oculink port, or a usb 4.0/tbunderbolt port, with the idea being that its a decent general purpose work pc in its own, and if you want to game on it, you get an eGPU cradle, stick a power supply and desktop GPU in it, and then connect it to the miniPC, which can then use that GPU nearly as efficiently as if it were just directly plugged into it.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 1 week ago:
I am doing something similar, with a similarly old TV, and can get the render res up to 1600 x 900 for a good deal of stuff.
Can’t quite handle 1920 x 1080 though, that starts to be just generally problematic.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 1 week ago:
Here’s a way to think of it:
It’s a mini-pc.
But a bit bigger.
So… yeah, even if it is expensive by console pricing standards… $600 to $1000 is actually a pretty reasonable range for comparably powerful mini-pcs.
The runor that MooresLawIsDead was initially running with was that the actual custom chip they are using was originally slated to be used in something like a new variant of a MicroSlop Surface tablet.
AMD fabbed a bunch, MicroSlop bailed on the idea, leaving AMD with a bunch of weird custom chips they don’t know wtf to do with.
Valve then goes to AMD, begins to uh, think with portals, or whatever.
- Comment on Lutris games only seeing Steamdeck as a KB+M when running games in Desktop Mode 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I have been using Bazzite so long I’m not sure exactly how to explain how to do it on SteamOS, but…
So your Deck, when Steam is still running, is also running the layer that translates your joy and buttons and track pads and what not, as managed via Steam’s controller profile system.
You can go into steam and find a button for something like a default desktop config.
You can uh, tinker with that profile and make it so a hot key or combo switches it over to just acting as basically an xbox369 controller.
When you are in that mode, Lutris, emulators run in desktop mode, etc… they should recognize your joy/trigger/button inputs as if they were a 360 controller now.
It… can be a bit confusing, but its not impossible to set up, at least not with the emulators Inhabe futzed about with.
- Comment on Days after cancelling their Linux-compatible mod loader, Nexus Mods announces that they're bringing SteamOS support to Vortex 4 weeks ago:
They are completely incompotent at linux and literally do not know what they are talking about
- Comment on Days after cancelling their Linux-compatible mod loader, Nexus Mods announces that they're bringing SteamOS support to Vortex 4 weeks ago:
Uh no it wouldnt.
Just download the mods however you would download them.
Organize them and ‘install’ them with the mod organizer, MO2, Limo, whatever.
Most torrent managers allow you to paste in a block of links to a bunch of torrents, all at once.
If you wanna release a mod collection… you just make a list that includes all the links to the mods, and then another smaller torrent that is just the load order file, or instructions for how to set up the mod manager with the load order.
Download managers for non torrents still exist.
Mega still exists.
You could set up an RSS system that does 90% of this.
I’ve been modding, making mods and shit since the 90s.
Its only fairly recently that people expect mod manager programs to handle downloading the mods and keep them up to date.
This is not necessary.
You are thinking of a mod manager as a thing that manages the downloading.
This is a fundamentally unnecessary concept, we’ve solved the problem of ‘how do i keep a bunch of files downloaded and up to date’ in a thousand different ways since dawn of the internet.
And its also a fundamentally bad idea with specifically mods, because one random change from a mod in either a collection or your own custom load order… well that can introduce cascading breakages… because almost no one who publishes a mod collection actually bothers to constantly keep sure that all updates all keep working together.
There’s no real, solid ‘maintainer’ thats constantly correctly auditing all of that, the way you have with say the curation of core linux libraries.
…this is only a catch if you want an easy button.
If you want an easy button, go pay Nexus for it.
It will break often, but it is ‘easy’, I guess.
Also I2P is an entire alternate internet standard sort of in the way Tor and onion sites are, except its basically ‘what if the entire internet was torrents, and also encrypted’.
There’s basically no way to download anything from I2P without it going through a million hops and coming from a million different people.
It solves the ‘how do we store and deliver all these files’ problem by… you set up the main site with the main copy of the file, but everyone else who also has the file can also contribute to helping anyone else download them, anyone else connected to the network helps route traffic for everyone else.
- Comment on Days after cancelling their Linux-compatible mod loader, Nexus Mods announces that they're bringing SteamOS support to Vortex 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been using Limo, on Bazzite, to mod Cyberpunk 2077, Kenshi, and Fallout NewVegas, on a SteamDeck, with 10s of gigs of mods for each … for 2 years now.
Yep, it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, isn’t as automated as far as auto support for paying to download 100 gig messes of modpacks that don’t work correctly, easily.
Yep, it requires a bit of learning how it works, and yep, a few particularly invasive/reconstructive/substantial mods require weird little work arounds.
But that is basically always going to be the case.
And Limo gives you all the tools you need to put in a bit of your own effort and figure out how to make things work, or identify things that just won’t work.
A mod manager cannot be an easy button, because mods by their nature are made by amateurs, are experimental, are mutually incompatible.
Trying to make a mod manager that is an easy button is a fundamentally doomed to fail idea, unless you think you can come up with a solution to handle every weird thing that ever has been or ever will be done by a modder, for every game, ever.
You would think these Nexus people would understand this automatically, having been doing what they’ve been doing for what like a decade or two now?
- Comment on Days after cancelling their Linux-compatible mod loader, Nexus Mods announces that they're bringing SteamOS support to Vortex 4 weeks ago:
Now that’s a good fucking idea, imo.
- Comment on Days after cancelling their Linux-compatible mod loader, Nexus Mods announces that they're bringing SteamOS support to Vortex 4 weeks ago:
Yeah so whats happening here is their ‘dev team’ and/or its leadership are a bunch of fucking morons.
That’s basically the only way this can happen.
Oh the project we deprecated, so that we can make a new thing that does new stuff?
Uh.
Um.
The old thing is actually better at the new stuff.
Turns out all the work we did for the last year or two was pretty much completely useless as anything other than an expensive lesson in how to fail at software development.
Whoops!
But that’s no big deal, that’s
Nothing dramatic or groundbreaking,
It’s just:
just small problems that added up over time to slow us down.
What they’re almost certainly doing is entirely giving up on figuring how any to do with linux works, and … they’re just gonna make it work through Proton.
These people are clowns.
NexusMods is to PC modding as CrunchyRoll is to Anime:
They’re a bunch of amateurs who have no idea what they’re doing, and basically just ended up being the default ‘provider’ of what they provide by accident.
They are primarily social media manager types first, everything else second or third.
Their expertise is posting on forums and aura policing, not actually getting anything done or thinking out a complex process with strategic tradeoff decisions that have to be made and stuck to.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 1 month ago:
Only time I ever hear about him is some new really dumb thing he said/did.
I’m obviously not a fan and don’t follow him anymore, so I am biased in that way.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 1 month ago:
Linus is such a fucking idiot, around everything around linux, that he functions as an industry plant for Microsoft.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 1 month ago:
There’s actually a huge thing stopping corporations from buying them in bulk as workstations:
They’re only sold on Steam, directly by Valve, then shipped to you.
Just like all other Valve hardware.
You… need a Steam account.
And they can very easily just say ‘one per person!’
People need to stop with this ‘companies will buy them in bulk and fuck everything up!’ line of logic.
It makes almost 0 sense.
A company would only be able to do that by setting up a system of fraudulent accounts on Steam, which would violate the TOS individually, and potentially be quite illegal collectively.
You won’t be able to buy a new Steam Machine, at Valve’s MSRP, at Walmart, or Best Buy, or NewEgg, or MicroCenter.
You might be able eventually find some on Amazon, or Walmart’s online stores, something like that, but those will be from resellers of dubious sourcing methods, and they will be charging more than MSRP.
- Comment on Lets speculate about the steam controllers price 1 month ago:
Eh, I’m think more like $6, maybe $7.
- Comment on Getting Star Citizen Running on a SteamDeck - Complete Guide 2 months ago:
I… no. No fucking way this works.
And by that I mean… I believe that this works, at 15 to 20 FPS, and I can’t believe the amount of effort that must have gone into figuring out how to make it work.
Insanely impressive that it runs at all.
Don’t think I’ll be partaking, myself, but god damn, very good work!
- Comment on Vortex & Decky Questions 2 months ago:
Alternative option:
Learn and use LIMO.
I’ve been running a heavily modded CP77 for about a year now, on a Steam Deck.
Its basically Linux native MO2, available as a flatpak.
flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.limo_app.limo
It also works with literally any game, if you set it up to.
But, it doesn’t do load order imports / nexus bulk mod collection downloads.
But but, it does support FOMODs, LOOT, and has quite useful collision checkers and managers, and can interface with the Nexus API.
- Comment on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege 2 months ago:
Fair enough, I don’t mean to sound like it isn’t a good thing to do, to try to ween people off, but I’ll freely admit I am way too jaded to try to do that myself anymore.
I spent a decade trying to convince people that if they did not leave, [gestures at current state of the world] is what would happen.
Way I see it, its roughly the same situation as climate change: we passed the inflexion point, we failed, now our possible future timelines are much darker.
… I’m glad you made it out though.
Keep that flame of optimism inside you as well tended and healthy as you can.
- Comment on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege 2 months ago:
Its… far, far too late to just tell people to stop.
- Comment on RetroDECK Blog - Retro Gaming Flatpak - November 2025: Finally a fatpak 2 months ago:
Personally, I prefer RetroDeck… you should definitely pick only one, trying to run both at the same time will probably cause you to rage quit from sanity, lol.
- Comment on Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais talks more about anti-cheat support for Linux/SteamOS on FPS Podcast #83 2 months ago:
Every current, major, third party AntiCheat system has supported Linux since 2022.
You are correct that they figure out a way to do it without kernel access when on Linux, and when the game devs take advantage of the support that they are already paying for, to help them customize/tweak the AC and the game to work together.
This is a fine solution, because 99.9% of cheats you can easily buy for money via a 60 second websearch only work on Windows, and there are many, effective ways to do AC that do not require Kernel Access.
Many AC systems do not need a TPM2 to work.
There were tons of AC systems that did their jobs before Microsoft pushed everyone to adopt TPM2.
As for as games running on Linux: Basically everything that is not using some cutting edge driver/feature from Nvidia works on Linux via Proton.
Thats the scenario that the major thirdparty ACs who have supported Linux since 2022 primarily target.
If a game or proprietary AC does not support Linux, that is either a deliberate business decision, or down to incompetence from the devs cough Facepunch cough.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 2 months ago:
could be worse man, all hands could be on the poop deck.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 2 months ago:
Ah!
I did not know that was how it worked, but that does make sense.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 2 months ago:
… You apparently can rename a community.
Huh!
- Comment on [Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame? 2 months ago:
Is… is it even possible to rename a community?
Valve Ecosystem Nerds?
Or do you just have to make a new one, and tell everyone to migrate?
Anyway, yes, I think that untill or unless it becomes truly problematic in some way, yeah, this basically already is a comm of general Valve/Steam related both hardware and software nerd#, why be too picky?
If a flood or trickle of noobies ever show up, easier for them to ask questions and get news in one place.
But I also do see a potential problem of people having no idea this comm would cover more than just the Deck, not finding it in searches.
… Not sure what to do about that?
- Comment on Steam Machine 3 months ago:
Litetally two days ago, I said that Proton is the most important project in the history of linux, in terms of getting linux to a mass adoption / user base.
Got mostly downvotes.
Then this happens.
- Comment on Steam Machine 3 months ago:
Moore’s Law is Dead is estimating a $425 cost to produce, sale price between $450 to $600, depending on how hard they want to fuck Microsoft out of gaming.
- Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controllerwww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is targeting Steam Deck and other handhelds because players want more "freedom" nowadays 3 months ago:
Or Decky FrameGen / Optiscaler