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- Comment on Home server 3 days ago:
The reason I bring that up, is I have a little knowledge in acoustics and just wondered if your pc was putting out more lower frequency noise than that wood is realistically able to absorb. So, not personally interested, as all projects like this are case by case (ha, no pun intended), and moreso just if you wanted to fiddle with it more, like adding a piece of slate or sheet of rubber to the exterior or something.
I’m CURIOUS what it sounds like, but I doubt a phone recording or speaker is gonna be worth much to satisfy my dirty nerdy needs.
- Comment on Home server 3 days ago:
And it isn’t thermally throttling? If not, that’s awesome. Have you ever taken a sound meter with a spectrum analyzer and seen if there’s any frequencies you can try to kill?
- Comment on "We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor 5 days ago:
I have been on steam from the beginning (2003). I’m still an older adopter compared to a lot of my friends from that time. I’m well aware of the entire story of the nuanced relationship valve has with its playerbase, as well as its influence on gaming, commerce, and society as a whole.
A LOT of people hated steam, and still do. And are very entitled to their opinions.
A lot of people also suckle the tit of grandfather gaben. And they are also entitled to their opinions.
I definitely fall somewhere in the middle. But I still hold the opinion that it only took a few years at most for steam to be accepted and its offerings to be seen as positive, with an asterisk - exactly how a lot of us older folk still feel about it. And it’s that positivity that I refer to: acceptably good enough, as long as certain stances and integrities were/are held, it would/will continue to be the cautiously chosen platform.
But my point primarily refers to that, by the time epic store started, all they had to do was understand what valve was doing and why, and not stray from that. Yet, so many years have passed, and shockingly little progress has been made.
Whereas valve, as slow as they are, are still light-years faster and actually innovate.
Epic just has their widdle thumbs up their widdle bum and complain that gamers don’t like them. When in reality, it’s just that their storefront sucks ass, always has, and for some bizarre reason STILL sucks. I give them all the chance in the world, yet it’s like… Zero effort on their part. So it’s less about “steam used to be hated” (duh), and more about “holy fuck epic just put a MODICUM OF EFFORT in to have it not suck just as bad as it did on day one”
- Comment on "We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor 5 days ago:
The whatnow steam logo???
Most people hated steam at first, for sure. But that didn’t really last that long. Maybe a couple years, definitely not ten.
- Comment on "We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor 6 days ago:
What it sounds like is a liability…
- Comment on "We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor 6 days ago:
Dude. Epic store isn’t even new anymore. Why the hell does it still suck ass and is basically the same? It took steam like, MAAAYYYYBE three or four years to be a really good storefront, and they had to pioneer it. What even is Epic’s fucking problem?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Not sarcastic, not sardonic. Just emphasis I think.
As for the votes, I don’t know what to tell you. But I’m a bit lost, now, too.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
What part is confusing?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Professionalism = prioritizing getting the job done.
These people are incredibly unprofessional.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s like homophobia, but whimsyfunphobia
- Comment on [Frame] Landed on the waitlist, two friends as well (Europe) 4 weeks ago:
Depends on how they’re deciding ordering. It could be that earlier waitlist emails mean higher on the list. But it could also be a different system.
It could also be when you put in to the raffle, you’re in line. Then on raffle close time, they start at the beginning of the line and rng you a number between 1 and the number of people in line, setting your order, and if you get a number within however many units they have, you win a reservation. With the waves of emails just being them going through chunks of people, eliminating undesirables and cheaters and bots and stuff.
Like the first 10 people who put in initially could all get the highest (worst) numbered slots in the order. And if you haven’t gotten an email at all yet, you could still rng slot #1, assuming it’s available.
It could also just be a massive shuffle at all once and them just vetting the accounts.
I’m really curious to how they’re actually doing it. It could absolutely be more robust, and it’s exciting to imagine them really getting carried away with the method. Like total rng ordering with tie breaking or something silly. Or like a recursive iterative sort for no reason. These raffles ran by scientists can get crazy nerdy quickly. Maybe they’ll talk about it and have done something like use hl2 to order stuff somehow.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, so what are your options you’re looking at
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 5 weeks ago:
Ah. I tried.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 5 weeks ago:
Okay, but what are your other options?
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 5 weeks ago:
1tb isn’t all that much these days. Especially considering one of the big selling points of the Frame is “access to the biggest existing library and ecosystem”.
1tb would have been a lot in, say, 2009. But, now, in 2026, there are multiple games that won’t even fit on 256gb even if you got the whole 256gb and there wasn’t os or anything.
And considering the thing is basically a pc at this point, there’s a TON more than just vr or flat screen gaming that you’re gonna be able to do on it. And, sure, it has a microsd slot (but no headphone jack, fuck you apple!), but I don’t want to rely on that and would much rather have that as an option down the line, years from now, when things get even bigger.
- Comment on Valve Says the Steam Machine Was Originally Supposed to Cost About $750 3 months ago:
Yeah we can only hope it’s going to be better, each type has their pros and cons, but Valve is also known to innovate, so… Cross your fingers I guess
- Comment on Valve Says the Steam Machine Was Originally Supposed to Cost About $750 3 months ago:
We wouldn’t want them to run out of money… Or life, would we?
- Comment on Valve Says the Steam Machine Was Originally Supposed to Cost About $750 3 months ago:
Apparently the thumbsticks were actually shite? Mine never went out, but I’ve heard from other people.
I think what they meant was the actual tracking of the headset and controllers, since the index used base stations PLUS accelerometers, giving them VERY precise location and movement. Whereas the frame controllers seem to be only inside-out optical, maybe with accelerometers?
We will have to wait and see. With them being better or worse than the index, we’ll have to wait and see. I’m still excited.
- Comment on Valve Says the Steam Machine Was Originally Supposed to Cost About $750 3 months ago:
The entire index kit was 1000 before all the bullshit… iirc, you could buy just the headset for like 650, because the base stations were like 100 each and the controllers were separate too. My memory is a little fuzzy on that… But let’s say 1000 for all of it. Putting the frame, with all extras at like… 800 target price point before all the fascism scarcities, and considering the about price-doubling of ram, would put it at right about the same price as the steam machine? Maybe if they were targeting 600, it might be like 1000 now?
- Comment on Valve is so behind on Steam Controller orders that some won’t ship until 2027 3 months ago:
:(
- Comment on "Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in 5 months ago:
😖
- Comment on "Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in 5 months ago:
Yeah same. Just checked again, nowhere near as many listings. Maybe it was all one person and they got banned
- Comment on "Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in 5 months ago:
When I just search exactly just steam controller, then filter price to over 100 usd, there’s several hundred results, some of which are the original one, but the vast majority are not.
Try ebay.com, rather than .de? A lot of the listings I saw were from Australia.
- Comment on "Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in 5 months ago:
Search Steam controller on ebay. Set minimum price for msrp.
There are hundreds.
I hope valve finds them and cancels their orders and bans everything about them.
Scalpers are scum.
- Comment on [Deck] Make it make sense 7 months ago:
This feels like a joke, but…
All three pictures in the right column go higher by going down the page/list. It’s the exact same. Numerically higher and down on the page.
- Comment on Discord concede they mucked up their age verification system rollout, delays it, will still make some of you do it 7 months ago:
Discord has bad judgement and are bad people.
Like Trumpers, they only express regret when punished, then turn around and IMMEDIATELY triple-down.
Discord is 100% AI reading everything you do through their app, profiling you and collecting data, and they want MORE.
Bad bad bad bad bad
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 9 months ago:
:<
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 9 months ago:
No, uh, unfortunately for me, my healthcare was politicized and made illegal and now it’s bankrupting me
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 9 months ago:
Some finance stuff fell through recently for me and I will no longer be getting any of the steam hardware when it comes out. Maybe next year.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 11 months ago:
I have a vive and an index, and even just the difference between those two is monumental