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- Comment on From feast to famine: Steam hardware reservations 17 hours ago:
Absolutely silent. My desktop at home makes more noise.
There are a few small quirks to having a immutable distro and only using flatpak. Your home is preserved though, so no issues there.
Most people probably wont even notice.
BUT: if you do find something that is not in flatpak, or doesn’t play nice, it is really easy to use KDE Kontainer and add a distro of your choice in a container. Anything you put here is never touched by SteamOS updates, interacts fully with your own user, and icons can simply be added to the menu to launch without having to touch or manually launch the container again. There are several guides and it is fairly painless.
Again, you may never need to. I just am adding that info here if anyone finds it useful.
- Comment on From feast to famine: Steam hardware reservations 18 hours ago:
Just FYI the Frame and Machine don’t work together very well yet
This is the most concerning thing for me. I only use linux, so I have to imagine that if it isn’t working with my steam machine yet, it absolutely is not going to work with my desktop yet. I would much rather that be sorted out before I put out this much money.
- Comment on From feast to famine: Steam hardware reservations 18 hours ago:
I had a TB NVMe lying around so I bought the 512 Machine. The swap is easy. I would have done the same if I had a 1 TB microSD.
Point is, I would weigh the cost of adding your own storage, at todays prices the 2TB might actually be somewhat resonable.
I also happen to have 32 GB of RAM lyring around and want to swap it out for the 16. But that is not as easy. Shame, I wish valve had designed it better for the ram swap.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Terrifying New Patent | LG-Style ACR for Games & Software 6 days ago:
Do they have a different meaning for “terrifying”? Annoying sure. Stupid, yes.
But terrifying?
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your Deck or Machine? - September 2026 4 weeks ago:
Simpsons hit and run. I am playing ps2 on the deck but wonder if I should try and get the modded version for pc going instead. Any tips? I have the rars the would let you play from a USB on windows…
- Comment on Steam Machine - Waitlist only 3 weeks? 5 weeks ago:
I was willing to wait for anything when the waitlist was announced and ended up getting the 512GB and controller offered really quickly. It also arrived really quickly.
I already swapped out the 512 for 1tb I had lying around, it was easy.
I have 32 GB ram to do next, but that looks challenging so I am putting it off for awhile.
I am using it at my remote office as a work computer by day, and game machine at night. Perfect for traveling and it really is silent.
- Comment on Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU's DSA 1 month ago:
This is interesting. They should have a right to the export and reasons why as mentioned if in the EU.
On the other hand my first thought was: they gave reddit their email?
- Comment on Linux back over 4% in the July 2026 Steam Survey 1 month ago:
Debate? You are just a troll. There is no debate.
- Comment on Should you DeGoogle your smartphone? 2 months ago:
Given how many times google maps has been wrong and OSM right, I think I will stick with OSM.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 2 months ago:
only if the company sets it up that way.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 2 months ago:
I wont use my personal phone for anything work related except authentication. Since it sits in its own little jail, it’s fine.
I work all over the world and remote in. I have no other work related devices or equipment.
I look at it as a key card from the old days when I had to go into a building. I think that is a pretty trivial use case and doesn’t need them to provide a phone, and in fact I absolutely would not want a device owned by anyone else that I carried around. That is FAR worse.
That said, this change sucks as I will now need to get around this bullshit. But that is doable.
- Comment on Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop 3 months ago:
Why? Amd is better of course but I have had zero issues with nvidia.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 3 months ago:
No phone. Now what?
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 3 months ago:
Web cam? I don’t have one on my computer, what now?
- Comment on Google updates AI search to include 'expert advice' from Reddit and other web forums 4 months ago:
This is news? Google and reddit made the deal to do this at least a year ago.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - April 2026 5 months ago:
Mewgenics, that french song game whatever its called 33, and the outbound demo.
Mewgenics makes for a good handheld game all though the angle of the view of the playing field on a small screen is a bit cluttered and hard to tell sometimes what is there. I haven’t tried it on the desktop.
- Comment on Rumor turns true as Spotify hikes Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia 8 months ago:
Live music mostly, both commercially released and fan traded. Smaller bands, out if print records, a ton of open and free music that they don’t bother with, music in dispute over royalties and so on.
Almost every time I have looked they simply don’t have it. Which is fine, I don’t need it.
- Comment on Rumor turns true as Spotify hikes Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia 8 months ago:
Never used Spotify, so nothing changed. They barely have anything I listen to anyways, so I guess that’s why. There is so much music out there…
- Comment on Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck 9 months ago:
He better if it went away.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 9 months ago:
I figured. I also used the wrong term, it is a switch.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 9 months ago:
I have a HDMI splitter, like a 5 input 1 output thing. I have not used it in awhile. Does HDMI pass through the DRM or is the DRM in the splitter?
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 9 months ago:
I hated HMDI when it came out, and I continue to hate it.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 11 months ago:
Yeah but they were microsoft. So they sucked. That’s how it works. Maybe in the hands of someone else it wouldn’t have been Microsoft crap.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 11 months ago:
Windows needed to die a long time ago… so whatever. Same with XBOX and their phone, just a waste of time. Microsoft never made a product worth owning.
But the days of Gates saying to every department “how does this sell more windows” are long gone.
Many years ago a Microsoft team told me that the only thing important was data. The more the better. Windows wasn’t important, products were not important. Harvesting data and creating services was the future and nothing else mattered.
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 11 months ago:
Reddit has an AI? That’s news to me.
- Comment on LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users 1 year ago:
Such a garbage site and always has been. Prior to microsoft owning them they were a shit show. They should never have recovered from this, but people are stupid.
After microsoft bought them, they became nothing more than a data mining operation. Which also should have made people avoid them. But again, people are so damn stupid.
So train AI on these dumbfucks, why not? They are too dumb to walk away.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office 1 year ago:
Yeah, I keep thinking that. They know everyone is thinking that.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office 1 year ago:
So damn stupid. So they laid people off recently right? They say they are not doing this to decrease their workforce, but I have to wonder.
Also, how many of these “teams” will be returning to the office only to have to work with other teams that are not in their office anyways? Seems like that happens more often than not in global organizations. Anyone know how centralized Microsoft work groups are?
The last person I knew who worked at microsoft was back in the old balmer days who got hired to do nothing to kill a open source project. They put a bar in their office and drank themselves to death. Paid well though.
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 1 year ago:
That is really interesting, Thanks!
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 1 year ago:
Yeah I haven’t had that problem at all and I have put some pretty big games on them. I think the latest one I am using is a SanDisk 1TB Extreme microSDXC UHS