artyom
@artyom@piefed.social
- Comment on Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a "Pet Incinerator"? 5 hours ago:
May I ask why?
- Comment on Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a "Pet Incinerator"? 5 hours ago:
Just bury your pets like a normal person unless they have Ebola.
- Comment on [Frame][Discussion] Recommended FREE VR apps 6 hours ago:
Well now don’t I look dumb @
- Comment on [Frame][Discussion] Recommended FREE VR apps 20 hours ago:
Still waiting on mine but I bet Aperture Desk Job would be fun. Try it and let me know.
- Comment on Tasks app recommendation with notifications? 1 day ago:
Been using this one for a while.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Hardware Unboxed had the harshest review I found, calling it “impossible to recommend”, and the video was full of similar commentary. Honestly I unsusbscribed from this channel after this review (and based on many other of what I consider to be “bad takes"). But there were many other largely negative reviews that I came across with similar points. Namely the price is too high and the hardware is unimpressive.
DIY does get quite a bit cheaper. Especially if you look at used parts, and account for repairability and longevity. I just had a PSU crap out on me on my desktop. If that were a Steam Machine there would probably be no parts available, as it was ~10 years old. But since it is a standard modular PSU people have been producing for like 40 years, I was able to choose between several dozen models that suited my needs and it just bolted right in.
I don’t particularly want to convince you not to buy one. And if it’s the form factor and low noise you’re after, there’s not really anything comparable available. There are a thousand mini PCs but none of them have the giant fan/heatsink combo that creates the low-noise conditions. And it’s so much better than any other console.
But you asked me to try 😅
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I mean it’s not hard to create a compelling argument for not buying one. Just watch pretty much any of the reviews.
The easiest argument is that you can do better building your own PC and putting SteamOS or Bazzite or Cachy handheld editions on it.
However it will likely be much larger, less efficient, and possibly more noisy. And won’t support HDMI-CEC.
- Comment on This may be the best way to play 2D games* 6 days ago:
Why wouldn’t you just take the headset off? Regardless, the existing cameras work well enough for that.
- Comment on This may be the best way to play 2D games* 6 days ago:
I think at this point its very clear that you’re making up a bunch of nonsense about me because you don’t like what I said.
- Comment on This may be the best way to play 2D games* 6 days ago:
Sure, they could have, and it would have driven up the price on what is already an expensive device, while providing nothing in return. Valve is a gaming company, and this is a gaming headset.
- Comment on This may be the best way to play 2D games* 6 days ago:
You don’t know what you’re talking about. The existing cameras are for tracking the controllers. The aftermarket cameras are for AR content.
- Comment on This may be the best way to play 2D games* 6 days ago:
There is zero application for passthrough in a VR headset. Again, you’re thinking of AR.
It’s only $1k because of the rampocalypse. You may have noticed all hardware prices have skyrocketed. You’re not finding a better deal elsewhere.
- Comment on This may be the best way to play 2D games* 6 days ago:
It’s not an AR device. There’s no point in putting better ones in, other than driving up the cost. If you want better ones, they’re already on sale for you. They plug right in.
- Comment on Microsoft quietly drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops after two years — Surface CVP confirms new devices meet hardware requirements but lack controversial branding 1 week ago:
VR is cool. Meta’s vision for VR was obviously dumb as hell and never going to work.
- Comment on Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - iFixit 1 week ago:
No, just one with many implications.
- Comment on Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - iFixit 1 week ago:
It’s 2x2k, not 4k
- Comment on Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - iFixit 1 week ago:
The most powerful boxes are using a 10 year old Nvidia Tegra chip. Not to mention the rest of them.
- Comment on Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - iFixit 1 week ago:
Streaming to a VR headset involves the headset computing more than just controller tracking.
Yes but not much. Again streaming games from weak hardware is a whole industry. It’s the point of platforms like Luna, GeForce Now, Stadia, etc. Streaming from cheap Android TV boxes and such. Valve even sold their own cheap streaming box, the Steam Link.
- Comment on Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - iFixit 1 week ago:
That makes no sense. It requires more compute to run a whole-ass game along with tracking controllers than it does just tracking controllers.
- Comment on Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - iFixit 1 week ago:
Why would you think this headset uses a Raspberry Pi?
- Comment on Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - iFixit 1 week ago:
How doed that even work? You can stream games from a Raspberry Pi. That’s why there’s an entire industry dedicated to exactly that.
- Comment on Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - iFixit 1 week ago:
That’s fine but it would have been way way cheaper, less noisy, lighter, more comfortable, more efficient, longer battery, etc. and they could have sold it to way more people. And you’re not running much of anything natively on that Qualcomm processor anyway.
- Comment on Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - iFixit 1 week ago:
I maintain that it always should have been a streaming-only headset. Without controllers. Everyone seems to agree the older Index controllers are better.
- Comment on [Frame] Steam Frame reservation 1 week ago:
If a VR headset is taking a “serious mental toll” on you, you should consider getting professional help.
- Comment on The waiting is killing me 1 week ago:
Ooohhh haha same
- Comment on The waiting is killing me 1 week ago:
You’re still waiting on an email!?
- Comment on Desktop Linux is now inevitable. Here's why. 1 week ago:
Steam Deck is primarily a console so I doubt those would register here. But no, I don’t know anyone who has one anyway.
- Comment on Desktop Linux is now inevitable. Here's why. 1 week ago:
Damn, it’s about to pass MacOS! How is it that I know a dozen Mac users and absolutely no one who uses Linux?
- Comment on [Frame] Landed on the waitlist, two friends as well (Europe) 2 weeks ago:
noooooo :(
- Comment on [Frame] Landed on the waitlist, two friends as well (Europe) 2 weeks ago:
Hang in there!