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My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

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Re: My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

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Post by weltensturm »

I have a 20m fibre optic cable, these things are great. Thinner than a standard cable. They are unidirectional, but mine has a dedicated copper line for CEC. 4k 120hz is no problem.

I also have a Pulse Eight CEC adapter in the chain, but I had to swap its included HDMI cable for full bandwidth.

Since I've switched to Linux I haven't had a chance to set up the software side for CEC though, does anyone happen to have recommendations?

Re: My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

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Post by chhs »

weltensturm wrote: post #3

I have a 20m fibre optic cable, these things are great. Thinner than a standard cable. They are unidirectional, but mine has a dedicated copper line for CEC. 4k 120hz is no problem. I also have a Pulse Eight CEC adapter in the chain, but I had to swap its included HDMI cable for full bandwidth. Since I've switched to Linux I haven't had a chance to set up the software side for CEC though, does anyone happen to have r…

I bought the same adapter and use it with Bazzite, which has a `toggle-cec-sleep` you can run that just set it up. Now when I press a button on my keyboard, the PC starts up and the TV turns on. It's magical.

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/Baz...

Re: My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

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Post by scotchmi_st »

One of the better tech investments I’ve made is in a 20 metre Thunderbolt cable from Corning. It’s surprisingly useful- if you have a monitor that takes TB input then your computer can be stored in a small closet next to your router/switch, where you can’t hear it. Alternatively if you just need a quick 10Gb Ethernet link between two computers with USB4 or TB3/4 that it would be complicated to have next to each other, you can use it for that as well.

I really hope Corning eventually make a TB5 cable.

Re: My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

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Post by mDyJzDPmBdG »

Speaking of Steam and controllers - is anyone else annoyed by piss poor compatibility of PC games with Steam onscreen keyboard. I can count on one hand games with seamless integration, where it popups after moving to input field. The manual Steam/XBox + "X" shortcut always shows the keyboard, but games like to ignore submitted value. My favorite example is Dark Souls character creation screen, it is the only place in the entire game you can and need to enter text, and it is faster to walk the 50ft and back, than to get it working.
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