No half-life bundle mentioned (yet) :'(
Steam Machine launches today
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This is why Apple locks in supplier prices years in advance.
Apple is also an absolutely enormous company. Even if Valve wanted to lock in prices, they're simply too small for RAM manufacturers to notice on their radar, unfortunately.
Apple has been doing this since before they were an enormous company. When the iPod Nano was in the works, they bought like 3 years supply outright, to block their competitors.
Pre-iPhone and during the mechanical-disk iPod era, they were a very small and vulnerable entity.
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#974I think this put this all in perspective for me. If Microsoft came out with this exact hardware (with Windows but still open and you could load SteamOS on it), at this price point, people mock Microsoft to death about how this product is a joke.
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#975It is interesting to know how it compares in terms of performance to 500$ Mac Mini with Crossover? Of course Crossover support is worse than Proton, so it will not be viable alternative in real gaming scenarios. But Proton is made by Crossover team. And Apple hardware is 2x cheaper.
Too bad there's no Proton for Mac. Ironically the Windows Steam itself is the hardest thing to run in plain Wine on Mac. There are lots of games that work fine in Wine by themselves, but just getting Steam to launch them is a mess.
The fact that my Mac can run any games at all is just a happy accident. That's not what I got it for.
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#976Earlier quoted context omitted.
and it makes Steam Deck the best console ever made. i picked up Darksiders 3 a few weeks ago to play on my deck. at some point i realized i was pretty underleveled but i didn’t wanna grind. so, opened chatgpt in desktop mode and uploaded my save, asked it to write me a script to set my souls/xp/money to whatever number. it analyzed the save and spat out a bash/python script. after a chmod +x it worked flawlessly. don…
Out of curiosity, why didn't you just ask chatgpt to modify the save file directly?
I build tools for a living, I guess it didn’t cross my mind to not build a tool
i’m a big time leverage enjoyer
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#977Earlier quoted context omitted.
and it makes Steam Deck the best console ever made. i picked up Darksiders 3 a few weeks ago to play on my deck. at some point i realized i was pretty underleveled but i didn’t wanna grind. so, opened chatgpt in desktop mode and uploaded my save, asked it to write me a script to set my souls/xp/money to whatever number. it analyzed the save and spat out a bash/python script. after a chmod +x it worked flawlessly. don…
That’s a depressing tale
why’s that?
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#978My steam deck is underpowered as a living room gaming PC. Wish it was cheaper but would look forward to a “just works” experience including sleep/instant game resume. Add my thousands of already owned Steam games and it makes me excited for a great couch gaming experience. It’s the reason I don’t get a PS5/Switch cause I don’t wanna rebuy all the games and they are not on sale as much.
If you already have a powerful desktop PC in your house, streaming via Sunshine/Moonlight is pretty much perfect these days.
What do you stream it to? I tried the Google Streamer 4K and it was terrible. I couldn't work out if it was latency on the Streaming side or PS4 Controller via Bluetooth latency (or both). It took forever to set up and frankly it just wasn't that good.
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#979I want to buy one just to raise the signal that Linux support is important. When these machines were announced I switched to Fedora as a daily driver on my high end gaming rig. It’s been awesome. I still have to go back to Windows for music production unfortunately. I may switch to Mac for that so I can completely abandon Windows. I run an optical HDMI cable from my office to my TV and get to play games and use Linux…
It’s always fantastic to read a success story of migrating to Linux gaming from Windows. As Windows gets worse and worse there will be more people joining us. Even without buying you can send Linux gaming signals by playing on Linux and participating in the hardware survey.
I just did this at home, and my 9 year old, without my bias or prompting, was pointing out that sea of thieves and MSFS are both microsoft games but run better on Linux
I can't believe what a non-event it was switching the kids over
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#980An insightful video by Gamers Nexus:
Excellent Repairability: Steam Machine Tear-Down and Accessing RAM and SSD