If they sell the hardware at a loss, then miners or AI companies would 100% have reason to pick them up to plug into their farms since they would be cheaper than other market alternatives.
The last steam machines were 3rd party and not sold at a loss.
We just need the killer app, and valve is holding open the space for someone to make it, for now.
The killer app is already there and it's Steam and it's massive library.
Sure, previously Steam has had Steam Link or having a computer connected to your TV, but frankly it just was never going to be a mainstream option. Too much finickiness, it locks up your PC in the other room, sound and controllers are wonky, etc. Local compute on the hardware under your TV is what console gamers are comfortable with and having a PC that isn't giant and butt-ugly in the living room is a huge hurdle. This hardware, assuming it delivers, is priced right, is a potential console killer.
I guess my question is why pay people to solve a problem two ways?
We have an increasingly functional way to play on two platforms with a single build. I'd love to have both for completeness, but as long as Proton is actively being worked on, I feel like that's good enough and will certainly not hold back gaming on Linux for years to come.
Performance and playability on Linux are effectively solved by Proton; therefore, the effort required to maintain a native Linux build is an unnecessary and inefficient use of development resources, especially for smaller studios. "Holding games back" on Linux feels like a semantic distinction if we're moving to a world where every PC game is playable on Linux.
(this assumption relies on Linux marketshare growing and the remaining games that don't support Proton due to anti-cheat software eventually are pressured to support playing on Linux, even if they don't build a native linux port. I think we're well on our way to that future and it's probably just a matter of time.)
Why are they removing hacking videos? Have they always done that? IT help videos are the cornerstone of why YouTube has any redeeming value these days. I know, I know, I shouldn't use it, but sometimes it is the only place that has the info you need.
Yes, agreed. Definitely value there. I feel like a huge part of university is demonstrating the ability to learn and apply oneself. So many people have success (like myself) in areas that they did not major in.
One thing that I think is actually an argument for big state schools vs private, more expensive lib arts schools is that the big state schools provide you skills in navigating "a System" and that does help when you get into the real world and the damn corporate rat race. Smaller liberal art schools might have more academic competition maybe, but less bureaucratic competition, in many cases. In many cases bureaucratic navigation skills, which are often more valuable in job applicants IRL.
Most impressive are folks that have gathered both the book smarts and the world navigation smarts without the need of higher education institutions and carved their path without going into huge debt or getting carried by rich parents who paid for their degree.
It is wild to me that tuition is SO expensive and quality educational content is SO ubiquitous now. It does take a lot of time, skill, and effort to provide quality educational experiences, but man is it weird that it is simultaneously free and ridiculously overpriced.
I think they are fucking up their blame game. They can say "radical leftists are shutting down the government for political purposes" on .gov websites all they want, but they are owning the shutdown if they continue to try to use it to do political stunts like mass firings as retaliation. They lose the blame game if they keep this up.
FIFA and Madden have been dog shit iterations for years and years and people keep buying them. Plus Battlefield 6 might actually be good and will test plenty of people (like me) who said "never again" long ago. Luckily I probably won't actually be tempted because of EA anti cheat and Linux incompatibility.
It's purely defensive for people to point to the politics of the shooter, I think. I agree you have the motivations pegged here correctly with religion, but Democrats are going to be wary of any shooter being used to justify authoritarian police state shit. Republicans are desperately going to try to paint us as violent, regardless of the facts. Look at what they are trying to say about the MN school shooter and how Kirks shooter was immediately assumed to be left wing before we even knew anything at all.
Not the guy, but I use a domain I bought from cloudflare with a cloudflare tunnel on my network. Not as secure as a VPN like tailscale, but doesn't require setting up a VPN for my friends and family's TVs so they can connect to the server while keeping my actual IP hidden and without needing to do any port forwarding.
I think Linux has also improved immensely. There are so many more things available that weren't an option even a few years ago. Not to say it was bad, but it wasn't something most people could seemlessly do. Now it kinda is.
I'm on Fedora KDE. I think it was drivers. I had the official drivers just fine, but at the time (18-24 months ago?) they were shitty and breaking some games on my GPU so I switched to alternate drivers. I think the drivers are better now, but I haven't switched back and cleaned out my repo list.
This is why I have used flatpak steam. It's a lot easier to manage drivers in it vs the shitshow that is doing it natively with adding custom driver specific repos and whatnot.
Hoping the new PC I just ordered (with an AMD GPU) will be better with the native app.
If they sell the hardware at a loss, then miners or AI companies would 100% have reason to pick them up to plug into their farms since they would be cheaper than other market alternatives.
The last steam machines were 3rd party and not sold at a loss.