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1mo ago

DF Direct Weekly #240: Steam Machine - Pricing, Specs, VRAM, ARM Ambitions + More
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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago
It's the 240th episode of DF Direct Weekly. I don't think they have to explain the format at this point any longer.

1mo ago

After Its Disastrous Launch, Cities: Skylines 2 Changes Developers

I didn’t know games could choose to be made by new developers

No, game's aren't alive and cannot choose anything. The higher-ups at publisher and IP owner Paradox Interactive can, however.

Usually these things happen at Microsoft when they shut down studios, like what happened with Essemble Studios (Age of Empires, Halo Wars) and Double Helix Games (Killer Instinct).

1mo ago

NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Afaik, their drivers support GBM today so it’s kind of outdated.

Well, of course. I literally said this was a fight over years, so of course in the past. You wanted to one example of why the hate and I gave you one example of why the hate.

1mo ago

NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Can you give an example?

Trying to push three different technologies years after AMD, Intel, Mesa, … agreed on GBM.

1mo ago

NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

In case you aren’t aware, Nvidia was the main driving force behind getting explicit sync support into Wayland, which is a feature that greatly improves performance for modern graphics APIs.

In case you're not aware but it took years of fighting NVidia for them to finally conform to standards and conventions agreed by everyone when NVidia didn't care to participate.

1mo ago

NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

The issues may be totally valid but yeah, Nvidia can be expected to have patches ready.

Looks similar to the Google ffmpeg situation where Google AI file bug reports, bury the developers, and don't send any patches at all.

1mo ago

NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Patches welcome

1mo ago

[Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame?

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I think that there is a somewhat decent chance that there will be an ARM Steam Deck Mini at some point. The Steam Client will probably be released for ARM distributions. I think for the foreseeable future there will be a considerable overlap of topics between thee devices.

I think should there be a flood of posts regarding hardware tinkering of the other devices (people sharing faceplate STLs for Machine or addons for the Frame's expansion port), they could be directed to dedicated communities but for now IMO it's fine to be inclusive.

1mo ago

Me when Valve releases a phone

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Most sales happen on Steam

I literally already wrote that.

except those few rare examples.

Those "rare examples" combine to a massive revenue. In case of EGS and Fortnite, it's very clear that EGS is installed and actively used on a giant number of PCs, so the installed base is there. It's not a Steam monopoly if the user base signed up to and uses EGS for Fortnine and such.

1mo ago

Me when Valve releases a phone

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

And yes, they are a monopoly in gaming.

The biggest PC games aren't on Steam. Minecraft isn't, Fortnite isn't, Roblox isn't. Because of Fortnite alone, the installed base of EGS is massive, the people just choose to buy their non-Epic games somewhere else.

1mo ago

Google will let ‘experienced users’ keep sideloading Android apps, even from unverified developers.

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

In one of the interviews they said that Frame is only the first of several ARM devices in development. My guess is that some sort of Steam Deck Mini is likely to launch next but once the ARM Steam client is out, tinkerer at Valve also have more options.

1mo ago

Me when Valve releases a phone

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

they are a PC gaming company, period.

And a hypothetical Steam Phone would be an ARM PC, dockable for a full PC experience but mobil use could be similar to XPeria Play. It's not a huge leap from Steam Deck formfactor-wise.

Not even speculation, just shitposting.

Valve confirmed that there are more ARM devices in the making. The type of device is speculation.

SteamDeck doesn’t run Android, it runs full Linux.

SteamOS on Frame is compatible with Android apps because it ships Waydroid. When Valve contributions to Waydroid surfaced months ago, I already speculated that it's probably a porting aid for Quest games to Deckard but as soon as the tech is there (which it is now), you can bet there is someone at Valve flashing SteamOS onto a Pixel phone or so, just tinker with it.

1mo ago

Nintendo Had No "Intention To Hinder Or Invalidate" Third-Party Docks For Switch 2 | Nintendo Life

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

So not “on purpose”

Inventing and implementing non-standard protocol messages to initiate the display is 100% on purpose. It would be easier to just source an off the shelf board and merely design casing around it.

1mo ago

How to Set-Up a Remote Desktop experience on Wayland with wlroots, pipewire, remote file access and everything encrypted with SSH; No root required

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Seems excessive when you can just as well use RustDesk.

1mo ago

Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

MacOS is “Unix” in paid certification dollars only.

macOS, the Darwin layer specifically, is totally a BSD. Even with the Mach bits in the kernel because Mach itself is derived from BSD.

1mo ago

Steamed

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Early Valve was totally pro Windows tech. Back when HL1 launched, it was the first idTech-derived game with a Direct3D renderer out of the box (yes, Doom95 existed but that wasn't the default, DOS was). OpenGL was still a massive force on Windows and yet Valve decided that what their fork of GLQuake needed was a Direct3D renderer.

Valve's stance only changed after Microsoft's attempt to force Windows Store on everyone and Valve's subsequent "Faster zombies" experiment (because DirectX was stagnant as well).

1mo ago

Google will let ‘experienced users’ keep sideloading Android apps, even from unverified developers.

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Luckily early next year Valve releases a version of SteamOS that runs on a phone processor. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Steam Frame with Qualcomm SoC is just a first step for a phone several years down the road, kinda like a non-crap resurrection of the XPeria Play.

1mo ago

Google will let ‘experienced users’ keep sideloading Android apps, even from unverified developers.

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Why TF would Google start caring about what users want now, especially since this issue is way less visible to most people?

EU Digital Markets Act. Google is already on the list. The watchdog is watching Google.

1mo ago

Ehemaliger Kanzler in Epstein-Dokumenten aufgetaucht

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Weil Trump dadurch erpressbar ist.

Muschi-Grapscher Trump hat keine Scham und prahlt mit sexuellen Übergriffen.

1mo ago

Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC

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woelkchen @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I’ve seen a lot of folks waiting for this to make the switch, it’s silly but having a familiar name attached to it gives them a sense of comfort, and SteamOS is solid for what it is.

And should they be not native English speakers, they'll wonder why the desktop is only in English, why they can't even check the spelling of their native language. Or why playback of WebM videos glitches.

I really like my Steam Deck and actually use it as desktop PC from time to time but you can tell desktop mode is an afterthought. Traditional Linux distributions are actually a better choice for regular users. Valve luckily open sources and upstreams everything of SteamOS other than the actual Steam client, so it's not like SteamOS has some special sauce nobody else gets.