It’s nonsense. These people expect you to say “installing apps from outside the first-party app store” every time you refer to sideloading and suggest that somehow the word has a negative connotation and was made up by corpos to keep you in their silos, even though the word predates the concept altogether.
I quit Spotify and started using internet radio. Once a month, instead of giving $20 to a corporate overlord, I donate it to my favorite indy radio station playing fresh songs. Not the same pop BS over and over. Unique music from talented local artists around the world.
It does take a bit more time and experimentation to find some great stations.
Coming to what?
It’s being badly damaged by thousands of lazy AI-written merge requests to the extent that many have stopped accepting them entirely.
It’s also effectively DDOS’ing many open source sites (and the rest of the open internet), straining what limited funding they have.
So I would say a resounding yes.
that wasn’t a confirmation - it was a non-answer.
Same thing, as far as I’m concerned.
And considering how many things “AI” is getting crammed into
What they’re using is clearly generative AI, meant to replace artists. It would be very easy to say they were no longer going to be doing that.
Breaking news: AI is worthless. Stop using it.
By that rationale, no machine is “private”, as they store all of your personal files and documents! 😬
Oh okay. Apologies for derailing the thread.
If it’s a hardware issue with your mobo then a new controller won’t fix it.
I’m extremely fatigued with re-pairing my Xbox and switch pro controllers and trying to overcome my shitty Bluetooth.
This shouldn’t be a problem. Sounds like maybe you have a hardware issue? Have you tried updating the Xbox controller firmware?
There are lots of comparable models on sale for $1k less than that and I don’t see anything to suggest this is the “best” one.
No price
Valve didn’t design the Steam Deck’s chip
No but they did choose it, specifically. There were certainly more powerful options available, ones that the Steam Deck’s imitators used, but they wanted a good balance of efficiency. One that’s yet to be topped.
Valve just bought AMD’s excess stock. That’s why the Steam Machine uses such an unusual and unbalanced CPU/GPU combo.
Source?
I don’t know where you’re getting this nonsense about a “rapid growth model”. Improving hardware compatibility is absolutely not going to lead to rapid growth.
You want them to release SteamOS and ignore all user feedback except for Steam hardware some how?
They already have…? They are under no obligation to offer support.
I would rather them keep investing in the ecosystem then try to rush for growth and have to enshitify to keep it.
Who said anything about enshittification? Why can’t they continue investing in the ecosystem, improve hardware support, and also not become shitty? They’re a multi-billion dollar company.
Largely people pay for games regardless.
Likely many more people would pay for games on Steam if SteamOS went mainstream. They could easily steal market share from the console market. New customer, not existing ones. It’s about expanding their market.
a cost center for producing viable hardware platforms.
The only thing special about their hardware is that they come pre-installed with SteamOS.
If a million more people started running it tommorow on non-steam hardware and didn’t adjust the game buying habits
But they would. That’s the point. I know I have.
as their support costs would rise
There are no support costs.
Not in my experience
No one here is interested in your Reddit community.
No, people pay for games using SteamOS.
Thank you, we should probably have a community for this.