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by p1necone 1y ago
I did try using Bazzite but I had weird issues with stuttering/throttling on the RX 7600 which made most games totally unplayable (I confirmed the same hardware worked fine on a windows install). That was a while ago though, it's
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by p1necone 1y ago
Yeah the PS5 definitely went too far in the other direction. Too many curves making it take up even more space than it needs to as well (although that could have been an intentional choice to stop people from putting things on top of it).
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by p1necone 1y ago
I have a SFF pc with an AMD GPU and AMD CPU both with better specs that the new Steam Machine just waiting for them to release a standalone installer for SteamOS :(
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by p1necone 1y ago
Excited for Steam/PC games on ARM to get better as a side effect of the Frame running using a Snapdragon CPU. Running x86 PC games on higher end Android devices already works better than you might expect via gamehub/gamehub lite&#
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by p1necone 1y ago
I agree with you for most things, but a VR headset is definitely something where the pros outweigh the cons vis a vis avoiding wires for me.
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by p1necone 1y ago
Being in the park kinda loses its lustre when you've got a headset strapped to your face - I'd prefer a laptop with a screen that's still visible in sunlight.
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by p1necone 1y ago
idk about that - integrated buttons, battery, screen, size constraints and the R&D work that goes into all of that is probably significant compared to 'box with hardware and usb ports' (oversimplifying to make a point here tho
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by p1necone 1y ago
It's funny - if you look at the most recent steam hardware survey results this new steam machine almost exactly matches the median system - 16gb ram, 8gb vram, 6 physical cores, and the GPU looks like be roughly similar in perf to a 30
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by p1necone 1y ago
If this gets enough adoption for gamedevs to prioritize support when testing games that's likely not going to be a huge problem. 16gb ram + 8gb vram is also similar to what all the current gen consoles have, although all three have the
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by p1necone 1y ago
It does kinda look like a regular SFF PC case rather than a bespoke piece of hardware, but maybe they were going for that.
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by p1necone 1y ago
Can you flash fake SMART data to drives? I suspect that's exactly what Maestro will start doing now (although it's possible it's not worth the effort for the small number of customers who will actually check this stuff).
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by p1necone 1y ago
The science is very clear on microplastics existing and being in our bodies. The science linking that to specific outcomes/harm is almost non existent from what I understand. Edit: to those downvoting - I'm not downplaying anythin
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by p1necone 1y ago
Most 8/16 bit consoles I like the "clean RGB into a much better CRT than most people owned at the time" scanline look. NES has gotta be dirty composite into an average consumer CRT though otherwise it just aint right (and I d
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by p1necone 1y ago
Devastated there's a possible future where my game boy rots.
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by p1necone 1y ago
They stole all the parkour stuff from Titanfall, which was made by the original IW founders when they left and founded Respawn ;) (I use "stole" in a non derogatory way here - 90% of good game design is cribbing together stuff tha
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by p1necone 1y ago
Thanks, I'd heard whispers but hadn't jumped in yet. I will need to check this out. (platinum rating on protondb too woohoo)
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by p1necone 1y ago
The Call of Duty series makes me so sad. I remember when cod 4 came out it felt like a genuinely groundbreaking and innovative thing and I was so pumped to see what IW did next. And then Activision took all of that talent that was genuinely
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by p1necone 1y ago
How is small businesses selling solar panels to people socialism?
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by p1necone 1y ago
I was defending personalization in general, not saying that google is doing a good job of it now (see last paragraph of my first comment).
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by p1necone 1y ago
Anecdotally I find myself appending 'reddit' to search terms very frequently. It's effectively shorthand for "I want to read about peoples direct experience with this thing", and reddit is huge and well crawled by s
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by p1necone 1y ago
Location based personalization is pretty useful - if I search for 'Bob's Discount Linguine' I want the one in my neighborhood. Lots of niche things (like programming) also reuse common english words to mean specific things -
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by p1necone 1y ago
(Anecdotally) I don't think most big corps using commercial software without a license are doing it intentionally/maliciously at an organizational level. Most of the time it's just individual employees downloading supposedly
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by p1necone 1y ago
If you liked Obra Dinn you should try out 'The Roottrees are Dead'. Very similar 'fill in the gaps via investigation' core gameplay loop, but I found it more engaging/less repetitive.
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by p1necone 1y ago
I've never tried Mint, the two distros I've definitely experienced the vast majority of steam games just working out of the box were Fedora (earlier) and OpenSUSE (currently). I'm not lying. Although it's probably also w
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by p1necone 1y ago
Please tell me your more obscure favourites :)
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by p1necone 1y ago
I made the switch more than a year ago and it's been basically problem free. Almost all modern games work flawlessly through proton and I get better compatibility for really old stuff through lutris than I ever did on windows (I used
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by p1necone 1y ago
I almost never write single function unit tests. There's usually some subset of the codebase that's self contained that makes sense to be the "unit" you're testing, but it's almost always a handful of functio
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by p1necone 1y ago
"Our testing needs to be better to handle all this increased velocity" reads to me like a euphemistic way of saying "we've 10x'ed the amount of broken garbage we're producing".
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by p1necone 1y ago
In practice I don't think this really changes anything at least for moderation. It takes a bunch of time and effort to moderate online communities - under the process outlined by the post you linked most communities are going to have a
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by p1necone 1y ago
Oh great another HN thread where everyone breathlessly moralizes meaningless bullshit. I watch them sometimes, they're fun. Often I learn new things about cooking or woodworking or brewing or whatever random hobby I'm interested i

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