It’s funny, the Steam Machine has a weird identity problem.

We talk about it like it’s a PC, and what a detriment it is to not be able to upgrade the GPU, like why else do you have a PC. But you can’t upgrade console GPU’s either. And it’s still a plug-in-and-play box, no building required.

We also talk about it like it’s a console, and what a detriment it is that a console costs over a thousand dollars and is digital-only. But the next generation consoles are almost certainly going to be as expensive if not more, with no disc drive either.

The SM is a glass half full and a glass half empty. It’s the best of both consoles and PC’s, or the worst of both worlds.

y-yes it is? you linking to another thread does not change what this thread is about??? man you gotta touch grass, for your own mental health.

sir, this is a Wendy’s Sony thread.

I knew this phenomenon by the name Eternal September, though we might call them tourists or larpers today.

That said, a gently influx of new users is important for any hobby community to survive and thrive, and noobs are always slow to pick up on the conventions and norms of the group. It’s only a real problem when the group is unwelcoming to any number of noobs, or when the noobs flood in with such numbers as to overwhelm the existing group.

Sony is deleting 551 movies people bought on PlayStation, including Terminator and Rambo

Yeah I hate that argument too, because it’s true.

My phone doesn’t have any custom ROM support yet, so I guess I’m screwed? I love F-Droid, but this missive amounts to just ragebait for people who don’t have Pixel devices.

While I am nostalgic for those days, they were also marred by the ilk of DRM like SecuROM. We discovered my disc drive was literally scratching our discs - the longer we played them, the more they deteriorated until the drive could no longer detect the disc. We purchased a new drive and still had to buy some of our games a second time. Paying twice for the same object was so abhorrent to me as a kid, that if I ever somehow lost access to a digital piece of media I had purchased, I’d just go sailing instead.

With a username like that I’m surprised you didn’t mention X-Wing vs TIE Fighter lol

Glad to hear this is still a thing. Like a total unc I keep a txt file of every game I own in the event I need to “buy it again” later.

Still in court IIRC

“preemptively mad” got a chuckle out of me, yeah it’s premature to say that we should get big angy at Steam.

The word we should be looking for is “Critical.” Valve is a huge company, they are not saints, and we should treat them with skepticism as a matter of course. But that doesn’t mean they don’t do positive, thankless work for consumers too (in the form of Proton, Linux support, etc).

Ross is my hero. I’d be nervous as hell having to explain my cause to a parliamentary hearing like that. But it’s also the culmination of all his efforts, so this is a huge milestone for him and consumers everywhere.

Well you said it best, “it costs more than money.”

I’ve never heard of the site until now. But indeed, there is no such “Register new account” page, it all goes to the stupid “Sign in with the Big 3” modal. What a fucking joke.

It doesn’t help that I learned this site operates on a “gem” economy, and I just do not fucking understand why commercial manga sites do this. Steam charges you cash for games, Amazon and Netflix charge cash for movies and series, even the Google Play Store just uses USD (or whatever local currency). Why do manga sites operate like a fucking pachinko parlor?

Wait what, they don’t run their own accounts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw

Great relevant Ahoy video!

Windows Explorer is set up to ALWAYS show full file extensions, that’s like a basic safety measure that really should be on by default but isn’t

Drives me MAD man. Absolutely MAD.

This is the most amazing post I’ve ever seen.

Yeah, I’ve got something to add. The ruling class will use LLMs as a tool to lay off tens of thousands of workers to consolidate more power and wealth at the top.

LLMs also advance no profession at all while it can still hallucinate and be manipulated by it’s owners, producing more junk that requires a skilled worker to fix. Even my coworkers have said “if I have to fix everything it gives me, why didn’t I just do it myself?”

LLMs also have dire consequences outside the context of labor. Because of how easy they are to manipulate, they can be used to manufacture consent and warp public consciousness around their owners’ ideals.

LLMs are also a massive financial bubble, ready to pop and send us into a recession. Nvidia is shoveling money into companies so they can shovel it back into Nvidia.

Would you like me to continue on about the climate?

Ever work in an enterprise environment? Sometimes a single talented developer cannot overcome the calcification of hundreds of people over several decades who care more about the optics of work than actual work. Documentation cannot help if its non-existent/20 years old. Documentation cannot make teams that don’t believe in automation, adopt Docker.

Not that I expect Sam Altman to understand what it’s like working in a dumpster fire company, the only job he’s ever held is to pour gasoline.