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- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 days ago:
CS2, for one
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 3 days ago:
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.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 3 days ago:
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.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 3 days ago:
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)
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 month ago:
Yes, I’m a technical person, but not a web developer and so this was all new to me until very recently. Good luck!
The way I think of the cloudflare tunnel is very similar to a VPN into your system from outside, but for web application traffic specifically.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 month ago:
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.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 2 months ago:
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.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
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.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
Samsies. Steam Deck showed me it was possible. Made the switch a little after that (waited for Hell Let Loose to turn on EAC for Linux).
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform 4 months ago:
Based on their early mode and communication, I think this was always the plan. VC culture is toxic 🙄
- Comment on AI Slop 1 year ago:
I’m sure Bill Watterson has some thoughts on AI.