circuitfarmer
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- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 4 days ago:
On the one hand, I don’t give a fuck about anti-cheat, because games using the kernel-level version tend to be giant multiplayer cesspools of little value.
On the other hand, I want Windows to lose the war.
I hope Valve can find the balance between these two extremes.
- Comment on Rockstar fired unionising GTA 6 devs following Discord chat about new company Slack policy, claims report 5 days ago:
Doh, I’m an idiot
- Comment on Rockstar fired unionising GTA 6 devs following Discord chat about new company Slack policy, claims report 5 days ago:
Now if only anyone in the US government actually cared about companies union busting.
- Comment on Trump administration may use federal agencies to fight state-level AI regulation 1 week ago:
*to support the interests of his corporate overlords
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
It was for me as well. Proton has been mostly there for years. I’m about to hit year 4 of gaming only on Linux.
I think the last hold out is kernel-level anti-cheat. Hoping it just goes away and consumers stop supporting it. One can dream.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
I’m not going to dwell on how annoying it is that it took people THIS LONG to get off the Windows train. I’m just happy to see the world changing for the better.
Welcome to civilization, new Linux users!
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 2 weeks ago:
And given the history of BIOS as a concept, I guess that isn’t too surprising.
I wonder how much of that kind of thing stems from the fact that many of the really hardcore PC tinkerers aren’t using ARM (yet).
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 2 weeks ago:
Got it, yeah I misunderstood your comment as meaning there was no translation layer at all.
For me it’s just something to keep an eye on. I think ARM holds a lot of promise as x86 has started to feel a bit stagnant. Things like FEX could minimally be a good way to ensure backwards compatibility if devs start embracing ARM in any major way, but I suspect it is years out, if it happens at all.
But if I get a Frame, it would 100% be for the streaming.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 2 weeks ago:
The answer is that they arent…
But they are: tomshardware.com/…/hands-on-with-valves-new-steam…
You have the choice of streaming to Frame or running games directly on the device. If the latter, they’re utilizing FEX as the ARM translation layer.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 2 weeks ago:
Linux gaming is here. I haven’t run Windows in 3+ years at this point. The world has changed.
I’m more intrigued by how they’re now also running x86 code on ARM at a playable level.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
I enjoy VI, but I know it is divisive.
My comment holds more generally true for anything mouse-centric.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
As someone still using Steam Controller 1 on the daily, I am stoked to see that they have not abandoned the trackpads. Civ from the couch ftw.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 3 weeks ago:
Well that’s a great sign.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 3 weeks ago:
This is true of the Christian God – but also trivially true of any other conceptual deity which may exist. There have been thousands of God-figures discussed by mankind in its history, and if a god exists, none of those discussed may be the real God. (This strikes me as a kind of inverted version of the famous “Pascal’s Wager”)
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
GTA Online alone takes in billions of dollars for this company. Its employees should be reaping the rewards of that success.
Something tells me they aren’t.
A lot of companies (most?), especially in the US, need to return to the social contract.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 3 weeks ago:
This right here. So much space and energy being used to bitch about Steam that could be used for, oh, I dunno… Sony. Microsoft. Nintendo. Giant players that have held tacit monopolies for years and literally engage in anticompetitive behavior on a regular basis.
If I had room for one more conspiracy theory, I could point to a handful of companies that probably would not be above paying people to bitch about Steam…
(points up ^^^)
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
the full power of Windows PC gaming
It’s even better without the Windows.
Something tells me that part of Microsoft’s public focus here is distraction from the fact that they are losing grip on two separate markets.
- Comment on Bet you didn't know that before Excel, people used Lotus 1-2-3 5 weeks ago:
And before Lotus, there was sc (which you can still use today, if you prefer staying in the CLI as much as possible).
- Comment on need this pic without text please 2 months ago:
A fine wine, emphasis on the fine
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 3 months ago:
I don’t disagree about archiving. Though for a local collection, I think the space savings of AV1 are worth it.
Especially for grainy footage, which is extra costly in h265. The noise analysis and synthesis in AV1 is killer, IMHO. But of course… it’s not the same noise.
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 3 months ago:
Not only is everything smaller, but the codec looks better. Compression artifacts when AV1 is really pushing it at lower bitrates are more like… pointillism? They resemble grain instead of the fuzzy squares you can get with 264 or 265, and it is especially better in dark scenes.
- Comment on hehe 👉👈 3 months ago:
Shocking image