baronvonj
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I play guitar and video games, enjoy watching USMLR and NHL, and practice sarcasm.
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- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 days ago:
I have a PSVR2 and I don’t consider the capability of VR to be its failure. I have to assume it’s just that much harder and more expensive to develop for VR. Like the FPS genre is hugely successful, and that’s such a natural fit for VR.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 days ago:
Right, that’s what I’m saying. Make a v2 Deck with upgraded CPU/memory, and put the GPU in the dock so it can do 4k on a big screen. I’m sure “Deck v2 is 4x more powerful than v1 and you can dock it for 4k @ 60fps on the big screen” would be just as good a marketing line as “Machine is 6x more powerful than a Deck”.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 days ago:
At this point, you would think that if they wanted to go with an Occulink/Thunderbolt thing… they’d make it in the Steam Machine, the thing that doesn’t move around as much.
I hadn’t heard of OCuLink before, apparently it’s an external PCIe connector! Eh, that would seem like a waste of engineering team to build that into a stationary desktop PC. They can just build the PC case to whatever size is needed to house the GPU and related cooling, which they did. This is the second desktop PC they’ve released, no? They had one like 10 years ago that was a commercial failure? My impression as a console gamer is that the Deck is very successful and popular, but it’s under-powered for playing on a big screen.
They… the Valve video says the Steam Machine is 6 times as powerful as a Steam Deck.
Right, my point was just bumping the chipset/CPU/memory would give a nice marketing tagline like that without designing a whole new desktop PC. Obviously, you can’t put a giant modern CPU and heat sinks and fans in a handheld. So spend that engineering R&D money on giving the dock a GPU so now the Deck performs as well as the Machine would have, and you have it using a successful branding rather than reviving a brand that already failed once.
It seems like more news about the Deck 2 or whatever is coming,
Hope so.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 days ago:
I mean like a v2 Steam Deck and Dock. Give the Deck a bump in CPU/RAM/storage specs and new external ports to facilitate having the GPU in the dock. It could technically even be an externalized PCIe connector instead of Thunderbolt/USB. In handheld mode you get the iCPU limited to 1080, but dock it on the big screen and now you get full 4k @ 60 FPS. Add an HDMI port so you do 1080 on a big screen without a dock.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 days ago:
Hm, guess I missed that part, my bad.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 days ago:
The Frame isn’t playing the games natively on its ARM chip. It’s just streaming audio/visual data from the PC and relaying the controller inputs back to the PC.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 4 days ago:
Agree it has be price competitive with consoles. Though I wonder if making a docked Deck be on equal footing with the Machine would have been a better use of R&D. Maybe simply improving having the dock house an eGPU and bumping the Deck specs.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 4 days ago:
Intriguing. Eager to see the price of the Steam Machine.
- Comment on Baldurs Gate 3 - spoilers 4 days ago:
Shame. He has a great reaction one of your options with a spider in the Guantlet of Shar.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
See my vest! See my vest! It’s authentic gorilla chest!
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
Is it gonna pop up obnoxiously every time you start the program?
Your choice, there’s a checkbox to ask every time or not
Is it gonna demand that I create a new profile every time I sign in to Google?
I don’t recall anything like that, though I don’t recall that in Chrome either.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
No, this is to make the desktop browser profiles work more like Chrome.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
The new one is a much better experience. It works like profiles in chrome now. The old one is still there for you to use if you prefer.
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 1 month ago:
What enclosure(s) did you use?
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 1 month ago:
Synology confirmed the change in support tickets, explaining that both H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) transcoding had been deliberately blocked at the kernel driver level. The company cited licensing costs for HEVC, even though AVC is license-free, and argued that most client devices already support native playback.
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 1 month ago:
This is some bullshit. I have an old DS418+ I’ve been thinking to upgrade from. But with this change I won’t be getting another Synology.
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- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
Microsoft was already an established player in the smartphone market when the iPhone came out. It was Apple who came into the market and ate the lunches of MS and Blackberry.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 2 months ago:
Only 2 states have proportional EC votes (Maine and Nebraska). So we’d have to get Democratic candidates winning the statewide vote.
A lot of the people moving to red states from blue are actually conservatives who want to live somewhere with Republican governments. In 2018 Beto won with native Texans but Republican-voting transplants tipped it for Cruz. I think we already have the overall population demographics to flip, if we could just get enough people to actually come out and vote.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 2 months ago:
Texas will very likely gain a blue voting electoral college vote.
eh? Not sure I’m understanding you. EC votes in Texas are winner-takes-all.
- Comment on If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web? 2 months ago:
who needs the web?
Anybody who cares enough to confirm whatever stupid bullshit the AI probabilistically regurgitated without actual understanding.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Are they going after every 18+ game now?
No. They’re going after all porn.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 months ago:
Close. Conservatism is collapsing the United States of America into irrelevance.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 2 months ago:
Hi it’s still broken on my machine.
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 3 months ago:
See, the data is right there to raise the rates on the data centers causing the rise in demand and not the households.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 3 months ago:
AAAAAAAAaaaaaahhhhhh
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 3 months ago:
There’s personal time for sleep in the grave.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 3 months ago:
That explains it, you can’t code with both your arms broken.
- Comment on How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? 3 months ago:
The Shadow
