I doubt that the Steam Machine outperforms anything made in the last 5-10 years.

It’s all about the price… and the very recent years weren’t exactly kind in relation for price per performance

If only all monopolies were so user-positive.

All monopolies come into being super user-positive: it’s the moment they need to make money that shit hits the fan.

Is: Google Chrome is an overly appreciate, open source, web browser… then they came to shut down ad blocker “we gotta got +80% web browser share, what are you gonna do about it?”

Must be lemmy.ca then:

That’s the one lemmy did suggest: you can see yourself in the previde lemmy itself auto generate vere insidie the post.

I guess pcgamer sneak the clickbait title in the metà data so they can have clickbait whenever their article are shared, but don’t take full responsibility on their own very pages

Valve is “de facto” monopoly, bit the actual monopoly potential is in Microsoft hands. Microsoft is for PC gaming industry what Google is for the web browser one. Sure, there may be other cool web browsers, but it’s Google that (through Android base) decide whic web browser will be delivered with the next billions of Android mobile device: some elderly people on smartphone don’t even know what is a web browser (“oh, you mean when I Google? I don’t know: I just Google”).

All future new PC will be sold with Microsoft Store and Xbox junk ware: Microsoft has been exceptionally shitty for not being the actual monopoly in the PC gaming industry. But that’s a very feeble protection: break Valve business is just a mandatory “security update” away to happen. They can break Steam little by little (such as suggested by Tim Sweeney) or just a big blow by sheer monopolized manipulation (such as Google not allowing adblockers to chrome to feed their advertising business)

They fire the developer who says “2+2=4” and hire the one who says “2+2=5”… then the hired developer is absolutely free to say his/her “5” anytime they want until EA doesn’t roll a new formula. (they is fire&hire again)

The problem is that also… Apex Legends was fully linux/steam deck supported. When developers are insecure about their ability to provide protection against cheater… Linux is usually the first target so they can “show” they are resolute (in truth, insecure indeed) about anti-cheating.

Kernel level anticheat, is the foundation of insecurity by developers. An example of “non-insecure” developer is Valve: all their efforts against cheater are nearly kernellevel-less.

Last week argument in the PR team: “do we middle finger to our possible paying customers or not?”

It was an heated discussion.

Soda Maker at home.

Microsoft: Fuck you, you piece of shit. I’m firing every one of you motherfuckers so I can buy another 30 Ferrari’s.

Nintendo: We are not going to do that.

Lemmy: –

Lemmy: points PocketPair

One year ago, right at the beginning of the petition, PirateSoftware came out misreading the initiative by suggesting the idea the petition was about forcing indie developer to host their server, at their expense, forever and other stupid idea on this line. A fabricated these narrative to act as the typical popular youtubers that say endlessly: “this is st0pid, they are st0pid”. The fabricated narrative confused other popular YouTubers with mixed feelings; and there was very little support. This assured PirateSoftware the first place on the youtube rankings when you search for “stop killing games”, plus had lot of kids brainwashed into thinking " this is st0pid". This kind of criticism never went away completely, the were partially silenced by the very recent roaring as people understood correctly what it was actually about. As SKG keep hitting its milestone the angered roar did lowered, so now you can ear again the “this is st0pid” team

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nier-creator-speaks-out-against-payment-processors-pressuring-japanese-adult-content-platforms/

“It’s a security hole that endangers democracy itself.” NieR creator speaks out against payment processors pressuring Japanese adult content platforms

NieR creator Yoko Taro comments on the series of instances of Japanese adult platforms being pressured by credit card payment processors.

Copy of the claims

clams: False “No Funding” Declaration

evidences:

Multiple media interviews identifying Scott as handling “the standard day-to-day work of running the Stop Killing Games initiative”

Scott described as the primary strategic decision-maker and public spokesperson throughout the campaignConservative Professional Value Assessment:•Intensive Periods: “Many weeks” of 12-14 hours/day during critical campaign phases

Conservative Estimate: 15-20 weeks at high intensity (12-14 hours/day) = 1,260-1,960 hours

Regular Campaign Work: Additional ongoing daily campaign management throughout 12+ month period

Professional Rate: €50-75/hour for campaign management/advocacy services (market rate)•Minimum Estimated Value: €63,000-147,000 in professional contribution

**Additional Considerations: **

This represents only documented intensive periods, not total campaign involvement

Scott has managed strategic decisions, media relations, and operational leadership throughout

Even conservative calculations show contribution exceeding €500 threshold by 125-295 times

It’s not like Devs can afford to say “Hey, you! No, not you, the other one… hire me now!”

What’s the difference between ARM and x86 other than proprietary?

Both ARM and x86 are proprietary, innovation is made differently tho.

Arm holding set new standard for the broader concept of innovation, trying to gather as many companies possible to further innovate in their own way and as many companies possible.

X86 is mostly ruled by Intel and the way Intel manufacture things; AMD is thrown in the mix both both need to be cautions around their business: it’s in their hope no third party interfere with what and how X86 are manufactured.

RiscV is the ultimate goal: a platform not owned by anyone, which anyone is free to innovate for their propose (like Linux’s kernel which power big Super Computers mainframes, desktop pc or table clock: there’s a root capability, then everything extend from there by its purpose.).

How is steam an ARM store? (Genuine question not a disagreement)

It’s not an ARM store in the sense they sell ARM hardware; but the store itself (also) runs on ARM CPU: to have a piece of software (such as Steam, as the steam client you download and install) run on different platform, you need some work to be done: CDProjekt did the job for CyberPunk 2077 (for the Nintendo Switch 2) as Valve did the job for Steam (for the MACs)

What specific brands/companies/developers do you see becoming relevant in this context within the next year?

Intel could come in to play, the reason they are not “seriously” in the RISC business is because the conflict of interest with “their” X86.

Both Nvidia and AMD are already in both ARM and RiscV business.

Any company in the smartphone business can join in: they just need ARM binaries (CPU) and full Vulkan support (GPU)

Will this translate to more budget friendly pc-gaming options?

You can buy a ARM Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (and alike) for about ~15$, add this a MicroSD, a K/M and a screen to attach to hdmi, and you have a fully fledged Linux PC with basic office capabilities.

I am a former pc-gamer. Built my last PC in 2009. Even then it was a budget build (AMD gfx).

A Raspberry Pi 4 B 2GB would cost about ~40€ (there are cheaper chinese variant) would match a 2009 Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB ram and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330. You can power it with a powerbank.

xcancel (fromerly twitter) statement announced here by SKG

Looks more like a DSSL testing (which had dedicated cores/hardware) rather the actual potential. Also, one single title, wake me when there’s a test to match everything SteamDeck can emulate (Switch 1 too)

People “justify” Valve, I don’t think there’s need for that (justify a big corpo, I mean); Valve don’t want to deal with the hardware business side of repairing stuff; yeah, it’s their right to do so: but this also tell us Valve isn’t mature enough as hardware company, and you can’t expect them to mature in this direction if they (also) don’t get serious into providing affordable repair service.

This tells me: Steam Deck 2? Maybe… Steam Deck 3? Unlikely. They will push for an “alternative OS”… and will lose for lack of focus (Microsoft can easily kick them out with the Windows industrial’s weight). As far I can see, they are not committed to hardware, no other OEM will do this for them.

(Look at how Google has been consistent with their ‘Google Phone’ throughout the entire history of Android: they know it’s foolish to rely only on ‘OEM goodwill’ and stop there. Google Pixel devices were better than Windows Mobile and the ‘DualBoot’ Android/Windows… that’s how Google beat Microsoft in the race)

I understand wanting to play an old game, but why would you want to jump through hoops to run it on old hardware?

It’s just a feel that some nostalgic collectors have: they want to handle the real hardware thing to put together with the software. (yes, I know it sounds naughty; no, I won’t take it back)

Good point, added some context to the headline