That’s not a short, by definition.

Thing is, you also called it “shorting” the battery. Usually a short is an unintended, unsustainable low resistance path.

While your body may technically close the circuit, calling it a short makes it sound like an actual electricution risk. That combined with the unclear “no issue” usage made it pretty confusing, I thought you had no idea what you were talking about until I saw your reply.

What clients ate people using for Matrix? The ones I’ve tried are usable but not user friendly enough for me to be able to move my whole community over.

Some people in my communities are looking at Root, it lets you directly import a discord server template when creating a server. It has a nicer UI than all the matrix apps and stoat, but isn’t as open as those.

The way you worded it makes it sound like it’s very easy to short a battery with your body, not that attempting to short a battery will cause “no issue” because it won’t actually work.

I would guess it’s probably focused on ones that are prosecutable as threats. That would be enough for it to not be protected as free speech.

We’ll have to wait to know for sure though.

Sounds like it comes with a refillable cartridge, but you can also use off the shelf HP cartridges.

And since there’s no DRM, 3rd party cartridges will work too.

I’ve also run into games on steam that specifically failed to identify my language on Linux. I can generally tell what options I need to pick to change a language back to English, but some langauges like Chinese and Korean are difficult to to navigate.

Yeah, it’s definitely more for a specific groups of people, such as those who play old untranslated emulated titles and such.

People are looking at the price of the steam decks and non-pro versions of consoles.

The m.2 SSD is easily accessible, it comes with a 2230 m.2 (same size as the Steam Deck), but has room to install a full size 2280 m.2. It only has room for 1 though, so while you can upgrade to a larger size you can’t add a second. Swapping out the m.2 will require cloning your drive or reinstalling SteamOS to the new drive.

There’s also a high speed microSD slot for even easier space upgrades, and microSDs with games can be swapped directly between the Deck and Machine.

For RAM, it uses laptop DDR5. It is user upgradable, but isn’t as easy to access as the m.2 drive is.

They were supposedly able to take a loss on the original Steam Decks, at least the lower priced 64GB models. There’s also an argument to be made that this device is primarily competing with consoles, where Steam doesn’t have a monopoly. Steam also allows games from other stores to be run on their unlocked device, it’s not their fault that Epic decided not to make an offical linux launcher.

But I’m not a lawyer, and I’m sure Epic will try to start anti-trust investigations over anything they can.

Valve just announced they’re still targeting a release in the first half of 2026, but they don’t know when and it’s uncertain due to component pricing.

There’s a dedicated post about it in this community that went up a couple hours ago.

Debian is generalist, with it’s strongest strength being it’s stability. That said, I’m not sure who I would recommend it to. Zorin or Mint would be better for new linux users, and Debian’s slower updates mean it will fall behind other distros for anyone wanting games. Also the rise of immutable distros means that it’s stability isn’t as much of a selling point as it used to be, if I’m worried about a kid messing up the install an immutable distro would be better than Debian probably.

I have a lot of respect for Debian, but the main people I hear using it these days are more experienced linux users who want to settle down (done distro hopping) and just have a reliable computer for non-gaming stuff.

Android open source project. It’s the base behind every android variation, but it has pretty generic software (although sometimes better than the alternatives companies choose to ship instead).

Usually when you think of something being anti-competitive, it’s because it’s bad for consumers. But you can also be anti-competitive by doing things that are appealing to consumers in the short term (like selling a product at a loss) but help ensure market domination for the longer term.

Valve’s position here is tricky, the steam machine would have a small marketshare compared to consoles, but as a PC it could be considered furthering Valve’s PC game “monopoly”.

I’m pretty sure they’re going to wait to release the controller alongside the Steam Machine.

Unfortunately that would mean that if RAM/etc prices cause a Machine delay, we’ll probably see the controller get delayed as well.

That button combo is supposed to reset UEFI settings, and possibly APU/Power Logic. I’ve heard of valve support recommending it before, and it’s reference on the Steam Deck Arch Wiki page.

No way it would run at an acceptable level based on it’s performance.

They would need incredible performance optimizations or to port it to a different engine.

Add in that the sales of the game have been somewhat weak elsewhere (partially due to performance issues),

The OEM license price is also based on the performance of the PC (specifically the CPU iirc). Low powered devices might get a OEM home license for only $30, but a OEM home license for a gaming PC is going to be more like $80-90. Pro licenses will be more of course.