I’ll admit something slightly embarrassing.

This has kinda sorta been the case for quite a while now, people have been installing Steam Deck versions of SteamOS on various AMD machines with various levels of success. It was also acknowledged by Valve, with an “at your own risk” policy.

But idiot me thought “AMD platforms” means the CPU needs to be AMD. So just FYI to anyone in the same boat: no, Intel CPUs should work just fine. The only thing they meant is that the GPU has to be AMD. All the other components can kind of be whatever the heck you want. Including CPU, as long as it’s x86-64.

But actually, I understand they now also support Intel GPUs. I think I’ve read that somewhere. So at this point it’s pretty clear that you can use anything expect nvidia.

I am not the least bit surprised.

When they first announced it so soon after the Steam Machine was announced, it couldn’t have been more obvious that it’s unlicensed. There’s just no way they could have secured a license from Valve that fast.

After that though, you might think they had plenty of time to reach out and make a deal. And yes, I did half expect them to do this instead of being complete idiots, but judging by the sheer confidence they showed in the original announcement, being complete idiots is also likely.

I am slightly annoyed at Valve for waiting up until the last possible minute to send that C&D, considering they HAD to know about this product right from the start. But I get it. Giving Valve the maximum benefit of the doubt, they could have decided to wait for dbrand to contact them, and they probably already worked up the terms by which they’d license their IP. But as a sort of power play combined with a test of character, they needed dbrand to be the one to make contact first. And they just waited for that to happen, because dbrand HAD to get a license from them, right? Alas, dbrand failed the test of character. Damn.

is .mov acceptable?

eye roll

upvote

Interesting. I haven’t found it, but I did just spot the pinned comment in under the Gamers Nexus video: “TEAR-DOWN coming up next!” So I guess I’ll just wait for that :)

Has anyone made a Steam Machine teardown video? I wanna see how this thing is built. All I’ve seen is that there’s a bunch of hardware basically clipping through a giant heatsink. Has anyone disassembled it further than that in a video?

I know the RAM is technically upgradeable, has any video shown how to access it?

(I did watch the whole GN video but I wasn’t paying full attention so maybe they showed it and I missed it)

They still might. After the buyers are selected in the raffle, they might have the chance to state a preference before the order is finalized.

“Bad lyrics”? They’re legendary.

hey chatbot make me a comic whose sole purpose is to enduce rage

… what?

Is there anything I’m missing here? There’s no joke or twist or anything. Is it just world building? (Admittedly I haven’t paid too much attention to your previous Addams Family posts so maybe this is just how they always are)

Help out a Deck newbie. I’m on the beta channel, so:

1. Is the new update just a copy of the last update to the beta channel?
2. If not (e.g. there are some bug fixes or tweaks for the proper release), then do I get the update as part of the beta channel? Or should I switch to the stable channel?

No, you’re 100% right. The only reason it’s this way is this: https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor

These literally were the arrow keys on the machine that vim was originally developed on.

No, they meant that literally https://esolangs.org/wiki/I_use_Arch_btw

Oh, I see, you’re essentially saying that the picture should have had the keyboard upside down to complete the joke. Gotcha.

(FWIW I didn’t downvote)

Genuinely can’t tell if you’re missing the joke or you’re just committed to playing the straight man.

I’m actually disappointed this isn’t a real package. https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=btw

Linux newbies shouldn’t use Arch imho

Uhh but it’s clearly not though?