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  • Beyond Steam Machine: Why Valve's New ARM Support Shouldn't Be Overlooked

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  • I considered Bazzite with Steam Game Mode on a recently purchased mini PC I'm using as a HTPC to replace Android TV. In addition to not working well with a remote, the data Valve collects via Steam is a concern. Not sure I’d consider a proprietary, closed-source front-end as the main UI on a phone to be much of an improvement over Android, though I’m sure Valve’s other related efforts to get Linux working well on a phone that get open sourced would be good.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • He’s still the same sociopath as always, except now with a savior complex. Giving away all his money, is he? His foundation has been around 25 years and he still has $100b+ net worth. A single individual shouldn’t have that much power, and the fact that he still voluntarily wields it while virtue signaling affirms every negative opinion of him. Even if he were the benevolent billionaire his PR campaign would have us believe he is, such a net worth should be reserved for governments where it’s spread across multiple agencies that have checks and balances and are accountable to voters. I don’t trust any individual with that much power, though I’d trust any random person off the street over anyone ruthless enough to become a billionaire.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • Yeah, that’s a good one, and I also enjoyed Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. Stories like Jobs getting a bonus when Wozniak was able to design a board with fewer chips and then not mentioning the extra money to Woz are perfect examples of how sociopaths like Jobs and Gates have operate. It’s sad that ruthless charlatans like them who exploit the true geniuses and innovators are allowed to accrue so much money and power in our society.

  • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - The Roadmap

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  • Exactly, the way Snap is managed is very much out of a big tech playbook, and it won’t be surprising if they’re acquired by big tech. The whole point of Linux for most of us is avoiding big tech bullshit.

  • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - The Roadmap

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  • We also continue investing in the snap ecosystem

  • Steam Deck LCD 256GB model on sale until December 1st!

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  • I picked up a 64Gi LCD model a while back when it was on sale and then added my own 1TB SSD. 256Gi is enough that you hate to remove it and not use it, but also isn’t quite enough space to be practical.

  • It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's...

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  • I worked in heavy JavaScript codebases back in the IE days and wasn’t too crazy about it. Then JIT compilers like v8 came along and made it run a lot faster and TypeScript also made it more usable for larger codebases. I now consider TypeScript among my favorite languages. I’ve also written a lot of Go lately, and while I appreciate its speed and smaller memory footprint, the missing language features kind of grate on me and I don’t mind taking a bit of a performance hit for the (IMO) superior ergonomics of TypeScript, especially for workloads where I/O is more of the bottleneck than compute.

  • Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais talks more about anti-cheat support for Linux/SteamOS on FPS Podcast #83

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  • I already don’t trust games and appreciate being able to run them in Lutris as a Flatpak where at least they can be run somewhat sandboxed, in addition to revoking their network privileges so they can’t phone home and spy on me. If a game essentially wants to run a rootkit, hard pass.

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • That helps, but switching to Linux often is much broader in scope than just the OS. People have time and money invested in software that doesn’t work in Linux. For example, it’s not trivial to switch from Photoshop to Gimp or Krita. In my case, I detest Windows and have many years of experience with Linux, but still begrudgingly dual boot to use Cubase because I haven’t gotten around to learning something that does work on Linux like Reaper. I also have expensive mocap software that only works on Windows, in addition to using MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine that still does not support Linux. I’ll probably get around to getting completely off Windows at some point, but even for me who is a die-hard Linux enthusiast, I have to prioritize my limited free time, so I can see where someone who isn’t would be like meh, I’ll just use Windows for now and not bother dual booting.

    I also haven’t been successful getting my spouse to switch to Linux, who has only ever used Macs and thinks everything else is overly complicated. My father uses an iPad and a Windows machine for specialized software that won’t work on Linux and has zero interest in dual booting. My kid, on the other hand, has only ever used Linux and has no desire to use anything else.

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • Why are you using that shitty kitchen sink that came with the house? You can get a much better sink and install it yourself. Also, the audio system that came with your car sucks. Just install a new aftermarket one, it’s not that hard bro.

  • Steam Machine – Powerful Enough?

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  • Exactly. $500: worth it. $800: now you’re in an awkward middle ground. You can pay half of that for a mini PC with a 780M that has double the GPU power of a Steam Deck or pay a bit more to get a decent machine that can really do 4K on high or ultra.

  • I’ve already been using a “Steam Machine” for months, and I think it’s great

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  • This article is quite correct. I ended up liking the idea so well that I just got an off brand mini PC with a Ryzen 7 8745HS for $380. The Steam Machine is likely to be like $800 and have a GPU that is 2-3x faster, but possibly a weaker CPU with 6 instead of 8 Zen 4 cores.

    Either way, I couldn’t see paying double for couch gaming with half-assed 4k when 1080p upscaled looks fine to my eyes from the couch and a little more money than the Steam Machine would buy a 5080 to replace my aging 3070 and do real 4k / VR on ultra with raytracing that looks great up-close. Unless Valve comes in at like $500 for the Steam Machine, it’ll be sitting in this awkward middle ground where it’s fairly pricey, yet underpowered.

  • Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car?

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  • Nothing; I’m currently driving cars even older than that. It’s just that as time goes on, it’s going to be harder and harder to find.

  • Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car?

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  • So, the options I see here are:

    • Buying an older vehicle
    • Disconnecting the modem and dealing with the car potentially refusing to work after a period of time or potentially uploading locally saved data when taken for service
    • Spending a lot of time and money to convert an old ICE car to an EV and dealing with a janky EV that probably has a limited range under 100 miles

    None of these are great options.

  • When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?

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  • I have no problem with people who contribute a lot of value to society being proportionally rewarded. However, having a net worth in the billions is just plain ludicrous, especially since the billionaires aren’t the ones creating all the value, they’re just controlling it. For example, did Gabe invent everything that makes Valve as successful as it is, or was most of it designed and developed by engineers who are paid a fraction of what he is paid? Even if most of Valve’s IP started with Gabe and other engineers were doing the grunt work to “make it so”, that still shouldn’t mean that society allows this one man to control billions worth of our societal resources.

  • Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled

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  • I can at least confirm Jellyfin on a tablet works well for toddlers when they have their own Jellyfin account that is locked down without a password while other accounts have a password.

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    Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?

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  • I’ve been in tech a long time and don't allow WAN ingress into my network at all because I don’t have time to properly harden my self-hosted services. For absolute beginners, I wouldn’t recommend making anything public until they’re more experienced. Just running Jellyfin for you and your family on an old laptop is a perfect starter project.

  • Binary

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  • Reminds me of this:

  • Binary

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  • Endianness matters quite a lot in this situation

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