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  • Steam Deck price skyrockets, 1TB model now costs $949

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  • I'm hoping the new Deck prices are due to a small production run, and that the Steam Machine will have economies of scale to bring the price down at least a little.

    It'll be at least $1,000 now for sure, though. I doubt it'll be more than $1,500 because the more powerful base model Framework Desktop is that price. I'm just really hoping Valve doesn't seriously delay shipment or announce price hikes for the many people who won't be able to afford it on launch. Having to wait over a year for a Steam Deck due to their preorder system was painful.

  • How to stop spending money on US llms.

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  • Is 128 GB of ram per unit enough for your organization's use case? You could convince them to buy a Framework Desktop and then install an offline llm to it (ollama with Mistral, perhaps). Then you don't have to rely on American companies or the environmental impact of data centers, and then after the startup cost, it's free from then on.

    Best of all, they can just be normal work computers when the bubble bursts.

    I wish I could just say, "Convince your company not to use AI," but I'm sure your higher-ups aren't taking no for an answer.

  • A Steam Machine update reignited release date fears, but Valve say the new hardware is still shipping this year

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  • I mean, I'll still be doing that too, I'm just more nervous now.

  • A Steam Machine update reignited release date fears, but Valve say the new hardware is still shipping this year

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  • Upvoted because there is a good possibility that this thing crashes and burns. The hybrid idea isn't a bad one, but it is Xbox we're talking about. It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out.

  • A Steam Machine update reignited release date fears, but Valve say the new hardware is still shipping this year

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  • At the same time we're getting news that the new PC-compatible Xbox will cost $1,000 to $1,200 and is astronomically more powerful than both the Steam Machine and Series X, with a release in 2027.

    I gave Valve so much benefit of the doubt and really wanted to support this project, but unless they take the Steam Machine as a loss leader or somehow ships it before June, it's dead in the water next to Project Helix. I knew that eventually the Steam Machine would be unable to keep up with AAA games, but that may happen just months after launch now.

    If you can't compete with Sony, just pick on the little guy, right?

  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works
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    Paper Mario: TTYD (GameCube) - What Am I Doing Wrong?

  • Final Fantasy VII released on GOG

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  • I've been waiting years for this!

    The Tsunamods devs (the minds behind the 7th Heaven mod manager) said on their Discord that they're working on mod support for both the new Steam and GOG releases, but that most mods aren't working out of the box at the moment. I don't mind waiting a little bit longer to finally experience the graphical mods and A New Threat, DRM-free.

  • YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.

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  • I should push back on the idea that naming cultural patterns equals blaming victims, or that only people inside the worst possible historical analogy are allowed to analyze trajectories.

    You can absolutely analyze cultural patterns. I'm just saying "you're a violent culture" wasn't the right choice of words. It's also important to, while analyzing cultural patterns, to consider the role of privilege, and that words and actions are two different things, especially when the critic is looking in from the outside. I'm not talking about you specifically, but I've seen a lot of European/Canadian schadenfreude in left-wing online spaces (like Lemmy) over the situation happening an America. While they aren't wrong that America is brash and needed to be taken down a peg, and there is a place for analyzing the political trajectory, sometimes these people forget the millions of people who aren't gun-blazing, beer drinking, flag-waving patriots who are in danger, and that if they had the bad luck of being born somewhere else, they themselves might be in the exact same situation. The idea that "America tore itself apart" makes less sense the more you think about it, but seems incredibly plausible to an observer. I think the issue at hand is that, yes, it's good to analyze cultural patterns, but America was never a monoculture.

    In both situations, I ask: How does it help in these left-wing spaces to make blanket statements about Americans, when most of the posters in these spaces are the exception to Americanism and not the rule? Who is the "you" in "you're a violent culture"?

    You don’t need to already be in a Holocaust to talk about escalation dynamics. In fact, if you wait until everything is unspeakable, analysis is already useless.

    I agree with this. But the message is everything. OP was just trying to make plans for a worst-case scenario and probably not jumping immediately to violence. While it indeed is important to recognize the spectrum of resistance, it also isn't wrong to prep for the worst in addition to that. Currently, the people of Minneapolis, Minnesota, are resisting non-violently, and the Administration is still assaulting and murdering people and Trump is still threatening the Insurrection Act and martial law. For you, it's a golden lining, but for us living it, we're questioning whether that will work this time and bracing for impact. Is continuing nonviolent resistance the thing that save America? Maybe. Maybe the regime still won't give us that chance. Maybe they will just make up lies to cancel elections and enact martial law. And if all options are extinguished and violence breaks out from that, it won't be our fault for not being nonviolent enough.

    Again, there's nothing wrong about your underlying point -- nonviolent resistance is important -- but how it was worded.

  • YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.

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  • You missed mine. Until you find yourself the victim of an authoritarian state you live in starting a Holocaust, you don't get to make blanket statements about an entire country that lumps the oppressors and the oppressed into the same category.

  • YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.

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  • You have barely tried non violent resistance (not the same as peaceful!) but you’re such a violent culture that you jump straight to military solutions.

    Most Americans are victims of a violent regime and not violent themselves. They're scared and going through something most Canadians and many post-WWII Europeans will never have to deal with in their lifetimes. People are being murdered, and you're telling the victims it's their fault and that they're violent for trying to prepare for a worst-case scenario.

    Yes, of course there are other ways to confront this. Yes, I wish the country I was regrettably born in was culturally more like the EU and Canada. But it's not that simple and I can't help but feel that this comment is in poor taste.

  • Gov. Tim Walz encourages Minnesotans to film ICE agents for future prosecutions

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  • "I'm not going to do anything to help my state, but you all put yourselves in harm's way so a better leader can hold ICE accountable later."

    -Tim Walz

  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • This is actually terrifying. Switching to Linux will help us for a while, and the community can take us a long way, but eventually the hardware in physical PCs won't be able to perform basic functions. Maybe it's because cloud PCs use vastly more power and web designers inefficiently update to a web 4.0 that won't be accessible on older hardware -- this has happened before. Or it'll be because the cloud PCs have access to Wi-Fi cards or a new technology entirely to connect that physical hardware won't have access to -- already a standard practice with cell phones' arbitrary gsm phaseouts.

    A phaseout of physical hardware would also entail a phaseout of physical accessories, so you can't data-horde your way out of this one unless, maybe, you invested in the now-rare M-Disc format and the drives that make them work. You can buy external offline storage for a while, but eventually it'll all get bought up on the used market or otherwise fail in 5-10 years after the last hard drives get made for consumers. Eventually you will lose all your files and have no way to back them up. No Jellyfin server for movies you legally ripped, no GOG installers for games you legally bought, no music library or ebooks either, they'll all be gone, stolen, so you buy it all over again in perpetuity.

    Our only hope, really, is small businesses continuing to build physical PCs with equal power as the cloud devices. But would parts manufacturers let them? The current situation with data centers, SDDs, and RAM shows that parts manufacturers are increasingly only interested in selling to other large businesses. Consumers can't boycott that.

    I fully expect to be unable to access my bank or make appointments or get meaningful employment if I don't switch over in 10 to 20 years.

  • Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too

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  • I just hope Valve lets us install stuff from the command line without deleting everything on each update like how it is for the Deck. Because in that case I'm just putting Fedora on it.

    Flatpaks are an important step forward but they're just not for me.

  • Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone

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  • This is clickbait. Valve didn't use third-party resellers with the Steam Deck for anti-scalping reasons, and it's unlikely they would for the Steam Deck as well. I'm surprised how many news outlets are leaning into this.

    I'm not saying the Steam Machine won't be that price, though I certainly hope it won't be. I'm just saying we shouldn't take a random posting from a random Czech website at face value, considering Valve's established business model.

  • They Couldn’t Care Less About Renee Good’s Killing

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  • I live really close to Minneapolis. My wife and I have friends who live there. It could have been anyone. It'll probably happen more. I'm so shaken over this and it's all I've been thinking about since it happened. Minnesota was supposed to be one of the "safe" states.

    I don't have anything meaningful to say about the article other than everything is so messed up.

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  • I don't have an opinion about Hasan one way or another. Influencer culture (and broadly celebrity culture), and the phenomenon of people using influencers and social media in lieu of news, is disturbing and influencers only have power because we give it to them.

    I wish fewer people would opt to empower celebrities via attention and worship, followed by disappointment and scorn when their actions come into conflict with their brand image. They're just people, and we never knew them, not really.

  • Photography @lemmy.ml
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    Olympus Tough TG-3 vs TG-4

  • Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. She was the one expelled

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  • This problem won't stop until law enforcement starts treating deepfakes of minors as possession of child pornography with all the legal ramifications that come with it. Young boys need to understand that their actions have consequences.

    In the meantime, no one under 18 should be on social media. I wish AI, deepfakes or in general, could just be illegal, but laws aren't catching up and people are being victimized.

  • Mozilla situation

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  • Isn't this already covered with extensions, though?

  • American planners: how do make sure oil companies and automakers get even richer?

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  • American planners: how do make sure oil companies and automakers get even richer?

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  • In America, even if you live in a city with good public transit, there's frequently no way to get from one city to another. Greyhound routes are extremely limited, Amtrak seems to just loop around major metropolitan cities extremely slowly, and the price of a rental car has gotten out of control after COVID.

    So even if you live in a city with strong infrastructure, you still have to buy a car unless you're willing to be stuck in that city 99.9% of the time.

    Sometime in my lifetime, I'd like to see America catch up with the rest of the world.

  • Xmas at the mega church

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  • Individual Christians are okay, but I don't approve of their immoral lifestyles.

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    What's your favorite way to play old games?

  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works
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    Does Super Metroid get any better?

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Resident Evil fans: Can I skip RE5 to play Revelations 2?

  • Books @lemmy.world
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    Genderpocalypse book suggestion without a sex-based lore explanation