But how is that electricity generated?
steam machines be like
Submitted 3 days ago by gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org to [deleted]
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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
marcos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hydro-turbines.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Slavery.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
All electrical devices run on smoke. If you let the smoke escape, the device no longer works.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 days ago
The magic blue smoke that used to be used in CRT monitors had been replaced with magic black smoke in flat screens.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 days ago
It’s going to become real annoying researching and googling for (actual) steam machines.
Also, this isn’t reddit so I feel safe saying fuck you Gabe and all your billions with years of overcharging developers, gambling for kids, and milking users, shitting on game-dev, etc. you yacht-loving fatass could not at least do something good for a change and subsidize/sell at no loss/gain instead of again milking users? At this point valve makes absurd amount of money per employee, something like next 3 companies combined. I cannot be a redditor anymore and simp for this dude like they simped for Elon.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Eh, dudes running a business fairly well (as in both making money and customers mostly happy)
30% cut is basically the same as physical and comes with handling downloads and updates and all on their servers. Could be less for sure, but when it started that was mostly reasonable. The fact that large games go down to 20% and smaller games are stuck at 30% sucks.
The gambling I agree, just because it is common across the gaming industry doesn’t make it okay. Even if how they do it is “less bad” it’s still shitty. The milking users idk what you mean outside the gambling bit but sure.
Shitting on game-dev? Him saying they need to learn AI? I agree fuck that.
The steam machine is not horrible value for a prebuilt, it’s just a horrible time for a prebuilt, and its tiny ass form factor makes for weird choices that limit it but like whatever. If you want a tiny thing to put under the TV to play games it ain’t bad, but there are also other options. Selling at a loss is generally an anticompetitive strategy to get market share over those who cannot afford to so I would generally disagree on that.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 days ago
autriyo@feddit.org 3 days ago
Just search for a boiler or steam turbine/engine depending on what you are looking for. Steam machine isn’t a common term for those things anyways, AFAIK.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 days ago
You ain’t gonna search “steam machine” if you wanna build a steam engine or a boiler anyway
krisevol@lemmus.org 3 days ago
Have you seen the pay each employee gets? Everyone that works at valve are multi millionaires.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 days ago
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Cant wait for epic games to sue for false advertising
ddplf@szmer.info 3 days ago
It costs $1000 and it’s barely as performant as standard PS5, you can get much better rig for that price. Who’s the target audience, can somebody explain why I’d want that?
I have the Steamdeck and hundreds of Steam games on my account so I’m relatively deep into Steam ecosystem and I’m still FAR from the fence on this one.
Can somebody explain to me why I should want to literally donate to Mr. Yacht Collector?
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Gamers Nexus specifically ran the component pricing on the thing and it came out to ~$85 over the part value. Turns out this is a decent deal in the current economy. Everything just sucks now.
krisevol@lemmus.org 3 days ago
Is not for enthusiasts hangers with a rig already. It is for people new to pc gaming that want a starter machine.
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 days ago
Okay so don’t buy it?
Nobody asked you to.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 days ago
During coal shortages in WWII, Switzerland used to run steam locomotives on electric heaters, combining most disadvantages of the two system (heavy, inefficient, needs wires except for about 15 minutes)
trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Just look inside deeper, how a lot of the electricity is made, and you’ll find your steam.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 3 days ago
yeah i guess that’s fair
trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Congratulations, you just invented a new method of generating electricity…
Oh wait, it’s steam again.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I don’t think you want to run your processors so hot that you get steam. You’d need some kind of heat exchanger/heat pump in between.
bbsm3678@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ah the efficiency dream. This is totally doable without steam: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_materials
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 days ago
But we have a nuclear electrical plant. Hey wait a minute…
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
“Technically has come so far”
Technology1800-present: spin thing to jiggle elections
Exception: Photovoltaics