baronvonj
@baronvonj@lemmy.world
I play guitar, watch USMLR and NHL, occasionally brew beer, enjoy live music and travel, and practice sarcasm.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It does. A US Senator is a representative of the entire state with influence over federal law and federal executive branch appointees with influence on the national military. A state Senator has none of that influence. Would you consider a regional office manger’s opinion to carry the same weight as that of a board member?
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
I have a PSVR2 and I don’t consider the capability of VR to be its failure. I have to assume it’s just that much harder and more expensive to develop for VR. Like the FPS genre is hugely successful, and that’s such a natural fit for VR.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
Right, that’s what I’m saying. Make a v2 Deck with upgraded CPU/memory, and put the GPU in the dock so it can do 4k on a big screen. I’m sure “Deck v2 is 4x more powerful than v1 and you can dock it for 4k @ 60fps on the big screen” would be just as good a marketing line as “Machine is 6x more powerful than a Deck”.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
At this point, you would think that if they wanted to go with an Occulink/Thunderbolt thing… they’d make it in the Steam Machine, the thing that doesn’t move around as much.
I hadn’t heard of OCuLink before, apparently it’s an external PCIe connector! Eh, that would seem like a waste of engineering team to build that into a stationary desktop PC. They can just build the PC case to whatever size is needed to house the GPU and related cooling, which they did. This is the second desktop PC they’ve released, no? They had one like 10 years ago that was a commercial failure? My impression as a console gamer is that the Deck is very successful and popular, but it’s under-powered for playing on a big screen.
They… the Valve video says the Steam Machine is 6 times as powerful as a Steam Deck.
Right, my point was just bumping the chipset/CPU/memory would give a nice marketing tagline like that without designing a whole new desktop PC. Obviously, you can’t put a giant modern CPU and heat sinks and fans in a handheld. So spend that engineering R&D money on giving the dock a GPU so now the Deck performs as well as the Machine would have, and you have it using a successful branding rather than reviving a brand that already failed once.
It seems like more news about the Deck 2 or whatever is coming,
Hope so.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
I mean like a v2 Steam Deck and Dock. Give the Deck a bump in CPU/RAM/storage specs and new external ports to facilitate having the GPU in the dock. It could technically even be an externalized PCIe connector instead of Thunderbolt/USB. In handheld mode you get the iCPU limited to 1080, but dock it on the big screen and now you get full 4k @ 60 FPS. Add an HDMI port so you do 1080 on a big screen without a dock.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
Hm, guess I missed that part, my bad.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
The Frame isn’t playing the games natively on its ARM chip. It’s just streaming audio/visual data from the PC and relaying the controller inputs back to the PC.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
Agree it has be price competitive with consoles. Though I wonder if making a docked Deck be on equal footing with the Machine would have been a better use of R&D. Maybe simply improving having the dock house an eGPU and bumping the Deck specs.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
Intriguing. Eager to see the price of the Steam Machine.
- Comment on Pass 3 weeks ago:
They’re English, so it’s gloubal warming.
- Comment on Wendnesday 4 weeks ago:
We need house by Wed-nes-day or no deal!
Image - Comment on In everyway 1 month ago:
They… are … the same?
- Comment on What will you tell your grandkids when they ask what you did during the war on christmas? 1 month ago:
Because the Nazi’s were all in on trying to portray themselves as descendants of the Vikings, upon whom they attributed a white supremacist philosophy that never existed. Going so far as inventing their own runes to mix in with Futhark, and also various icons that aren’t found in any Viking-age artifacts or described in the surviving writings. Modern-day white supremacists have continued this appropriation. So for certain kinds of imagery, a lot of people will just automatically assume you might be a white supremacist. A good tattoo shop should double-check requested elements, to make sure something doesn’t slip through, but as a client you definitely want to research everything you’re getting regardless of the shop.
- Comment on What will you tell your grandkids when they ask what you did during the war on christmas? 1 month ago:
I learned to make straw yule bocks and got a non-Nazi Nordic-themed tattoo. I have Norwegian ancestry from both parents.
- Comment on Real easy 1 month ago:
- Comment on The Independent tries to hijack their reader's swipe meant to leave the site to send them further into it instead 2 months ago:
No.
- Comment on The Independent tries to hijack their reader's swipe meant to leave the site to send them further into it instead 2 months ago:
And then larger and larger “handheld” devices made that physically awkward as people tend to hold their phone near the middle to balance the weight and oh look my thumb doesn’t reach the top or bottom anymore!
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in the world 2 months ago:
It’s the smallest big D I’ve ever seen, seems almost Freudian.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in the world 2 months ago:
they messed up the video ID on the first character.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 3 months ago:
Are they going after every 18+ game now?
No. They’re going after all porn.
- Comment on American ambassador to Italy refuses to live in the official US residence in Rome. Instead, he stays on his super yacht moored 60 miles from the capital 3 months ago:
Tillman fucking Fertita is ambassador to Italy?!
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 months ago:
Uh … Steam actually did this same thing before Itch did.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The ironic twist there is that insurance companies here should have good legal teams to go after someone else to cover it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
good luck with getting the PT covered!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This is actually where Twitter was good. I would always get a better response with a public @ mention to the company on Twitter.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
But the bank would care about the police report for the charge back. A civil court would care about it if having to sue for restitution if the charge back is denied.
- Comment on Crikey 5 months ago:
I imagine it’s been difficult to find your phone with all that other stuff in your pocket.
- Comment on Crikey 5 months ago:
I’m more than 50% sure I briefly worked with this guy.
- Comment on only the first..... 5 months ago:
So true.
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 6 months ago:
I don’t mind that they have 2FA features in their app. I mind that using SMS for this has been known to be bad practice for years and they’ve tried to leverage that insecurity to push users to the Steam app. It’s reckless and this current data breach is only possible because of it.
