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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Thats true of most products that companies make I think, but they made it to serve a certain segment of the market and I think given how excited people were to see something like this, doesnt seem like it was a bad idea.

    And after watching the teardown, I don’t really see what you mean about reparability being bad. The video is even titled “Excellent Reparability: Steam Machine tear-down and Accessing RAM & SSD”. Seems to come apart just fine. You can replace a part if it breaks and put it back together.

    I will say that proprietary parts aren’t great, I’d rather have a cpu, ram, and motherboard I can take out and replace individually but for what this is designed to be, that being, a “console”, I’d say its much better than a PlayStation or Xbox in terms of reparability. Definitely more akin to a laptop than a PC in my opinion. And certainly not perfect, but I’m glad that Valve gave it a try and gave more options for people to game on. Not only that, might even get more people on Linux if they’re shown a good experience.



















  • Pick a project you like and donate what you think is fair. The fact that you are donating at all is great man.

    I donated $50 to the Dev of the Automation app on fdroid. My car automatically tries to play any media that I had playing before it connected to the car. No way to turn it off, happens on any and every phone ive used. Finally I found this app and made an automation that pauses media after a few milliseconds once the bluetooth connects.

    I felt a $50 one time donation was worth it cause they helped me solve one of the most annoying things i deal with. No idea why someone thought that a “feature” shouldn’t have a fucking off button but here we are.