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Each Monday is the usual day for new emails to go out, so people sitting waiting can finally put their Steam Deck order through. That might change some weeks, as Valve explained on Twitter today:
Welcome to Q2! We've just sent out the first set of order emails to Q2 reservers (in order of reservation time). Starting today we're ramping up Steam Deck shipments, and will be sending more order availability emails every week. Sometimes even twice a week!
Update: in a reply to someone it was clarified as Monday and Thursday.
Since people were getting confused somehow on what a quarter is during a year, Valve also a little while ago updated the Steam Deck page to show the months in brackets for when you can expect an email to come through. A refresher as apparently some people need it:
- January, February, and March (Q1)
- April, May, and June (Q2)
- July, August, and September (Q3)
- October, November, and December (Q4)
Really good to know Valve are able to ramp up production now, as they did say previously they were expecting hundreds of thousands from this month onwards.
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I imagine that if they have hundreds of thousands, for a reservation that was $5, they will have a lot of people back out. So if they send out 25,000 emails today, that gives people until Thursday to say yes or no. If only 10,000 people say yes, then they have a whole batch of 15,000 leftover, which is large enough to warrant sending out a batch of emails for. I imagine any twice a week sends are based around people backing out, rather than increased supply (I imagine they would be able to predict an increase in supply, whereas they can't predict people backing out).
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Maybe trimester would have been easier to understand?
I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
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Quoting: bisbyx(I imagine they would be able to predict an increase in supply, whereas they can't predict people backing out).
Except when dealing with large population statistics. Pretty sure after a few weeks the back-out rate has become pretty well-known and stable.
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Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.
I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
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Quoting: Blue22I got it today
... And so they were not heard from ever since. The end.
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BlackBloodRum Apr 5, 2022
I'm still Q3, thankfully I'm no longer "After Q2" - which means I can financially plan for Q3. As such, I picked my self up two new Yubikeys for work using some of my steam deck fund 
. I'll put the money back between now and July.
But like most people, I also use GNUCash to manage all my personal finances with a complete breakdown of my personal income/expenses, such as what I purchased, how much it cost me, how much I've spent through each quarter/year and that goes along with what my savings are and what they are intended for, the savings goals etc etc etc.
I also use it for business accounting, but that's a whole other thing.
But I've been doing it for years, so it's nothing new to me and gives me more reason to love FOSS software
. I'll put the money back between now and July.But like most people, I also use GNUCash to manage all my personal finances with a complete breakdown of my personal income/expenses, such as what I purchased, how much it cost me, how much I've spent through each quarter/year and that goes along with what my savings are and what they are intended for, the savings goals etc etc etc.
I also use it for business accounting, but that's a whole other thing.
But I've been doing it for years, so it's nothing new to me and gives me more reason to love FOSS software
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Good that you reminded me! I just got email from Valve to get my 64GB steam deck!
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soulsource Apr 5, 2022
Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?
I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
Might be a cultural thing. Where I live the word trimester isn't used, and my thought process when I read it here was literally "semester means half-year, trimester has 'tri' in it, so it probably means one third of a year". Then I looked it up, and realized I was wrong and semester means six-months, trimester means three-months.
(Funny enough, it's not a language thing. The word Trimester actually exists in German, my native language...)
Quoting: Purple Library GuyI had to look it up (see above), and it's actually 3 months. The "mester" seems to come from "mensis", month.Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.
I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
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Quoting: soulsourceI had to look it up (see above), and it's actually 3 months. The "mester" seems to come from "mensis", month.
Exactly, the latin numbers are unus, duo, tres, quattor, quinque, sex, septem, octo, novem, decem, undecim, duodecim, tredecim, quattordecim, quindecim, sedecim, ...
Which actually means that we should either call the number format with base 16 sedenary (or at least sedecimal) and octonary for base 8, when we also say binary or ternary; or say diodekadic, tesseradekadic, oktodekadic and hexadekadic for base 2, 4, 8 and 16 respectively. Hexadecimal is in itself absolutely weird, mixing the greek hexa prefix with the latin decimal suffix. Personally, I prefer hexadekadic over sedenary/sedecimal but that may be because I love the Greek language :-D
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The REAL question here is should we (as a species) cater to the least knowledgeable individuals or work to increase general knowledge? The former certainly makes it easier to govern.
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Quoting: Purple Library GuyQuoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.
I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
Nope, trimester means three months and a year is composed of 12 months. A quarter (1/4) means one of something divided by four (a year, a cake, money).
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I want to buy, well at least make a reservation for, a second Steam Deck. But so far still only one per Steam account allowed. 
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Quoting: soulsourceMy university operates on a trimester system; we have three of them in a year.Quoting: Purple Library GuyI had to look it up (see above), and it's actually 3 months. The "mester" seems to come from "mensis", month.Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.
I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
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Quoting: Purple Library GuyQuoting: soulsourceMy university operates on a trimester system; we have three of them in a year.Quoting: Purple Library GuyI had to look it up (see above), and it's actually 3 months. The "mester" seems to come from "mensis", month.Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.
I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
I looked it up at several places, most agree on the "three months" as well as the latin origin.
The German dictionary Duden mentions both though, three months as well as a third of a school/university year.
I wonder if the later is a missconception maybe stemming from a pregnancy, where the term seems to be used often (at least here), and the duration of three months coincides with a third of the full duration.
And a question, how long does your trimesters take?
*edit* Another find, a trimester at university is supposed to be three months, and you have three of them in the year: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimester_(Studium)
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If someone is interested where the 64GB queue in EU is at, my order was made next day, 17:35 EEST (got email yesterday).
At the same time 256GB order made 45 minutes since launch is still MIA.
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At the same time 256GB order made 45 minutes since launch is still MIA.
Last edited by mahagr on 6 April 2022 at 6:18 am UTC
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soulsource Apr 6, 2022
Quoting: Purple Library GuyQuoting: soulsourceMy university operates on a trimester system; we have three of them in a year.Quoting: Purple Library GuyI had to look it up (see above), and it's actually 3 months. The "mester" seems to come from "mensis", month.Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.
I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
Universities usually have several months wihtout teaching activies. I can only guess, but it doesn't sound too far fetched that historically it was 3*3 months teaching, and 3 months not.
(Where I studied we had no teaching activities in February, July, August and September, so a third of the rest would be less than 3 months...)
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