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beda beda beda 🤖 👴

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Found this interview in youtube recommendations, thought someone would be interested: https://youtu.be/x1pRodt7ii8

I'm glad they're open to talking to small creators!

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Quoting: mrdeathjrThis d7vk version in my case work ok with mesa 26.2-dev

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Because other people have already called out good old Dungeon Siege, now I'm curious: is the second image Sacred?

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I admit, that for what we're getting in this controller, I was expecting the price point to be at least $200-$250. And I was trying to keep that much in savings in anticipation. Hearing that it's $99 is a bit of a relief. I'll try to grab one day one, regardless. My old v1 could use a retirement.

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When I eventually get one, it will be the true size test. I have tiny hands.

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Quoting: Renzatic GearOh lord above, IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!

Quoting: rea987Too big for my taste.

It's actually not that big, if we go by the hands on pic in this article.

...unless he's a giant or something.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valves-new-steam-controller-aims-to-entice-a-broader-field-of-pc-players-which-i-fear-already-includes-me

We need banana for scale!

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Quoting: scaineAutomatic hate reactions for absolutely every decision that Canonical makes is completely normal. It's bizarre.

But for the first time, I'm with the haters.

It's just so strange to look at the absolute shitstorm that MS weathered recently by adding Copilot to everything in Windows and think "yep, we should do that, people obviously want more AI in their operating systems."

Are they blind? It's baffling.

I do agree with you. At the same time if Canonical take the Mozilla approach, with locally run AI features that are togglable, I think it's perfectly fine. It's really more of an evolution of algorithm driver features from years past than the intrusive AI bots that big tech is pushing. Modern computers are ready with hardware for inference workloads so might as well use the silicon for something. I don't think it's likely Canonical doing a deal with Antropic to have the Claude built into Ubuntu for example, but I suspect many of the commenters here believe just that. Can't say I blame them with the way AI is being pushed into every single product.

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AUD 149,

Hmmm, really doubt its worth that. Even $100AUD I was going to be skeptical. Will wait and see how people respond. I'm not going for a steam machine thing, AMD7600 gpu, its going to also come at a premium.

The Steam Frame certainly sounds interesting, but again, another expensive VR toy. By the time I get around to getting one its likely going to be 2030 at this rate.
I'm also not sold on old style LCD panels as they have way too much backlit bleed and incapable of producing blacks which imo is important for VR. Maybe Sony's new LCD technology can save VR LCD solutions down the road if it ever comes to them. mOLED still being too expensive and not very compatible with compact lens tech. (cuts out too much light, causes DIM image)

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I like it and I hope there's available stock to buy it. I have some games on my steam library to start with... :)

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This is quite pricey but I am getting one for sure. If there ever is a sizeable discount then I am getting another one.

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Regular users won't be able to turn it off, because "it's too hard to implement", but you can bet that the enterprise versions will have it.

Corporations always had autocratic tendencies but with AI they've ventured into the realm of the sad and pathetic and they couldn't be more proud.

I'm calling it now. As soon as Trump and his regime falls the whole AI boom will crash and burn.

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Isn't this the one that was infamous at release time for having re-sizable jiggly bits at character creation time?

Free upgrades that also improve Linux/Steam Deck support are always a plus in my book. Sounds like they also fixed their original design of having the expansion be a "separate game." I got the base game in some bundle, but it's part of the (massive) backlog; maybe it will come closer to the surface if the reviews of the update are good.

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Quoting: CaldathrasThe top picture is the original Dungeon Siege (one of my faves).

Haha, so I got this one right ! 😀

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TimeFreezeLets hope the controller works without Steam as well.

I bet you can also run it on electricity. I mean, some people can't get coal.

The steam controller needs (or needed) steam to be any use.
The only way to get it working is/was https://github.com/kozec/sc-controller .
I would like to be linux compatible, but valve will not do it.

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Too expensive for a controller I want, but don't need

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i was hopoing this could sell a lot so developers could make games targeting it, not exclusives to it nescessary, but games designed for it like the DS games were designed for the DS... or the Wii games...

but that price, its a deal breaker for many that will prevent mass adoption.
on the other hand, i think valve can be playing their hands like this: over charge this, to have a good margir for profit that they could use elsewhere, while at the same time make the bundle with the steam machines bundle seems more enticing.

i mean, if you can purchase an steam machine without controler for, lets say 700, but with 50 dollars more get an controller priced at 99 dollars...
a lot of people will go for it.

anyway i really hope the trackpads dont get wasted as an optional feature only.

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Quoting: Liam Dawebut as of yet Valve have not supplied GamingOnLinux with one.

That's because Gaben is on his way to personally deliver a controller to you. Check your phone he's been trying to reach you all day.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMore stuff Mint will have to rip out. Soon it might be time for them to look at making the Debian base the default.

IMO it is already preferable to install Debian with Cinnamon desktop and Mint icons. DIY Linux Mint.

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I prefer Revenge of the 5th, thank you. But anyways... Unless some key use case comes up, these are a hard pass for me at that price point. I've got 2 Xbox Series controllers and the adapter for extra low latency. The adapter works in Linux and I can deal with just using Bluetooth on Mac.

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Quoting: leinad965

Quoting: PenguinReminder that PipeWire is now a Snap, so if you remove snapd, your system will be completely silent. I found that amusingly funny 😆

But seriously: packaging PipeWire as a Snap makes no sense to me. I'm not an expert though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Mountain of salt. Pipewire is installed as a deb package not as Snap. It was discussed, but not implemented.

I would say that one reason is the sandboxing and containering that snap would enable for a piece of software that does decoding and encoding of lots of different audio and video formats, formats that historically are filled with security holes in their implementation.

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Being a bit more expensive than "standard" controllers I can see since this controller clearly has lots more technology in it than anything else on the market, not to mention joysticks that won't drift after a couple of months, but console game controllers are borderline scams that I hold to a very low standard so I'd be lying if I said I was totally happy with this price point. Still, it's everything I want in a controller, so it's still a price I'll probably be willing to pay once I get the opportunity.

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Quoting: MohandevirIt will probably irritate some of you, but I used AI to help me build my Nextcloud, Pi-hole and Wireguard instances. It also helped me configure my router consequently and install GraphenOS on my Pixel 7a phone. I corrected it's missteps along the way, but If I could do all that stuff with a local personnal AI, not linked to the untrustworthy Big Techs, I'd be willing to give it a go.

Nobody will be irritated if you use AI for personal projects. What irritates us is corporations shoving AI down our throats whether we want it or not.

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I saw a documentary years ago about the first game and it showed how the alien "learns" what the player does. So if you are always hiding in lockers or under tables, it looks there more often. There was more to it that that, but I thought it was the coolest feature. It forces you to always try new strategies and even then you are never safe!

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Quoting: TimeFreezeLets hope the controller works without Steam as well. I dont play only on Steam......

Would be cool if Heroic allowed access to steam input configs for steam controller so it can live up to its potential outside Steam.

Not expecting this. But hopeful.

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Quoting: nullzero

Quoting: DrakkerI hope the Canadian pricing is an error... because 99$ USD is roughly 135$ in CAD right now... not 149$.

Probably not. Keeping round numbers in different currency is a thing :(

For EUR is even worse 99EUR is 116 USD

It's not worse. Euro prices include VAT, so 116/1.21 = 96 USD, so it's a bit less even.

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It looks so chonky, I'm not really sold.

I guess you hold it further up when you aren't using the trackpads? But still my initial reaction isn't that positive, I would want to try one before I buy it which isn't really possible..

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Bear in mind that US prices don't include taxes, so add~ 20% to the US pricing for the actual equivalent. The UK and most of the EU actually get a small discount.

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I absolutely love that tall screen. This will for sure be the next laptop I get, just trying to figure out when.

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Sigh... Now - let me pour a bit more gasoline into this small fire, shall I? 😅

Quoting: JohnologueI don't mind it, but I also don't use Ubuntu. Honestly, the thing that put me off most in all of this was the mention of Snaps, since I've followed the seemingly popular opinion that they're Flatpaks with a vendor-locked store, etc. I am more averse to Snaps than open source, open weight, carefully-used AI.

Snaps did not come out of nowhere, you know...
Canonical needed some kind of containerization tech in order to manage apps on their then brand new & shiny Ubuntu Touch phones. It was called Clickable. And it was designed and ready to use already before 2013 - when Ubuntu Touch phones were released. "Non-mobile" version arrived later on to Ubuntu Core in a form of snaps in 2014...

So for Flatpacks - it seems to me that this is yet another technology, where Canonical was an acting technological trailblazer at the time and spawned a functional, real world tech which somebody else (looking at you, RedHat, yet again...😡) had to copy, because it worked and was cool....

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OMG SHELLY IS SO GOOD.

Seriously it's so so so so so much better than octopi. At last I can have all my natives/flats/aurs/appimages managed in one central gui that's a pleasure to use. I don't mind running terminal commands to do all that stuff, it's just SO simpler and easier this way.

If you've been on the fence about Cachy at all, with this update, there's pretty much nothing standing in your way now! Give it a try!

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