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I saw someone claim on X that Valve has 20,000 Steam Machines, considering they sold Millions of Steam Decks, that's going to sell out so fast, it'll be the Steam Controller all over again.

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Mitigate the scalpers this time for Gabes sake!

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Now give me Steam Frame and Steam Machine prices and release dates!

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneI was using Discord 8 years, waiting all the time for privacy improvements (E2EE for private chats) and now it becomes even worse. So while these specific improvements are great, I don't care any longer.

People should probably not only move away from Windows to Linux, but also from Discord to Matrix (as almost full featured replacement). At least I don't want to get my unencrypted private chat analyzed via LLM to guess my age in a legislation where it is not even required. And Matrix is almost as decentralized as Linux is, which makes it much more robust against enshittification and bad laws.

Moving your personal Operating System is far far far easier than upping your entire social group to a different chat app, that has far less features and is more confusing. It's not realistic to expect that to happen any time soon either, especially as Matrix just overall - sucks.

Oh, and people keep bringing up this privacy stuff about age laws as if they only apply to Discord. Any serious chat app will also have to do similar things if they plan to run any services in countries where those laws apply. Thinking otherwise is daft, burying their heads in the sand level stupid.

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Small update to clarify the Steam Deck test was on SteamOS 3.8, and with the JSAUX 11-in-1 Docking Station.

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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: The_Real_BittermanThere are people not using the official flatpak? Geez ...

It's actually news to me, I think last time I checked it still wasn't official, and it had a bunch of issues like shipping an old version of discord for months because the current one used a version of electron that broke something. And of course they had to use some weird hack to make an old version work with current servers.

That's one of the main issues with Flatpak IMHO, although in fairness, that situation has improved recently in that it's become far more clear in various places that they're not actually official packages because they definitely gave that appearance prior to the changes. Couldn't tell you when that change happened since I'm not a fan personally, and don't touch them more then I have to.

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Lol, I'll keep that spyware garbage off of my PC. First it scans through the process list, then people try to integrate it into EVERYTHING they could possibly run.

I recommend just using it in the web browser, or not at all if you can get away with it. I moved all important chats to Matrix a while ago.

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I was using Discord 8 years, waiting all the time for privacy improvements (E2EE for private chats) and now it becomes even worse. So while these specific improvements are great, I don't care any longer.

People should probably not only move away from Windows to Linux, but also from Discord to Matrix (as almost full featured replacement). At least I don't want to get my unencrypted private chat analyzed via LLM to guess my age in a legislation where it is not even required. And Matrix is almost as decentralized as Linux is, which makes it much more robust against enshittification and bad laws.

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Quoting: XpanderDoes that mean i can finally remove "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

and it will be able to update itself?

this method worked well though. I just did my regular package updates when i felt like and discord was outdated until then.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/discord/-/commit/f7878d82996d76bd8016bd97defe2baa43cca469

Yes

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Yeah, no. I'll just fluxer, thanks. :P

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Even before this--even before ChatGPT launched, to be honest--there were more new games published on Steam alone in a week than I could have gotten around to playing in a year. Then add in those that are published on other game stores, consoles, phone app stores, and itch.io. If you want to go back further, shovelware was a drag even in the twentieth century. I have no idea what the promoters of this technology would consider the best case scenario for it; I'm not sure they do either. But I'm certain it will mean more crap, less quality, and reduced visibility and sales income for people who actually invest time and care in their work.

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Quoting: syylkIsn't the web version good enough? What critical feature I'm missing by not using a local app (which is probably just the same code wrapped in a local web client)?

I keep so many tabs open at all times, when I need to close Firefox to run a more resource-intensive game I like having Discord as a separate program. But other than that, I’ve wondered the same.

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"Pay off your debts to a greedy landlord"

Surely this game should be in the horror category?

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: HendrinMckay

Quoting: scaineWild that scalping is a thing, when Valve could have restricted (initial) purchases to only accounts over, say, level 10. Or restricted buying more than one unit to only accounts over level 10. This should be a reasonably easy problem to solve.

And maybe they did, and these aren't scalper accounts re-selling, just opportunistic steam players.

I'm lucky that I don't get FOMO over this stuff. Yes, I want a controller. No, I'm not buying through anyone but Valve. The scalping industry is so predatory.

Sadly, this would not have helped. There are tons of old steam accounts listed for sale that botters and scalpers can buy and do use for stuff like this already.

Pretty sure it would have helped, and along with a cap limit of two units per account and the scalpers jobs just became much harder and profit margins much lower.

Sadly, there aren't any mitigation's that folks won't find a way around. There was already a cap of two steam controllers per account that people were already getting around by buying non-limited steam accounts. Also, the level stuff does nothing, there are already sites that let you pay to level up steam account levels faster. Having had to deal with this for a company in the retail space with GPU's a few years ago, it is very hard to combat this in any meaningful way unfortunately. The scalpers will find a way, short of having some kind of lottery system which just pisses off paying customers.

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Quoting: syylkIsn't the web version good enough? What critical feature I'm missing by not using a local app (which is probably just the same code wrapped in a local web client)?

Push to Talk is the biggest reason I have it installed instead of using the web version.

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Isn't the web version good enough? What critical feature I'm missing by not using a local app (which is probably just the same code wrapped in a local web client)?

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Quoting: XpanderDoes that mean i can finally remove "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

and it will be able to update itself?

Partially. It won't check if the runtime needs updating and only care about the Discord client files which could always update just fine.

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Well, if nothing else, it does bode well for the possibilities of success for the Steam Machine doesn't it? If this was a bit of a test for Valve, they will have gotten a good idea that it will sell like hot cakes.

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I have no trust in Discord. I'll keep running it in my web browser thank you. No way I'm running an app for that.

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I was waiting for that one. It's eerily chill to just stack stuff in efficient ways.

I see the comment about performance issue, and granted I'm not at the "500k huge machine" level of things, but on the opposite side of things I've been surprised by how stable it is right now; I can have the screen full of stuff and it move smoothly… at the current zoom level (LoD kicks in in very visible ways). But I also lock the game at 60fps, it might help.

If having ton of stuff offscreen causes sharp dip in performances to the point of breaking the logic, that's bad… but time will tell. And it might get fixed later on.

For now, it's been nice. The whole UI is well thought of, and the game makes it very easy to experiment/add/change/etc. Not much to complain there.
If you're kind of an extrem player, you can even use a relatively simple text-based format to generate whole machinery and import them in the game… but nobody's going to do that, right? Hehehe

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: YasriHey Liam question, how loud are all the buttons. I use the DualSense now and the PS4 controller in the past. All other modern dualstick controllers that I have tried have been louder. Help a can only play games when people are sleeping gamer out.

Hmm. It's mostly quiet. The thumbsticks have an audible click, as do the triggers when you pull them right down to the casing but neither are particularly loud. The back buttons have a slight click to them, but it's reasonably muted.

Cool thanks, will have to give the steam controller 2 a shot then.

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I only planned on getting Steam Frame, but this feature of the controller got me intrigued: "Infrared LEDs make Steam Controller trackable by Steam Frame’s cameras when you’re immersed in VR. Perfect for playing all of your non-VR games on a giant virtual screen." - I hope to see a hands-on test of that and maybe I'll grab it as well (when it's back in stock).

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No more selecting "I'll figure it out" and then waiting for my distro to post a new package. Yay!

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Quoting: XpanderDoes that mean i can finally remove "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

This one line turned discord updates into a non-issue.

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Does that mean i can finally remove "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

and it will be able to update itself?

this method worked well though. I just did my regular package updates when i felt like and discord was outdated until then.

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At this point I prefer to stay using vesktop.

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Quoting: The_Real_BittermanThere are people not using the official flatpak? Geez ...

It's actually news to me, I think last time I checked it still wasn't official, and it had a bunch of issues like shipping an old version of discord for months because the current one used a version of electron that broke something. And of course they had to use some weird hack to make an old version work with current servers.

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Ahhhhhh yes this is what I have always wanted. For the longest time, I have told my wife "you know, with my limited game time, what I REALLY REALLY REALLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYY want is a flood of extremely low quality garbage that I have to sift through to get to anything worth playing. That's what I dream of"

And now it's coming true! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 🤬

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This is pretty much the only factory game I have ever been able to get into past a tutorial. I love it. It's the fact that there's no enemies, no timers, no resources, just building and figuring stuff out while I jam to some good music.

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still waiting for them to fix the gif/clip issue

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