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I think the Switch gets this type of handheld play right by having detachable controllers. I never use my Switch with the controllers attached to the side. Instead I use a separate pro controller when playing handheld mode. Maybe this doesn't matter if you can still use a separate controller.

Beyond that, it's not clear to me what this will support. If I can play Fallout, any of them, I will seriously consider buying this.
This is an amazing bit of kit for the price, and it's just a normal PC running Arch Linux!

I hardly ever even play video games these days, but I'm absolutely buying one of these just to have a nice little portable PC.
The mere fact that NVIDIA Shield Portable didn't take off doesn't tell us much. It had poor design sensibility (i.e. it looked like ass, like some kind of portable Xbox designed in the early 2000s), and it ran Android, which lacks a compelling games library.

Steam Deck at least stands a chance, although I'm worried about the weight and the battery life.
Is that racism? In that case I have been subjected to it many times even in my country of birth (the Netherlands) by speaking ABN ('algemeen beschaafd Nederlands', meaning not a local dialect but the type of Dutch spoken by the king or queen) in a place like Limburg (the southern-most province) where they tell me 'Ich spreck niet met hollanders!" (literally "I do not speak with people from the province of Holland" where "Holland" is meant to be understood as "not from the southern provinces") in an angry voice. I can understand the Limburg dialect since I speak German as well as Dutch and Limburgs lies somewhere in between (depending on which local variety, sometimes it seems more German than Dutch). This is only within a single tiny country, if I set my foot outside of it and make the mistake of starting to speak English in France I'd often only be met with feigned misunderstanding or foul looks by people who understand me perfectly well but consider their language an integral part of their identity and as such feel that others should make the effort to use it when communicating with Frenchmen. Were I to start in halting French we'd often end up speaking halting English without any bad feelings. Is that racism? No, it is not. It it a form of chauvinism, a way to mark people as not being part of their group. It is not racism since they do not react to my "race" (skin colour, facial features and whatever else is linked to "race") but to the way I speak. I could have spoken Limbursch or French and avoided their reaction. I can not change my race while I can change the way I speak if I so desire.

> If you are a white European, you will have a hard time seeing racism, compared with people who are not white.

That is a racist statement in and of itself, and you do not even know whether I'm a "white" European, let alone the fact that "white" means just as much as "black" when it comes to indicating the culture people grew up and live in. Since I can only assume you are not a racist I assume you made that statement because it is part of the current narrative - it is called standpoint epistemology [1], part of critical theory - without really giving it some thought.

If you agree that racism is used as a political weapon it is only prudent to make sure you do not unwittingly make yourself become a part of that weapon.

Yes, people tend to react differently to people depending on whether they are from their own group or from the outside, up to and including to telling them to "go back where they came from". This is said to Polish migrant workers in western Europe, to Palestinian migrants in Syria, to Koreans in Japan - in all cases you'll be hard-pressed to find any "racial" differences between the groups. It is chauvinism, nationalism, protectionism or just fear of being overrun by "the other". It is not racism and should not be called such, specifically for the reason you yourself mentioned: racism is being used as a political weapon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standpoint_theory
Given the time, skill, and inclination to tinker, Arch has very good power management. Also considering that Steam is throwing dedicated dev resources at this and it will end up being a very limited array of hardware to need to support, I would expect improvements here.
Yea, that's a great base to aim for. Lots of great games will look respectable with those specs. I'd have loved a full 1080p screen, but at least its larger than the Switch's 720p.
Any game devs here willing to share how large the code/compiled code output is for these games?
1) Mathematics is in no way a science.

2) I think you didn't read the article at all.
All of these terms of service have an assignment provision that allows the provider to assign the agreement to an acquirer. So the license you gave to GitHub moves to Microsoft (though here the license likely remains with GitHub because they are an independent subsidiary). All of these agreements also say they can unilaterally change terms whenever. The terms are generally always broad enough to cover these circumstances.
> I said I'm sure you will find fault with it. Predictable.

If the allegations are not supported by evidence then it's natural that anyone finds faults.

That, and your ad hominem, says everything about your accusations.

> Those 'minor incidents' are two a penny. Even at the better schools kids regularly use drugs.

If that is supposed to be any close to the truth then how do you explain the complete lack of evidence or even anecdotal accounts?

I mean, can you actually support any of your claims about the alleged torrent of cases that is everywhere but also nowhere to be seen?
We do 100% of our processing server-side. All the hard stuff happens there. Spreading biz state across multiple computers would be a massive mistake for our application. Our client devices are effectively dumb terminals that just send user events to the server and display whatever view model is returned.
I'm a 90s kid and probability and statistics were like a one day throw away lesson.

I've unironically thought the same thing as the top post. Unless you're going into STEM you probably don't need more than the most basic conceptual understanding of calc or trig. But understanding how probabilities work is a huge benefit in every day life.
Depends on what you mean by we. This is a real concern in countries like Japan, China, and Korea. Less on the food side, and more on care and services side.
Looks more like the size of an 11" tablet to me, but with a smaller screen. The physical interface uses most of that real estate - which is good, because otherwise a tablet would be a superior device.
I want to know if I can stream and play on a TV or external monitor. It will double the value of this device if I can also play on a bigger screen at home.
Hey, with the right set cargo pants you can carry as many batteries as you want!
First thing I thought was, did they buy all the old Wii U's and repurpose them?
Both Fedora and Arch share that philosophy, though. There are very very few patches in Fedora compared to the Debian ecosystem - and often the only exceptions are support for features that in the process of being upstreamed, like Firefox' hardware acceleration support that was added by a Red Hat engineer.
Ruby comes closer than Python or JS with it's blocks and consistent object model (including primitives).
Wow. This thing will either flop massively or change gaming. I really hope for the latter.
It's a PC running SteamOS (apparently Arch base with KDE Plasma). You can install anything on there that you can install in Arch, or install Windows or another Linux distro if you want. This is all in the copy:

"You can also install and use PC software, of course. Browse the web, watch streaming video, do your normal productivity stuff, install some other game stores, whatever."
Source? The console market (~45 billion) is larger than the PC market (~37 billion) [0], but I wouldn’t describe PC as ‘fairly small’. Maybe you have different data though?

[0] https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/newzoo-games-market-num...
IGN has a detailed hands-on which really boosted my interest:

https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-hands-on-impressions...

The joystick layout looks funky to me, but apparently it works?

> However, as soon as I held it myself, the layout felt completely natural: the intuitive hand orientation when you grab the Steam Deck is more straight up and down, like holding the sides of a steering wheel, whereas with a controller your hands are at more of an angle. As a result, it’s easy and natural for your thumbs to reach the Steam Deck’s face buttons, D-pad, and thumbsticks.

And as a Mac user who has to load up Boot Camp to play most of my Steam library, a portable dockable PC is extremely appealing:

> As a result, in desktop mode the Steam Deck honestly just feels like a PC. The OS is Linux-based, but it feels largely familiar to Windows and is capable of running everything I threw at it from either platform. I played a bit of Factorio and Death Stranding with mouse and keyboard on a 32” monitor, and if it weren’t for the Steam Deck sitting docked next to me on the desk I would have forgotten it wasn’t running off a traditional desktop PC.
The current status quo you are perpetuating can be described as crabs in a bucket.

It may serve you well to learn about the values you are prioritizing. www.wamv.life is a tool that helps with self-awareness by measuring values, moods, and value utilization.
They do also have a customized Steam frontend on top of KDE.
This is another variation on the idea that the wealthy are hoarding cash.

They aren't. All the cash is invested, one way or another. Even "cash" in a checking account isn't cash, the bank loans it out.
Does the pentagon consider it a feature that repair knowledge is compartmentalized outside of the combat zone such that it cannot be as easily leaked?
As someone with with incredibly poor wrists, the OG switch is already too heavy.
It's not great, but I'd wager it's enough for a two-way train ride for most people, and almost certainly enough to commute in, charge at work, and commute home.
> And I'd like to think that no matter what someone's general political sensibilities are they can find a way to advocate for them under conditions where order and some degree of accountability for truthfulness is required of them.

The problem is that the sides don't even agree on the same facts anymore. For example, some think there was election fraud, and some don't. Some believe there is actual evidence of election fraud, and some don't. And neither side is without some evidence. For example, there have been election audits and those seem to show there was no fraud, so that's evidence. But at the same time, there are other auditors that show very convincing evidence that there was at least some additional voter fraud beyond what was detected in the audits.

If I recall correctly, there were some science experiments in the past that sort of "wiggled around" the truth for a period of decades as they got closer to the truth. With current events, it seems like it's a lot more like that than to just look outside the window and say it's raining or not.

For example, look at how certain views were banned on YouTube... until the CDC/FDA/etc. itself reversed its position and now those are the mainstream or at least acceptable views.

Isn't it usually the case that a difference in opinion ultimately is the result of a difference of belief about facts? And if that's the case, if a biased moderator of any platform can decide what the facts are, that is effectively the same as deciding what opinions are valid. And although there are some clear cases of ridiculous beliefs that we can think about (flat earth, etc.), very quickly we get into murky territory.

I mean, just imagine if Facebook was established in the deep south, and suppressed all non-Christian opinions as counter-factual? "The evidence is clear" they would say, "here in the Holy Bible".
Arch linux really? Does not make much sense tbh Ubuntu would have been imo way better. Why would you want a rolling OS for some hardware.
If this supports dGPUs, it can actually replace my desktop.
I wonder if they're selling at a loss? Valve can afford it, plus it'd be no different than Sony/Nintendo/etc subsidizing hardware since they make most of their profits from software sales.

Only difference is that, unlike traditional game companies, this Steam Deck thing isn't a walled garden. But of course, Steam has a near monopoly on PC gaming so it's unlikely that'll be a problem for them.
Id just want a smaller laptop at that point then?

I find its really hard to beat the convertible laptop form factor in general
I don't think you come at the Nintendo Switch expecting low volume. Whether another company can be successful at it is a good question, but if you build expecting low volume, that's what you're going to get.
You're not exactly wrong, but accepting that some people should simply give up their claimed right to reproduce means you can easily genocide people by not paying them enough.
> It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...

> Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971

I'm pretty sure people have been saying this about the Bay Area since the Gold Rush.
If Valve goes through with this and sticks to the device, it could become a serious competitor, though.
As always, government contracts are some of the most lucrative out there. Especially when 'unauthorized' repair can be spun as 'dangerous'.
I honestly thought the great-gitlab-exodus indicated that people saw this coming a hundred miles away.
Must be you I used it almost 100% mobile
People’s attention is a marketplace. If only one platform increases their ads then likely people will move to other platforms. I think it’s more likely all platforms (or no platforms) will increase their ads because all social media will have this problem.
I don't really see how a cheap, low-end, mobile computer is going to kill off desktop gaming. Why would that happen? People will all of a sudden stop wanting top end equipment and big high-res screens because they can play some Steam Gameboy?
dnf is a large and complex tool to manage a format that has miles of backwards compatibility (and, for extra inconsistent fun, random cases of incompatibility, since they forcibly broke spec at some point, without changing the extension of rpm, so while there's the expectation of compatibility, many old packages just won't work at all and you'll have very little clue as to why unless you're familiar with the history of the format), and has a lot more to it than pacman.

I'm not talking about the workflow for an end-user: Valve is definitely not going to force people to run terminal commands to update their systems. While pacman's update workflow is way simpler than dnf's, it's just not relevant here.

I was primarily talking about the complexity of the tool itself, of updates, and also the complexity of packaging. Arch is a packager's distro, and much of the foundation Arch is built on is the Crux-style "as simple as possible" mindset. There's much less that can go wrong when you're doing much less with much smaller tools.

I'm not hating on dnf or rpm, here, for the record. They're fine tools for their use cases.
I hope so too, and I think this time Valve has a much higher chance of success. When they launched the Steam machines it was almost guaranteed to fail. The Linux ecosystem wasn't there yet and the prices weren't competitive.

But now with Proton most problems I have are caused by hardware/driver incompatibilities. Which is exactly what Valve can get rid of by launching their own hardware which is actually built and tested primarily for Proton. That's why I'm really hoping this takes off. I'd honestly have preferred a stationary device, but now that the Switch is the only serious portable console they might be able to build a market there. Especially as people can just keep using their Steam library.
Problem is, increasing production capacity is a very costly endeavor, and the current high demand might be temporary.
It's not that I couldn't it's that I wouldn't want to with an agnostic service like Stadia. That's money I could put towards a nicer smartphone or into nicer non-internal pc components like the monitor instead. But I also say this as someone who doesn't mind touch controls when they're done well so having physical things to press isn't as big a draw for me as I imagine it is to their target audience.
They really have this level of Moxie that gives Intel Jeb Bush vibes.
40Whr battery. 2 - 8 hours
I‘m not sure this delivers enough performance for decent PC level VR but you can install Windows, they say you are free to reinstall whatever OS you want.
Nearly 70% heavier than the Switch. That's a deal breaker for me, sadly.
VAT?
> concentrating wealth

This implies that wealth is zero sum. It isn't. Creating wealth, which is what businesses do, is not "concentrating" it.
Reminds me of a modern take on the Sega Game Gear!
Damn this hardware in a laptop form factor would be awesome. I really want to buy it but I hardly game...
He also seems to provide pretty good high level direction for his companies. Also, he seems to be a pretty good gambler, willing to take big risks that sometimes pay off huge, whereas others might play things more conservatively and not get such payoffs.
Being Impersonated by Iranian Hackers Was Stressful but Good for Networking
It's also funny that all the games on the screen are available on the Switch.
The biggest disappointment in the new switch is the lack of native bluetooth audio headphone support and becoming less picky about its hdmi travel adapters and chargers
Also Multiflow and more recently Convey.

http://www.multiflowthebook.com/
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2012/december/c...

Multiflow definitely reached production. I even worked at a company that contracted to write some software for them (though I personally wasn't involved). They were not a total flop, but obviously not a stellar long-term success either. I'm not sure if Convey actually reached production, but their approach seems much more similar to what Ascenium is trying to do.
But for some jobs the road to it is more comfortable than others.
> I don't know a ton about this, but I thought their major issue was games needing new versions of some random libraries. Being more up to date than Debian would still put you (presumably) years behind.

That's not the case w/ the Fedora release cycle. Like I said, it's only slightly behind Arch.
Grew up in Blythe, and during the monsoon season (going on right now, actually), had the pleasure of enduring 2 of these microbursts. They are INTENSE.

My favorite video of one of these is here: https://youtu.be/dOSIjoZnHwI
> I guess it depends on if you can hook up a controller to your phone

ps4 controllers are generic bluetooth gamepads that I've been able to connect to a surprising range of devices.
The website is pretty clear: this runs SteamOS 3.0, which is Arch Linux with a KDE Plasma desktop. You can run anything you want on it, including switching out the OS if you want, and it uses standard PC peripherals.

In other words: your wireless XBox controller (or whatever) should work fine and you can play Fallout whatever as long as it is supported by Proton or you put Windows on the thing.
So I just need to decompile Oracle's database and a few other commercial products as well and I'm good? Is Microsoft legal happy if I do Windows+Office+OpenSourceCorpus? I'd take that statement as well. Or even if they just do that themselves and train Copilot on their internal source code just as they do with the public open-source corpus. That would be a strong statement as well.
Unlike most OOP languages, it's true, and not just marketing, for Smalltalk to make the claim that everything is in an object.
I do find intriguing Valve continues to be a private company. Unlike the rush start up these days have to do an IPO.
Ubuntu would be bloated garbage for this use. I'm sure they're maintaining their own Arch repositories to ensure their OS is stable.
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Had this issue as well. I now use it as a display only and always play with a controller (tabletop mode). If I can't use a controller, I play slower games (like Civ).
This will be great for the development of proton as more companies will be incentivized to make sure their game runs on linux to target the deck.
You can use Steam Link to stream games from your PC to your phone or tablet.

For decent handheld controls, simply pair a PS4 or PS5 controller (or even an Xbox Series X controller) with your phone/tablet over bluetooth.

All you need now is a phone mount for the controller and you are set. For example, google: "PS5 controller phone mount" for a big selection of options available for sale.

The only downside to this type of gaming is the latency. Some people don't mind the latency from streaming games, but it really bothers me.
> That is, he knows enough about the engineering to hire people who know a lot about the engineering.

And he got really exceedingly lucky with his initial hires. One of the founding employees was the best living rocket engine designer in the world, and then later the best rocket salesman in the world convinced him that SpaceX needed proper sales/business development, even in the early stage, and Musk basically replied: "Okay, you're hired", to which she basically replied: "No, that's not what I meant... but okay."
I tried pubg mobile and a few other mobile FPS games. There's one major flaw with using a touchscreen for those kinds of games, you need to be able to aim, move and shoot at the same time. In my experience, touchscreens only allow you to do two of those things at the same time.
I disagree. They’re the API host, so they’re the distributor as well as the user agent
Hit or miss here.

Hit: can get a field rep who by contract has to be available, in the motor pool, for 1-2 weeks stretches when called. That field rep may have just designed the very weapon system you’re trying to maintain and they improves your readiness in 2 weeks more than 2 years worth of soldier maintenance would, and all for free to the unit.

Miss: you find out about that field rep and their cellphone through word of mouth, and the on post field reps are garbage.
Personally it feels like the author is unloading their personal gripes. Maybe it’s because I’m out of the tech bubble, but I’ve never had any desire to monetize any of my hobbies, nor do my friends.
Thanks to Valve and Proton/Wine, my games run great on Linux now, in most cases. So, I can say I'm really satisfied. We're certainly miles ahead of, say, 5 years ago.
It’s a term used a lot already for DIY’d portable computers in a kind of cyberpunk aesthetic, apparently from the game series Shadowrun

https://hackaday.com/tag/cyberdeck/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/

https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Cyberdeck