Reread my comment. Your “own” is completely inaccurate

Or do the sensible thing and minimize how many accounts you make on various sites because they’re bullshit, which also has the added benefit of giving you a small enough number of accounts that you can remember the passwords

Ah, yes, because self hosting is feasible for everyone

/s if that’s not obvious

Single point of failure and a separate entity has all of your passwords and you have to continue paying them or lose access to everything. Sounds like a terrible idea to me

Same. I gave Tunic a fair shot until I had to use a guide to get further due to the devs cheaply hiding a teleport gate in the map. Plus the spirit gauntlet was its own bit of bs

Thanks, I didn’t know that community existed

That’s what Friendica is for

Fair lol

There’s some 0-effort Unity asset flips that performed worse. Some

Personally, I’m hoping they release a B380. I’d love to put one in my media server for transcoding

We can now make our own Team Fortress 3! With lootboxes blackjack, and bots hookers!

Petulant counterpoint: SteamOS 3.0 is based on Arch and is a good newbie distro

The HORROR!

Fair, but the title for the PC Gamer title sounds like the writer is taking it seriously, and they’ve had enough braindead takes they they don’t get the benefit of the doubt from me anymore. I refuse to even click on the article.

Personally, I’m not a fan of Deck Mate, but I don’t have a beef with the designer. My issue is with PC Gamer magazine

PC Gamer magazine and shilling dumb ideas. Name a more iconic duo

Dude, no. A Raspberry Pi 5 is less powerful than a Steam Deck across the board. The only reason it could run DOOM at 4k in that video is because the guy hooked it up to an external GPU, and that external GPU costs several times more that a new Raspberry Pi.

Also, the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn’t come with an SSD. If you’re going to build your own boxed similar to what you’re proposing, you’d need to buy a Raspberry Pi + SSD + case + interface cards between the parts that’ll cost an addition $50-60. You’re looking at around $300 for parts. Any commercial product would also have to factor in labor and some margin for profits.

At this point you’re looking at a product that costs about the same as a base-model Steam Deck that isn’t portable and has less computing power for playing games. Virtually no one would buy that.

If Valve did release a non-portable PC, they might use a higher-power version of the Steam Deck’s APU at similar price points to the Steam Deck, filling the space that used to be occupied by Intel NUCs. But whatever they do, a non-portable system from them cannot be weaker than a Steam Deck. It would be completely rejected by most customers on that alone. And it cannot be dependent on an external GPU since those are a waste of money compared to just building a PC.

IE: 140€

Dude, you can’t even build a Raspberry Pi 5 based Retropie for that price. And the most you could run is emulated Gamecube games

Are you using Steam’s integrated streaming, or Moonlight/Sunshine? The latter has less lag and can handle higher resolutions, but is a pain to set up

Pre-built PCs come with Windows and are not suited for a console-like experience out of the box like a machine with a preinstalled OS for gaming

It isn’t that hard to install Bazzite. Literally the hardest thing to get it working great is finding a prebuilt that uses an AMD graphics card for the driver support.

And I’ve had people that don’t even use PC’s recommend Bazzite to me when I mention Linux. While not everyone knows what it is, you’d be surprised how much word of mouth has spread

Please don’t fuck a chicken