They were supposedly able to take a loss on the original Steam Decks, at least the lower priced 64GB models.

They. Did. Not.

The only thing remotely suggesting that is GabeN saying the price point was “painful” in a single interview.

Valve has stated that the Steam Decl wasn’t sold at a loss. GabeN was likely referring to the profit margins being very low, which is not the same as selling at a loss

Why the hell can’t this myth just die already?

The problem is that these are computers. If they’re too cheap, companies will buy them in bulk, slap windows on them, and use them for office PCs. And if they’re sold at a loss, that then turns into a huge loss

You don’t have to update all the parts at the same time. Sure, if your motherboard/cpu/ram fails you’ll likely need to replace all 3, but your current graphics card, PSU, case, etc should still be fine.

Plus, if you’re going from a 10 year old rig you could buy used DDR4 era parts on EBay or Facebook to save money and it’d still be an upgrade

They’ve already stated that they aren’t going to sell the hardware at a loss. This is because they want the hardware business to be sustainable.

Meanwhile Meta is selling their headsets at a steep loss because they’re making it back by selling all of your data that they collect with it.

You’re clearly intentionally arguing in bad faith if this is your response.

Ta ta, you’re not worth bothering with anymore. Go lie to someone else

Here’s the comment/thread where I learned about it: https://programming.dev/comment/21880176

Framework has done several shoutouts to Omarchy and DHH in official marketing material and is actively sponsoring HYPRLAND with money

Here’s the comment/thread where I learned about it: https://programming.dev/comment/21880176

Framework has done several shoutouts to Omarchy and DHH in official marketing material and is actively sponsoring HYPRLAND with money

To bring up the old nazi bar analogy - you don’t leave the bar to the nazis, you kick them out. But instead what is happening is completely bass-ackwards

Except they’re not kicking these assholes out. Framework are giving them free advertising and even sponsorship money.

Framework claims to be making a “big tent”, but if you do that you need to silently tolerate the shitty actors, not actively support them unprompted

Here’s the comment/thread where I learned about it: https://programming.dev/comment/21880176

Framework has done several shoutouts to Omarchy and DHH in official marketing material and is actively sponsoring HYPRLAND with money

Apparently Framework have been sponsoring some projects run by alt-right grifters lately fyi

I’m kinda surprised that him proposing that the US should throw Ukraine to the wolves (Russia) didn’t completely tank his career. In hindsight, for the past 20 years he’s kinda just turned into a tankie (or at least tankie-adjacent) due the the US’s misdeeds in Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

While the US has done wrong, that doesn’t automatically make its adversaries right.

In fact, Valve reports that the Steam Machine is “six times as powerful” as the Steam Deck, and while this is mostly marketing speak (“power” is a vague and complex concept in gaming tech, and isn’t a linear spectrum), it’s not unfounded.

The Steam machine APU can perform 6x more operations per second than the Steam Deck APU.

This isn’t vague, nor complex. The reasons why the Steam Machine APU is more capable is complex, but the results are not.

Quit making mountains out of molehills

It’s the crux of the law suit

The plaintiffs making the claim doesn’t make it fact like you’re suggesting. The entire lawsuit is hinging on a single email from years ago. That’s not steady ground.

This is doubly true when you actually look at prices on other storefronts. How was EGS able to have lower prices or even give games away for free when said games were/are available on Steam at the same time?

And it’ll total to about a buck for each person that claims, because the lawyers are going to take almost all the money and you’re suckling their bollocks for no reason

This completely biased news rag brought to you entirely by the plaintiff’s law firm

It’s alleged that they require games sold on other platforms which have a lower cut are not allowed to set their price lower than on steam

1. That’s based on a single email from 10 years ago that was most likely just worded wrong

2. It’s patently false. EGS offers games for free or simply lower prices all the time, even when said games are on both platforms

Ew, resetera

Choosing not to release on Steam isn’t easy because it’s not a balanced market, at all.

It’s not Steam’s fault that the majority of the competition sucks ass.

but they take a ludicrous portion of game revenue.

It’s a standard cut for online storefronts, even today. And they even reduce their once game sales hit certain mile stones. It gets down to around 20%. The only reason anyone talks about it is because Tim Swiney harps on it nonstop because he wants to be the one with the monopoly

I did too but when I had a quick search around that’s what I found.

Source.

Not relevant. The distress code on Graphene OS wipes the data on the phone, not encrypt it. Can’t give what doesn’t exist