Cyrus Draegur

Poly-Panro-Ace It/They friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™). Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader. Winged caniform bipedal warforged magitech cyber-lich in its dreams.

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  • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldExplaining hardware to enthusiasts
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    12 days ago

    The box in question is tiny: about the size of a GameCube. Extremely portable, light, and quiet. Valve has a strong profit motive to ensure games can actually run on it without Windows, doing nearly all of the troubleshooting for you. Yeah you could install Linux on a system you built yourself. You can eat the responsibility of expensive mistakes you could possibly make in building it and setting it up. But if the steam machine doesn’t work ALREADY, straight out of the box, without the expectation for you to fuck with it, it’s valve’s problem. For grown ups who have a job and limited free time, not having to waste that time on unfucking shit may in fact be worth it.




  • I imagine they use it for the same reason I use Patreon: if i like the content someone is producing, I would like to see them compensated for it. Artists and other creators whose work I love deserve to have nice things. If I can symbolically buy these people lunch on a monthly basis every so often, that’s quite nice.










  • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldTNP
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    2 months ago

    ahhhh yep okay.

    i remembered trump and putin but forgot netanyahu.

    it was nice forgetting about him for a while–

    …but there are literally thousands of people who can’t,
    thousands of families whose lives he destroyed…
    okay. i regret it now ._.