official Linux gaming OS.

I wish they would fully commit to this instead of just giving people the option to install any OS on it.

People are going to install Windows if they can’t or won’t figure their way around Proton/Steam OS.

And what Valve will get themselves in again if they do not price this right.

Consoles are essentially time-based luxuries because the hardware and technology can be obsolete within 1 - 2 years at a given. That’s why consoles remodel themselves after awhile to extend their life.

Valve seems to want to give people an alternative to prebuilt machines on the market. But, if they can’t price right where it’ll make someone think “I can build a better PC than that” or “I can find a better prebuilt than that” then the Steam Machine was a waste of everyone’s time and labor.

Should just stick to the Frame and Deck.

That’s a very poor comparison you made there.

The specs do not impress me for a company that prides itself for being technologically creative. The Steam Deck was a massive success for what they were able to do with that. But this? This is like a glorified Raspberry Pi if it was done by Valve.

Even if you could expand the RAM and storage, everything else is just sitting there waiting to be obsolete in a couple years. I just don’t get who they’re trying to make this for. You can easily build a PC with a reasonable budget that could easily tackle things this cube probably couldn’t.

Individuals who game, are more likely going to look at this wanting all of the latest AAA games to work and I don’t see this cube doing the workload for long. And for the projected price point, it definitely won’t be worth the price.

Let’s see…

Dodged not one but two impeachments which should’ve done it for him. Is an active felon, hasn’t served jail-time. Allowed over 350,000 Americans to die to a pandemic that was horribly mishandled because of him.

If neither of those things have done him in, which should have for anyone else, the rotten piece of shit is going to die comfortably. He’ll be able to leave office peacefully, if that’s assured, without serving any repercussions for anything he’s done during his first term and second term.

What a fucking pathetic world and country.

I took up the stance of - I would rather be minimally informed than misinformed. Anytime I saw a peak of the news, it was just a bleak reminder of how shit this country has gotten and let itself sink to. Anything short of knowing Trump has finally died or anything, won’t suffice. The good news I hear about aren’t good enough, like knowing some animal species is discovered or some child recovered from an injury or something. It’s like a water drop to me compared to knowing how utterly shit everything else remains.

Distraction is a tool necessary for these kinds of mental issues. Don’t got enough, mind wanders and you feel miserable about everything.

And it’s undergone like one remodel already, 5 years in. So, it’s going to get another remodel about 2 or so years down the road, signifying again how close to its end it would be. Then we’d get an announcement about another 2 years from Sony themselves about the PS6 and whatever else.

Then the PS5 will eventually cease.

And this will be the last time we’ll hear of Montana for a while after this.

There’s a saying that goes about leading a horse to water but can’t force it to drink, something along those lines.

You could go through so much effort to water down the language to make it easily digesting for them to read, but then they’d cry about how dumb you’re making them look.

You could try to improve that by using words to better explain, but then they’d just harp on you for using words they don’t understand.

You can jot down a multi-paragraph explanation about such and such, but then they’d whine and bitch about how long it was for them to read.

It’s just, you can’t win with stupid. Willingly stupid, at that.

Discord, to me anyways, is perhaps the pinnacle of messengers as they come. It’s more than a messenger, it is a messenger and a IRC-like client. The only problem I have had with Discord, is how janky its web-based programming is.