If you don’t upgrade the RAM, go with Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. If you do upgrade to 8GB RAM, probably LMDE? You don’t need to be on a bleeding edge kernel with a Windows 8 era laptop, modern optimizations will not affect perf much.

Ooh, it was 899.99, so close, but you went over, sorry! Better luck next time @[email protected]

Bigger than ever in post industrial society, maybe. Pre-industrial times almost everyone shared almost everything. The ones who didn’t share were rich, and even they often would invite guests to stay for a whole season semi-regularly because of their ridiculously big houses and desire for entertainment.

Hell yeah, thanks for the link

Do you have a link? So far all I’ve seen is they said you can sideload APKs, which (to me) is just as good, but apks on Steam is cool too. Here’s hoping Steam for Android benefits as well.

Jellyfin, my one true platform

If it’s built as well as the deck, it should be great

FSR4 only runs on RDNA 4. The Steam Machine has RDNA 3, so FSR3 is the limit

1080p can look bad on a 1440p display though, since it doesn’t go evenly in and you’ll need good upscaling.

And that’s why it’s better to use 720p in the cases where you can’t do native 1440p.

There are currently 2 third party handhelds that are officially supported by SteamOS, so at least 2 manufacterers have taken them up on it so far.

Basically, the Frame eyetracks you, and it uses that data to prioritize which parts of the overall scene are rendered at what detail level.

That’s an accurate description of foveated rendering, but what the Frame has is foveated streaming. Foveated rendering needs to be incorporated in the game, typically at the engine level. Foveated streaming can happen at the system-wide level because it’s not reducing the rendering load, but instead reducing the bitrate of the streamed video when you’re streaming wireless VR over wifi from your desktop PC or Steam Machine.

Yes

If they keep it shut down I suspect individual states will split off as their own nations eventually.

I’m not the one who said it, to be clear.

He has a foot fetish that is fairly obvious in most of his films. Also, his social skills are fairly bad in interviews. Definitely gives creep vibes, but IDK what else that opinion is based on.

Hey, so, I know those words sound really satisfying in that combination, but “objectively and factually” there’s no single system of morality nor metric of quality for fatherhood that anyone could judge by, so “objectively and factually”, your thesis is an opinion statement and by its very nature cannot be a fact or objective truth.

Well yeah, they exist at the extremes of society and push almost exclusively for their own further empowerment.

I suspect you could get the price on something like this down to maybe $100-$150. Basically a small low-power Intel box with an SSD and at least 8G of RAM could handle all of these services.

The hard part would be pre-configuring each of them and building/adapting software to make this kind of stuff easy for end users.

And at the same time, the third-party clients Void and Fladder both just had initial testing releases for Android TV. Hooray for FLOSS ecosystems!

Have you tried any of the alternative desktop Linux clients?

Fladder seems kind of nice, for instance. They release both AppImage and Flatpak versions on their github releases.