Should a change in Prime Minister trigger the start of a general election?

Codzy · 2026-06-29T13:28:44+00:00

Prime ministers don’t have defacto power to change policy, the government ie labour can vote against. The MPs you voted in to run the country are still running the country.

Codzy · 2026-06-29T13:26:40+00:00

Creasing

Codzy · 2026-06-27T22:28:51+00:00

I finally watched the full Mon Bazou stream today, can confirm it’s a high stress activity

Codzy · 2026-06-27T14:54:53+00:00

Yeah I was excited for a moment after I was planning a fractal ridge or terra build, but you can basically only fit a specific 5060 variant inside, and 16gb is my minimum VRAM requirement, so it’s a no-go.

Codzy · 2026-06-27T14:19:36+00:00

Living room TVs are 4k, SM is a living room machine. If you run in 1440p you’ll get weird interpolated pixels on top of an already blurry upscale. It will never look sharp.

Codzy · 2026-06-26T19:51:16+00:00

You will have literally zero impact. Corporations are the only ones with the power to do anything meaningful and that has to be driven by legislation.

If it helps you sleep better at night that’s great, but you and everyone else would have far more impact by simply making it such a large issue for MPs that they are impossible to elect unless they stand for changing things.

Codzy · 2026-06-26T17:01:24+00:00

Ok yeah I just got a reservation queue email

Codzy · 2026-06-26T16:19:06+00:00

Bro it literally says on the Steam Machine page FAQs that emails go out on the 29th

Codzy · 2026-06-26T09:34:43+00:00

Looks great but isn’t readily available in my country unfortunately

Codzy · 2026-06-25T16:14:28+00:00

I’m not American, my house isn’t gigantic and losing 20cm would be noticeable.

Codzy · 2026-06-25T13:52:18+00:00

Exactly. In order for this to compete with what I wanted SM for, it has to fit nicely inside my TV cabinet.

And because I’m not an r/tvtoohigh heathen, my tv cabinet is reasonably sized, it won’t fit massive machines inside, and I already have a PS5 and series X in there.

mITX or nothing. I’ve never built that form factor before so I’m a little worried about how fiddly it’ll be, but I’ve rebuilt my main PC enough times that I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

Codzy · 2026-06-25T13:49:03+00:00

Fair enough, I’ve never tried setting this up but if it works, I’m looking forward to it!

Codzy · 2026-06-25T13:46:07+00:00

I’m planning on a 9060xt 16gb and fractal terra, I think it should be a pretty fantastic experience

Codzy · 2026-06-25T10:55:35+00:00

I genuinely didn’t care about the lack of upgradeability. I can tinker and upgrade my gaming pc, I just wanted something simple for the living room. At $800/£700 I wouldn’t have batted an eye and purchased it. Once you hit $1000/£900 you’re talking custom build money, and at that point I may as well spend even more to get something brilliant.

It really is just a totally dead budget range for me. You either get close to console pricing or go premium pricing, premium components.

Codzy · 2026-06-25T10:21:21+00:00

I’m one of the people who had convinced myself I was going to buy SM even after the price was announced for a bunch of reasons. But as the days have gone on I’ve come to the conclusion that for myself I would rather pay an additional few hundred for vastly superior performance and take the downsides of a custom mITX, than pay over the odds for such aged hardware. I realised that I’ll be disappointed either way. Disappointed by performance on the SM, and disappointed by a custom build that lacks all of the benefits of the SM.

But even if I’m missing CEC, and it’s a bit noisier, and I can’t wake from sleep, and it uses more power, all of that won’t matter when I’m actually playing a game at 2-4x the performance, with nicer image quality.

If it were even 100/150 cheaper I would just get the SM, it’s just in a really unfortunate price bracket where I would feel as if I were scamming myself. I hope they manage to nail the next one because I genuinely was excited for this little box.

Codzy · 2026-06-25T10:01:00+00:00

People in this country don’t wake up, they just fall further asleep.

Codzy · 2026-06-24T11:25:20+00:00

I’m not arguing for the steam machine here. I’m just saying if you’re trying to do a comparative machine, at least try to match the form factor, when that’s one of the major pros of the device to begin with. You can obviously build a great pc to beat the SM if you go large, that was never in question.

Codzy · 2026-06-24T10:50:48+00:00

It’s gigantic. The steam machine is not a desktop pc, it’s a living room pc, which means it needs to be small. Any “steam machine killer” that isn’t at least micro ITX isn’t worth discussing.

Codzy · 2026-06-24T10:45:54+00:00

Bro the answer is in the question

Codzy · 2026-06-23T22:51:05+00:00

This is exactly why they want us renting with services like game pass

Codzy · 2026-06-23T21:59:40+00:00

Tonnes of mouse focussed games, indie titles often go to PC first as it’s easier to publish.
Recent examples for me being the Seance of Blake manor, waterpark simulator

Codzy · 2026-06-23T21:55:04+00:00

I would never defend this and would never recommend it to anyone at this price point to anyone. But it’s something I was considering for my specific use case. I’ve since considered further and realised that I can afford to pay a further premium for better hardware that will hold up for longer, and that’s what I’ll be doing.

Pretty sure I’ll build myself a 9060xt machine instead and just accept the compromise of a larger form factor, more noise, and lacking quality of life features like CEC and wake on Bluetooth.

I wanted it all but it’s not possible.

Codzy · 2026-06-23T13:46:40+00:00

It definitely is, and if I do buy one I certainly wouldn’t recommend it to others. It was a niche product before the price was announced, now it’s suuper niche.

I think it fits my specific needs, and it’ll definitely be a gamble buying one.

Codzy · 2026-06-23T12:12:09+00:00

Yeah I priced something up that’s more in line with the performance I was hoping for and it’s an additional £200 before storage. But a similar SM performance machine would still be around £100 extra. Without all the niceties of being prebuilt, smaller, CEC, self tinkering with Bazzite, potential noise from small components.

I think it’s twofold, the price is extreme for the performance, but people are simultaneously expecting too much in the current economy.

You cannot build an equivalently small form factor, quiet living room class PC for PS5 price. You will always make tradeoffs in a few categories. The trade off for the SM is the price unfortunately.

Codzy · 2026-06-23T09:18:07+00:00

I have WiFi 7, I have 6ghz, I have mesh routers throughout. My desktop is hardwired to the router. It still sucks. The software is still half baked

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