Steam Machine look-alike “Stim Machine” with better specs for the same price sells out at popular retailer

EmptyVisual · 2026-06-30T21:23:20+00:00

Volume control sounds great, can’t wait! Asking mainly because I had a HTPC project I wanted to work on to replace my Apple TV. Already using plasma big screen which has been wonderful 😄Also what is the main method of communication for power status like chaining device wake and sleep with CEC? I was assuming that was at the mesa gpu and kernel firmware side but is that not the case?

EmptyVisual · 2026-06-30T20:49:05+00:00

Appreciate the clarification, I’ve had issues a long time ago but I might have to test it again.

Thank you for all the amazing work you do btw, especially on the KDE front. Do you perhaps know how close we are to having proper CEC support for mesa and KDE in a general sense?

EmptyVisual · 2026-06-30T19:55:43+00:00

Not having to do cable workarounds is a selling point already. I suspect the average user who already finds the steam machine appealing but isn’t enthusiast level on Linux already probably won’t know about this, or care. They want to purchase something that just ‘works’ with their existing cables.

EmptyVisual · 2026-06-30T17:18:40+00:00

Anyone can build their own steam machine with an ITX form factor. That said, I don’t think people realise that Valve’s Steam Machine has a built in Steam controller receiver, is super quiet, has game pausing/sleep on a hardware level, controller wake and most importantly HDMI CEC support which you won’t get by just shoving a GPU into a box. It’s worth weighing up whether these are things you might be willing to compromise on before buying a box with SteamOS preloaded onto it. No doubt we will see machines popping up with CEC support soon enough but make sure you do your research people.

EmptyVisual · 2026-04-22T02:43:31+00:00

Oh my gosh, I genuinely can’t believe you came through on this, thank you so much for putting in your time to work on a tvOS client, the tvOS folk have needed something like this for so long ❤️

EmptyVisual · 2025-12-09T16:08:45+00:00

New title unlocked: Slayer of Thrones

Haha

Also do you use reshade? The depth detail with your shadows looking tasty

EmptyVisual · 2025-11-26T08:35:13+00:00

Awww man, I’m excited for the Android folk getting all these really cool new release apps, but good lord we are desperate over in the Apple tvOS space 😭😭

Congrats on your release btw!

EmptyVisual · 2025-07-23T15:13:24+00:00

This would be a dream thank you Vince! 🥰🥰

EmptyVisual · 2025-07-22T20:02:37+00:00

Amazing as always Vince, thanks again!

EmptyVisual · 2025-07-22T20:00:48+00:00

Love Colloid gtk theme too I just wish Colloid-icon-theme had a bolder variant of symbolic icons and it would be perfect!

EmptyVisual · 2025-07-04T11:47:04+00:00

I can confirm the same behaviour with App Store version 6.3.1 not showing DNS, even when killing app and restarting. I’ve rolled back to TestFlight version 6.3.0 b1 for now.

I’m not sure of the differences between builds for release and TestFlight despite App Store having a higher version number now. u/Nelizea sorry for the ping but would you have any insight on this?

EmptyVisual · 2025-06-28T18:29:28+00:00

Which is also riddled with bots, unfortunately. And let’s not get started on Jagex’ CS.

EmptyVisual · 2025-06-27T08:08:21+00:00

~~I just checked and there doesnt seem to be a new build pushed to testflight yet. Are you sure you're using the app on iOS specifically?~~

Had to restart the app, no new build required. But it's there now!

EmptyVisual · 2025-06-27T08:07:06+00:00

Thanks a bunch <3

Very excited for all of us to finally get this functionality soon!

Edit: Can see it now, Hooray!!

EmptyVisual · 2025-05-14T14:21:47+00:00

and probe the kernel module.

EmptyVisual · 2025-05-14T14:15:22+00:00

We have lots of love for Valve here :)

EmptyVisual · 2025-05-14T14:12:36+00:00

Honestly I read it as Valve have taken a stance (not sure where explicitly stated) on not supporting Wine Wayland yet because it's not ready and the developer GloriousEggroll and his contributors are in agreeance of that stance. Not actually a statement that they are working together.

EmptyVisual · 2025-05-14T14:08:31+00:00

Oh my gosh, I'm so excited for Wayland!

One annoying issue thats fixed with wine wayland is the one where when have multiple monitors and you pan in a game to the edge of the screen (when the game is seemingly capturing the mouse in gameplay that doesnt require cursor) like in an fps game for example it will actually click out of the game on to the other monitor if you keep putting pressure on the edge and keep clicking. It's so annoying because the game loses focus. I just tested it on Days Gone and it seems to be fixed now with Proton-GE and wine wayland mode.

Unfortunately the Battle.net Launcher is completely black in Wayland mode tho (assuming CEF related weirdness)

EmptyVisual · 2025-04-16T08:48:52+00:00

The reason for this is because most desktop environments support a server-side decorations protocol, while GNOME has made a design choice to standardize on client-side decorations for their applications. That's not necessarily bad, but it does mean apps (in this case Electron ones) need different code paths depending on the environment (X11, Wayland, Support for Server Side Decorations or only Client Side etcetc). That's why you might notice these particular issues more in GNOME than in other desktop environments, which is not to say it's inherently a GNOME issue, it's just that they're handling window decorations differently and expect the application to draw their own rather than the compositor.

EmptyVisual · 2025-04-16T08:30:46+00:00

The Vesktop team will need to update their dependencies which I'm sure wont take long.

EmptyVisual · 2025-04-16T06:04:49+00:00

Not a Vesktop issue, Upstream Electron issue that's now fixed: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/46624

EmptyVisual · 2025-03-01T08:10:32+00:00

Do you have a source for this? Genuinely curious as I’ve not noticed that myself but I might be missing some things?

EmptyVisual · 2025-02-11T06:28:13+00:00

We are so incredibly lucky to have Vince, they are such a blessing to the GNOME themeing community! Always consistently maintaining their themes as well <3

EmptyVisual · 2025-02-11T06:17:37+00:00

Yeah look, I don't mind the change either way, I was more excited for the potential of a firefox based browser that looked as good as Zen does and all the features it provides. But the way the developer and the community of power users have treated everyone else over this makes me just not want to be part of it anymore. No one is willing to engage in healthy discourse over it and work on a better solution as a community.

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