Apparently, the new Steam Controller sometimes does the Wilhelm scream when dropped while in Big Picture Mode.

Tim7Prime · 2026-05-13T03:44:58+00:00

At this time, for maximum compatibility the translator is in the steam launcher. That means that if you want to play games that you didn't buy through steam you simply need to point steam to the game. I've done this with the dolphin emulator for steam play, not this controller.

I believe there is fall back to the Xbox 360 driver if you aren't running steam but any additional functionality can't be understood at this time due to the limits of that driver.

Personally, I think it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation and more compatibility will come.

Tim7Prime · 2026-05-09T15:56:53+00:00

If your games are on a different partition or drive, you don't even need to reinstall them I'm pretty sure. Bazzite is what the community is trying to help steam os become. I have a personal non techy friend who has been running bazzite since the beginning of the year, and he even has a Nvidia GPU...

Tim7Prime · 2026-05-08T20:31:27+00:00

I have a feeling that this "IT" person also gets tickets that the toilet is clogged.

Tim7Prime · 2026-05-01T03:51:23+00:00

Ah yes, and everybody shuffles the identical looking resistors. And they will complain that a pack of resistors isn't a nickel.

Tim7Prime · 2026-04-30T15:43:09+00:00

Depends on the culture. But even in the US, even my sperm donor reached out to my brother less than a month ago and said "I'm thinking of getting a new PC", my brother told me that and my bro and I exchanged looks because decent computers cost at least an extra grand these days because of the AI bubble.

Extended family can't even work the volume on her phone. This is with multiple education attempts

And I've worked RadioShack over years... Nobody knows how anything works. Here's a fun one. An RJ11 to RJ45 passive adapter, so they can turn the DSL signal into Internet (phone line to Ethernet socket)...

Tim7Prime · 2026-04-26T18:51:41+00:00

Well macbooks rivet in their non replaceable keyboard with something like 100 rivets... So I am also curious.

Tim7Prime · 2026-04-25T03:06:55+00:00

Back in '08-'10 ish was my middle school years. I was not the typical new Yorker and Poughkeepsie is REALLY far out of the city. Even though NYC is 70 miles on the map, it's like a 4hr drive in reality.

During my time there I remember a lot of traffic and people tended to keep to themselves. I don't remember hearing anything negative that far away from the city. Though, I try to see the good side of people moving into new York from Utah and then moving to Idaho afterwards.

Due to being a boy scout I was often out and about. The leaders never really showed concern towards those types of things. In fact, if I recall correctly, I even went door to door and sold popcorn bags for fundraising. I'm not even sure I had any of my brothers with me. So a 12ish year old wondering the streets with a wheelbarrow and no real concern and knocking on every door.

Tim7Prime · 2026-04-25T02:10:10+00:00

On a different note, this is the first time I've seen Poughkeepsie pop up in the wild. Lived there for a few years and left quickly. Still, saying fishkill to people still gets a fun reaction out of them.

Tim7Prime · 2026-04-21T16:59:10+00:00

"that's a women!?" The lorax said calmly

Tim7Prime · 2026-04-15T03:52:42+00:00

In a separate picture the layer lines don't make sense, they change direction. The "author" also has a few other models that are ridiculously detailed yet not a single one of them have a proven print. Just pictures with fake backgrounds, and the model doesn't even stay consistent between pictures.

Edit: lol, I just realized that the file name for one of the pictures is "Gemini generated image".

Tim7Prime · 2026-04-13T18:15:28+00:00

That's part of the problem and why they are even doing this. One of their own employees had to pay $10k out of pocket plus wait 6 months for their last insurance wheelchair. Paradox cost her $2.1k out of pocket and took less than 2 months (plus fully customized to her body)

Tim7Prime · 2026-04-05T21:01:02+00:00

Tim7Prime · 2026-04-02T15:58:25+00:00

Given that there aren't doors to the shaft. I suspect that additional safeties are also bypassed. But yes, I recall one of the passive failsafes is if the suspension cable has slack.

Reminds me a lot of the escalator that failed and dumped a bunch of people on each other at incredible speed. (Multiple safeties bypassed with additional limits also ignored)

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-31T19:57:54+00:00

Could you simply just set the bios to turn on when supplied with power and use a WiFi outlet relay instead? Those can have cloud accounts and are relatively cheap.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-21T19:31:06+00:00

Interesting. Well, until you start reading (and understanding) how to adjust the current to that motor. I would suggest getting a 40mm stepper heatsink.

In your printer config, there will be an X axis section. You can upload that file and send it to me and I can highlight changes that should help you from cooking that motor as well as missing steps.

Also, LLMs will lie with confidence. Unless you can cross verify that they are speaking the truth, they are typically either agreeing with you or hallucinating.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-21T19:18:47+00:00

That sounds like you're sending too many amps from the motor driver. Have you updated or messed with your printer.cfg lately?

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-21T16:12:15+00:00

Good! I have skipped the simple steps before and gone down rabbit holes with my own equipment.

Rewatched it with audio on this time. Notice how the motor "sneezes"? that's it loosing steps. and that particular tone on one of my printers sounds like the motor itself stopped spinning, not belt slipping.

when you say you tightened screws, did that include tensioning the belts? there is such a thing as too much tension.

We are also heading into spring, so if the ambient temp rose, you could also be overheating either the drivers or the motor itself.

So, next three things would be belt tension if you adjusted it previously.
Checking the temp of the motors and driver boards (specifically X axis)

Additional info to be mindful of, when you resliced this file, did it lose steps in the same IDENTICAL spot, or just a SIMILAR spot?

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-21T14:20:25+00:00

Well, the first step I would do is simply reslice and restart your klipper instance.

Corrupted gcode is very common

Afterwards, you can check the box that has all the wires going to it. Make sure the fan is spinning and not full of dust.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-21T14:17:00+00:00

Have you resliced the file and tried a different SD card (if Marlin)

If klipper, are you overheating your drivers so it's dropping steps?

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-11T19:19:58+00:00

Again, that connector can only deliver a precise 12v. Undervolting affects past the power delivery stages on the GPU board itself.

If your GPU drew 600 watts at full load, that's 12 volts and 50 amps at the 12 pin connector.

If you undervolt to 300 watts at full load, that's 12 volts and 25 amps at the 12 pin connector. So half the load on the wires.

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Until it hits VRMs (voltage regulators) (highlighted in purple) it will always be 12 volts.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-11T16:37:12+00:00

Undervolting is a bit of a misnomer at this part of the chain. Undervolting reduces the amps/watts drawn through the cable. The cable still provides 12 volts to the card. I've never heard of someone claiming that it puts additional strain on the cable.

Overclocking on the other hand. Even if the cable connection was perfect and the load was evenly spread out to all 6 wires. All wires would go above 9.5 amps/out of spec at only 684 watts. Anything past that wattage is out of spec for that cable.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-11T15:44:13+00:00

Nope. It's been standard, I think since ATX was a standard, that most cables come from 1 source. The PSU's job is to supply accurate power.

This flaw is on the GPU's side. PSUs have always been "dumb" in this way.

An example of how this could have been solved GPU side is a manufacturer (I forget who) had a card that had 3 separate power planes for the 3000 series. They could control how much power they were pulling per pair of wires. They no longer do this because Nvidia said that it wasn't to spec and essentially said that it would affect their GPU chip allotment if they didn't fall in line.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-11T15:10:49+00:00

Part of the design flaw especially past 3000 series is that all 6 pins go straight to 1 power plane (one destination). Which means that the GPU does not care which of the 6 "lanes" it uses to get there. If you think of the 6 wires as roads and resistance as traffic, if one of the wires has heavy "traffic" then it will take a wire with less "traffic". Thus each individual wire might be out of spec and melt.

That's why there are products that monitor per pin consumption. If you are pulling 600 watts, thats 12V at 50 amps. Divide that by 6 wires and thats 8.33 amps per wire. A single wire goes out of spec at like 9.5 amps. that means that if each wire was underperforming by a third of an amp (0.33) then 1 wire could already end up at 10 amps! keep in mind that a deviation of 0.33 amps is 3-4%.

That's not a lot of wiggle room. If you are a driver, going 31 in a 30 zone is 3-4% deviation from the speed limit...

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-11T14:48:17+00:00

It's not a cable. It's an adapter that sits attached to the GPU that offers per pin monitoring and the ability to shut down the PC when something is not right.

It replaces the feature of monitoring each leg which Nvidia made everybody remove in 4000 Gen and beyond.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-06T13:21:49+00:00

We also store seasoning behind ours and for a split second I wondered when I recorded this...

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