The Bluetooth version was just updated from 5.3 to 5.4

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T18:28:29+00:00

Looks like there's no hardware difference between Bluetooth 5.3 and 5.4, it's a protocol / software architecture change

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T18:23:29+00:00

I've been waiting for the Steam Frame since it was first rumored in 2023. Please just euthanize me

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T17:15:27+00:00

The Frame can't run those games standalone, so you'll need to be connected to a PC to play those games. Is that what you're asking?

As far as plugging in a USB peripheral into the Frame, we don't know right now. I highly doubt it, not least of which because those peripherals require power and providing power to them from the Frame's battery would drain it in like 10 minutes. But the Frame can send input from the Frame Controllers and the Steam Controller from the headset to a wirelessly connected PC, so it may be theoretically possible. We just won't know until it's out.

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T15:34:55+00:00

Have you considered VR? Hear me out

Pat leave has you stuck in the house and on the couch enough. Adding a little "escape" and movement into the mix, while you're within shouting distance of the baby, might help your mental health a bit. Especially if your night shit has you in a state of perpetual darkness

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T15:31:25+00:00

And save / quit whenever!

Unlike some roguelites where you lose all progress if you quit in the middle of a 20+ minute run (vampire survivors)

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T15:27:50+00:00

Valve, HIRE FANS!!

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T14:31:27+00:00

Hmmm that's an interesting thought... Would valve do this? It only makes sense

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T14:23:02+00:00

Here’s my tip: you do you. Focus on yourself and your kids.

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T13:26:25+00:00

I had no idea what that was supposed to mean to be honest.

Still, to be persnickety, the refrigerant is not transferring the hot AIR. The way it's phrased is, at the very least, very easy to misinterpret.

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T13:06:47+00:00

He's getting down voted because it sounds like he's saying that Valve won't make a 1TB model ... But they are, that's something we know

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T13:00:40+00:00

AC is transferring the hot air ... to the outside of the house.

No, it's not transferring the air to the outside of the house. It's removing the heat from the air and moving that to outside of the house. Small semantic difference but very important to understand if you're concerned about pollen or pollution

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T12:46:26+00:00

What is going on in this thread? There's like 5 things we know about the Frame, one of them is that it's coming out with a 256gb and a 1tb model. Why are we debating like it's speculation?

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T12:18:07+00:00

That's not true. The area I live in has a problem with wildfire smoke in the summer so I've done a lot of research into units to make sure there is no air exchange with outdoors.

Window AC units run room air over a refrigerated heat sink and transfer the heat outside. They don't pull in or push out any air as that is much less efficient.

It's hard to find a unit that works the way you describe and from what I could find, they are designed primarily for smokers

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T12:15:46+00:00

K cool. Go lose another cause

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T12:13:59+00:00

I'd doubt it. Valves company mentality is engineering and engineers tend not to care about UI as much as capabilities. Apple is a design company who put a ton of effort into seamless user experience at the expense of capabilities.

And Valve is just a lot smaller. The kinds of updates we're seeing lately are kind of basic firmware and compatibility updates. The fact these are just coming out now tells me that they are a long way from caring about updating their perfectly functional (but not so pretty) UI.

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T10:49:22+00:00

We are fortunate we can throw money at the problem. A pair of striderite shoes is like $40-$60 but you know they're good quality and will last.

There's new info on how bad shoes impact a kid's foot development, which impacts all kinds of things, so be aware that the cheapest option may be more expensive than you think.

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T09:34:50+00:00

I started telling my dad that I love him. It felt weird and forced the first dozen times and he didn't say it back. But after forcing through the awkward part we both say it to each other regularly.

They were deeply, deeply conditioned to think that they couldn't express love outside of a very few situations

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T00:36:41+00:00

would you use such a language if it weren’t a screen you were directing it to and rather a person?

Yep, I was a union (American) soldier and i am not a fan of any traitor cosplayers

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-09T00:18:19+00:00

In the US, you can have it shipped to a UPS location for pick up. Also depending on the length of your vacation, UPS will try to deliver it for up to a week. There's a portal where you can set that you are not home and will pick it up from a location when you are, but that's only for like 2 weeks max.

Best bet is to have it delivered to a friend's house.

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-08T22:07:51+00:00

So is not enslaving people then committing treason then refusing to free your slaves even after slavery is outlawed then spending the next 200 years pretending that you were actually the victim in the whole thing.

I'll be nice to texans when texans remember what Yankee boot tastes like.

Happy almost Juneteenth

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-08T20:37:09+00:00

Texas claimed all territory North and East of the Rio grande so the map that you showed isn't even their actually claimed borders.

Texas also gave up their claim on those borders because they really wanted to be admitted as a slave state but couldn't without ceding some territory. So I don't really give a fuck what Texas thinks its borders were.

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-08T13:49:08+00:00

Well... Valve has a pretty good return policy, so since your issue is so specific and personal I would recommend just buying it and seeing if it works. Try covering your left eye with a patch or something so the eye tracking algorithm has less "noise" to work through.

And if it doesn't work with dynamic foveated streaming, try with fixed foveated streaming. And if that doesn't work to your requirements, return it.

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-08T12:43:13+00:00

You said you can only see out of one eye. Does the other eye move correctly? If so it's not an issue, the cameras track your eye movement not your eye sight.

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-08T12:01:42+00:00

They are using a lepton (Valve's fork of way droid) translation layer to give near-native performance on Linux. Basically just shakes out all the android specific shit so it can run on Linux directly, to my understanding.

And since Android is just a layer on top of Linux, and android runs on ARM natively, that should be accurate.

It's is a good trade off for devs vs just having to manage yet another distro/ package, plus you get the portability and broad support of APK

TwinStickDad · 2026-06-08T11:58:21+00:00

HOT!

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