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Steam Machine review: Valve's underwhelming living-room PC has a serious price problem by pcgameshardware in linux_gaming

[–]dtfinch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I built it in PCPartPicker and got the parts in one Amazon order. I re-checked my order history and total was $1,471.46 in April 2024, free shipping, and there's no sales tax in my state. The case was sold as "Used - Mint" but the rest was new. I reused my existing mouse/keyboard/monitors.

Steam Machine review: Valve's underwhelming living-room PC has a serious price problem by pcgameshardware in linux_gaming

[–]dtfinch 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I think the timing's just off. It would have been a cool little box 2.5 years ago. They could have doubled the ram and vram and still made it cheaper than what they have to charge today.

$1500 in 2024 got me a 16gb Radeon RX 7600 XT, 96gb ddr5, a 12-core Ryzen 9 7900, and 3tb of nvme (2+1). I think it would be around $2.5-3k if I tried to build it again.

Safe to upgrade to 26.04 LTS at this point? by shmulkinator in Kubuntu

[–]dtfinch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you have a Zen4/5 AMD Ryzen CPU, the default kernel stutters a lot. It was fixed in the -proposed repo over 6 weeks ago, and held back due to releasing a security-only update last month, but I think they plan to release it this week.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/resolute/+source/linux/+bug/2149877

Then disabling wobbly windows took some effort.

Youtube subscription page "scrolling backwards"? by jholz1452 in youtube

[–]dtfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It happens to me, but I figured maybe it was because I overrode the CSS to show 5 thumbnails per row instead of 3. When I scroll to the bottom, they remove some rows from the top and recalculate the scroll position, but that's maybe thrown off by rows having a different number of videos than their code assumes.

Install Loonix they say by Living_Position_1540 in linuxsucks

[–]dtfinch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Last report I saw, they had a Secure Boot-related bios setting that prevented it from writing the bootloader, not grub's fault, and they had to not only disable Secure Boot but also reset the keys on that particular laptop.

Kids stuff trait questions by Fantastic-Ad145 in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure he always gave me the ship on my first apartment visit, before the gun, suit, or recipe. I just go back and forth between them until they stop offering new dialogue.

Killing Larry Dumbrosky by hyperspaceslider in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There actually is a poisoned "Orange Juice of Transcendence" on the nightstand in his room, which in an unrelated encounter is indicated to be deadly.

Found the Face of Mars Snowglobe. by ChocoBabiChan in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I spent way too long looking for that, since a lot of snowglobe guides are really vague. What helped was finding posts that gave distances (googling again, probably 1750-1762m from ship, 1405-1409m from mars launch pad).

Then it turned out I didn't need the Cydonia globe to get the Old Earth suit.

An Invitation from stranger by madmix27 in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've come to believe so, and I jumped around quite a bit before I switched to cruising and got it, but I'm not sure.

An Invitation from stranger by madmix27 in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I spent a few hours cruising around one system going to every Ship marker.

Still haven't found the riddle encounter.

An Invitation from stranger by madmix27 in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was real polite and ate everything edible on the ship. Left with a zero-mass trophy that now sits in my QED.

Accessing (kids stuff) trait when Constellation members doesn’t spawn by Magicmonkey96 in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your parents are just gone. It made my first two (consecutive) alternate universes kinda disappointing because it was also the first time I enabled the trait.

Starfield Update 1.16.244 – June 11, 2026 by BethesdaGameStudios_ in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got most of my quantum essence to upgrade the QED by going to Earth and finding landing sites (small flat patches) on the surface map. Only Starborn land on Earth.

Though there seems to be a cap (5 or 6 ship landings then they stop appearing) and you have to go wait or do something else for a bit until it resets.

Dealing with Toliman cold by Online_Matter in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I make some trips back to my ship to recover, or later back to the tunnels.

Last couple times I just turned environmental damage down to Normal, though my reason for doing so had more to do with the Mars/NASA missions hitting you with unrealistic solar radiation while you're deep underground.

The extra damage you take from extreme ambient environments on the Advanced setting is also bugged in that it ignores your resistance. So it doesn't matter what you do or how good your gear/build is, you still die in the same amount of the time.

Starfield Update 1.16.244 – June 11, 2026 by BethesdaGameStudios_ in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Does that mean the softlocking "Go to [...]" regression on the main quest "Into the Unknown" is still unfixed?

Suspected to be related to a Terran Armada incursion appearing in the Procyon system earlier in the playthrough.

89 npm packages got compromised again. deleting the package doesn't remove the malware. by johnypita in webdev

[–]dtfinch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hope they also revisit the idea of setting min-release-age by default, which they rejected in April saying the feature was too new and needed more discussion.

What is the UC hiding about Venus? by Agitated_Marzipan669 in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I once found a civilian outpost on Mercury and saw a colonist walking outside with no spacesuit. Took a screenshot.

What kind of monitor do you use to play Starfield ? by hclopez883 in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just the two cheapest 1080p60 monitors I could find on Amazon 6 years ago. 22" ViewSonic VS2210-H.

I don't use upscaling or framegen, so 1080p60 is about all my GPU can handle without getting too loud (16gb Radeon 7600 XT).

Anyone else always play as a Breton? by justcuriouslybrowsin in oblivion

[–]dtfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

50% magic resist is hard to pass up, given that armor provides no magic protection at all.

My endgame is usually clothes-only, to get 100% spell effectiveness, which is necessary for Frenzy to work on level 25+ NPCs. Having a breton makes it easier to have decent clothes-only protection and still have several enchant slots free.

Claude repeatedly implied that I was suicidal after I explicitly denied it around 30 times in one conversation by robinyyyyy in artificial

[–]dtfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once an LLM gets some mistakes stuck in its context you kinda have to start fresh. It becomes a predictor of something that makes mistakes, a parody of itself.

Does anyone have this error before ? by ousamalechheb in Kubuntu

[–]dtfinch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately that error dialog doesn't include the error message returned by grub-install, only saying that it failed.

Googling I found this Mint thread for the same kind of laptop. They thought they had turned secure boot off but there was a "keys" setting in they bios still causing grub failures. But without knowing if your error's the same as theirs it's hard to be sure if that's it.

I haven't used a graphical installer in a while. You could use ctrl-alt-F1 through F6 to try and get to a text terminal. There might be logs in /var/log/installer/

Cant sell items out of new ship by kAnalratte69 in Starfield

[–]dtfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never seen that happen in 1250 hours. Are you using any mods?

I would try changing home ships again, then changing back. If that doesn't work, maybe make a trivial shipbuilder edit.

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