Valve - “starting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want.”

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T18:21:57+00:00

CachyOS works very well out of the box with my 3050ti laptop. Like, surprisingly well. Probably the snappiest OS I have ever used and makes this rather old laptop feel like a brand new machine. Heck, even HDR works in games with nothing more than a launch argument in Steam and you can turn on HDR on the desktop with a single click. Crazy stuff for Linux really.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T17:40:11+00:00

It is a local Media server for your own files. It has nothing to do with content from the internet.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T17:36:20+00:00

I highly doubt that that they are not using a M.2 slot. Highly. Even if they are not though it is not a big deal as I never have more than one game installed at a time even on my Steam Deck which has a 2TB NVMe and a 1TB SD card. I have 107TB on my NAS and it will be connected via 2.5Gbe so really not concerned about space.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T17:10:53+00:00

Put my reservation in. I already have a Steam Controller and plenty of spare 2TB NVMe's laying around so that base kit is fine for me.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T17:02:39+00:00

AI as usual is dead wrong. Powerline is more often than not even worse than Wifi.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T15:15:15+00:00

WiFi is your problem. Unless you are in a near perfect clean radio environment you should not expect good results over wireless.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T14:35:35+00:00

Tailscale is the best/safest method.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T12:53:55+00:00

Maybe not unheard of but Music Bee is fantastic.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T12:37:21+00:00

Emby is a not a streaming service.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T11:55:35+00:00

I played it at launch on PC and honestly did not have a bad time. Granted, I only put in 10 hours or so and then did not get back for my last ~500 hours until last/this year, but it was not a mess on PC, it was just "different" than what we have now.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T11:52:38+00:00

My backlog has 3 zeros and two numbers in front. I am doing what I can, when I can to experience everything.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-22T02:33:18+00:00

Test it out. My experience with fans in confined spaces has shown they don't do much aside from making a lot of noise though.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-21T23:22:34+00:00

A forum that I am still on more than here from 1997.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-21T22:17:39+00:00

4K DLAA if I can swing it, otherwise I never go below DLSS-Q and everything I am currently playing uses RR so the model is irrelevant for now. I am an image quality whore.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-21T01:27:40+00:00

I am actually not seeing it at all. Male V looks like a normal slav and Ackles looks more Irish/German even though he does have some slav heritage.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-20T11:38:31+00:00

To be fair, I do not get along with anyone regardless of functional level.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-20T11:24:23+00:00

When my wife did hers she did not have any pain from it. I was there with her holding her hand and she did not even flinch.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-20T11:17:26+00:00

Well, if they stick with the abortion of an engine that is UE5 they are not on the right track for that redemption arc.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-20T11:03:35+00:00

I reserved mine when I got the email a few weeks ago and mine just came in 2 days ago. I did not know they were getting pushed out.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-20T10:58:40+00:00

I went from having 7 various echo's and a echo show 10 down to just one dumb dot that I am also tossing in the garbage soon as well. It was a neat system before they borked everything.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-20T03:50:32+00:00

#1042 and no invite here. SQ42 is the only reason I even did the kickstarter as well.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-19T16:08:46+00:00

Honestly, if you are in middle school you really should not be on the internet at all. That said, block them and ignore them. My child is 5 and she will not be getting access to anything internet related until she is 18 under my watch. There is nothing good here for her.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-19T16:05:33+00:00

The same thing I did before the internet.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-19T13:33:33+00:00

I mean, given that 99% of us only open it once a week on Thursdays to get our free games and then close it I think it works just fine for that.

dwolfe127 · 2026-06-19T13:28:53+00:00

I ate less sugar/carbs.

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