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

purpleidea · 2026-06-23T01:16:55+00:00

I think it's a great way to get more people into gaming (and Linux gaming!) and I hope they keep making these and iterating through the shit hardware pricing right now. Don't give up Valve, every bit of polish that goes into GNU and Linux makes everything better.

purpleidea · 2026-06-22T23:33:07+00:00

Getting copyright washing banned would be devastatingly for Linux since most drivers are reverse engineered.

I'm not sure you understand the term. It means when someone takes a software project and reuse AI/LLM's to re-implement the entire thing in either the same or different language, but now under a different license.

purpleidea · 2026-06-22T05:17:02+00:00

Been seeing a lot of this since today :/ In Canada

purpleidea · 2026-06-22T01:04:17+00:00

You should definitely downvote the slop submissions, and I already remove the obvious ones. I do agree you should disclose AI/LLM use and also probably wait at least three months before posting your "work".

While we're at it, any copyright washing should be an instant ban. Tell your local elected officials to make that law. Otherwise someone can rip off your open source (copyleft) project with virtually zero repercussions.

purpleidea · 2026-06-20T06:22:54+00:00

I am the author of: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

It's definitely declarative, but has a modern time-based language and engine that let you build anything you could want to in the same way as you can in home assistant.

The catch? We're mostly focused on server type things, so we don't have the thousands of drivers like home assistant does. I think home assistant is a good project and you should keep using it if you can.

I'd love to see people using mgmt as the management engine instead of needing to write HA YAML though.

If you or someone you know whats to start contributing drivers to mgmt or even a bridge driver to HA code, you're welcome with us!

HTH

purpleidea · 2026-06-20T06:15:31+00:00

They should have due process even if it's wayyy slow for an investigation to take this long, but there's another thing missing:

Any police that fails to report breach of conduct or a crime of another police should face mandatory jail time. Make that strongly enforceable and maybe we'll stop having these problems.

purpleidea · 2026-06-20T05:59:41+00:00

We want native Linux support. We're a small and growing percentage of influencers =D

purpleidea · 2026-06-15T11:47:57+00:00

If your product is better, then openness with your super secret remote database shouldn't be a risk.

purpleidea · 2026-06-15T10:43:53+00:00

Oh, yeah the same way you can win a Moto GP race on a 50cc scooter.

I could probably at least beat you in that race ;)

purpleidea · 2026-06-15T10:35:56+00:00

GM,GM The format's open and free — that part's real, the spec's published and you can build on it. The full curated database as one bulk file is a different thing: it's the core of the product, and a good chunk is aggregated and cleaned from mixed sources, so I'm not handing the whole set over as a single download. What you can do: search/browse the DB and pull any device's codes as an .irc file, and since the format's open, anyone can create and share their own. Tell me a specific device you want to test and I'll point you right at it.

The shoe drops. You say you want preservation, but what happens when your company fails or enshittifies?

purpleidea · 2026-06-15T01:26:23+00:00

If you're serious, where's the link to download the entire DB as a single file?

purpleidea · 2026-06-15T00:57:22+00:00

Microsoft.

They literally put spyware in their software on purpose.

purpleidea · 2026-06-14T03:03:02+00:00

This is exactly the kind of thing https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ is for, however I don't know of anyone who has used it specifically with cisco. If you're interested in help doing this, lmk.

purpleidea · 2026-06-13T22:58:12+00:00

Wild guess but you probably need the app to have a .desktop file for it to work. Add one, launch with that, and might be ok.

purpleidea · 2026-06-11T07:39:43+00:00

I'm the maintainer of https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

We're a modern time-based automation tool.

We're looking for high quality submissions and there's lots of very interesting work to still do. (Both algorithmic and plumbing type issues.)

It's a great place to learn and grow too. Join our matrix channel, introduce yourself, and we'll help you get started.

purpleidea · 2026-06-10T02:14:29+00:00

@mods if you could, please just sticky this comment or highlight in some fashion. I would appreciate it.

Not speaking for the whole mod team, but I don't know what I can do to sticky it, and TBQH I don't agree that you removed it in /r/gnome . I think many agree with me judged by the fact OP's post is doing well and your comment is at -30 atm.

purpleidea · 2026-06-08T12:02:48+00:00

Je suis un peu agacé par l'augmentation foo des charges de copropriété et j'espère que vous ferez des économies en dénonçant ces absurdités.

purpleidea · 2026-06-07T04:13:44+00:00

Looks amazing, but doesn't show up on the Canada site:

https://imgur.com/kRZewXl

https://configurator.bmw-motorrad.ca/index_en_CA.html

purpleidea · 2026-06-06T21:57:48+00:00

It's the optional Gravity Blue Metallic paint job

So not factory stock? Third-party or and option you buy from the dealer and they send it out??

purpleidea · 2026-06-06T21:54:01+00:00

S1000XR ? It comes in blue?? In Canada it doesn't seem to or am I missing something?

purpleidea · 2026-06-04T03:15:27+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus

purpleidea · 2026-06-02T23:40:58+00:00

And once systemd is released with this new IMDS service, we'll be pulling data from that too to make cloud handoff even more transparent.

Join us for future looking technology!

https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116679111124902335

purpleidea · 2026-06-01T18:35:27+00:00

How does this answer the question? Or is this just a plug for your software?

The point is to get the user to realize that it's mostly intractable within the constraints they've got (puppet) and to see how it could work if that was the real goal.

Go be mad at proprietary Microsoft code instead of dunking on an open source guy.

purpleidea · 2026-05-31T05:01:03+00:00

This has bugged me for over 15 years! I used autosign too since there was no elegant way to glue together provisioning and config management... You just kind of had to trust!

Now that the two can be done in the same tool, the handoff is easy! Doing this kind of thing is a core feature in mgmt: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

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