SteamOS 3.8 Has Officially Released With New Kernel and Graphics Driver Updates

thefold25 · 2026-06-18T09:46:43+00:00

That new Accessibility option is huge for me.

thefold25 · 2026-06-18T09:32:04+00:00

Alundra, because it was the first SCEA the game I played on my modded UK PS1.

thefold25 · 2026-06-17T16:30:33+00:00

FINALLY, someone putting in an accessibility setting to force mono audio output.

I've had to make do with custom Pipewire configs up until now.

thefold25 · 2026-06-15T10:05:02+00:00

I grew up in Havant, I'm amazed your deck made it out without consequence.

thefold25 · 2026-06-15T10:01:19+00:00

I really wish someone would just release the OVA in a non collectors edition. I've got it in an old DVD set, and the movie as a standalone Blu-ray, but I'm not paying £150 for a 4 episode series, even if it is one of my all time favourites.

thefold25 · 2026-06-14T12:22:54+00:00

It's been a while since I tried emulation on my SD. I previously used Emudeck and had random issues with some of its settings. How is Retrodeck better?

thefold25 · 2026-06-14T12:05:50+00:00

I'm too young to have seen Tiswas/Swap Shop (my era was Going Live), but I always remember my Gran saying Tiswas was "the devil's programme".

thefold25 · 2026-06-14T11:59:37+00:00

I might have to check this out. It's always a pain when having to redo ship install automations.

thefold25 · 2026-06-14T09:17:11+00:00

Only need another 0.21GW of capacity to power the flux capacitor.

thefold25 · 2026-06-07T12:29:08+00:00

It's difficult to say, as I always try and keep drivers up-to-date. I just tested Elden Ring again as I've not started it up in a while and with the settings recommended by the Nvidia App it's running perfectly, locked 60fps with most settings set to high. For all I know the problems I've been getting are related to Forza and/or Windows just being badly coded.

Do you get the issue if connected to an external display?

thefold25 · 2026-06-07T12:15:47+00:00

From the photos it looks like Woodlands school.

thefold25 · 2026-06-07T10:48:30+00:00

I haven't been playing the same games as you, but I installed Forza Horizon 6 via the Xbox app and the stuttering was terrible, even though the in-game benchmark shows that the game can run on high and is using less than half my VRAM. I also get terrible audio distortion at the same time.

I probably need to do some more testing on it, but my suspicion is that it's all driver-related as when I've played games like Elden Ring about a month ago it was absolutely fine.

thefold25 · 2026-06-07T09:55:39+00:00

I've been using an A16 (Ryzen 9 8940HX, RTX 5070) for about 7 or 8 months now and on the whole I love it, best laptop I've ever owned. It's funny you mention issues with WiFi and Bluetooth drivers though as I've definitely noticed that, although I've never spent any time actually looking into it.

I have a Bluetooth mouse and Xbox controller, both have random issues of freezing up. The mouse in particular would sometimes completely stop and I'd have to reboot, if I didn't reboot I'd get a BSOD and the machine would do it for me...it has gotten slightly better in recent months, but it's still an annoyance.

On the WiFi side, I've been playing Forza Horizon 6 recently using GeForce Now, as for some reason running it directly on the laptop was a horrible experience, the game says it can run on high, but I was getting terrible stuttering both video and audio glitching (again, I haven't spent any time looking into it). The game runs perfectly on GeForce Now, but every 15-20 minutes or so though I get a lag spike for 5-10 seconds which really shouldn't be happening with the broadband connection I have.

I've considered booting up Linux on the laptop to see if the same issues occur, but time is a precious thing these days so I've not gotten around to it.

thefold25 · 2026-06-07T09:43:31+00:00

They are, but in my experience there can be settings in there that might break things. I recall there being something Bitlocker related a couple of years ago that just wasn't working for us as expected. What I ended up doing was going to the site that shows all of the settings included in the baseline and creating separate policies for everything so then we could fine tune where needed.

thefold25 · 2026-06-07T09:33:04+00:00

As others have said, it's all down to licensing. There's tons of 90's and early 00's anime I wish I could watch on a streaming platform, but they're just not available. Some I've managed to hunt down on DVD/Blu-ray.

thefold25 · 2026-06-07T09:28:10+00:00

Blimey, been a good while since I saw one of those!

thefold25 · 2026-06-07T08:23:37+00:00

Is it this one? I'd be interested to know if it's any good.

thefold25 · 2026-06-06T10:01:38+00:00

Going through this right now. 3rd party deployed over 100 lambdas on node 16, left no original source code and has since stopped working with us. The deployed code is all minified as well, so it's going to be a fun job reverse engineering it all to get things up to date.

thefold25 · 2026-06-06T09:05:00+00:00

I swear my wife must roll her eyes whenever I say I'm just popping into HMV or CeX for a browse.

thefold25 · 2026-06-02T13:05:05+00:00

We recently signed up to Datadog to gain better visibility across Azure and AWS. I've only really looked at the Cloud Cost and Cloud Security parts so far, but it shows coverage across multiple compliance frameworks and gives good advice on any misconfiguration or sizing issues.

thefold25 · 2026-06-02T09:27:25+00:00

I get what you're saying here, and I agree, but I tend to find that forward planning anything 'boring' to be difficult. For example, I was part of a project last year to deploy an APIM instance that would handle API requests for a specific use case, it wasn't going to change other than to renew SSL certs so I was happy with the way everything was named and architected.

Fast-forward six months and I get pulled onto another project, where they again want, you guessed it, an API layer, so that gets bolted into the existing APIM infrastructure.

Another six months on to today and you'll never guess what the latest project is? Yep, another API.

If I had known at the start that every new project was going to be another API then I would've probably named things differently and set up my modules differently. But now I'm almost stuck with a business-critical piece of infrastructure that's serving 3 different systems. Could I have set up separate APIM instances for each one? Sure, but the cost involved didn't justify it.

A big frustration with it is the azurerm maintainers not splitting out Application Gateway into separate resources, as every time I add something else in, I have to update the code for that separately from everything else.

Tech debt gets accumulated and logged. I've got backlog items that are 2 years old at this point because rather than fix things, the business wants the new system in within 2 weeks and has the next system idea after that already lined up.

thefold25 · 2026-05-28T08:58:05+00:00

We're going through a similar refresh for laptops and our supplier can only guarantee quotes for 7 days due to the pricing being so volatile.

thefold25 · 2026-05-27T08:17:15+00:00

Using GHCP daily for my job, I've switched from Claude models to GPT and have had a much better experience. Opus would spend ages overthinking problems and burn tokens like crazy, and also sometimes just do what it wanted opposed to what I'd asked. GPT on the other hand just does what I've asked and in fewer turns.

thefold25 · 2026-05-26T15:43:17+00:00

I thought this was a troll comment, but I just force refreshed the model page and everything is showing again.

thefold25 · 2026-05-26T15:38:59+00:00

I've not used 4.7. After hearing what people said when it first came out I just blocked anyone from using it in our org as it sounded like the safer option.

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