Valve explicitly said it is to be considered as a PC, focussed on playing game, not a console. Thus a PC price point, not sold at loss.
Their word, not mine.
Honestly, I have no link with LDLC, other than buying components from time to time there (they are basically France small scale Microcenter). It has been quite a while since I last bought something from them though.
But I found that tentative at viral marketing quite funny, and wanted to share.
It has been a while since I’ve set it up, but I remember using this kernel documentations.
https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/media/cec.html
My setup was based on a Raspberry Pi 3 (I believe), and your hardware (including the cable) need to have the specific pin for it to work.
Not yet, but I’ll look at it tonight.
The Steam Machine is probably better integrated, and thus smaller, thank to it being custom made, I just posted this one because I found it interesting to see third parties trying to do their own with of the shelves components.
Personally I think I’ll go with the Steam Machine, but I’d have liked for it to be available as a barebone version without memery and ssd, as I already have some compatible one laying around in my component stash.
The SM could end up having hardware as shitty as this one, you never know. Especially since they’ve shown with the first deck iteration they could release hardware that can cook itself.
You can buy it prebuilt.
Still have to install SteamOS, but that a painless process, I’ve done it multiple timed. You boot the iso, double clic on an icon, accept the prompt that tells you everything on the disk will be erased, and boom, you got the OS installed.
You have to take into account the price is always shown with VAT included in the EU, not in the US.
The price without VAT in France would be €865,83.
On the hardware side, the warranry is 5 years. On the software side, it is Steam responsability, not LDLC. Considering Linux still support some hardware that are more than 30 years old, I suppose you don’t have to worry too much here.
Good questions. I don’t know all the answers but I can give you at least those.
It is a bigger, don’t have the Steam Controller dongle integrated, and you need to manually install SteamOS on it.
But you get a machine that can be upgraded way more easily than the Steam Machine, and a better GPU from the start.
Still, strangely that wasn’t a Boeing…
How you went from a shitty entreprener death to Epstein.
Care to explain? That’s not something I heard about.
Hard to say. Suicides rarely have a single cause. A layoff can be a trigger, but you rarely kill yourself from that alone if you life a pretty decent life outside of work.
Usually I go with “you are responsible of your own actions and words, not what other do or says about it”. So unless he personally pushed someone to suicide, or ordered someone to be bullied to the point of suicide, no, I don’t think he’d be responsible.
If you explain how it is related to this.
you’ve ‘moderated’ multiple comments in this thread
Both broke the community rules, and many more probably does, but we (the mod team, I’m not the only one out there) only removed the worst of them
i have no idea why you feel the need to defend rich trash
this wasn’t a good man
I defend my humanity, which includes having the minimal decency of not dancing on somone else grave. Even the worst asshole on earth deserves decency in death. That’s includes you.
Can’t argue that. He may not be missed after what he did, but a life is a life.
And in the current case, did he cause any direct or indirect death? Did he chose to cause someone death?
And what are you talking about? Our current case of fascism is a direct result of unregulated capitalism, courtesy of neoliberalism.
Not gonna argue on that because it is true. Still, fascism wouldn’t strive as it does without those who only logic is “I don’t like them so he deserves to die”. That’s the logic behind german innaction when jews were getting oppressed, and I prefer fight that now than wait for it to be the majority logic.
The definition of what is or is not depends a lot on the person.
In my case it is pretty simple: Can I plug a keyboard and do spreadsheets on that fucker? Yes. Then that’s a PC. As soon as you can do more than play games and watch movies on it, it stop being a console.