Quoting: TightRopeI am expecting another sub par product from the Wintel duopoly.
At least more competition is still good for pricing and quality.

Oh, I'm sure they will fuck each other over, as per usual.

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Really disappointing news. I guess the writing is on the wall for the Steam Machine. I suppose the Steam Frame as well. I guess I'll be sticking with what I have already.

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Quoting: emphy

It could go either way with it simply asking for people to enter their date of birth ...

The pro and anti big government politicians in the us seem to have settled on bad government as a compromise.

Silly buggers.

That's the plot twist. The politicians only campaign on anti-big government. After the campaigning is done, all the politicians are for big government. "my top down command and control government is better than your top down command and control government, totes". Vote Blue no matter who or Big Red Wave!! It's all the same; different coat of paint.

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I just stopped reading most sites. If the article, reads like it's written by an eighth grader, I just stop reading and never go back to that site again. Same with YouTube. On YouTube, I don't allow a history to be kept. That means there are zero suggestions. The only way I have videos to watch, is through people I follow or searches. If you are a real person, do everything you can to demonstrate you are not AI.

Maybe we should have an AI Tracker list. Up till now, I've just been removing them from my favorites and forgetting about them. Maybe I should have been adding them to my pihole block list.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThis issue is about Internet Censorship.

The mechanisms are being laid down to track and eliminate anyone who criticises a unpopular nation state. And to eliminate people's ability to share "upsetting footage" of things happening in the world.

This is also a war on the younger generation to raise them "jacked-in" to sharing everythign with "The Cloud" stored at your local AI Data Center and to fix Microsoft, pentagon contractor, loosing their grip on customers as their popularity has declined in the last decade.

Notice how various states across the globe are moving on this in lockstep.

Exactly. It doesn't matter if this law has no teeth and it's easily fooled. The law makers don't care and they never would care. What they care about, is getting the law on the books. After the law is on the books, that's when they start adding teeth.

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Quoting: voytrekkAre there any changes for English only clients? This has been used in the past to avoid bias from Chinese Steam clients.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#engsplitanchor

8.29% for Linux on English only.

pretty wild.

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Quoting: LoftyInteresting they work with Xreal glasses ? I thought they were just two screens made to look like one big one. How is it working as VR ?

for me VR headsets are just that, a headset. Im interested in XR/AR glasses with 3D support not requiring a 3rd party dongle and Mac / Andriod only software support. The form factor is more appealing for just chilling in bed, couch and looking at a giant screen (in 3D with the right software) But if the XR glasses work in a VR-like manner on KDE plasma id like to try that out.

It's AR. With Breezy Desktop + Gnome. I just see one monitor, hovering, in front of my face. I can set it to be an Ultrawide monitor. I can adjust my perceived distance to the monitor, which is great, and really makes it work. The FOV is the draw back. The Left third and right third of the monitor are black until I turn my head in that direction. "Two screens made to look like one big one", that's also an option.

If you just want a giant screen that's locked in front of your face, what would seem about 9ft. away, that's how AR glasses work in their default with no software. If you want a giant screen that is not locked in front of your face, you would need AR glasses with 6DoF. Most of the AR glasses have 3DoF.

What's good about Breezy, is you can pull that screen in closer. I can work on a monitor that is 9ft. away, but it's not great. When you bring the monitor in, then you need that FOV to be wider without having to turn your head left and right to see the entire monitor. Sounds like you might just need the glasses, no software, and just plug them in.

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https://github.com/wheaney/breezy-desktop [External Link]

Works pretty good. Sadly I have the Xreal glasses that have drift, causing me to have to recenter all the time. I'd buy new glasses but, all the glasses have such a low FOV. Better to just use my current glasses when I'm in a pinch. On a flight for 4 hours, I can put up with the low FOV and continual re-centering. I'd buy different glasses without the drift if there was a pair with decent FOV, I'm guessing it needs to be around 80 degrees.

I'm looking forward to these headsets coming out that are first class citizens in Linux. I'm looking forward to SimulaVR as well, it seemed to work great, but the headset I have, Quest2. Using that over ALVR sucks, and the headset sucks. Honestly if I had thought the SimulaVR headset was going to take this long, I would have also bought a Vive Pro back then. No matter now, I'm buying the Steam Frame and the SimulaVR headset comes when that comes. Hopefully an AR glasses unit gets released with at least 80 degrees FOV. It's awesome to see all these VR productivity solutions starting to emerge. The future is definitely bright.

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Would be wild to find out in 2026, Valve had the Steam Machine processors built with OnChip eDRAM. They could skip the whole AI-Memory-pocolypse. Wild, I know.

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Quoting: Renzatic GearWeird question, but can you get rid of those borders around the active window?

Yes, just reduce the Active Window Hint size to 0.

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