Quoting: NodSteam on Linux on ARM => https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/issues/81 [External Link]

Wonder how this leads to there being a native version for m1 Macs. It's a little crusty (the Mac Steam version). Of course it doesn't help that huge swaths of my Steam Library are unusable because of Apple ditching 32bit support....

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Quoting: omer666This is madness. They can't supply GPUs people can reasonably buy, yet they spend R&D cash in this...

Oh they do, it's just that unreasonable people buy them and resell them for 2-4x the cost!

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Quoting: GuestWith the direction the PC industry is going, I am very seriously considering not ever upgrading my PC at all. I already have a PlayStation 5 which is affordable, works well, and doesn't cost a whole forest to power. And with a Steam Deck coming my way sometime after Q3, I really doubt I'll need a PC anymore.

Not only did it all become unaffordable, but also soulless and charmless.

Personal Computers have become soulless and charmless since Atari and Commodore died. Linux has been about the only thing keeping me interested in the boring chunks of silicon.

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Ubisoft needs to just get over themselves like EA have, and release the newer Assassin's Creed games on Steam...

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Quoting: TrainDocWith DDR5 prices being what they are, I'd much rather just by the latest AMD hardware... Not to mention that price, ooof.

In comparison real MC68060 rev6 CPUs go for around 400-500 dollars these days.

(there are fake ones floating around because there is money to be had).

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: slaapliedjeI really liked that theme too...

Good old Bluecurve!

Thanks! I was trying to remember what it was called, but it sat on the tip of my tongue, then dived off into nothingness!

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CybolicWorth noting is that it's "free" if you're subscribed to "EA Play" on Steam.

I'm facepalming so hard because I purchased it just to do this, even though I have EA Play. Can't refund, as Valve already sent me one of those naughty-naughty you're refunding too much emails <_<. Unlike other titles, it doesn't have the Play with EA Play banner on the store page.

Oops! This was the second game, wasn't it? I know I beat the first one. Got stuck on the second. Really great game.

Ha, I've only ever refunded one game (mainly due to laziness) and that was Mechwarrior 5(?), because I really didn't want to be stuck on using the Epic Games store for anything... and then just waited for it to come to Steam.

Still haven't gotten around to playing it...

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Quoting: HamishSo going through an old backup I came across this screenshot I took the day I got the Quake III Arena Linux demo to finally launch a couple of months after I switched to using Fedora Core 4 full time:

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Turns out it was the day before my thirteenth birthday.

Whoa, that takes me back! Ah, that must be before Redhat said Desktop Linux is dead... but then started funding Gnome off to the side anyhow. And before Fedora dropped the 'Core' name. I'm guessing also before RHEL became the name?

I really liked that theme too...

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Quoting: iiari

Quoting: slaapliedjeI have a theory; Xbox as a hardware platform is going to be dead.

There is no need for it, really.

This has been my presumption for quite some time. Unless you have a closed garden monopoly like Apple on which to price gouge for the hardware (and this is what all consoles have been doing as well), you're making money off the service (as Valve is now doing with Steam Deck). As the perpetual console upstart with some good captive IP, it makes all the sense in the world now for MS to have their streaming service run everywhere and on everything. Now it just needs to be better.

*grumble grumble* Apple... where not only do they have inflated ego over their hardware (sure the M1 is actually impressive, which is why I bought one, but also to eventually put Linux on), but then there is very little sense of trying to better the platform either by Apple or the community.

By this I mean that when you look at Linux or Windows, there are so many of the standard utilities that are free and/or Open Source. Not for the mac! Also, Finder is basically an inconsistent piece of trash that has had decades of development, but still is the worse file manager I've ever used... There needs to be a DOpus style program released for it that basically replaces Finder, but unfortunately Apple won't generally allow all of Finder to be kicked out...

Sorry for my off-topic rant!

As far as modern gaming consoles and computers, is it only the PS5 so far that can't do the Xbox cloud gaming?

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Quoting: Termy

Quoting: subDoes Steam allows to activate multiple keys at once?
Instead of clicking through several pages every time?

just go to https://store.steampowered.com/account/registerkey [External Link] and click "activate multiple products", then you can just paste one key per line.
Remember that you can only activate 50 Keys per hour

This would have been useful yesterday when I sat in front of my computer and copy/pasting for what felt like hours... turns out, I didn't have a lot of the games in the bundle, so there is that.

I'll probably sit on the extra keys for a while and give them away at some point.

The ones I never bother with because they piss me off is the 'you get the software for a year!' This crap of software as a service needs to go away...

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