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JSAUX announce a charging-friendly Steam Deck travel case
6 Feb 2026 at 1:51 pm UTC Likes: 2

Do not charge your anything if it can not ventilate.
My macbook refused to suspend which I didn't notice, and it committed harikiri with a 0load machine. No thermal throtlling. Just a dead hot piece of trash.
Now that warning is out of the way:
If this has enough things to cool and ventilate, I would want it. My biggest problem with the steam deck I have when playing is that I want to lay it on my bed, which would block the fan ingress.

Steam Machine & Steam Frame FAQ - RAM and storage crisis to blame for no pricing or dates
5 Feb 2026 at 9:19 am UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: PhiladelphusI must be misunderstanding this, because I don't really see much benefit from foveated streaming.
The benefit is in limited bandwidth. The Frame doesn't have a wired option - it can only be used wirelessly. Foveated streaming doesn't reduce the rendering load at all, it's true, but it does maintain the perceived quality of the image where bandwidth is limited or variable.
Less data means less transmission time, means lower lag. The problem with (wireless) streaming is too much data to get it to the other side with as little delay as possible. And delay is what makes you feel sick.

UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages
27 Jan 2026 at 5:13 pm UTC Likes: 10

I remember back in 2004/2005 how a PR company was hired by certain companies (microsoft) to act as if they were a grassroots movement of software developers that demanded patents on software, while practically all software developers were out on the streets in Brussels to protest against the ridiculous patents on software.
They got found out. This has lead to major restrictions in ways you are allowed to lobby in the EU.

But since the UK isn't part of the EU anymore, they can ignore that of course and lobbyists are free again to make those "grassroots" websites...

Do not ever think that a single steam customer is behind that site... It's paid for by multinationals.

UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages
27 Jan 2026 at 1:02 pm UTC Likes: 18

The UK continues to target consumers and make it bad for their own citizens... And all because of these "protect the children" fake organizations that clearly have a second agenda, and it is not about protecting the children. I wish these organizations would be sued for abusing the state of abused children for their own gain.

ARC Raiders has a new content-filled roadmap for early 2026
27 Jan 2026 at 11:35 am UTC

The game looks nice. But I hate other players. I mean, there will probably always be at least one that I hate. Just like the Ark: SE GOL server where I spend my 1 hour free time every few days in, only to start all over again because of that one person.

Valve's documentation highlights the different ways standalone games run on Steam Frame
19 Jan 2026 at 7:09 pm UTC

The most important game I want to run on it is a 3D desktop that can run a bunch of *readable* wezterms and maybe a few browsertabs.
I am still between xreal glasses on my steam deck and a steam frame...
The steam frame will be a desktop replacement, so if either the frame or the deck breaks, I can still use the other.
In the end I might stream desktop from my cluster. But for travel: deck+xreal or frame...
I reckon the deck+xreal is more expensive than the frame.

Valve's documentation highlights the different ways standalone games run on Steam Frame
15 Jan 2026 at 5:15 pm UTC Likes: 1

The most important game I want to run on it is a 3D desktop that can run a bunch of *readable* wezterms and maybe a few browsertabs.
I am still between xreal glasses on my steam deck and a steam frame...
The steam frame will be a desktop replacement, so if either the frame or the deck breaks, I can still use the other.
In the end I might stream desktop from my cluster. But for travel: deck+xreal or frame...
I reckon the deck+xreal is more expensive than the frame.

Aspyr have indefinitely delayed Deus Ex Remastered
12 Dec 2025 at 10:49 am UTC Likes: 1

I don't mind remasters, just as long as it's clear that it is not going to cost $60 like everything today.

Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode
5 Nov 2025 at 6:11 am UTC

That's very nice. But I thought the download/patch process in itself was power hungry :-). Yes, there always has to be a negative comment :-). Doesn't mean I am not thinking about getting me a hot standby steam deck. It basically replaced all my laptops and desktops for work.
I think it's several years that I've been earning money with my steam deck \0/. This can be turned into a meme somehow, but I do not have enough coffee in me to see it yet.

Steam UK users will now need a credit card to access mature content due to the Online Safety Act
30 Aug 2025 at 6:48 pm UTC Likes: 2

It's not that they want to protect children, it's about that the UK that wants to know who the adults are. All parties in the UK are bad.
I remember a McCarthy claiming that downloading mp3 songs funds terrorism around the time that we were in Brussels protesting against software patents.
She wanted to have DPI to detect the downloading of mp3 songs.
The current "child protection" is exactly that, just they disguise it as a way to protect children.
I wonder how the UK would handle roblox? As that's a platform that can be harmful to children, unlike anything in the steam store.