Awesome! Subbed.

It all depends on what you’re looking for. I’ve put hundreds of hours into games and gotten way less than $1/hr, and I’ve also had a great experience paying significantly more.

So I don’t see games in terms of $/hr, especially these days when I’m more limited by time than money. Instead, I look for unique experiences with cost being a much lower factor. Generally speaking, I spend much less than $1/hr since I buy a lot of older games, but I’ve spent far more ($5-10/hr) on particularly interesting games.

But yeah, generally speaking, I’m willing to pay more for indies than AAA titles because indie games are more likely to offer that unique experience.

Why? Look at how many people here say they want Steam OS, and Lemmy skews heavy toward Linux users. This is that, but OOTB.

I don’t think it’ll sell anywhere near as well as the Steam Deck, but it’s also a less exciting form factor. I do think it’ll sell a fair number of units though.

The cheapest equivalent prebuilt I can find with similar specs (RX 7600 is slightly better than the Steam Machine) is $850, and a DIY build is more like $900 (lots of corners cut), so there’s probably not much margin on the prebuilt. Valve is probably saving some cash with their custom CPU, and they’re probably shipping it with a Steam Controller, hence the $800 target. If component prices rise significantly before launch, I could see $1k.

1. Yeah, I’m guessing $800-1000, and they’ll probably throw in a Steam Controller. That’s about how much a comparable PC would cost
2. I’ve been debating it, but it needs to be something my 5yo can use.
3. And that’s Valve’s target market here, those unwilling to DIY.

Get ready to riot because there’s no way it’s that cheap. My money is on $800-1000.

That’s a rip off, it’ll be more like 1/4 troy ounce, if that

Eh, I don’t particularly enjoy building PCs, but I do it because it’s cheaper, esp. for upgrades. I’m really not the target market for this.

That said, this is the right product for a lot of people. Many don’t want to mess with their gaming system, they want it to just work. That’s why consoles are popular, and the Steam Machine being a bit more expensive than a console and get access to Steam’s catalog is very attractive to a lot of people, especially if it otherwise works like a console.

Yeah, I’ve been guessing $800-1000. That’s a decent deal on a prebuilt with this performance.

I used Linux for regular desktop stuff before I installed Steam on it. Steam got me back into gaming.

Use something like Backblaze or Hetzner storage boxes for off-site backups. There are a number of tools for making this painless, so pick your favorite. If you have the means, I recommend doing a disaster recovery scenario every so often (i.e. disconnect existing drives, reinstall the OS, and load everything from remote backup).

Generally speaking, follow the 3-2-1 rule:

• 3 copies of everything on
• 2 different types of media with
• 1 copy off site (at least)

For your situation, this could be:

• 3 copies - your computer (NVMe?), TrueNas (HDD?), off-site backup; ideally have a third local device (second computer?)
• 2 media - NVMe and HDD
• 1 copy off site - Backblaze, Hetzner, etc

You could rent a cloud server, but it’ll be a lot more expensive vs just renting storage.

Headlander was surprisingly fun. Probably not my favorite, but certainly up there.

And my kid wants a fingerboard. What’s next, pogs?

I miss them. But I guess I’m in the minority on that one.

I want to use their launcher, but can’t, because they refuse to support it on Linux. That doesn’t feel great. Yeah, I can use Heroic, but I can use that for EGS as well. Offline installers aren’t nearly as valuable if that means I need to mess with WINE myself.

Steam eliminates all of that headache for me and gives me a first class experience. Buying from GOG feels like so much of a downgrade, so I have to convince myself to do it every time. I like that they’re DRM-free, but many of my Steam games at DRM-free as well, so it’s not a huge value add for me.

Ooh, maybe they’ll make a Linux client next! That was 2013 for Steam.

All of them? Maybe an international consortium that pays devs in their home currency.

Yup, there are a lot of bad charities, and the good ones often can’t handle billions in donations. And doing that takes time away from things you enjoy. There’s a reason he didn’t step away from his position until his 90s, he likes what he does.

There’s a Linux gaming community, that’s probably where you’d get a better answer.

And I argue it’s not a given that someone is a bad person just because they have billions of dollars.

If the mere fact of being a billionaire is bad, which it obviously is,

I don’t think that’s obvious at all. Becoming a billionaire just means you have a billion dollars worth of assets, and it doesn’t say anything about how you got that money.

There’s a high correlation between billionaire’s and being a bad person, but it’s not 1:1.