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@getrootarded I choose to think Microsoft and Sony are paying good money to sink this in any way they can, bots, posters etc. For obvious reasons. Or, I'm just being silly.

I'm almost exclusively seeing bad faith arguments against the Steam Machine. This is essentially being sold at production cost plus a $70-90 service fee for convenience of efficiency, form factor and acoustics. It's not an attractive price, but it's a realistic one.

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@BrodieOnLinux @SilvaniKillian And I guess this will improve Linux even more in general as edge case issues will get more attention and polish, hopefully with a bit of Valve-help.

@SilvaniKillian Because the support requirements become much more complicated, when you're just supporting a small set of devices you know exactly the configurations they will exist in. When dealing with general purpose SteamOS you've now got to deal with setups that shouldn't even exist.

I'll admit it, I was wrong, I was honestly not expecting Valve to actually work on general purpose SteamOS

The Steam Machine, at $1049, is a bit too expensive to take on the PS5 or the Xbox Series X. But even at that seemingly high price, it’s still one of the cheapest and almost certainly the easiest way to get into PC gaming right now. Our review: bit.ly/4uNi025 #IGNSummerOfGaming

@Pirat_Nation Will get one, happy gaming!

Valve has announced the pricing for the new Steam Machine. >512GB model: $1,049 >2TB model: $1,349 Valve says the hardware is being sold close to cost rather than at a loss like traditional consoles. Reservations are now open, with the Steam Machine set to launch on June 29.

@AndyBurnhamGM Hope you revert Starmers walkover to the US tech bros, Thiel and fruends with Palantir, Persona theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Keir has given huge service to our country and I want to thank him for his leadership and dedication during such a challenging period. His decision marks the beginning of a transition and it is important that this process is conducted in an orderly and responsible way. I will put myself forward as part of this process. The country expects stability, seriousness and a continued focus on the issues that matter most and that is what it will get. As we move forward, our priority must be to work together to get the country back to where we all want it to be. People want to see progress on economic growth, cost of living, public services, housing and opportunities for the next generation. Political change should never distract from the responsibility to improve people's lives. The Labour movement has always been at its strongest when it looks forward with confidence and purpose. This is what we will do from here and we will make sure this transition is a positive process of renewal for our party and our country.

@HP Why would anyone choose a printer from @Hp with its locked down subscription firmware and other consumer unfriendly practices consumerrights.wiki/w/HP. Brother are remotely better consumerrights.wiki/w/Brother_Indu….

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At the G7, the CEOs of the big AI companies sat at the table like heads of state, alongside presidents and prime ministers. This is the nightmare scene. Governments need to have a response to the state-like power of these companies, whether it’s by taking ownership shares, breaking them up into smaller entities, or imposing a regulatory structure that controls their power over citizens.

@erikssondan Jag är tvingad på jobbet. Tack och lov tillåter man WSL, som får duga där som en fattigmanslinux. Privat, Linux och BSD.

Du som fortfarande använder Windows: Vad är den huvudsakliga anledning till att du inte bytt till någon Linuxdistribution? Uppskattar svaren för att få en bättre förståelse för en sak jag arbetar på.

@sflorimm Good taste, quality and deep knowledge of how things work, ie Building maintaible slop-free, good lasting architectures, and code and systems with the help of AI. Everyone can prompt slop. Not everyone can build the rest.

Everyone has AI now. That advantage expired fast. What's the new advantage?

@CommodoreBlog 50 plus and play everything from ZX spectrum to PS5 /Steams /GoGs with the kids. Good games are good games, regardless of age.

I'm a 43 year old woman who still plays #Amiga games like the #90s was only yesterday. How about you?

@LBC - Forcing mandatory verification for everyone - paper, bitte? - on the internet, extending the surveillance state and the power tech bros in unlimited ways.

- Stabilise the economy - Bring down waiting lists and migration - A 'closer, better relationship' with the EU Keir Starmer lists the achievements of his government - targets which two years ago, people told him were 'not possible'.

@EU_Commission Is it open source, federated with standard protocols, and led by an foundation? Why should we go to just another closed source, privatly owned solution?

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If we must have some regulation, a decent would be to require retailers to make available "child phones" that are preconfigured. It is really easy to set up parental controls but if people are too lazy, fine, let's make sure they can just buy it already set up.

@DigitalEU @EU_Commission 1,3 million citizens asked for regulation and rights. After commission had a closed door meeting with private companies, they got a few tweets.

Today, the @EU_Commission replied to the European Citizens Initiative "Stop Destroying Videogames". New legislation will not be proposed, but exchanges will be initiated with consumers & industry to improve the management of videogames' end-of-life. link.europa.eu/VXpmTY

@AlexBallingerMP protections of phones, instead of just buying simple phones with no browse access and so on. There are many solutions, mandatory age verifications is a bad solution to this problem, there are many better cheaper, simpler safer ones.

@AlexBallingerMP A boomer mind decision, not grounded in facts, and with little care for implications, but rather "we must save the children"". We are now forcing every citizen to verify to internet, a complex unsecurity privacy expensive as hell risk. Instead of just enabling existing privacy .

I welcome the social media ban for under-16s which was announced this morning. As a society, we must do everything we can to protect our young people, and this is a huge step towards doing that. What do you think? I'd be interested to hear your views in the comments.

@connor_naismith 3) You could also have bought them simple devices with no browsing in them, pure phones. Non expensive, simple, safe , keeping privacy, secure.

Labour is listening to parents 🌹 Today’s announcement is backed by 9 in 10 parents among those who responded to the government’s survey. As a dad of two young girls, I’m proud of this government for taking action against big tech and protecting their childhoods.

@connor_naismith 1) Big tech is lobbying for this, they want the government to handle it so you are pleasing them. 2) You could also for you kids have enabled the existing family protections, instead of forcing the whole population to mandatory complex expensive privacy invading age verification

@PolitlcsUK Yes they lobbied this in us and other places already, people like @GavinNewsom fell for it sadly.

🚨 NEW: Facebook and Instagram owner Meta has called for device-level age checks in response to the UK's social media ban for children "People shouldn't be asked to hand over ID to dozens of individual services to prove their age"