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I mean it kind of is. If I have a gaming focused operating system it still needs to occasionally be able to do all the other computer things otherwise I have to have two computers or dual boot or something. If I had a console I would still need a computer, well the saying this can be all things and we can just switch from windows to this, so it also has to be able to do all of the other stuff too.

He makes Nazis look bad.

But somehow his money will still be extremely relevant.

The billionaires are not going to save us from the billionaires. If we get AGI they absolutely won’t roll it out to the masses, they’ll keep it a secret and just use it within their own businesses.

So steamOS is in fact not an operating system it’s just a program that runs on plasma. Or is steamOS actually an operating system, but just quite a limited one, and you dual boot into plasma.

I’m still bit confused about steamOS, I thought it was supposed to be a full on operating system for gaming centric PCs but it seems to need Plasma in order to do any traditional computer things.

They know this, it’s not like any of this is a revelation. But the company has been lazy and would rather just test in production because that’s cheaper and most of the time perfectly fine.

There are technical solutions to this. You update half your servers, and then if they die you just disconnect them from the network while you fix them and then have your own unaffected servers take up the load. Now yes, this doesn’t get a fixout quickly, but if you update kills your entire system, you’re not going to get the fix out quickly anyway.

I hate it but there really isn’t much in the way of an alternative. Which is why they’re dominant, they’re the only game in town

So I work in the IT department of a pretty large company. One of the things that we do on a regular basis is staged updates, so we’ll get a small number of computers and we’ll update the software on them to the latest version or whatever. Then we leave it for about a week, and if the world doesn’t end we update the software onto the next group and then the next and then the next until everything is upgraded. We don’t just slap it onto production infrastructure and then go to the pub.

But apparently our standards are slightly higher than that of an international organisation who’s whole purpose is cyber security.

Won’t they make more money if they don’t piss everyone off.

Why? Who’s asking for this stuff, is there somebody out there who is really pleased with this news or is Microsoft really just that out of touch.

I don’t want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks, but Microsoft are pushing me towards it.

Wow he really thinks a lot of himself doesn’t he?

And since they cut food stamps we should make a reference to that.

We could call it the Hungry Games or something. I don’t know, maybe we can workshop the idea

Really efficient sentencing. Kind of like that scene in Andor.

Guilty, next case.

I suspect that if anything is going to become big enough to warrant its own community it would probably be steamOS rather than any of the hardware, after all in a few months the hardware will be out and there won’t be as much to talk about.

But the OS is going to be getting updates I would assume, so there’s always going to be new topics

No it’s not largely because of Google mocking around with it.

Just install Linux stop trying to make Android desktop a thing. It’s not going to be a thing and no one really wants it to be a thing anyway. Move on.

If I were shareholder I would want answers as to what the actual hell Cook is doing right with Apple. Every decision just seems to be intentionally designed to lose money.

From all the messing around with core products, to the bizarre decisions that led to the updated vision pro, a device no one is interested in, been upgraded to the latest version of the device no one is interested in, now with tungsten. Nevertheless I’m sure the iPhone sock is going to be a rip roaring success.

They could replace him with a goldfish swimming around a tank to make decisions, and it would lead to more coherent outcomes.

I mean, I’ve been running Linux off it on a Pi for years without issue.

It’s a lot better than the practise of posting basically every news story because it tangentially involves a computer.

Not as in physically leftover chips. The rumour is that Microsoft or some other company but probably Microsoft we’re looking at making a gaming phone or something so they needed a powerful APU that was power efficient and didn’t generate a lot of heat. So AMD went through the whole designing process with them only for Microsoft to decide at the last minute to pull out.

Very few chips wherever actually made, but AMD still had to eat to the cost of the design process, so they were casting around looking for someone who wanted the chips so they could make their money back. Somehow Valve found out about this said to AMD that if they turned it into a CPU (because they wanted a laptop GPU not a mobile GPU) and made some other tweaks, they’d put in an order for tens of thousands. So that’s what AMD did. It’s unclear if they got a deal on the GPUs or not, whether or not they did will have a big impact on pricing.

This would explain why it’s a mobile CPU, as there’s very little reason you would go that route unless that was your primary constraint. So the theory is that they had a CPU and they had to build a computer around that. Which would mean that the Steam Machine was probably never actually going to exist, and we would have just had the VR headset and the controller.

If this is true then this would have all happened around 2021 so the run will be basically complete now, but valve can still putting orders for more if pre-orders exceed expected values.