The downside is obviously you get zero natural light. And your neighbors might think you’re weird, but they’re roasting while you’re not so fuck em.

You could probably tape the foil to a piece of cardboard cut to size and that would make it easy to remove once the sun isn’t shining straight at your window and put it back before morning. I don’t know if the cardboard would affect it, however.

Breakfast: a couple peanut butter sandwiches or quesadillas (just tortilla and shredded cheese, maybe a little hot sauce.) Sometimes I’ll add an egg to the quesadillas if I have time.

Lunch: none

Dinner: Beans and rice or maybe rice or ramen with some mixed frozen veg and furikake. Or just more peanut butter or coldcut sandwiches.

Being poor and too stressed/tired to give a fuck sucks. Just gotta make it a couple more months and I’ll be able to fix it all. That’s what I keep telling myself anyhow. Gonna try to scrape together some spare change this coming month for a bucket of Orgain or something. Extra protein, fiber, etc.

It’s dumb young puppy love behavior. It’s adorable. No need to be so cynical about it. If these kids were ten years older then yeah I’d call it love bombing.

At ~310 estimated usage you’d probably want at least a 450 to be safe I think.

With only 350 you’d probably need to undervolt or set power limits, which beyond obviously limiting performance (but at least something the Steam Machine suffers from too) isn’t exactly “it just works.”

They’re wasting their money then. But fools have a way of accruing money they don’t deserve, for whatever reasons.

Building a PC isn’t that bad. $1000 is plenty for a competent 1080p machine, especially with DLSS or FSR or even just Lossless Scaling involved.

If you don’t care about playing the latest and greatest, you can come in around 500 if you can find some decent secondhand deals. 3060’s can be had for around 200 used and they’ll play pretty much anything indie just fine and can probably even handle modern demanding titles with aggressive DLSS and turning features down or off. You can go cheaper with a 2060 super for about 50 less or get a 4060 for about 50 more. Team red will probably be a little cheaper overall, although FSR isn’t quite as good as DLSS at squeezing every last frame out of the chip.

If you’ll only be playing stuff like Stardew, Crosscode, etc - and there’s a ton of great games like that - then you don’t even need a discrete GPU at all.

Yeah, Valve gets high marks for engineering for sure.

what they said doesn’t change what the thing is

lmao what

Of course it does. This is a PC being marketed as a PC. Just like with the Steam Deck, Valve was explicit about “it’s a PC too!”

It’s a PC with the convenience of a console. But it’s still a PC, and it has to be measured up to one.

I can definitely say that if a person lives within reasonable distance of a Microcenter, there is zero reason to get a Steam Machine - just get one of their in house powerspec prebuilts. You can take it to the microcenter if you need tech support you can’t handle on your own, you’ll get way more bang for your buck and you can still put SteamOS on it. Obviously most people don’t live near a microcenter and their options for a quality prebuilt are tougher.

But I still have trouble seeing this as being worth it unless you’ll be using it as a PC. You can get a refurbished Xbox Series S for like $325 and it’ll play all the low-demand games just fine and it has Netflix and all your entertainment apps available to use it as a TV machine too.

The Steam Machine’s value proposition exists solely if it’ll also be used as a PC and not just a “steam console,” but that then also brings it up against all PCs. And it’s way, way too expensive there. Not all prebuilts are a Dell.

Right, but in that case you wouldn’t waste a thousand bucks on a Steam machine anyway. You’d get a decent budget CPU and GPU, very likely secondhand, and call it a day for like half that price at most.

It’s very expensive to have a “AAA ready” machine these days but an “indie and retro machine” can be pretty affordable if you’re able to get secondhand parts at a decent price. Like you can get a used 3060 8GB for a little over $200 on eBay here and that’ll easily handle pretty much any indie under the sun.

8GB is plenty for 1080p. Especially since you’re not actually rendering at 1080p. And it’s RDNA4 vs 3, so it’s a more powerful chip in general.

B650 is fine but I didn’t look too closely at the specific mono model. 350W PSU is what stood out to me as a major issue since pcpp lists ~307W power usage. 350 isn’t nearly enough.

If you are tech savvy, don’t waste their money like that. Help them learn how to build their own, or point them to prebuilts with much better cost: performance ratios.

I’m aware of that. What all the linux fanboys here are failing to understand is that wiping out an old OS and replacing it with something new that you’ll have to learn how to use is something that takes effort and currently is unnecessary.

W11 currently works okay. I can still easily disable the annoying things and push off nonessential updates. I don’t need to replace it. Yet. If that changes, then I can go through the process to replace it. But there’s no reason for me to do so yet.

Linux fanboys proselytize more aggressively than evangelists do.

What’s even the use case for Xbox right now? People with a PS5 or Switch won’t switch and money’s way too tight to buy another system. People with functional gaming PCs don’t need an Xbox.

So are they hoping there’s just a bunch of non-gamers out there that are right now looking for an excuse to spend $500+ to get started?

I saw some refurbished Series S models on their site for ~$330 and that is a good entry point for a “gamepass machine” but there can’t be that many in stock. $500 for a Series S that isn’t even guaranteed to run the latest and greatest just seems too high.

My reason is really simple: replacing Windows with Bazzite or whatever would be a lot of effort. If W11 ever bricks itself or does something hideously invasive (that I can’t disable or opt out of) then it becomes less of an effort than maintaining the status quo, and thus switching becomes the obvious choice.

Well we’re talking about the owner class, not just the guy himself.

Doing those things didn’t result in the nation failing. Being evil doesn’t mean a nation is failing.

Are they, really?

Poor folks go through a lot as a result of being poor. It’s hard to express how miserable the constant stress is, and it’s not hard to understand how constant stress and the things we do to try and cope with it directly shorten lives.

Yeah, merely inflicting suffering on innocent people isn’t quite as bad as killing them outright but it’s such a small difference that I don’t see a lot to be gained from trying to differentiate them.

Yeah. He reached that higher than average net worth by wage theft.

I’m not punching down. I’m punching up. This dude didn’t give a rat’s ass about the people who made him wealthy while he was alive, so why is he owed consideration by those same people just because he’s dead?

Why does growing a company matter, if it’s done by stealing the wages of the people that are producing the growth?

A video game company with a valuation in the billions of dollars, yes. Of which this guy was a co-founder and board member, meaning he was doing quite well for himself.

Does it not count because “it’s just video games lmao”? Would it be better if it was a music label or film studio?

Maybe instead of touching grass, you should pay more attention to the class war his type are waging against ours.