Play games, not just tweak all the settings.

What I don't get is why anyone would like to buy a new gadget for some AI features. Just develop a nice app and let people run it on their phones.

This looks great! It would be even better if they improve the handling of multiple accounts on the steam deck.

This reminds me of how Google handled the stadia shutdown. Now many controllers have got a second life thanks to the option to enable bluetooth.

umbrelOS is licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 license.

I've never heard of this one.

I'm really amazed in what valve did with the new steam deck. They really did a good job addressing many of the little pain points, while keeping most of the equipment compatible.

However, I am very happy with the current steam deck and will only replace it if a true next-gen deck arrives.

Badly. Nextcloud is a very active project with many plugins and integrations. You can even integrate a mail system and AI image tagging, chat and video calls.

Owncloud focussed more on the enterprise sector and less on fancy features. Definitely the more stable product (but not only in the positive sense).

Even if you managed to activate them, they would probably not be useful for a gaming handheld, as they were designed for image processing.

Now that was an intersting watch. It appears that not one part of the steam deck was untouched.

This is just one game with one particular graphics card, this might not be the same for example with nvidia cards.

I have been selfhosting Nextcloud now for five years (never tried selfhosting Owncloud). And you are right with the performance observation (I never managed higher upload speeds than 30 MB/second), the key difference is the application support.

One thing that bothered me for years is how to find photos you took a while ago. While Google and Apple offer smart features, with my selfhosted setup I was always depending on the date as only way to find photos.

The memories app for Nextcloud is a real game changer. Let me show you some of the features.

📸 Timeline: Sort photos and videos by date taken, parsed from Exif data. ⏪ Rewind: Jump to any time in the past instantly and relive your memories. 🤖 AI Tagging: Group photos by people and objects, powered by recognize and facerecognition. 🖼️ Albums: Create albums to group photos and videos together. Then share these albums with others. 🗺️ Map: View your photos on a map, tagged with accurate reverse geocoding.

There are many more apps, from simple tools to complete office environments. For me, this is the reason why I will continue using Nextcloud for the foreseeable future.

Just guessing, I really don't expect a Steam Deck release this year. But 2025 seems quite likely to me.

Edit: Maybe the next Steam Deck will be based on Zen 6? It is expected roughly two years after the Steam Deck OLED release.

The Zen6 architecture might adopt an advanced manufacturing process, potentially combining 3nm and 2nm technologies, to further enhance performance and efficiency. The expected launch of the Zen6 "Medusa" CPUs is projected for the 2025-2026 period, showcasing AMD's strategic planning for future developments. - Source

The factory library must grow.

Just as a side note, the load factor can also mean that processes are limited by IO:

Unix systems traditionally just counted processes waiting for the CPU, but Linux also counts processes waiting for other resources -- for example, processes waiting to read from or write to the disk.

Source

I don't think I played a game on my Steam Deck that was released this year.

Horizon: Zero Dawn.

Captivating storyline combined with interesting fights and beautiful visuals.

It seems sort of a waste of resources to use a steam deck as a stationary device. However, I don't think there is a really large market for a console-like steam machine.

For those who prefer text, the video is from gamingonlinux and there is also a written review on their website.

The most immediate change you'll notice is that Valve tweaked the default display colour settings, as they said it has been adjusted to "emulate the sRGB color gamut, resulting in a slightly warmer and more vibrant color appearance".

On top of that for external displays the Steam Deck now supports HDR, and you can also enable VRR if supported by the USB-C adaptor you're using.

You can find the full article here.

I'm not sure if a steam laptop would be successful. You can install steam on most laptops on the market (with some exceptions like ARM-based laptops or chomebooks). Same applies to a "steam console", just pick any small PC and put steam in autostart.

However, the deck features innovative controls and a rare form factor. There is just no device that has the same feature set as the steam deck.

This announcement also means that the 64 GB Version is gone and the non-OLED 256 GB version will be the New Entry model.

While I love good news for Linux gaming, this article is IMO a litre too positive. In the last part, notebookcheck picks the games that Linux distros were best in and presents a biased picture.

But the general message is positive: When games run under Linux, the performance is probably equal or better than with Windows. (And Windows has compatibility problems too).

Remotely hacking into my server is probably harder than just walking into my home with a warrant and confiscate everything.

I would be surprised if this would be possible. It seems that the revision is quite substantial.

lemmy has 30k monthly active users, thats a pretty hard limit. Need to invite more users to join the fediverse

You bought a device with just one single USB 2.0 port and ask for the ideal storage option?

I could be wrong, but you're probably limited to one external HDD (~20 TB) and one micro SD card (1 TB).

Don't worry, I'll play them in a year or two.

But you should also take into consideration that this article did not get a huge attention. It is almost a week old and has a few thousand viewers.

A 4 GB drive is really not much for a library, or did you mean TB?

It's also nice that you can easily return games if they don't run well on your system (at least with steam).

Sseems like quite a large release.

Firewatch. Got it for like 3€ or so at the sale.

Forcing FSR1 is possible (and was even possible before it was on Windows), FSR2 is not.

The autotldr-bot only summarized the first page, so here are some more quotes. Basically, the performance was almost identical, with two notable exceptions.

Across a variety of demanding GPU benchmarks the NVIDIA R550 open kernel driver continued to perform on-par with the proprietary driver for these GeForce RTX 40 graphics cards.

While running Blender 4.0 the proprietary kernel driver seemed to yield slightly better performance. It was just fractions of a second but was rather consistently showing the proprietary driver having that slight advantage here, unlike in other workloads.

There was the small advantage too that during periods of brief downtime using the open kernel driver appeared to deliver slightly lower GPU power consumption than the proprietary driver.

Does anyone have an idea what's the point with the proprietary driver now? Does it have any features missing in the open driver?

I can't really imagine how the PC gaming world would look today without steam.

With 4 TB, the price difference is quite painful (at least for me). With anything below, I'd buy an SSD without thinking twice.

It also seems to run well on the Steam Deck, similar to the first Horizon game. But I have not tried it myself.

Truely sad that they never saw the need for it, even after the launch of the steam deck.

Fancy controller with embedded screen and CPU?

My suggestion would be to setup a VPN service in your publicly available v-server. The most suggested solution is wireguard.

Then you can connect your truenas to that VPN and make it accessible, maybe via nginx.

The traffic flow would be:

nginx on v-server --(wireguard)--> traefik --> Nextcloud

Start with creating a steam account and start looking around. Put the games you'd like to buy on your wishlist. There is a big sale just about every two months, with smaller sales in between. Most games are heavily discounted during the sales, so waiting a few weeks can save you a lot of money.

With the steam deck, you can also play games from other stores like epic, but the setup is a little bit more complicated.