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This is not as recent, but he was also in Penny Dreadful which was pretty good.

It doesn’t matter if you build it yourself or not, it matters that whoever repairs it can swap only the part that failed. The steam machine has a lot of stuff on a single board (kinda like a laptop) and that sucks, from a repairability standpoint.

I say “upgrade” but it’s actually a repairability issue as well. If something breaks, getting a replacement part is not as easy as going to any pc store/amazon/newegg and getting what you need. You’ll have to go through steam/ifixit and it will most likely be more expensive than the equivalent pc part. You also can’t replace just the cpu, gpu or motherboard. If any of those breaks, you have to replace the whole thing.

That’s honestly very odd. It’s windows though, so I’m not exactly surprised. Can you share the brand and model of that docking station?

Beg to disagree. I’d never pay 750 for a “pc” that performs like ryzen 3600 with an rx 6600 and has no way of being upgraded (besides replacing ram and ssd). The hardware is outdated from day 1.

You can update drivers manually through device manager, don’t know if you’ve tried that. I’m assuming you’ve tested this usb-c hub with another device already to confirm that it isn’t dead, right?

W10 drivers can be used in W11…

Except that the steam machine is not a console? It’s just a linux pc with a UI that can be navigated with a controller. You can just install bazzite and achieve the same result. Software support could actually be worse for the steam deck, considering that it has a semi-custom apu.

Be honest, when was the last time you wanted to use a pc and couldn’t because it didn’t have drivers? Heck, my first server a little over a year ago was using a 15 year-old i5 2400, and it worked just fine for a simple file server + jellyfin with the arr stack and direct playback.

The form factor is slightly smaller than itx and you can buy a pre-built itx pc. Software support is ridiculous, that’s already a feature in every pc and OS.

Also, I don’t think the price is ok at all. If you’re going to take away upgradeability, it needs to be a lot cheaper than diy.

I worry that this is going to be so niche that it’ll die a very quick death.

This is such a braindead take that I really don’t even know where to start.

Hardware console limitations. Everything but the SSD and RAM is proprietary and you can’t upgrade it. Heck, it doesn’t even have an audio output. The I/O sucks hard.

Yeah, it’s close but the ps5 was released 6 years ago and it’s cheaper. The Steam Machine’s bang for buck is awful. It’s a pc with console limitations and a pc price.

“After 3 years” lol. You’re also not mentioning that even the base ps5, which was released 6 years ago, performs better than a Steam Machine.

You’re also comparing against the most expensive PS+ plan. The base one is about 80 per year so you’d “break even” in what? 6 years? What a joke.

Dude, if they’re real and there are lots of them, share an example.

Also, your analogy makes 0 sense. I’m not saying that they haven’t popped up for me, I literally searched for them and found no videos or thumbnails that matched your description. If you google scams you’ll find lots of examples.

Nah, fuck tipping. Pay a livable wage.

I’ve started having problems with bluetooth as well. My bluetooth IEMs refuse to work at all with W11.

So the latter, gotcha.

Nope. They subsidize the product so that people are more willing to pay, and they’re betting that they have deeper pockets than the competition (hence, a race to the bottom). Once they can no longer subsidize the product, the idea is that you’re so addicted to it (or you’ve integrated it so much to your product) that you’ll pay the full price.

Except that no one will, because they’re already increasing prices and people and companies are waking up to the fact the cost does not outweigh the benefits.

Wtf, these folk s are clinically insane. It’d be funny if they weren’t literally fucking over the entire world in the process.