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I'm also considering migrating from Proxmox to Incus, but I'd look into IncusOS rather than having to manage the host OS myself.

I'm a big LXD and now Incus fan. But I went with NixOS rather than IncusOS for my latest build because I prefer the LTS linux kernel over the mainline kernel.

Didn't they literally say they would, just a few days ago? Why would you all say they wouldn't? What would they gain by lying about price hikes?

The only news about this I saw was that Cook confirmed that price increases were inevitable, but he wouldn't say when or how they would come. I think most people erroneously took this to mean that they'd roll them out gradually as products were refreshed.

> but on actual identity that needs to have the access.

Not quite. You shift the trust from the key bearer (the most interested party in all of this) to the identity provider.


I'm nodding along.

At this point, leaders should create a new security council excluding the permanent SC members, set rules around voting on issues where every country has an equal voice, create enforcement frameworks and then invite the SC members with equal footing.

The proposed reforms led by the likes of Brazil, Germany and India are not getting a lot of traction. Maybe if they included everyone else they'd have a better chance.


> I was bothered by how modern TVs still struggle with stable audio levels. Commercials are louder, dialogues are quieter, and sudden spikes can wake up half the house.

I don't see how that's the TV struggling. The TV is being true to the input. Blame the source.

Many TVs and set-top boxes have gain control / compression in one way or another. Even some older models.


Isn't that what they're referring to in the next sentence? >built‑in “volume leveling”

Probably a variation of it, yes. My point is that TVs are not bad at dealing with it. Some have the feature built-in and generally work, some don't.

My point is that this is not a problem of the TV set - it's of the broadcasters, the film makers, etc.


There's plenty of cheap adapters for these use cases.

It's not "these use cases". It's the primary use case for the USB ports on this device.

The entire pitch for the Steam Machine is to use it as a gaming console. Needing adapters for the most common controllers would be nuts. There's plenty of C-to-A adapters for other use cases.


The Steam Machine is clearly not a high-end gaming console. I don't think most users will be using wired controllers. I could be wrong, of course.

> Buying a gaming pc is always a bad deal compared to a PS5!

If you only compare the hardware, that's true. Even if you don't consider all the other functionality that a PC has vs. a console, add all the different ways to get free and heavily discounted games on Steam/PC, and the results of that calculation might start to look very different.


Your response is essentially OPs reasoning, read it again :)

Anyways, just wanted to add that the steam machine and PCs killer differentiator: a truly open platform that no mac, ps5 and other consoles can offer. Do whatever you want, install whatever software you want, whatever OS you want. Break the rules, face the consequences. Live life like a living being, not as a slave to some corpo.


> Your response is essentially OPs reasoning

I take it you meant GP (as in, the post I was responding to - which to this post is actually GGP but I digress).

I don't think it is. Their reasoning is:

> there are reasons someone might want a 6" cube instead of a full PS5 and a mac mini. None of them are low price but they are reasons nonetheless.

Mine is that it is indeed price, only not the price of the hardware alone but rather the price of the ecosystem as a whole. Another aspect that I didn't cover is that a game that you buy today for PC will likely still work on whatever PC you have 20, 30 years from now. The same cannot be said for consoles.

I do agree with your second paragraph though! :)


> Scalping is a natural "black" market which always pops up to satisfy market demand whenever artificial restrictions are placed on the market.

In which way do you see the market for Steam Machines to be artificially restricted?


Their price is being set artificially below the market demand/supply equilibrium.

The same thing happens when governments set price limits.


The price is being set according with Valve's costs and expected margins. It's not an artificial restriction.

It is "artificial" in the sense that the price is set well below the natural clearing price based on available supply and demand.

What makes that "natural"? I thought currency and finance were human-created concepts.

That's likely because the HDMI Forum don't allow open source HDMI 2.1. [0]

That said, there are signs that it's coming to the AMD drivers. [1] [2]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no...

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/348723/amd-readies-full-open-sou...

[2] https://www.fosslinux.com/157755/hdmi-2-1-on-linux-complete-...


Seems like a case of under promising and planning to over deliver later. The hardware seems to be 2.1 but they haven't sorted out every feature in the drivers yet.

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