This is so unbelievably cool! Building your own gadgets from scratch is the future. It's very right-to-repair friendly; if you can build it yourself, it means you can fix it yourself too

Why is this strangely poetic

Just connect a raspberry pi or a mini PC to your TV; you can steam Netflix/Hulu/etc from web browsers. Get yourself a wireless keyboard with a track pad to control it.

Great game! Can get quite challenging

Perfect on my steam deck too

If building a PC does in fact get too expensive for individuals, I wonder what that will do for the sale of the Steam Machine which should (theoretically) get people into PC gaming for much cheaper. Maybe all-in-one pre-built PC's like the steam machine become the norm...idk

Running Bazzite (SteamOS merged with Fedora) on an AMD CPU+GPU desktop computer and life is good. Feels like playing steam deck but with the power of a desktop computer. I can play even the most demanding games the deck struggles to play. Literally the only barrier for Linux gaming to take over now are the stupid DRM+anticheats that hate Linux

I love bazzite for handheld consoles but before I install it on my desktop there needs to be version based on ordinary 'non-immutable' fedora kde. That being said, immutable distros are more stable

Unless its from GOG of course, because then you really do own your game

Fallout tv show

This is exactly my first thought

I've heard Ardour is great but has a little bit of a learning curve. Once you get comfortable with it, it should work as well as any other DAW and its completely FOSS

Arc raiders runs so well on Linux. I haven't tried it on my steam deck but I'm sure it runs great

Honestly, if you have an old phone laying around that accepts micro SD cards then just throw VLC on it and put your music on a mSD and you're set.

I've had terrible luck finding a good music player at an affordable price that plays FLAC files which is like 90%+ of my library. So I'm looking into getting a raspberry pi 4 with maybe 4 or 8 gigs of RAM and making an music player (I will be printing the case with a 3d printer)

Your intuition is correct that the steam machine will go up in price but I think It'll still have an edge over building your own PC for a couple of reasons:

1. Valve has economies of scale and can make contracts directly with Dram manufacturers/distributers

2. The Steam Machine is just already cheaper to make than a pre-built because it has a custom APU (rather than a standalone graphics card). Not to mention running Linux means not having to pay for a windows licence

3. The Steam Machine only has 16 GB of RAM. Most everyone I know building gaming PCs with DDR5 are using 32 GB

The steam machine is not a cutting edge device, but its lower end capabilities may become normalised if building a new PC becomes cost prohibitive. It may force the whole gaming industry to take a step back for a few years. And I mean, the steam Machine can play Cyberpunk 2077 at 4k 60 fps with FSR upscaling so its got enough performance for lots of consumers

Ngl I fucking love this

Never seen a room like this before, good reason to travel

Beautiful

I also think this would be positive honestly

Yeah I've heard Ardour can be a bit difficult for new users for sure, which is frustrating because it's probably the most well respected FOSS DAW out there (or at least the most professional).

You might also try LMMS or Bitwig studio

NICE

Possibly my favorite vampire movie