Honestly I think it’s a stage of life thing. As I got older, got married, and had kids I found it increasingly hard to find time to play on my PC. The steam deck is perfect for short sessions you can stop and resume anytime, and I don’t have to fight the kids for the TV or abandon everyone to sequester myself in the office.

Well also the change to pixel based screens from CRTs meant that you needed higher resolution for the picture to look comparitively good.

I probably would have bought a “PS4 in portal form factor” for twice the price, but streaming isn’t worth it.

Which brings us back to the Steam Deck, which can also stream PS5 games like the portal, except in HDR (if you have the OLED).

Even if it’s priced too highly, the PS5 Pro will probably sell pretty well. The Playstation Portal is very overpriced for what it is, and yet it’s sold very well. There’s a lot of Playstation fans with money to burn apparently.

20 years ago was pre-bluray, so the most common video media was dvd with resolution of 720 × 480 (480p). So 720p was really good 20 years ago.

API calls would still be a lot easier to replicate through wine/proton than completely uncontrolled kernel access.

Yeah I agree. The only reason to get the 64GB here is if you plan on install a 1TB SSD or something like that.

No, Steam families is now out of beta and is the default for all users I think. I’m not sure how long you can keep using the existing family sharing, but I’m guessing at some point you’ll be forced to swap over.

The only risk is that if someone gets banned using your copy of a game, you’ll be banned too.

So if you owned Rainbow Six, and your brother and as playing with your family copy and he got banned, you would be banned as well.

No, many steam games use steam to verify if you own the game. It’s up to developers if they require their game to have steam drm or not.

If the game doesn’t have Steam DRM, you can just copy the game folder and run it anywhere. But many games will require steam (with an account that owns the game) to be running before they’ll open.

Man I haven’t seen Hark a Vagrant for like 10 years. Completely forgot it existed.

I think these are just old stock they’re selling off.

The catch is that many game publishers won’t release their games on GOG, or wait for several years after release before they start to sell it there.

Technically, Steam DRM is optional and any publishers who want to can sell their games through steam without any form of DRM. The game files are transferable, and you don’t need steam running or logged in to run the game. But most publishers don’t want DRM removed, and so it’s pretty rare.

Here’s a list of Steam games that have DRM disabled. There’s also a number of games that will run DRM free if you put a txt file with the game’s steam ID number in it.

Previously a family member could only play your shared library if you weren’t playing any game.

With this new steam families, they can play any game except the game you’re actively playing (unless the family collectively owns multiple copies). So if me and my son want to play Lethal Company together we need two copies.

This implementation of steam families has been available in beta for several months. This is just the non-beta roll-out of the feature to everyone.

Glad it helped!

Tbh I think I’ve only run into that maybe once. But very few of my games require keyboard, so maybe I’ve just been lucky.

Steam versions of games tend to run a little better, and also benefit from things like Steam distributing pre-compiled shaders for the games. There are also some cases where non-steam games will require you to install specific windows components through wine for the game or in-game media to work.

Overall Fallout 4 should work, but without actually trying it I can’t say if it will work without tinkering or not.

Edit: did some searching, sounds like it mostly works, but you may have to manually install xact_64 to get sound working.

At least we won’t have to expect extermination of the human race to happen quickly.

Obviously there have been major improvements over the past 80 years, but that’s still considered the first neural network. The need for multi-layer neural networks was recognized by 1969, but the knowledge of how to do that took awhile to be worked out.