I used weed to quit alcohol, lose 50 pounds, and lower my stress after dealing with nerds like you at BigCorp all day. Hush and let people enjoy things. We all end up as worm shit at the end of the day.
I’ve been looking for a DisplayPort to HDMI cable to get around this on our household couch gaming computer. I have been unable to find one sketchy or otherwise that can handle high refresh rate and 4:4:4 color.
But are there any that don't overheat when you try to funnel dual screens through the USB-C/TB4?
The only setup I have that doesn't is a super minimal one that has a single DP out that feeds a daisy-chain (and a single USB out that feeds a simple hub for low bandwidth peripherals, and a PD in). Unfortunately, most of the screen pairs that I run don't do daisy-chain.
Every other hub I tried eventually got me to give up and connect one of the screens through direct HDMI.
The key is to not use TB4; that's far more energy intensive to handle than DP1.4 alt mode (+ MST for 2 displays). Basically the dock needs to be a little shitty and not have too many features...
I usually go for Cable Matters cables, they tend to be of a decent quality and follow the specs well. UGREEN is supposedly a reliable option too, though I cannot personally vouch as I haven't used their cables in particular.
The frame rate won't really be any different, there'll just be a little bit of extra delay until you can actually see the frame that was just rendered, and maybe some barely detectable stutters. Keep in mind we're talking 4K120 or 8K here, the GPU in the Steam Machine is nowhere near fast enough for either of these things. It's likely that there's always some mode with a higher fixed frame rate than what the GPU can calculate, even on Full HD you can probably just do fixed p120 or p144.
VRR is all about smoothness/microstutters, not higher frame rate/performance.
I don’t understand this reaction. It’s an immutable distro and is very similar to SteamOS. It’s very hard to break and dead simple to maintain. You will likely install apps via Flatpak and never have to touch the Arch repos.
I think you're thinking of Bazzite. Which indeed would probably have been an excellent fit for a gaming-focused beginner for the reasons you mentioned.
It’s immutable, so if something goes bad it will just rollback. SteamOS, Bazzite, and others also work in a similar manner. I run several Bazzite boxes for gaming and they are nigh impossible to brick.
Peter Thiel is not a person that anyone should listen to. That being said if you want to see real poverty come to the South East and drive an hour outside of any major metropolitan area. These are folks that would likely be unhoused if they lived in a city, but are scraping by and making it work in a 40 year old single wide that is falling apart. Capitalism in this country works as it has been designed to since the Reagan administration. Socialized losses, privatized gains, and a massive transfer of wealth straight to the top. Innovation means nothing if we kill our planet and subjugate the masses.
AI has way more utility than you are claiming and less utility than Sam Altman and the market would like us to believe. It’s okay to have a nuanced take.
