My problem is rarely how much effort it would take for me to adopt something. It’s the fact that the people I care about and the people around me don’t adopt something.

I have roughly two dozen people in my signal app, to communicate with. Out of the thousands of contacts I’ve managed in the past decades. And I’ve been using it exclusively to replace everything I did in WhatsApp, across this entire year, but the adoption just isn’t there because my cohorts are comfortable with the convenience that Meta affords them.

Everyone agrees that IG and Meta is bad for them, but they can’t be arsed to even move to Signal from Whatsapp.

That’s the thing. Steam didn’t do ANYTHING to traditional distribution channels. They all put themselves out of business, or out to pasture.

Hahahahahahaha

Aside, I just wanted to say that this was really pleasant. I’ve spent way too much time in the last week or so trying to share relatable and geeky experiences with these technologies, in various subreddits that really just feel like flame wars.

So this was a breath of fresh air

I use it almost daily, and it works great for anything but twitchy,online Bro Shooters. Apollo/Artemis over Tailscale runs better than Steam Remote Play // Steam Link, and they handle client resolution switching for you.

I literally just downloaded the oh Yakuza game last night to test this morning! Are you me?!? 👋🏻🤣

Seriously, I would much rather talk excitedly about all the crazy ways we get this s*** to work, and tear down people in our circles.

I’m realizing this cold November morning, that I need Lemmy to be what Reddit was 15 years ago and 10 years ago. Because I just spent the last hour responding to posts in /r/sbcgaming and /r/steam asking “why tf are we being so mean to each other?”

When we are essentially in the same teams.

Anyhow, slightly more on point, I was absolutely flabbergasted last week, to discover that I could run ‘Ghostwire: Tokyo’ on my PC at home --> ‘Moonlight’ stream it over ‘Tailscale’ --> play it on an ‘Ayn Thor’ Android handheld 450 Miles away --> ‘Chromecast’ it to the 8 years old ‘Nvidia Shield TV’ I set up in my folks living room, and play on their tv with low enough latency to actually progress my story, and the only configuration required was putting my device on the same network as the TV set top box.

This is the future I was always trying to cobble together, and honestly it feels like it would not have been possible without steam making so many of the underlying software services and links.

Necro-Bump, but Steam announced this last week, that they’ll unleash the Steam Frame in 2026, which will make use of the FEX efforts they have been working on. This thread is a great read in that context, since there is still shockingly little chatter in consumer corners of the internet about this exciting tech.

Thanks. I have the lite app and I’ve submitted a few compatibility reports of my own, along the way.

I really, REALLY want to get Ghostwire Tokyo working at a thing near 30fps so that I can ditch my Steam Deck and travel with just my Ayn Thor, and that’s why I’m watching the evolution of the Frame, and of this space, with baited breath.

It’s still worthwhile to stream from a more powerful computer over the Internet when service is available.

Edit: I’ll add that I have been shocked at how great a game can run on an Ayn Thor, like BioShock infinite and Batman Arkham City are both happy to hit 60fps at or above 720p. A year from now it’s plausible my 2019 games could play nice!

This gives me tremendous hope for more x86 game emulation on Android devices, because Valve have been throwing resources behind the development of FEX for emulation on ARM for the Frame.

I am absolutely convinced that my existing phone and retro gaming handheld have enough horsepower for 3D games from 6 years ago once this compatibility layers are built out a bit.

I’m really sad to hear that you had this experience. I started using Tuta back in April or May and it’s been full featured for me. I also use it for my BitWarden since both can host in EU, and Tuta has been rock solid for me across the last half year.

I hope that you get to resolution sooner than later, with their support.

I just need a search engine the will also give calculator and unit conversation results. Everything else sounds be search results.

At this point, it’s been too many years that I will just query “76 f in c” or “2500*12/3” from my url bar, so this I appreciate the most modest “intelligence” from my web browser.

Literally everything else makes my experience worse, though.

So I’m taking recommendations for more search engines to try out. I don’t know why I start page bothers me so much, but it feels like the results my ISP would give me through DNS capture a decade and two ago.

Gross oversimplification of Private vs Public. We are really taking about three kinds of ownership models, if arguing in good faith.

1. The people that are invested in the company, usually the people that built it, are at the helm.

2. The people that built it took a payout from Private Equity who now have ownership stake, and who now set the growth agenda.

3. The compant is now public, and given to the irrational whims if the ENTIRE marketplace, while at the same time primarily being at the whims of the board and the largest few investor stakeholders.

Steam has largely existed exclusively in the first category. So have most of the oldest businesses in the planet, which are often family-owned and maintained operations across generations.

So like … Can someone tell me if we like them or hate them, this week?

Things are getting Hua-wei out of hand!

It normalizes the anti-equity principles of the granting party, which now occupies the US govt.

The benefactor had already shown exactly how they treat people that aren’t white Christian men, and it’s up to schools, businesses and organizations like the Foundation to show resistance and inclusivity.

Where can I read about the requirements? Did whole, I’m prepared to pay dues to belong in a guild or union, depending on cost, and also I’m currently unemployed. Am I welcome, even? Lol.

It’s the closest thing in the union to getting GDPR.

It sucks, it’s always a compromised vision, and I still love us for trying so damned hard to do the right things.

Bruh. Read the room. You have been taking swings at everyone in these threads and basically telling anyone that can’t beg, borrow or steal a Pixel to fuck off.

Nobody should take you seriously when you talk about discouragement. I asked how you and I could encourage our community today and you told me not to worry about folks in the developing world that can’t “work a few extra hours” for a mythical premium handset.

“There are dozens of us! DOZENS!”

Thanks for spelling out all of this. I was you to know the I read every word of it.

The guy we both were responding to managed to waste an hour of my own day with back-and-forth so I figured it was worth seeing how others had torn apart the nonsense, and while I knew the issues in a theory level you explaining Brazil’s ecosystem was an excellent illustration I learn from.

Good luck out there. May we someday both learn to evade feeding the trolls.