Ah, so it is. I read the URL and assumed that was the title as it often is.

What a weird title! Yours, I mean. It’s sold out within 24 hours of being made available again after weeks and weeks of not being available. The price hike is just ancillary information.

Do they actually look like stickers in use, or is that just the presentation on the GitHub page?

Someone in these comments literally ordered one from a reservation today. So there.

Lemmy removes all metadata from uploaded images.

I just installed Read You from F-Droid.

I think self-hosting an aggregator lets you keep a cross-platform record of what you’ve read and what not. You mostly just need an app.

That link goes to a to a forum, which doesn’t have subscriptions. I figured out the answer, though.

1. I went to the Steam Frame page.
2. Near the bottom was “Follow Steam Hardware for updates, news, and launch information”.
3. That page has a “Links” menu with an RSS link.

Note: if you go to the page in step 2 yourself, the RSS link will likely be in your local language. My link above is in English.

Well, that’s a good idea. I haven’t thought about RSS in ages. Like I forgot that was even a thing. I could write a back-end that polls the RSS feed for its last updated date, and if I find something, then notify subscibers. Subscribers like an app someone makes.

I don’t know much about writing Android apps, but I feel like if I were to write the stupidest one, post it on GitHub, and advertise the project to people, someone will be so offended at its stupidity that they’ll fix it for me.

I can handle the back-end stuff just fine.

Just kidding. I’ll go find some RSS app that has notifications. I just like making things, and making a “Steam Hardware Alert” app seems like fun.

We agree! That’s what I meant when I said, “Any real news from Valve.”

I guess “real news from Valve” wasn’t clear enough and could be mistaken for also including NewRandomYouTubeGamerX64_L33tSauce’s pricing opinions. I guess I just don’t condider that news. I thought the title was clear. TIL!

I plan to eat only rice and beans that month.

Two Steam fanboys downvoted you.

I have the Mojora’s Mask version, but I stored the power adapter in the same bag as the console and went on a road trip and the whole back of the shell got terribly scuffed. 😖 Like gouged, even. The little folding plug had opened up and sat there vibrating against the shell for hours.

When you think about it, it’s not much weirder than plugging a GPU into a PC. It has a more powerful processor and requires it’s own power supply. Imagine having to plug in your SNES cartridge.

Except GPUs dont have game ROMs on them. Maybe someday they will.

Me, too. It pays homage to the source (maybe it meant “Radio Broadcast”?) while being a real name, and kind of a fun, old-timey one, too. Maybe he likes roast beef. Who am I kidding? Of course he does!

It’s RB, not Arby? Oops, I guess it is RB. I read the video description.

Ha! I was actually worried about the $120 I put in for the Controller (just in case they were going to charge for shipping.) These days I only buy the occassional indie game. I can’t imagine putting in $1,000 for a Steam Machine or Frame and risk not getting one. (Or whatever they’re going to cost.)

Yeah, I did that because someone on here suggested it, and I still had to click the “Continue” button hundreds of times in the span of 25 minutes to finish the checkout.

I was being polite at first, and only clicking it every 15 seconds or so. Then I noticed on another device that the estimated delivery time had gone from 3-5 days to 6-10. That’s when I said, “Fuck it”, and clicked the shit out of it for two minutes, and it finally went through.

I really hope Valve figures out something else for the Steam Machine. The reservation system is cool, but not if it’s going to work exactly as poorly as the checkout process. I mean it’s gonna open up and people are going to hammer the reservation process, and it’s just gonna be a crapshoot again.

Hell, I’d rather it be a lottery. Everyone has weeks to join it. No rush, but you can only join the lottery if you have a “real” Steam account with games and history. Like, just a few hundred of hours of gaming. Normal amounts. And if you get selected, you get notified, and you have maybe three days to check out. Again, no rush. And as more stock comes in, more people get notified.

And not tied to library value, but usage of the platform: achievements, friends, hours of play, etc. And no particlar ranking. No first-dibs just because you’re a whale with hundreds of thousands of hours of gameplay. Just a low bar that allows all the “real” Steam accounts to join the lottery. I don’t think anyone could have a legitimate complaint that people with long-term Steam accounts shouldn’t get first dibs on new Steam hardware.

It basically came down to a lottery anyways, so why not just make it one? And I don’t mean a lottery where you pay for a chance to win. I mean you only pay if you get chosen.

I guess I was hoping for something more. This video is indistinguishable from water vapor condensing into a droplet.

Not worse than Wii U!

Wait, there were 2025 previous versions of the Steam Controller?