I think Macs Vison Pro was somewhat geared for productivity. Might be sorta what youre talking about.

I have an Ayn Thor, which has a Elite 8 Gen 2. While playing x64 games on it does work, you’re pretty much limited to indie games and some older 3D games (assuming you can get them to run due to a lot of compatibility issues). Even if you can get some bigger games to run, you’ll be struggling to get 30 fps on the lowest settings.

Its still really cool to do. You can get some smaller/more portable form factors to play games on the go. However, I still use my Steam Deck a far amount for better compatibility and for larger games (if the steam deck can even handle them).

Yeah, but it’s announcement along with the steam machine is a clear indication it’s designed for situations where you wouldn’t use a mouse/keyboard. And in those situations having the thumpads is a game changer.

It probably depends on the games you play, but without the touchpads a significant number of pc games just don’t work well for a controller on PC.

If they can make the steam deck for $350, why would the steam machine cost 3x more? Similarly if Sony and Xbox are selling their consoles for $500-600 it would indicate that something a bit more would be feasible. Sony and Xbox get some economies of scale, but most evidence points to them selling at cost or making some profit (from what I recall).

I think it may even be better on the phone.

I think there point is that Linux support hasn’t really increased Linux native games. It’s possible it’s even hurt it as they can just develop for one platform - windows.

Yeah, but I hate android and want to run steam natively so I can play indie games.

Where is my small Linux handheld for steam. Something not targeting the AAA games?

Thanks for the info. I assume when you say that they dropped support for some libraries, you mean those libraries are no longer being maintained for the new Mac arm processors?

I’m not super familiar with how portable different libraries are against similar architectures, but assume the major issue is Mac arm chips differ enough from the mass market that progress on Linux arm won’t directly correlate to any progress with macs?

I assume the gpu translation issues are Mac specific and not all arm processors?

I didn’t think Translation layers were nearly good enough for that, otherwise why wouldnt more people use macs for gaming?

I can only answer two of your questions:

• How to know if a steam game is “deck verified”? There is a “Steamdeck compatability” box for every game on steam that will give on one of four statuses telling you supported/partially supported/not supported/unknown
  • That being said, steam is a bit conservative about “supported” games. ProtonDB is a more complete list of compatible games and gives guidance on how to play games steam considers “unsupported”.
• Can you use steam input for non-steam games? Games must be added/launched through steam for the steam input settings to work, so in most cases you should be able to set it up by adding the “non-steam” game to steam.

I think it also comes down to the fact most people aren’t going to label the transaction “illegal drugs”. But it does make it easier to track payments and build cases against people (or oppress people depending on the government/police).

Not sure how much I trust Trump, but yeah Mike Lee (who introduced the bill) is someone who just likes introducing bills. The fact no one else joined him means this article and conversation is about all he could expect to actually happen.

I don’t expect DHS pushback (policy wise), but I do suspect they won’t get all the money Trump was asking for.

There is also a lot of belief that the BBB won’t get settled before July 4th. Given that it’s still getting passed back and forth between the house and senate and they only have next week.

This may be more of an opinion, but Trump hasn’t really done anything too crazy when it comes to money (the biggest line I think he crossed was moving some defense funds around for his wall in his first term).

As for the starting a war without congress. That’s a tricky one. Technically the US has given a lot of emergency powers to the President so that he could potentially drag the US into a war, but to sustain it would require acts of Congress.

From my recollection, and I could be wrong, the major issue is that passing the budget has gotten intertwined a bit with the Big Beautiful bill. This is largely due to issues around tax breaks and other legislation in the BBB having budget impacts. So I had thought that the general consensus was the BBB would need to pass before there was a chance of the budget going forward, but I may have some of those facts backwards.

That budget hasn’t been passed yet to my knowledge. Not to mention the president’s budget request never makes it through, as the house and senate always have their own priorities.

It’s cause he can’t dictate that. Tariffs are just income to pay bills, congress sets budgets and even they aren’t too happy with a budget that’s increased spending. So it’s even likely his increases to ICE DHS that he requested won’t make it through.

He could try to siphon money from elsewhere, but that’d just get caught up in the courts (and he’d probably loose as congress owns the purse).

Yeah, it feels like Iran would be more like the end of Vietnam in terms of public opinion.

I also don’t think Iran is going to do anything to make war more appealing (especially given they can just focus efforts on Israel).