I’ll believe it when I see it, frankly, but hopefully just the notion that this could be true will put some downward pressure on RAM prices

1000 years after middle class people can afford to go to another continent.

Commenting to mention that I’ve posted an update to this thread at the top of the OP.

Turns out the hardware is fine, and the controller seems to be working perfectly fine in game!

The issue I’m having seems to be really limited to Steam menu navigation within Bazzite’s Big Picture “Gaming” Mode.

I can live with that, for now.

They’ve released a couple firmware/steam updates for people having doubled inputs, so definitely make sure you have those all installed. A new firmware update for the controller was released last night.

I guess I’m up to date, though it’s not really clear…

The first time I plugged in the puck, Steam recognized it and prompted me to update the puck firmware. Ok, that went fine.

But then it told me to unplug the puck and plug in the controller, at which point the controller was not automatically recognized and I had no way to proceed.

I ended up quitting out of that menu and finding a button to update the controller in the general settings menu, after which that button simply disappeared (?) or something…

Under Controller>Advanced settings in steam big picture mode, you can try forcibly updating all hardwired controllers.

I’ve tried that one. You click “start” and it spins for 2-3 seconds before going right back to saying “start”. It’s unclear to me what, if anything, it does.

You shouldn’t be having any signal issues at that range, so you either have something defective or some really bad signal interference. I’m leaning towards something being defective, because my puck doesn’t have line of sight, is immediately next to a router and a bunch of bluetooth devices, and hasn’t had any connection issues. You also mentioned the issues happening while wired, which definitely suggests a controller issue and not a connection problem.

Yeah… I’ve sent in a Steam support ticket.

I’m trying to keep my cool about it, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t pretty annoyed at how shoddy this thing seems to be, given my long standing support of Valve hardware, the long delays, $100 price tags, struggling to buy it immediately, and it now being sold out.

I’m sure that I’ll love it if I can get it to work, but it’s still a little frustrating that this thing doesn’t just work right out of the box.

I have a mouse and keyboard, I have other controllers. That’s not really the point.

I don’t feel that I should need to plug a separate device into my Bazzite HTPC “console” to pair my controller to the puck that it comes with. Valve have marketed this controller as a replacement for a mouse and keyboard in the livingroom/bedroom setup, right?

Looking mighty fine! 😍

And and and and and

Only YouTube.

I was pretty addicted to Reddit for a while, but eventually I got banned for basically no reason and that was enough to get me to almost entirely stop checking it.

Yes. Updated the puck, the controller, and Bazzite. Both Bazzite and Steam on their respective Beta branches.

Welcome Reddit refugees! (Dumb assholes, bots and shills notwithstanding.)

I think you’re probably right, but I also think selling the Machine without the Controller is an odd choice, given Valve’s bigger vision of it being a living room console.

With that said, they’ve already sold many of us a controller, so… It’s kind of a mess.

The original Ghost in the Shell movie by Mamoru Oshii is iconic and gives you a great taste of what the characters and world are all about. It also looks fantastic and was extremely influential. I’d argue that’s the one to watch first.

After that you can go two ways, I think:

• If you want direct story continuity, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is a direct sequel by the same director. It’s dark and trippy (if a little slow at times), and I like it more every time I see it. It’s a good sequel to the original movie, and it’s a good movie to watch in our modern world of unethical technological exploitation of humanity for profit.

• The other option is to start watching the amazing tv series directed by Kenji Kamiyama, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, as well as the sequel series, Second Gig. These are both fantastic anime series that tell a lot of interesting episodic stories while maintaining an interesting through-line that gradually unravels a mysterious and nuanced criminal conspiracy. These series do so much to develop the world and characters beyond what they are in the films and the manga, and are a big part of why GitS is so beloved. There is also a pretty good SAC movie that you can watch after that.

And then, from that point, I think the other attempts at continuing GitS haven’t been that great and probably aren’t too worth watching unless you really want more.

This new show looks to be a radically new and fresh take on the franchise, much more cartoony and in line with the original manga style. This trailer references the Puppet Master, a charger in the original movie. I can only hope that it delivers in the complex and interesting cyberpunk dystopian storytelling that brings out the best of GitS. I’m cautiously optimistic about it.

OP made a post trying to figure out how to make his town less lame but also wants to avoid all “politics”… 😮‍💨

What if I told you that everything is “politics”, be it buying groceries, entertainment, wearing clothes, healthcare, getting around town, having sex, owning a home or getting paid?

Always pretty funny to see the FOSS community willingly follow the lead of corporate investment trends, but for fractions of pennies on the dollar compared to big tech.

If you’re gonna act like Microsoft you might as well do it for the money.

I’m gonna be honest, I’m just gonna upvote because I like Final Fantasy 9.

AI rotbrain discovers CSS in 2026.

Pro-AI people are a small minority in my experience, but are generally overrepresented in the tech geek communities that make up the majority of users on the fediverse. Anecdotally, I think that the vast majority of people are indifferent about AI, some of them may find it to be a novel replacement for web searching, but almost nobody is interested in paying for generative AI (as evidenced by the AI companies hemorrhaging cash). If you were to ask on a more creativity-centric community, you would find that anti-AI sentiment is near ubiquitous amongst the working creative class.

Sadly, there is a significant number of untalented and brainless fools who use unethical corporate AI models as a crutch to compensate for their lack of real-world skills and relationships.

But for as many people as there that claim to be pro-AI, you simply don’t see people actively seek out AI-generated art, music, videos, or stories. I would argue that most of the consumers of AI content are people who have been unwittingly duped into reading/watching/listening to it

For reasons I can’t quite understand, some AI fans are also deluded into believing that AI will somehow usher in a post-capitalist utopia, despite the obvious fact it is only further empowering and enriching the most wealthy tech companies and the oligarchs that control them.

AI psychosis is a documented problem.

Finally, pro-AI people are infinitely more likely to use AI to generate spam and proganda in support of their worldview than people who are against it. Are we supposed to believe people that have AI girlfriends are above using AI to write bogus posts and comments?

I use two chairs, a regular office chair and a kneeling chair. I switch between them regularly.

“When I don’t get the result I want I call the election rigged.”

Who do you sound like?

Americans will point the blame at anyone other than themselves.

He… won?