The new translation layer they’ve been working on for their new VR headset, the Steam Frame. Steam Frame runs on an ARM64 processor so Fex is a translation layer for x86/x64 games to play directly on the Steam Frame hardware (meaning if you install an x86/x64 game to the Steam Frame SD card, it will use the Fex translation layer to run the game natively and locally). Honestly, in my personal opinion, it feels like a bigger and more impactful project than even Proton because it’s the first step to opening up PC gaming to other chip architectures other than the traditional x86/x64 Intel/AMD chips. What if you could buy an ARM64-powered Linux PC and still run your entire Steam library on it? That’s the potential future here.

Don’t feel bad about not searching for it, I like to have conversations with real people, and I don’t mind doing my best to answer questions. Cheers!

Not even speculation, just shitposting.

Valve has done a ton of work on expanding their level of access in the gaming sphere, from Proton to the new Fex, but they are a PC gaming company, period. Yes, they’ve had forays into selling movies and a light foothold on Android, but the movie sales were short lived and the Android support is limited. For all intents and purposes, their near exclusive focus is PC gaming.

SteamDeck doesn’t run Android, it runs full Linux.

Other Linux phone variants are in such infancy I doubt Valve would want to take on such a project in it’s current state. Maybe 10 years down the line, if their hardware gambits pay off.

Even then, mobile devices is a whole different ball game of working with cellular service vendors to get support for you device. Currently Valve doesn’t have to work with any vendors other than traditional PC and game peripheral parts providers, they don’t have to cut deals with xFinity or other ISPs to get their products to connect to them. They are not having to make deals with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. Getting into the phone sphere is such a huge undertaking, and while it’s a fun thought, it’s such a far-off and unlikely move for Valve.

“Bubba was just asserting his dominance” will probably be the next excuse. “When you’re President, they let you do it.”

The best solution, imho. Been around for a long time and so notorious it got removed for DMCA violations on github and gitlab so it had to move to a service outside US copyright cabal jurisdictions.

They’re just helping catalog and organize all the world’s information guys! Nevermind that they don’t want to catalog any information on the location of ICE officers, they don’t consider that part of the world’s information! /s

I mean, I don’t know what to say other than this is definitely showing whose side they’re on.

I’m adding this one to my dad joke repertoire.

New series is pretty good.

Which is even sadder because Ethereum has always been a trash coin.

Absolutely, which was my point. That the tooth thing wasn’t “only two years ago” it’s actually been in the research and development process for probably over 15 years at this point, with a long way to go.

I hear pocket pool is a lot of fun.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2014.00036/full

It’s been in the works for over ten years. Here is a paper on research into it from 2014.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3000521/

Here’s another one from 2010.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1882761608000070#cesec60

And another from 2008.

Potentially even one or two tech companies that have been around for decades depending on how large it gets before that burst.

Please be Microsoft, please be Microsoft, please be Microsoft.

Honk.

Underrated because the game itself was often kind of lacking in terms of solid foundational RPG systems…

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Pretty good attempt at putting a Middle Earth type world ahead a few hundred years in the midst of an Industrial Revolution.

Really thoughtful stuff like the labor exploitation of certain races like orcs, with quests like a half-orc you can help start a labor union or help the shop boss shut down the nascent union.

Twice now I have tried to make a top level comment and accidentally responded to a thread instead… Anyway…

Instead of leaving this deleted I will agree wholeheartedly that while I personally am not the biggest fan of the TES series they have some of the most deep, complex and (somewhat) organized lore there is.

I just wish they would hire better script writers and weren’t so afraid of locking content behind player choices. Always having every option available just feels a little silly.

Wait Raft has lore and world building?? I love that game but I never even paid that close attention. Guess I need to go look now.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01477-0

Here’s the paper published in Nature.

However, it’s worth noting that Nature has had to retract studies before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(journal)#Retractions

From 2000 to 2001, a series of five fraudulent papers by Jan Hendrik Schön was published in Nature. The papers, about semiconductors, were revealed to contain falsified data and other scientific fraud. In 2003, Nature retracted the papers. The Schön scandal was not limited to Nature; other prominent journals, such as Science and Physical Review, also retracted papers by Schön.

Not saying that we shouldn’t trust anything published in scientific journals, but yes, we should wait until more studies that replicate these results exist before jumping to conclusions.

My question immediately is about the placement of the cotton ball. Is it like… on a small platform behind the person in question, or is it nestled in their ass crack right above the hole? Is the person bent over? Because I would assume they would have to be for the fart to have upward thrust instead of downward.

I have already thought about this way too much.

have “problem”

don’t care

have no problem

problem is septic tank is broken, poisoning the ground, neighbors complain, city health department gets involved, forces me to replace septic tank or get connected to city sewer lines at personal cost while also fining the living shit out of me for environmental damages because i neglected it

i am deeply in debt and can’t take a shower or a shit in my own home

Which docker container do you use, if you don’t mind me asking. Also, how complicated would you rate the setup? I have a degree in network admin and run multiple Linux servers and docker containers with manually created docker network bridges so they can freely communicate with one another, to give an idea of my knowledge base. Honestly the only thing I haven’t done before yet that makes me nervous is setting up a reverse proxy to expose the endpoint to the internet and connect it to my owned domain name.