It’s not. It uses a linux kernel but the architecture is completely different.

Oh no, what will they do without us consumers! It’s not like they have another massive industry that’s buying literally almost all of their chips. Oh wait…

Except that it’s not “linux” like an actual open source linux distro is. There is no parallel here.

Also, a negative example shouldn’t make you go “oh I guess there’s no hope then, let’s embrace the death of ownership”.

Android’s bs has nothing to do with it using linux.

How? The article just says that you have to sideload it. How can sideloading an app brick your device?

Same thing here but prices show up normally. Idk what’s going on in your case.

My thought was that (maybe) the server (aka fathom in this case) could be the one that has the active youtube session so that it fetches the stream and then uploads it to the client. Acting like a proxy of sorts. To youtube, the user is always where the server is, but you can move around freely without issues.

Yeah except that YouTube support told me that they can detect if you’re using a vpn or no. At least in my case, using ProtonVPN that seems to be the case because when I try to subscribe to premium, it says that they can’t verify my country.

I’m assuming the youtube client is precisely that, right? Meaning that it’s the client that fetches the stream, not the server. Asking because Google’s been very annoying about not veing able “verify my country” due to travelling for extended periods of time. So I’m trying to find a way to spoof my location.

I had 8gb in my previous phone and ran into this issue very often. It’s not inherent to android, but rather the rom the phone is running. As others have said, this can be fixed by tweaking some settings yourself.

This is either b8 or you’re just not a very nice person.

People losing their jobs should never make anyone happy.

Wish I could share that optimism.

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I’m literally playing nfsu 2 and signalis. I also think ray tracing is dumb af and we’re nowhere near phitorealism. So no, you’re dead wrong.

However, I also want to play the latest RE and Control Resonant when it comes out. Not to mention that I play these games on a 1440p 170hz screen and would like to upgrade to alienware’s new ultrawide oled. Something like the steam machine would not be enough for that.

steam directly tests that hardware in steam os, so less likelihood of issues

Issues like what, exactly? Unless you have a pc that’s over a decade old, you won’t have any “hardware issues”.

not all hardware is compatible with each other when building either

There’s this thing called hwpartpicker. You should use it. Hw incompatibility isn’t rocket science.

I disagree on the hardware. I think that a custom apu with rdna 3 in 2026 and this anemic is basically doa. It can barely handle, 1080p and you can forget about high refresh rates.

Also, have you seen teardowns? It’s a very complicated device to service. Something as simple as replacing/adding ram is very much a non-trivial task.

There’s no reason why a steam machine would be inmune to software/driver/hardware issues. I mean, it’s basically a laptop in a different form factor and laptops hace issues too.

That has absolutely never happened to me in over 2 decades. Sucks for you I guess.

Classic reddit comeback to feel superior. Clown.

The steam machine IS a pc. I’ve also been “pc gaming” and haven’t gone crazy or had unsolvable issues. When you can’t fix something it’s usually user error or ineptitude.