Ukraine's United24 Media, a government-run platform, shared a video of Ukrainian soldiers using the Steam Deck system to remotely control guns on social media over the weekend.

  • 12022081631 [he/him]
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    10 days ago

    steam remote play was not made for this sadness gabe is spinning in his yacht

      • grandepequeno [he/him]
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        9 days ago

        Is he? Varoufakis said that, back when he worked at valve, Newel had an "anarcho-syndicalist soul trapped in a private company" or something like that

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            9 days ago

            Can't speak for the rest of valve but last I checked the actual developer portion of the company is run with a flat hierarchy and nobody enforces participation in projects, people work on whatever they want to work on. He does own it though.

              • Awoo [she/her]
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                9 days ago

                Maybe. Not sure how relevant it is today but this is the old "new employee handbook" that Varoufakis would have had on his first day there: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf

                Interesting read. Cool place to work tbh and as far as bosses go I do think he's on the better side regardless of the numerous criticisms I have of Valve.

            • Hexboare [they/them]
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              9 days ago

              Certainly elements of it but it stretches believability when he's a multi billionaire

          • grandepequeno [he/him]
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            9 days ago

            Of course but that doesn't make him a libertarian. I'm not saying he's actually an anarcho syndicalist or whatever probably just a business guy

        • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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          9 days ago

          Maybe? But the guy still sold lootboxes as gambling for children, so he can't be that anti-capitalist.

          • grandepequeno [he/him]
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            9 days ago

            Of course, I meant more that he's probably more of a hippie doo doo kinda guy than an ideological right-wing libertarian.

            I mean christ, look how he looks now

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    10 days ago

    “Ya got the ninendo guns set up yet?” whywhywhywhywhy

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    9 days ago

    Steam decks are reliable commercial-off-the-shelf compact battery operated linux computers.

    • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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      9 days ago

      Steam = bibeo games

      Deck = console

      Now read the headline and tell me if it's epic

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    9 days ago

    Does this serve any practical purpose, or is this whole thing engineered for the reddit upvotes? (you know the answer)

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]
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    9 days ago

    I wonder how much of this stuff is really useful, or is meant to portray them as scrappy underdogs in need of aid.

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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    9 days ago

    been using them for over a year now:
    https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/using-a-steam-deck-to-control-a-ukrainian-automatic-turret-now-ive-seen-it-all/