Yep. A lot of these tech companies that have run in the red for years are now being called on to produce a profit and pay the big backers.

Apparently, SpaceX has special tactics to stoke his grandiose ego and trick him into giving them the freedom they need.

It’s a tale as old as bosses. Many of them have big egos and think that because they’re in charge that magically gives them expertise. So if you want to do something you either get them looking at something shiny or you make them think it’s their idea.

I had a boss like that ages ago. If I wanted to work on something out of the ordinary I would plant the idea, then a few weeks later I would remind him that he brought it up a while ago. I used the fact that he had a million things going on so he never really remembered who brought it up. I didn’t care that he got the credit because I got to work on cool things and expand my repertoire.

ChimeraOS and HoloISO. I haven’t heard of Bazzite but I’m going to have to go look now in case HoloISO gets abandoned. Should be an easy replacement.

I’m using HoloISO (it’s like 95% SteamOS) on a mini PC (all AMD, 680M iGPU because I wanted to get close to the deck specs). I mostly stream games from elsewhere in the house, but it has a few titles installed locally.

The sleep works perfectly so far for local titles. I assume other Arch based distros with all of the steam software installed (like ChimeraOS) work just as well. If the hardware maker who puts it on their box makes sure their hardware is well supported it shouldn’t be an issue.

Depending on your definition of laid back, maybe Dredge? You can run through it in probably 10ish hours if you’re just trying to complete it. But if you want to see everything, relax, and fish you can stretch that to 30 pretty easily (it’s claimed you can do it in 16-17 but I’ve spent 30 just hanging out and fishing and I don’t have it all yet because of the relaxed pace I set).

The stressful parts never really felt stressful to me. Very little is timed. At its core it is an inventory management fishing game with a couple of jump scares. Plays well on the deck.

Otherwise, Stardew Valley like others have suggested.

Is it just me or does the magic user (blonde on the left) look a little like Ali Larter?

My favorite is Stop Having Fun, Guys. Broken Base hits too close to home for too many franchises I enjoy.

So I went and looked. OP seems like a very unhappy individual. I found traces of the below plus a lot of the “whiney entitled gamer” archetype. I sure hope they find happiness someday.

It’s Easy so it Sucks

It’s Short so it Sucks

Unpleasable Fanbase

“Stop Having Fun” Guys

I wouldn’t call the second half of August “a long time”. However, I can say Chimera is pretty good and prior to August the last big release of HoloISO was last year so I do get your point and agree with you steering others to distros that may better meet their needs.

I don’t know that sending it to a random Latina would work. She’d probably be weirded out by some random person removed about a game.

Yeah, that’s how Big Picture works. The suspend on it is the same garbage Windows suspend. I don’t use it on my Deck, but it is on my main rig.

I posted elsewhere about my setup. I have a rig in one room and a mini PC set up as a “console” using HoloISO connected to a TV. I stream games to it.

If it’s your only rig I recommend what the other person said. Get a full PC or catch a gaming laptop on sale unless you have a very specific use case. You can play modern games on higher end ones but you’ll get more bang for your buck out of a PC. You can make your own Ship of Theseus and upgrade parts one at a time.

Not a dumb question. That setup would probably work great for a lot of folks! There are some reasons it doesn’t fit my particular use case.

First, I keep a few games installed locally (stuff with low requirements and emulator stuff). I like being able to do that because I don’t keep those on my rig. Maybe that’s possible with the Apple TV? I don’t know. That leads right into my second reason…

I’m not part of the Apple ecosystem. I do own a MacBook (and a Mac mini from like 2008, but I don’t think we’ll count that) but it only ever gets used for music stuff. I have an Apple ID but don’t even remember what email address I used to sign up. Apple anything never really crosses my mind. I would assume the interface is pretty good because Apple does tend to make a nice UI, but I have no idea.

Speaking of the interface, I wanted something as close to the deck as possible because, honestly, it’s easy. That’s the reason I didn’t leave Windows on there. I could have had it boot directly into big picture mode but suspend doesn’t work that great in Windows. Suspend works great and for my use it’s no different than the deck. I think I mentioned earlier I had to make a Bluetooth change in desktop mode but that’s been it.

Finally, I liked the idea of it. I have an extra input. I have the money for a cheap mini PC. I had the attention span for a short project. Setting it up made me so happy that I’m considering doing it to the living room TV as well. But I’m afraid it’s diminishing returns so I’ll work on something else next then maybe revisit it. Or maybe I’ll put a console out there. Or maybe I’ll do nothing and learn to paint. With the Adderall shortage I’m out here raw dogging reality so I’m quickly hopping from project to project. I need to keep them both doable and engaging or I’m going to have a bunch more half finished projects by this time next year.

On the other hand, for someone who has an Apple TV it might be a great solution. No hate from me however you want to set it up as long as it does what you want and makes you happy.

The other comment answered your power question so I’ll skip it.

Steam link works. It wasn’t great over wireless for me but others have had success. I’ve got my house wired in every room.

Sure! It’s the Beelink with the 5500u. I am using steam link and everything is wired. No resolution problems, but I do have about one stuttering issue a week for a second or two. At 4k I had alignment problems that didn’t make sense (everything was shifted 3 inches to the left) but my eyes aren’t great so 1080p fine for me. Moonlight would probably fix it but I’m lazy.

HoloISO has been great. I had a Bluetooth issue where it wouldn’t come back from sleep, but there was a setting I added in desktop mode that took about 3 minutes that fixed it right up. I use Xbox clone controllers or my old stadia controllers that I’ve set up for Bluetooth depending on what’s closest (did I mention I’m lazy?).

Ask questions and I’ll answer. I like talking about my setup.

I don’t doubt you. I haven’t personally had any of those problems except fixing the resolution. I use Xbox clone controllers.

I don’t use the official dock, just one of the dozen random USB-C docks running around my house. My Deck is mostly stock, except for an SSD upgrade. I used to dock it about a third of the time I played it but now I’ve got a mini PC running HoloISO connected to the TV to play games remotely from my rig if I want to play on the big screen (I’m too lazy to walk over and dock it and someone who will remain nameless borrows the deck from time to time). HoloISO hasn’t shown any of the problems either.

Luck of the draw, I guess.

Edit: removed the line about it being dead stock because I wasn’t thinking about my SSD upgrade when I wrote it. I addressed it elsewhere anyway.

I played Cyberpunk on Stadia. It was pretty good, no complaints from me. Stadia worked out really well in general for me.

I replaced it with a Steam Deck when it shut down. I used the money that Google refunded me and ended up not spending anything on it. I think BG3 was the first Steam purchase I made that didn’t come out of the refund.

I liked cloud gaming. I may dabble in it again someday but I don’t play often anyway and now I have a backlog so it’ll be a while.

It’s also age dependent at the lower levels. Over 35 or 40 and you’ll pay more than someone young. Or at least that’s how it used to be.

I don’t know what the going rate is but I assume that if you just want a throw you could probably get a mid tier prostitute almost once a week for that price.

If I can just tell her how awesome my penis is she’ll fall madly in love! Right now she has no idea!