I never said anything about steam os

Just as an example, some one in the company decides they want XYZ functionality, but the API for Steam only has an option for X/Z or W/Y, however it is possible to W/X but you’re not supposed to use W/X/Z. It technically works, and it has the same effect as X/Y/Z, but it makes no sense. Some marketing and design wank in the company insists that X/Y/Z is the only way and insists on using W/X/Y/Z even if it is technically wrong.

Later Steam implements X/Y/Z, and when they do, it breaks the wrong way that W/X/Y/Z worked in the past. None of the people doing this stuff with the Asus hardware work for Asus. They are all subcontractors. These people are some of the best in the world and they get paid accordingly. Once they check all of the boxes for the design they are gone. You can pay such a person ten times as much to read into a project and fix something, but that is never going to happen.

This is how subcontracting works it is not about you, or the product. It is about spending as little as possible to convince you that the product is worth money and maximizing the return on investment.

A hardware company that is actively developing software like steam is uniquely different and this breaks all of the static hardware business models of the past. Asus doesn’t have a bunch of skilled devs on staff like Steam does. It is why you don’t get engagement or quality technical information from them directly. It just doesn’t exist. This is venture capital. The only full time employees are corporate and global logistics. The reason the problem here was not addressed and fixed before it trickled down to actual devices is because there is no one on the other end to fix the issue, unless you make such a big deal that it appears like it will impact the sale of whatever inventory is left. If the sales have already covered the initial production run investment, you’re likely to never see a fix. Why would the billionaire spend $150k to have a dev read in and fix the issue, when leaving you to deal with the issue will never repay or return that money. Plus, they are counting on you not understanding the nature of the hardware market, just comparing specs, and making bad decisions again next time because this has worked to make them a fortune over the last few decades.

Big scale? Contract manufactured junk running software that is actively developed. A change in the steam libraries, probably due to upstream changes broke the static hardware. Eventually it will be a brick. It doesn’t matter that it runs windows. The only thing that matters is that steam is actively developed and maintained.

Small scale, likely an API change with some workaround hack in the device code that could not account for the change in the Steam API.

Everything I run is behind a whitelist firewall on an external device largely for this reason, but also learning curiosity.

I have the unpopular user’s opinion that I expect transparency in my connections and interactions. I won’t use any commercial websites that have ambiguous connections on a whitelist firewall. I expect all businesses to operate like a brick and mortar store in real life. If I enter a grocery store, I’m not entering a bank, a bookstore, and a restaurant to purchase an apple, nor am I selling or giving up any part of my autonomy in my quest to satisfy my fundamental needs.

Personally, in my opinion alone, I view any business that is not transparent and straight forward about who and what I am dealing with as illegitimate and untrustworthy. I view it like inviting someone to a house party that then goes to the bathroom, opens the window, and lets other people enter my home. Or like a retail store that adds a bunch of hidden fees to their products because of something like various distributor logistics costs; stuff that belongs in the back office accounting of running a legitimate business. To me, the practice feels wrong because the default state of the internet being theft of individual autonomy with no freedom of information from determinism. I must assume that everyone is stalkerware, so I must be selective about who I enable in such a system. Micro services remove all accountability and make the problem of digital autonomy exponentially worse in the cases where they are exposed to the end user (data).

Invisibly; by trying to post in it and encourage others to do so. There is not much management to do with such a small community. The majority of regular users watch the All feed, so subscriptions are really just a way to bookmark the community to post in it or find it more easily. For smaller or new communities, expect it to be more like your personal blog as it is unlikely to be something others will post in regularly. The majority of communities that are hourly-active were made prior to the rexodus of June 2023, or within a few weeks thereafter.

Unless you’re in a very controversial space, actively micromanaging a community is likely an issue with the mod not the community IMO. The admins take care of the majority of wack-a-mole nonsense here.

Comparing hardware is for fools. It assumes a static codebase. Steam is actively developed. The only hardware worth purchasing is that which is supported by the developers directly.

It is a simple problem to solve. Quit watching their ads, tuning into their media, and playing their games no matter what they put out. Get online and say so. The internet is scraped and making such comments will be found. A bad game review is a win for those making these decisions. It shows that they made crap but you still bought it. It is a message that hype and ads/media are all that matter. Start saying you are indifferent, used to be a customer, and will not purchase as long as XYZ is in charge or they are doing ABC, and that information will make a difference, even here.

For instance, this account has been dox’d on Lemmy. I know it, but do not care. I see content suggestions tailored to stuff I have talked about on here even though I minimize my online fingerprint for the most part. Everything public is scaped and the data is filtering down to relevant sources. This is the modern world. So get the asshats fired.

Nothing is relevant outside of the steam deck. Steam is actively developed software that requires updating the kernel and dependencies on the device. All the hardware manufacturers like Asus are not using a dev team to maintain hardware compatibility and they will never fully mainline their source code.

It means all of the other manufacturer’s hardware will depreciate quickly as software evolves in the real world. Hardware specs are a fallacy and completely irrelevant when the software they run is not static. When the software can change, the only relevant device is the one directly supported by those that maintain the software.

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Lemmy is relatively small. Even the most active communities do not have many issues. It is well within the ability of a single admin to monitor mods, or really to handle all flags even on places like .world. I’m the lead mod of 3d printing on dot world. It is one of the larger communities here. Over moderation doesn’t seem to be a problem to me. Indeed, as I laid out in 3d printing, I believe in invisible moderation. I play referee if one is needed, but it is not “my community.” I take no ownership. I’m just the user that is willing to set myself aside and do whatever needs to be done.

We are back at a stage where we need more users as much as possible. That means putting as few impediments in their way as possible and encouraging as many as possible to participate regularly.

Steamdeck = full time developers working on improving a product.

Hardware manufacturers = subcontracted developers that are really good, but never work on the project again after completing their checklist and getting paid.

These are not equal. One has long term value; one is made to exploit you and has no long term value.

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It has worked okay for me. I haven’t tested this out in detail, but like strings didn’t seem to work like how I expect. There seemed to be a lot of unrelated results where the string is taken as a Boolean OR set of arguments. Like searching for “AI (term)” mostly generates results for words that contain “ai” like “contains, again, etc.” That can make contextual detailed searches impractical or force more creative single word searches and poor overall results utility.

I’m no expert. Have you looked at the processors that are used and the RAM listed in the OpenWRT table? That will tell you the real details if you look it up. Then you can git clone OpenWRT, and use the gource utility to see what kind of recent dev activity has been happening in the source code.

I know, it’s a bunch of footwork. But really, you’re not buying brands and models. You’re buying one of a couple dozen processors that have had various peripherals added. The radios are just integrated PCI bus cards. A lot of options sold still come with 15+ year old processors.

The last time I looked (a few months ago) the Asus stuff seemed interesting for a router. However, for the price, maybe go this route: https://piped.video/watch?v=uAxe2pAUY50

Pull the trigger. Sell the old one. Drive the prices of the old ones down to dirt cheap. I might actually buy one then.

I wish I could avoid docker

Podman?

Can you maybe please edit your post on 3dprinting@lemmy.world to match this one with the picture featured instead of the printables URL. (I am the mod there) this is awesome, but so much better with the pic

Open source project device support pages are always my first stop. If you have access to a git repo for the project, use gource to visualize who is doing what and where within the project recently. This will make it obvious what hardware the main devs are invested in the most, and therefore what will have the best support and user experience.

https://gource.io/