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12 votes
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US critics of stay-at-home orders tied to fossil fuel funding
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Roadliners - A short documentary
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John Krasinski's 'Some Good News' sells to ViacomCBS following massive bidding war
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Dustbowl Revival - Queen Quarantine
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Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq. - Oh, Social Media!
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Looking for hardware recommendations for Steam gaming on my TV
Latest update here. Thanks to everyone who helped me out! I have an Nvidia Shield hooked up to my TV, and it's great for Android games and emulation. I'm looking for similar hardware that will...
Latest update here. Thanks to everyone who helped me out!
I have an Nvidia Shield hooked up to my TV, and it's great for Android games and emulation. I'm looking for similar hardware that will allow me to play my Steam library on the TV.1 It doesn't have to be as small as the Shield TV, but I'm not interested in having a giant tower hooked up in my living room. Basically, I want what those old Steam Machines promised before fizzling out.
What I'm looking for:
- Pre-configured
- Able to support wireless controllers through Bluetooth
- Able to play smaller, less demanding games flawlessly
- Would be nice if it could play more demanding titles, but this is not a must
- Has decent cooling (I'm worried that boxes not designed for gaming will get way too hot)
- Price point: undetermined so far -- I'm willing to pay what I need to, but I want to see what's out there before committing to anything
- Would like to be able to set it up to basically be a seamless "console" if possible, where I can boot right into Steam (or easily get there with a controller) and not have to use a keyboard and mouse (I do have a Steam controller but I would rather use an 8BitDo SN30 Pro+ as my primary input method)
Searching around, here's what I've found so far:
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The System 76 Meerkat is a mini PC that looks great (and I'm partial to the company), but I don't know how it would perform with gaming. Also, I haven't decided if I want the (small) amounts of friction that come with gaming on Linux on my TV or not.
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Intel NUCs seems to be popular, and they have some gaming-focused models at higher price points.
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The MSI Trident 3 is explicitly gaming-focused and has a dedicated cooling system. Might be overkill for what I need though?
Here are my main questions:
- What other hardware options are out there that I don't know about?
- What hardware profile and price point should I be targeting for my needs? How little is too little, and how much is too much?
- Are there any pitfalls to this kind of setup that I'm not aware of?
I'm open to any and all suggestions, as this kind of stuff is all a bit over my head so it's hard for me to even know what I'm looking for. I haven't even decided that this is definitely something I'm going to do yet, since there's such a wide range in price and performance. Instead what I'm trying to do is figure out what my needs are and then which models (if any) would fit them best.
1: I do have a Steam Link and have tried the app, but the quality for me has been spotty enough that I would rather have native hardware playing them than trying to stream it from my laptop.
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Doom Eternal reverses course, will remove Denuvo Anti-Cheat with the next update
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The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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Gustavo Cerati - Pulsar (1993)
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Brazil's Supreme Court releases video of Bolsonaro discussing replacing security officials
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Finland has demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the number of smokers without seeing a surge in e-cigarette users
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I created a simple JS library for the Johns Hopkins University CSSE COVID-19 data
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Stephen Colbert interviews Joe Biden for fifty minutes
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Garlic shortage hits, a side effect of the coronavirus pandemic
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Will the millennial left make peace with the "lesser evil" of Joe Biden? It's complicated
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What's the last piece of technology that truly impressed you?
I recently got the Galaxy Fold and I am genuinely fascinated by it. A folding screen phone is just wild to me. It's a crazy concept and every time I pick up the Fold, I feel like I'm touching the...
I recently got the Galaxy Fold and I am genuinely fascinated by it. A folding screen phone is just wild to me. It's a crazy concept and every time I pick up the Fold, I feel like I'm touching the future.
It got me thinking about how technology is so ubiquitous nowadays that we take so much for granted. The fact that we have high speed Internet access from anywhere on earth was totally unthinkable 20 years ago, yet today it is a reality.
So when is the last time you were truly impressed by a technology or technological breakthrough?
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Strategic hot spot Greenland sparks global tug-of-war – US has always seen Greenland under its sphere of influence, but the island's increasing independence is threatening that
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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit. Previous topics Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
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The corruption of the Republican Party: The modern GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start
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Norway terror attack – prosecutors demand twenty-one year jail sentence for mosque shooting
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NASA and SpaceX have cleared the Demo-2 mission for May 27, will be the first launch of astronauts on an American rocket from American soil since 2011
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Pakistan plane crash survivor: 'All I could see was fire'
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Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated - study: Particles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate
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Champions of Regnum f2p open RvR team pvp mmorpg is having is anniversary event tomorrow
In case anyone is interested, tomorrow 24 May 2020 is the anniversary of the launch of this indie mmo. Regnum is one of the largest indie mmos in the latin speaking world. The game is f2p and is...
In case anyone is interested, tomorrow 24 May 2020 is the anniversary of the launch of this indie mmo. Regnum is one of the largest indie mmos in the latin speaking world. The game is f2p and is quite simple -- 3 realms warring for fun over forts and invasions. it's very casual, so you can join in the war, or just hang around and chat, laugh at the fortunes of war, or go grind a bit etc. https://www.championsofregnum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112175
If you guys have questions, I can try to answer.
It runs on really low spec pcs too (and runs on Maxc and Linus very well).(if you are totally new to the game, the anniversary event is usually hugely packed out, so you may find lag during these few days in the war itself)
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Don't fall for Bloomberg's effusive Elon Musk profile
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Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems
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How the pandemic has silenced the USA's biggest gubernatorial election
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University of Oxford researchers have begun recruiting human volunteers for Phase II/III human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine
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The game that ate the world: Forty facts on Pac-Man's 40th birthday
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The birth of NASAs space program | The Saturn V Story
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Families of children with disabilities face acute challenges under COVID-19
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Season 2 of Tuca and Bertie is premiering on Adult Swim in 2021
@adultswim: Let the party begin. A new season of Tuca and Bertie is coming to Adult Swim in 2021. @aliwong @TiffanyHaddish @lisadraws
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People in other countries have been told to wear masks to protect from coronavirus. Australia isn't in the same boat
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Nearly half of accounts tweeting about coronavirus are likely bots
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Let's try to make some quotes of our own
I guess I'll start. "From accountability/transparency one derives trust." "If you don't learn where your problems come from and how to solve them someone might just claim to have done those things...
I guess I'll start.
"From accountability/transparency one derives trust."
"If you don't learn where your problems come from and how to solve them someone might just claim to have done those things for you and you'll have no way to know if they're being sincere."
Edit:
"A nostalgic society is not a society that loves it's past but one that hates it's present and dreads it's future."
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Buddy and Kent Jamz: NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert (2020)
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Interview with Musk on his Twitter usage, selling off his possessions, and the historic upcoming launch
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Tenet | New trailer
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Nvidia’s AI recreates Pac-Man from scratch just by watching it being played
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We have to talk about failed streaming app Quibi
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Investigate bugs together
@b0rk: investigate bugs together
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One reason why coronavirus hits Black people the hardest
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Florida's strategy to protect seniors from COVID-19
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Copyright bots and classical musicians are fighting online. The bots are winning
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Umurangi Generation - Launch trailer
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Education without loans
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Perfect Dark: The oral history of an N64 classic
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The mobile testing gotchas you need to know about
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of May 18
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
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