You know, I’m not entirely certain. The American repair service is a partnered business, so I would assume it would be in valve’s best interest to partner with such companies regionally.

And if you watch some video tutorials of these repairs and feel like it’s outside of your skill level, valve’s repair service is accessible through customer support. They provide a shipping label, and when it gets there they assess the cost of repair, inform you of the cost and ask if you want it done or not. If not they’ll ship it back as is. I believe I paid about $135 USD to have buttons replaced and machine cleaned out internally. It’s an option, if you lack either the time or gumption to fix it yourself.

There’s a reason valve has an absurd amount of money.

Because our entire populace isn’t in the middle of main street demanding it.

No. I oppose authoritarianism in all its flavors.

I also don’t think our species will ever willingly do “degrowth”

I think the collapse of modern civilization is an inevitability, and that there will never be any positive, organized way to guide that collapse to any worthwhile positive outcome. Will it come in my lifetime or yours? Probably not. But it will come.

The only wildcard I see that could change this would be fusion energy, actual self sustaining fusion that generates unlimited energy, or the discovery of some other exotic form of matter that can provide unlimited energy. Barring those highly unlikely developments, I think any form of eco-authoritarianism would just be a way for those in power to continue enriching themselves at the cost of everyone else, a more extreme form of what is already happening.

This is all good stuff.

Now, go out into the corners of the internet and ask the question “how many barrels of oil does it take to build a single wind turbine”. Then do nuclear power plants. How about just one tire?

You’d be pretty shocked to find that the only thing that has supported the meteoric rise of our population has been plentiful and cheap petroleum. Renewables can slow things down in the short term, and they certainly make people feel better about themselves, but there is no replacement for oil. All of the renewables are made of oil. Shit loads of it.

I couldn’t be more critical of the maga movement and the vacant gullibility of its adherents, but I’ve seen plenty of mid wits on the left fall for and parrot shit like this and others equally idiotic. I don’t have much faith in anyone at this point. We are confused apes.

So if we all got to divvy up the wealth of the billionaires equally, and suddenly all of us had a moderate but sustaining amount of wealth, we’d give up on cars? Electricity? Beef? Because having those things, as I like to say, your “hot showers and cold ice cream” is what is destroying this world’s habitability. It’s not just the billionaires but our demand for the shit they sell us, regardless of the economic paradigm that delivers it.

Let’s say the first world standard of living downgraded just a bit, and the third world standard of living was elevated to first world standards overnight, do you think our demands of the planets resources would diminish? I don’t think it would. It would explode, as people who have lived on very little would want to eat as well as we have all these years. As the world wants more beef, the rainforest gets the axe so ranchers can graze their cattle on its ashes. Apply this to literally every other consumer good and municipal service.

I want to see the billionaire robber barons dethroned as bad as you do, but it won’t fix the underlying problem of civilization.

I was around someone with this same hot take, who called Sir David Attenborough an Eco-fascist for acknowledging that the endless destruction of wild habitat at the hands of humans expanding their own habitats and resource extraction, was responsible for the beginnings of a mass extinction event for wildlife.

I’ll say it loud and proud. Industrialism is not natural. Industrialism is the only way we can support a population of 8 billion humans, the only thing that allowed them to exist in the first place. Industrialism is inherently destructive and exploitative.

Tankie dweebs seem to think that if we just give everyone an equal cut, that we would suddenly have a utopia, that we would somehow bring back the massive swaths of insect populations we’ve decimated, that we could magically make degraded land arable again. Nah.

Industrial civilization isn’t infinite. It has a start and an end. When it ends, so will most of us. Recognizing this doesn’t make one an “eco fascist”

What makes someone an eco fascist is if they want to genocide populations they deem undesirable for ecological purposes. Pretty simple.

Yes, because I also have a desktop PC, not to mention a dock for my Steam deck. Sure, I could keep using my old Xbox controller on the PC, but the Steam controller creates perfect continuity between my deck, pc, and deck docked.

I had no idea

Nestor Makno, a Ukrainian anarchist.

I am a cachy user, and this is the worst possible advice. Arch based distros are not for brand new Linux users.

This isn’t why it failed. It failed because the software, user experience, and compatibility was immature. That is no longer the case, as proven by the steamdeck, and offering a mature ecosystem with VR, controller, and console/PC that all interact seamlessly will be the major selling point.

I’m expecting $799.99 for the low storage model, and if it performs as well as a typical $1000-$1200 PC, I think they’ll enjoy the same level of adoption seen by the Steamdeck. The target will be people looking for an entry level to PC gaming, and current PC enthusiasts on lower end hardware looking for an upgrade that’s simple and reasonably positioned price wise against traditional PCs.

I wonder if it could be a state actor? I can imagine that the powers that be in MANY countries could be motivated to keep users away from operating system software that isn’t spyware.

Nope, but it’s definitely a test run for when dems don’t control the state.

My vote is Fedora, but Pop is a good choice as well.

Hopefully someone smarter than me comes along. I have no idea why it’s taking that long.

I used it the exact same way you did, same SSD in fact, same encryption. All files appeared almost instantly.

My processor is a Ryzen 7 7800x3D, 64gb of ram, same SN850X. What processor are you using? I can’t really imagine 200 files taking a full minute.

Yep. This is a great answer, and the cure for it is to search “fedora after install” to get a list of the most common things you should install update and tweak.