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I think the severity of this issue will be determined by its frequency, but the comparison to the red ring of death is just another piece of poor publicity this thing has been receiving since its price and performance reveals.

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it’s normal to have hardware failure and some % of doa

a single report means nothing

‘news’ like this is useless drama

this only hurts valve’s rep among people that have zero idea about how tech works, much less early adoption

i’ve read nothing about the general build being cheap or defective

but i do guess it will be the same idiots that can’t seem to understand the price was caused by ram monopolies and not valve's greed will parade this around like some kind of gotcha