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A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
Have fun.

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Steam Frame Release (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Metostopholes@midwest.social to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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256 GB model: $1,059 USD

1TB model: $1,299 USD

Preorder list randomized, goes out Sept 17th

Power supply not included, costs $29 (same as Steam Deck power supply)

3rd party addon available for color passthrough, Arcturus Vision Camera, $149

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I remember the reason why I didn't chose Sopuli, it was one of the top contenders BTW. At that time I had no idea if that instance is good or bad, and searching in the web for the reputation of an instance wasn't much fruitful. The reason why Sopuli fall out of the contender list was, ...

it is run by a Finn (nothing against a Finn!!!! don't get this twisted!). Why could that be a problem, maybe in the future? It could be too opinionated towards a single persons or country, not as neutral as I hope it would be. Because it specifically mentions Finn and their rules also in their language, I would think it could be a political reason and a strong focus. I would avoid the same, if it was run by any other country and mentioned it like this! In example I'm in Germany and would avoid German instances too, especially if it was written like the Sopuli style on their description.
it lists Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency on their main page description, alongside with Patreon. While its not a problem trying to cover the costs of the instance, I am always a bit allergic if cryptocurrency is put in front and center. Yes, normal people do that too, but it always feels a bit off putting to me.

My goal was to find the biggest and neutral possible instance, with a description and rule set that sounded good enough, and is not blocked by many. I don't know if ml instance was the best choice, and I don't know if Sopuli would be better. But I had to make a choice and tried to do a safe bet, as the ml instance description sounded minimalist and focuses on Open Source and is run by their developers.

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

for trying to find as neutral as possible instance I don't think lemmy.ml was a particularly successful choice. Pretty sure even the choice of the .ml TLD is a reference to Marxism-Leninism.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe it is. But I'll stick for now, because I don't see any problem. That does not mean there aren't any, I'm just not convinced.