Tech Over Tea - #333 Steam Machine, Linux Desktop & Adelaide Game Dev Scene | Solo

Episode Date: July 10, 2026

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Good morning, good day, and good evening. I'm as it was your host, Brodie Robertson. And last weekend, it was time for another year of Avcon. Avcon, for anyone who doesn't know, is basically the major anime and video game convention that happens in my state. As always, it was a lot of fun. As always, I spent money on quite a few things. Some cool things, okay? Don't give me wrong, some cool things.

We got this, I don't know how it was going to show up. terribly terribly with the lights actually. We have a couple of hollow night bookmarks here. This is just what happens to be directly in front of me. You have a hornet one right here. It's got like this reflective foil on it and we have one of the night as well. Wow. This is probably the cheapest stuff that I bought. I did buy quite a few other things. Is there anything within reach I can grab? Oh, there's a, um, there's grim from, um, from, uh, where, where are you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, right there. You got Grim from Dina Orgy,

and right next to it, you have a palico from Monster Hunter. There's probably some other stuff around the place that I can probably point to. I've got some posters to put up, like up on the thing here. Actually, wait, you know what? Let me see what's actually in that. I don't know what I can, like, easily just get to.

What is the poster right at the top? Of course, they are both turned around. Of course they are. Why wouldn't they be? Oh, that's actually a cool one. Yeah, yeah, I forgot it. This one. We got this coy one. That's sick. That's gonna go up somewhere. I'm not really sure where. I'm probably gonna take some of the... I'm probably four up here and then six over there. I'll probably take down some of the ones. I might take down some of the fate posts that I have up. Maybe some of the other ones. I don't know. And I've got some spots like down there that I could put them in. So I might do that. Um, yeah. I don't know what the number actually was.

I've not fully calculated. Oh, right, the shirt that I have on. I bought the shirt as well. Um, we turn around. Wow, look at that. Wow. Wow. Um, there's some other things as well, some other things around the place.

There's gonna be stuff just like floating around. That's what tends to happen. I love going to AvCon. Not even just for like the, the, the buying a lot of like fan creation stuff. I just like the vibe. I like the vibe of just being around people who I know all have relatively similar hobbies.

You might have different tastes in games, different tastes in anime, but everyone is kind of just there for the same purpose to just sort of enjoy being around this. And it's kind of nice to be able to go there and meet some of the... I'm becoming, one of the graybeards, right? I'm becoming one of the old heads. I'm becoming one of the people

who was like, hey, who remembers this series from like 25 years ago? And then all the new, all the new gen fans are like, what? I watch Demon Slayer and Jujitsu Kaysen. And then I'm like, yeah, but like, what about, what about Haruhi? Go watch Haruhi. Hey, what about this fucking random, what about some random magical girl bullshit from the, what, what about some random magical girl bullshit from the 90s. What about that? They're like, I've never heard of that. It was like, oh, fuck. Fuck. I remember when I remember when I first started watching stuff and it was like, oh, these series were old people knew them. Now you have this whole generation. It's just like, I have no idea. And I'm sure this is what like a music fan feels like or a cinema,

or a cinema fan feels like. They're like, hey, here's this amazing work from 1963. And Any new fans are like, I've, I've never heard of that band. I've never heard of that director. I've never seen that movie. I've no idea what you're talking about. Maybe they'll know about some of like the real big hits, you know, I don't know, fucking, um, Forrest Gump. What year was Forrest Gump from?

Let's find out. Forest Gump. I don't know where we're going with this episode, by the way. 94. Maybe, you know, it's not even that, bad example. Maybe people will know about some. random fucking Titanic. I don't know.

I don't. Pick some bullshit. Some Romeo and Juliet adaptation. But then it's like, hey, here's this random niche bullshit that people kind of knew. And it's like, no. No. No idea whatsoever. That's me now.

That is me with anime. And I, you know what? I don't hate it. I don't like it. But also don't hate it because it means I don't have to deal with the modern fans in like the older series, which is good. But you know, it is what it is. I did bring up AvCon for a reason though.

So previous years I have done a lot of the game developer interviews. There is a problem that exists in the Adelaide game developer scene. I've been going to AvCon, I don't know, fucking 10 years at this point. Obviously, the older games, you know, they're all good, they're all released. But in the past, I would say three or four years, years. Yes, you have a couple of new titles that appear and stuff like that, but I'm seeing a lot of the same games. And these are games, which I thought would have been released, like a year, two years ago. And I have seen them at Avcon, not at Avicon with post-release updates, at Avicon with their, like, beta build, with their demo build, still like,

a good year or two out from release. Like some of these games are going to probably release like five years in. And these aren't like massive scale games. These are at least what's supposed to be small scale indie title. I don't want to call out anyone in particular in the scene, but anyone who are,

anyone who is in the Adelaide scene who might see this, you probably know who you are. And I probably know you. We've probably had a couple of conversations. Not about this, but we definitely know each other. And I don't think that this is like, this isn't some crazy, like, shout out,

some crazy, like, you know, oh my God, the scene is collapsing. But I think a lot of developers have, like, really over-scoped games. Like, they're not games which would be crazy for a team alike, you know, five, ten people, right? but I'm seeing games that are scoped for a five-person team and there's like two guys working on it and in many cases they're not working on a full time

because they don't have the money for it you know they're gonna work part-time stuff like that so they've actually they've actually gonna like spend time doing other things not just working on the game and a lot of these games I think are gonna be super super cool when they actually release it's just who the fuck knows when some of these games are coming out and it's a problem because in a lot of cases, like, the games tend to be in a very, very similar state when I play them.

Because a lot of people, especially with the, there's two problems. The artistic complexity games where they have a lot of art assets and there's just like a guy who does the art, or even worse, there's just a guy. There's just a guy. There's not even a guy for the art. It's the art guy, the programmer, the director. He just does like all the same stuff. Then you have the mechanically complicated games. You have the games that have these really deep, really complicated systems. Oftentimes these end up being like card games and stuff of that nature. But card games are especially a problem because they're both mechanically complex and artistically complex. because then you need card art and if you're going to have like card fusions, then you need

card art for the fusions, then you need this other stuff and the other stuff. And it becomes this problem where you're going to spend a lot of time doing stuff. Now, there is a benefit there. If you do have a separate programmer and an art guy, when the art when either the systems or the art

are kind of delayed, you do give the other person a lot of time to go and refine that other part, right? Like if things are held up by the programmer. The artists can go and spend more time in the art. They can clean things up.

They didn't have time to do before. They can maybe make new art for things like alt art, stuff like that, which just would not really have been viable for. Same thing with the other direction, right? If your programming stuff, as long as you don't end up creating more art, you can make some of the systems more mechanically complicated. You can work on more complicated AI systems that don't require any new assets. You can work on these more complicated, you know, terrain generation,

things like that, where it doesn't add anything else the artist needs to do, but it makes things more hopefully interesting, but more complicated on you as well, and you can sort of put more yourself into it. And that's great. But the problem is these games need to come out, right? These games eventually need to release, and I don't know what's going to happen there.

I don't know when some of them releasing, let alone the fact. There is a game that has been at Avicon for quite a while now. Anyone who has been to Avcon knows the game I'm talking about, who has actually released now, and they were still at Avcon with the same build that they'd been showing before, now as just like a post-release advertisement thing. So we're in this...

We're very much in this lull for the specifically Adelaide game developer scene. I can't speak for Melbourne or Sydney or anything else like that, But Adelaide right now is this very slow kind of time and there's some games where they do have big teams behind them but then they were like

let's completely shift up the direction let's redo a lot of stuff let's rebuild things from the ground up and you're like okay that's great but especially if you have actual employees you especially need to release the game right it's one thing if you're doing this thing you started as a

as like a student project, AIE, uni, say, something like that. And then it's like, okay, well, we don't really need to release that quickly. But when there is that time sort of sensitivity, when you have a Kickstarter, where you're like, I got money here, I got deadlines to hit,

when you got grants and all that, that's the other thing. A lot of the developers who are taking this time to really polish up their games arguably more than they should and scope their games way big than they should be. A lot of them are then going and applying for grants to make the scoping actually possible.

I hope things go well in this scene because I want there to be a strong Adelaide game developer scene because there are people who are really talented in Adelaide and I don't just mean Team Cherry, right? Team Cherry is obviously in Adelaide, amazing developers, amazing team. But there are all of these other things. people who have these great ideas who I think if they can actually finish their game and get it released are going to do well and if not on this game they are going to eventually make a game that sells really well

eventually they're going to be noticed because they are making really good work it's just the game needs to be released I think a lot of people I think a lot of people have this idea of making their dream game and it's not just dream game, it's like dream software, dream, any sort of thing that you're building up over time, and they make that as their first thing. And with that, you end up having to redo a lot of early stuff, right? If you start programming and then you're like, I'm going to make my dream game, it's a

Mediterranean, rogue-like, card, bullshit, whatever your dream game happens to be, if you started programming with that game, about six months in, you were going to rewrite the entire game, and then about a year or half in, you're going to rewrite the entire game, the game again and eventually have to decide, um, the code's going to suck. The code's going to suck no matter how many times I rewrite it, because, uh, I'm just going to

keep learning more and more stuff. And if I don't eventually just put it out there, I can be here forever, right? If you have a game, if you have a piece of software and you're using that as like this, this benchmark forever, you can always improve the code. There's always something you can do. There's always something you can add, especially when you're adding stuff, right? When you're adding systems, then you've got a whole, whole other world a problem you've got to deal with. And, uh, yeah, yeah. I've got ideas for doing my own game development. Like, this is a problem, right? I have these ideas that I, I want to do. It's like, not a crazy scoped game either. I don't want to say it just in case someone's like,

oh, I'm going to do that thing now. Um, I've got, I've got some ideas. It's just a matter of me actually sitting down and doing them. Maybe at some point, I don't know, who knows? At some point, I might be demoing my game at AvCon. If I do and you see me there, feel free to say hi. I probably won't bite. Probably. It is weird. It is weird seeing people who I knew from high school, from university,

who are now demoing their games at Avcon. Like, I've met a number of game developers, but there is a bunch of people there who I know, personally, I've known for like over six years, eight years, ten years in some cases, which is, it's crazy, right? Because a lot of these people kind of, a lot of people kind of disappeared for a while and were kind of, you know, going into industry, doing their own stuff. So it's cool to see people sort of coming back now that they actually have, I don't know. Look, some of these people I haven't spoken to a while, so I don't really know what's going on in their person life. But coming back and sort of doing that thing, they initially had that.

interest for, they really want to just expand upon and actually make something. And it's kind of inspiring. Every time I see someone I personally know who has now gone on to actually do some of this game development stuff, it is super cool. And I am very happy for them, especially for the ones who are doing really well. I've got one friend who is working on a game, which is now at about, at least last time I spoke to him, like four days ago, I think it was at 7,000. thousand wish lists, which might not sound like that many, but for a, like, first release game, which is very close to being released, those are, like, actually quite big numbers, and is going to convert into, like, a quite large number of sales, which is fucking cool.

Like, so, so cool to see that happen. And honestly, again, it's one of these things I'm like, I, it's not even, it's not the money thing, But it's like, I got these ideas and I want to do stuff. Every time I see someone do well, I'm like, I should go and actually do this. I should actually sit down and properly focus on a project and really see what I can do with it, where I can take it. And hey, if it goes nowhere, who, like, who cares?

Ultimately, who actually cares? But I don't know. I want to do more programming. It's just a matter of me being, along many things in my life, me being lazy, going to the gym, me being lazy, me getting out more, me being lazy, That one I'm at least doing, but, you know, you win some, you lose some. I don't know.

Now, yeah, you know what? We're still on the topic of Australia. Let me talk briefly about some other thing that probably no one actually cares about, but I didn't know about it until someone told me. So, come, I think it, what is it, July, yeah, July 27th, we have a test of our emergency alert system. Now, I didn't know that we didn't actually. have a proper working alert system. Australia things are, look, nothing, what do we have

happen here? If you're on the coast, you get a cyclone. If you're anywhere else, you get a fire, maybe. Maybe you'll get like a, let's see what the last earthquake in Australia was. Last earthquake in Australia. How big was it? There was a, Oh, wow. There was a 3.9... This was past 30 days. It was in Victoria. And it was coastal, so...

No, that wasn't really matter. 3.9 in Victoria. Ooh. Wow. Let me see the last earthquake in South Australia. Because last time they made a big deal about it, it was really funny. It's...

Yeah. Okay, past 24 hours, 1.6. Okay, that doesn't... That doesn't... 1.6 doesn't count. Basically, in Australia, we don't really get, like, actual... Um, actual serious earthquakes, like, ever. And if we do, they're usually off the coast.

Um... Oh, wait! We got a... 5.5. a couple of months ago look this is what happens in Australia this is like how serious it gets here

in the middle of nowhere there's like a crack in the ground that's what you get like we don't really get like natural disasters besides fire for the most part in Australia um so I didn't even know that our alert

system was literally just SMS based our alert system was actually just SMS-based. We didn't have like a proper, you know, alarm system that a lot of countries have for, you know, tsunamis, real earthquakes, hurricanes, all of that good stuff.

And you know what? I have a feeling a lot of people probably are not going to realize the test is happening either. And especially the night shift workers. I think the test is going to be at like 2pm. Um, yes, 1.30pm in South Australia. I have a feeling some night shift work is not going to know about it and are going to be very annoyed when they get woken up by an alarm in their house.

Now you can just set your phone to do airplane mode if you want to and, you know, then you won't hear it. But it sends it out through cell signals. So it doesn't matter if you're on like, um, do not the road or anything. It's just like the alert is being forced onto your phone. I don't know why I'm talking about this by the way I got no idea I've just got like Whenever I do these solo episodes

I just have a bunch of random shit written down That somewhat interested me And then I try to see if I can go anywhere with it Speaking of things I can go anywhere with Do you guys ever just go and like Look at house prices Like just hey How much are houses in the place that I grew up

How much of houses where I'm living now Especially if you're like renting or you know Roommate or anything like that Do you ever just like go and see like if I want to buy a house? Like how much would that actually cost? I do there every so often. It makes me sad. I don't know why I do it.

But I'm always curious. Like is there ever going to be a point where I can just live at the place that I want to live? Like I'm renting right now, right? I'm happy where I am. But like actually like own a place around the area that I want to be. We'll see. We'll see where we go. But on that note, I, I saw this.

and it also made me sad. I think this account is a troll. I don't know. The way he's been replying to people makes it seem like it's a troll. I don't actually know. This might even be just like an AI-generated dude. But this picture here,

even if it is a troll, whatever, because this is something that people actually do. For anyone just listening, we've got this, I don't know, 70s, 80s-style house. We've got the plaid cow. The fucking picnic. It just looks like a picnic blanket couch.

Wood grain on the walls. Giant TV cabinet with a TV that sits right near the edge because these TV cabinets were made for TVs that are way, way deeper than this is. You've got probably like a snake tank or something on the floor here. Birds on the wall. Probably like a popcorn ceiling style deal. And then the after picture of this. this is just...

I know so many people that have houses like this. It's fucking awful. Everything is white. That white couch, white cabinet, white bench, white chairs, fucking white ceiling, bright LED lights, tile white floors. Oh my God, I fucking hate tile floors. Why is this a thing that modern Australian house? do that yes it's easy to clean but god does it suck in winter god does it suck if your feet are kind of sore you're like I don't want to step on something really hard right now nope everything is a fucking tile the order I get the more like you know there was a point where I saw this and I was like that looks nice now I see this like wow that looks like a lobby for a hotel doesn't even look like a hotel

room. This looks like a fucking lobby for a hotel. And I see something like this. And I've got some like older family friends and like friends of my parents who are quite old, like in their 80s or so. And I see a house like this and I'm like, I never had a house like that looked like this, right? Like I, yes, I've, my, the childhood house had like woodgrain. But I did have like older uncles and aunts who had a place that almost one for one looked like. this and the older I get and it's, look, it's probably just nostalgia. I'm not going to even argue that fact. It's probably just nostalgia. I was like, you know, remember that time when you were like five years old, you were running around your aunt's and uncle's place, you're chasing

after their dog, having fun. I was like, there's something, there's something really soothing about a space like this. And I think what it is, it's two things. One of this nostalgia, but two, it actually feels like it's lived in. So many modern, especially like hyper-modern designs like this, they just don't have any personality. And when they do have personality, like they have a painting like this, you're like, I don't know who this person is, right? When you see a house like this, you start to sort of, and not even just like the family pictures, but there's going to be like random little bullshit around the place or the fact they have a picnic blanket couch or these plants up here or the birds on the wall.

There's true personality there or even just like basic things, like having a feature wall in the house. The idea of having a feature wall, painting a wall a certain colour, people don't do it. Like, yes, it's done to some extent, but it is so much rarer in modern houses. In modern houses, I can't speak for anywhere else, but in Australia, it's common to have white floors, cream to white walls, cream to white walls, cream to white walls, cream to white, white cabinets and everything else is just fucking white. It's just fucking white. And oh my God, it's so boring. This is one of the things I do want to avoid when I eventually

do have like my own place. I, it's not even just a matter of saving money. I do just kind of want to go get a bunch of like old, just old furniture, old cabinets, old tape. I've got, I've got like a table made by a family member. It's a nice table. It wouldn't fit anywhere in a modern house. But it is, it is like, there's like something there.

And obviously, you know, I'm going to fucking put anime posters all around the place. Another bullshit like that. But there's, like, a personality there that I think,

and it's not just even houses, right? It's like cars. You know, um, let me find the chart. Chart of car colors. Um,

chart of car colors. Yeah, is this one? Yeah, this is the one. This is the one I'm talking. I've probably shown it before. I don't know. I thank you. Reddit, appreciate it.

Can I just get the picture by itself? Nope. Can I... Okay, you know what? Thank you, Reddit. I fucking love this site. Anyway, uh,

1971. You had grey cars. You had black cars. You'd white cars. But they were a minority of the car colors. You'd have like blue. and red and a little bit of brown. Brown was still less than great at this point,

but green and yellow. And then blue stayed kind of the same. Red got more popular for a bit. Brown became very popular in the 80s. Then red took over even more. Blue started to go down. White went up. Black went massively up.

And then over time, that's kind of the direction things went. Blue stayed popular into the 2000s. And now in the 2020s it's like, what do you see on the road? Gray, black, white. A little bit of blue, a little bit of red, but mostly grey, black and white. And it's the same thing. And a lot of it comes down to like resale value, right? Because if you have a house where it is white walls, white floors, white ceilings, white fucking cabinets,

like, there's no personality, but no personality is easy to sell. Same with cars. If you have a white car, no one dislikes a white car, right? Like, you might have a preferred option of something else, but it's not offensive. But if you get like, I don't know, a lime green, like a real bad lime green, like, I'd buy it because it's funny. But like a lot of people, you know, kind of step away from that. I remember back when I first, moved out and I was looking at rentals before I started like sharehousing. There was this house I looked at where out from the outside it seemed like a I wouldn't say modern, but probably built it looked like it was built at the earliest 2005 but in the house, oh my god, in the house was something else. I'm not even going to say it looked like it walked out of the 80s, because some of the rooms did,

but every room was a different colour. The door frames were different colours. The cabinets, I think the cabinets were like three or four different colours. And looking back on it now, it was a, look, it was a very striking house, but there's definitely a part of it, seemed like exciting. Whereas what you get a lot of now is

nothing's exciting. Nothing's exciting. Everything is just bland and corporate and clean and boring. So bring some excitement into your life. Even if you can't afford to buy like new stuff or anything like that. Like go see what you can find at like an op shop at a salvos. What do you guys have as like secondhand stores? I don't know.

Save this is a thing here. I know that existed, like I started in the US. Whatever you guys have. Like go see, like, buy some random fucking mugs. See what like old cups you can find. Make sure if the cups are green, check them with a

check them with a black light because they might be uranium cups. Be careful. Don't drink out of those ones. Bad idea. You can you can on occasion

find uranium glass around various second-hand stores. If they know what they have, you know, they'll probably categorize it correctly. If they don't know what they have, make sure if you see something green,

you check if it's uranium glass because you probably don't want to eat or drink off of that one. At least, that's what I'm going to say. That's what I'm going to say. And if they do know what's uranium glass, usually it's going to... I'm a little bit of...

I only... I only know about uranium glass because my parents for a while, like going around places, trying to find every bit of uranium glass they could buy. And just like, that was just the thing they were collecting at the time. I don't know if they're still doing it. I don't think they are.

I think they filled up their uranium glass cabinet and then just moved on to other things. I don't know. I don't even know how much they have. Probably too much. It was a relatively big cabinet they had. Yeah. Yeah.

We've talked basically no tech the entire time I guess we need to talk about the like Australian game industry a little bit But you know Not a lot of bit Not for a show called tech of a tea That's definitely That's definitely for sure

Hmm I'll probably be where I'm at for quite a while still Like Because I'm shousing with one of my mates He gives me cheaper rent which is nice So I don't pay as much for rent Which is very nice because, you know, buying a house.

Still a... Still a little bit, a little bit outside of the comfortable range we will see. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, let's talk a bit about tech. We probably should do that. So I don't know if it's going to be out by the time you guys see this. It might. I've recorded the video already, but it depends on the upload schedule.

Plasma big screen. Plasma big screen. I recently made a video on this and honestly I think the project is really, really cool. Albeit, it is a little bit buggy right now. Just, just a little bit buggy. I have had a couple of cases of things crashing. I don't really know replication conditions. It does have controller input, which I think is very, very cool. But a lot of KD applications don't really play nicely with a controller.

So whilst you can, it's like, oh, it doesn't, it's not pleasant to work with. So you can also do mouse emulation with your, I think it's right thumbstick, and then clicking with the right thumbstick is going to like emulate a mouse. So like you can, you can kind of make do with it, but you also can't interact with the virtual keyboard using the controller. So you can open it with the controller by pretending to be a mouse, but you don't have that thing where on Steam with like a Steam input, like a SteamOS, where you can just enter any field with the plasma keyboard,

using the controller. You can again by clicking the keys with the cursor, like with the cursor emulated by the stick, but it's just, it's not a good experience right now. As it currently stands, you probably don't really want to do that. But in places where it works, so if you have a plasma big screen and then you sort of go right into Steam big picture mode, or you have a media player that has controller input or other little areas where it works quite well, it is super cool. It is so, so cool. And I'm excited to see what the project goes. Because there was a long time ago back in the Unity days where, let me somewhere and find the video now. Um, Linux, Unity TV. Um, Austin Evans.

Wait, I probably linked to the Austin Evans video in my video. Yes, I did do exactly that. Thank you, Brody, from three years ago. Hey guys, this is Austin, reporting live. 14 years ago from Austin Evans. 10K views. So this is something that was happening with Unity. They were trying to be more like a,

like a wet, no web app, a smart TV competitor, but the same kind of idea. This is kind of what they were working on back then. Unity is kind of the last time we had something, like, of this nature. I guess you can argue Plex is kind of like it, but Plex is specifically video, right? And obviously, a bunch of TV was kind of specifically video as well,

but you could probably do other things as well. I'm liking this is coming back as a thing, right? because people are interested in the idea of the steam machine. And you're going to use it as kind of like a under the TV kind of PC. So if you have that there and you get to a point where it's good enough, then maybe that maybe that could ship with SteamOS. Right now it's this like secondary session. So you can't just like easily swap into it.

There's a couple of things that make it a little bit tedious to work with. but I think down the road this could be another area where plasma is just filling a niche filling a use case that a lot of people have and I've talked about this a lot recently and I do think it is worth repeating I think KDE is doing

utterly amazing work and like it really shows right like I've talked about this before this is PKG stats. This is package installations on Arch Linux. The blue line here, that's

plasma. That's KDE Plasma. The red line here, that's GANOM and the green line, that's XFCE. Obviously, this is just KDE, right? And for like the past year or so, it's been, fuck, sorry, just

Arch Linux. For the past year or so, it's been popping off. There has been this, like, you know, there was just like, what, six year period where it was kind of kind of not really going anywhere. It like fell down, went back out. It was kind of just not really doing anything. But ever since like Plasma 6 came out, it really has just entirely changed. Now you might see the Ghanom started falling off quite a bit earlier, but you know, that's a Ganyome thing for you. I'm really happy with Plasma right now. I really am happy with plasma. I've been using it for the last couple of weeks. I still haven't done my video. on like my long-term thoughts of plasma. But ever since they added in the proper virtual desktops,

like, I like Neri. I really like Neri. And I still need to do a video on Carousel and try out Carousel. But I don't dislike working with a floating environment as much as I thought I did.

I think most of my issue with it actually was the fact that virtual desktops did not work properly. I actually think that's a big part of it. And I know saying that is crazy. I still love my tiling. I still love my scrolling environment. But it's not as bothersome to use

now that I have working virtual desktops. Now that it's just like weird hacks to like you sticky windows and dumb idea to make it work. I think people are starting to realize that plasma right now like it's not KDE4 anymore like it's not KDE4

we're not in the space where it's incredibly buggy now big screen's buggy but big screen is a secondary part of plasma not really part of the main session right now things are only gotten better of the past couple of years there's been a lot more features added there's been a lot more use cases being solved and that can't really be said about every environment out there right

like KDE even if you're don't agree with every single thing they do, you can trust the fact that they are working towards making the environment better. They are working towards this being the best possible desktop it can possibly be. I recently talked about the KD goals and the funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund and one of the goals, yeah, one of the goals, yeah, one of the goals was to get plasma to a state where it's being shipped on Sousa, it's being shipped on REL, due to customer demand, because employees at these companies want access to KDE, want access to plasma, are not happy just using Gnome anymore because that's the thing

that Red Hat has had for a while, but want to this experience that people on the desktop are having. And I think as you're seeing Valve show off more of plasma, showing off the steamware, showing off SteamOS through the steam machine and the steam deck, it's not like professionals have no exposure to the rest of the tech industry, right? A lot of the people who are going to work in these like professional developer context, they probably are gamers. They probably know what Valve is doing. they're probably aware of plasma, even if they don't necessarily daily drive Linux themselves. So being exposed to that and seeing what's being done here, it's not just Valve, but everyone in KDE has done to create this amazing desktop environment. I don't think it's impossible for this to happen.

A big part of the reason why a lot of these big desktop swapped away from KDE was because of their release model. They had this weird cadence where one thing's released, I think, every three months and another, every six months, and another every nine months. And there's a reason why Ubuntu and Fedora both release in around April and around October, because that's when Ghanome does their releases. They do these two-yearly releases and then smaller releases in between, and these are really easy to handle if you have a schedule. KDE didn't really have a proper schedule and it was weird and awkward and they have been trying to smooth that out of the past couple of years.

I think they haven't just yet but it is something which is absolutely on their radar and absolutely something which is being worked and I think maybe two of the components have been mostly smoothed out and they have more of a proper schedule now rather than just

that kind of happens when it happens I don't know I don't know what's going to happen in this space I really don't but I'm excited for it I am really excited for it because I want there to be a strong gnome as well

I really do but I just can't see it happening right now with the state of the project with you know the whole like use case thing is kind of a meme

but it's really not a meme because it is it is very much the mentality that exists within Gnome. Gnome knows best, use case, what's the use case for that? Oh, if you have that feature, then, oh, we'll just go and implement.

And yeah, you should go and implement it. Absolutely. But there does seem to be this very sort of different cultural dichotomy between the two projects. That's probably not even sense. Whereas on Gnome, it feels like unless you're aligned with the goals of the project,

your opinion, your thoughts don't really matter, whereas in KDE, there is this interest in experimenting with ideas and trying things out, letting people do things which are, yeah, going to make the code base a bit more complex, but are going to add things which people really care about. That's like the big thing, like, adding things which people care about. And you're even seeing this within, like, Gnomes communities, right? Go to the, like, the Gnome subreddit, for example. every so often I lurk through there, because it's kind of fun to see what is happening on that side.

And I've been seeing a lot of these doom posts where it's like, Gnome feels like it isn't moving. I have not excited about Gnome. I don't know really where Gnome, what Gnome's doing, where Gnome's going. Oh look, there's another email client. Why is there another email client being made? Why not work on this main one? And there's like nothing wrong with going and like doing your own thing, but it's, It sort of compounds upon itself where I think a lot of people are starting to realize that it feels like Gnome is kind of spinning its wheels.

It's not really going anywhere. There's a lot of things that people want, which people have been asking for for a long time. And those thoughts tend to get dismissed as, oh, if you want it, then go and implement it yourself. But then even when there is an implementation, some of that stuff just sits around for a long time, sits open for a long time because it doesn't align with the vision or worse yet, it might align with the vision, but let us go through like seven different design committees before a color can be changed, before a button can be added. And it's just like, I get it, right? I get it. But at the same time, I, I, There is this kind of thing where, even though it's not a corporate project, a lot of the practices, a lot of the ways that it seems like interaction is being done, feel very corpority. It's like, oh, we want to make this very basic change.

We've got to have meetings. We've got to have design committees. We've got to do all of these different things where it's like, you don't need to. You really don't need to And yeah, plasma obviously has like some of that as well But plasma is willing to ship something

You know what, that's what it is Plasma is willing to ship something Which is not necessarily Immediately perfect Whereas on Ghanom A lot of what you see There has to be all of these meetings And all these committees and all of this discussion

Because It can't be it can't be updated in the future. It has to be right from the beginning because otherwise people get used to the way it works. Yeah, I get it. But like, I think a lot of people are just

I think a lot of people that work on projects in the open source world, whether it readescops or others, don't really go and see what is happening in other projects. And I don't just mean, like, interacting with someone on Mastodon. I mean, go and use the project, go and hang out in their spaces, go and read their issue track, go and see what

is happening and see, like, where you can improve, where they can improve, and overall, try to just make a better experience and a better piece of software. A lot of people are kind of just like, they live within their own little bubble, and they don't know that there is a world outside that bubble. They don't know that there is a use case that is being solved on some. other environment because they exist within a context where that use case doesn't even exist and anyone who had that use case has just long since left to another environment. This isn't where I had planned to go with this discussion, but I guess it works.

I think we can round that one up just a little bit and also we now have the 2026, the 30th anniversary of KDE, adopt an app. Adopt an application, donate to the application, and basically just, you know, fund KDE, but also have your name directly attached to an application and be in their whole of benefactors, their whole of supporters. Right now, only one, so they have like five space of each app, there's only one that there's been done so far. That is with a Discover. They will bring further apps out as they go. But if there is a specific app that you want to support, you know, jump on that app. I don't know what app I would be like

super excited to support. Maybe something like, I don't even know. I even know what I, can I support the settings application? You know, can I directly, can I directly adopt these settings application? That is something I would be happy. I would be happy about doing. But yeah, go support the project, go check things out. And yeah, I'm excited to see where things go. And hopefully, hopefully things keep on the trajectory where they've been going. Plessba big screen gets better.

Oxygen, which I didn't even mention this time because I mentioned in prior episodes. Oxygen just keep getting better and better. I'm really liking the oxygen theme. This is another part of the reason I'm just kind of happy on plasma. Oxygen is such a nice change from so many other things that exist in this space, in the whole like FOS-theming space, the Linux desktop space, and I'm just happy. I'm just happy on KDE, and yeah, I like it. I like it and good things are happening.

Speaking of not good things happening though, did you guys hear about the whole steam machine redline thing? So it turns out the problem was not as bad as people were thinking it was. So there was this semi-viral social media thing where people were saying their steam machine redlined. Now, the steam machine has this LED bar that you can go and use to either just be a LED bar, but also it can be used to demonstrate error codes. Now, the bar that people were seeing, this half red bar, that indicated GPU failure, which is not very good. Turns out, wasn't actually

a GPU failure. It instead, I don't know what it was. I actually don't know exactly what it was. I actually don't know exactly what it was. They did respond, but it was solved by doing a Seymos clear. Unplugged machine, then press the power button a few times. This ensures any power stored in the PSU gets discharged. You may see the power indicator LED blip for a moment. Plug the machine back in. Note your power, LED glows, breathing pattern, white or not. If yes, please send a Steam support ticket and tag me for a chat request with the ID.

Hold the power button down for six seconds. You see the Power LED flash momentarily. when you do, the power LED indicator will start to cycle some color codes. These are designed to allow you to select various options for recovery, troubleshooting purposes when the LED turns green. Short press power button, this should perform a full CMOS reset. On the next boot, you should see the RGB bar is blue, and it may take a bit longer to boot due to the memory retraining. This, a lot of people initially thinking was going to be much worse.

You see Red Ring, right? The whole Xbox 360 thing. where I, what was the actual, what was the cause of the Xbox Red Ring? What was that? It was. Repeated heating and cooling, which fractured and cracked internal soda joints. Ah! Wait, didn't people cook their, hold up. Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death oven.

Didn't people used to cook their... Yeah, yeah, they would... They would go and... This is like, this is... this is ancient, ancient hardware fixed stuff. There's this concept known as reflowing. People would do it with their GPUs a long, long time ago. Basically, you would heat up the PCB to the point where you melt the solder, and then it would reflow the CPU.

reflow the solder. In many cases, it actually did work. It sounds fucking stupid, but it did work. So people saw this red line of death, this red line on their steam machine. It indicated a GPU failure, and people were thinking, oh my God, is this going to be like a repeat of the red ring of death? Turns out, nah, seems to be, it's unclear exactly what the cause is, right? Like, they have, have this solution here, but it is unclear exactly what resulted in it, whether it was like a firmware failure or something else like that. But consider it's just a CMOS reset, it can't be anything serious. Um, cause of the steam machine red line. Do we know the specific cause? So we know it indicates a GPU failure,

but I don't think we know... I don't think we actually know why it was happening. Granted, it's only happened to a very small handful of users. We know about, I think, three or so confirmed cases. So it's not like this is a thing happening to absolutely everyone, which is the concern that people had, right? As soon as one person has a failure, and that failure looks like something we've seen in the past,

then it's like, oh, well, is this going to be another failure and another failure and another failure? Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be. Hopefully it is just some sort of firmware issue and they can ship out a firmware update, a BIOS update, and it mostly just resolve itself, at least until there is actual GPU failures, but I guess will happen sometime into the future,

what hopefully is not going to happen anytime soon. That would be out, that would be good. Speaking of our failures, though, so you guys see the whole D-brand steam machine thing? This was so fucking stupid. I'm, it like happened over a week ago. I'm still, I'm still thinking about, like, what the fuck were they doing?

So, there was the D-brand Companion Cube. They announced this like a year ago. It was definitely, definitely a while ago. Is this their original one? Yeah, this is November 2025. I guess not exactly a year ago. But far enough ago. Like, hey guys, here's this, here's this skin for the Steam Machine.

It'll look like Companion Cube. Turns out They didn't tell Valve Well maybe they told Valve But Valve was And it was just like No They didn't

They didn't have the clearance To go and make this I don't know Like legitimately I don't know How they managed to get so far Into production That they

Actually let this happen Right? Like, how do you get into production and you don't know if you're legally allowed to make this? And this isn't the first time D-brand has done this? Wasn't it with the PS5? D-Brand PS5 plate drama? Um, yeah, this was like five years ago. D-brand starts selling matte black PS5 plates and dares Sony to sue them. Did anything actually happen of that?

Okay, Sony sent them a cease and desist, claiming patent infringement in the console's shape. D, Bram was forced to pull the original, but quickly struck back with an entirely redesigned version. So I think this is kind, like, DERN's been this, this real weird brand. Like, they are probably the most lenient brand when it comes to advertising.

Go watch the LTT collaborations, right? Like, they've let LTT just say, some things that no other brand would get away, like let you get away with describing their product. Like, just insulting them. This seems to be the way that D-brand operates where they treat like any attention they can possibly get, whether it be legal, especially legal,

because legal is like, ooh, ooh, there's a product that looks, it's a cool product. That's the thing. The company is not letting us have it. Sony's not letting us have it. Valve is not letting us have it. And I get it, right? If you don't know the full story and you're like,

Valve is trying to cease and assist, Val was trying to stop this companion cube being made, you might find that annoying, and rightfully so, especially if you were one of the 15,000 people that had pre-ordered it under the assumption that it was going to be made. They did offer refund.

They did, like, initiate refunds and do that, so people got their money back. But I get why you might be annoyed with Valve and with Sony in the prior cases. But still, there's going to come a point where they cross a line and somebody actually does try to like actually pursue them if this is the, if this is the route that we are, that we are going to be going with handling these products. I don't know what D Brands got in store for the future. What I can say is they're probably going to do something stupid. I will, however, say, it does feel like a missed opportunity for Valve not to do this.

Whether it be to go and actually collaborate with Dbrand or do their own or something else like that, it does feel like a massively missed opportunity to not make a companion cube. because we didn't get anything with the steam machine I remember I remember a few months ago people are like

guys when the steam machine comes out this is when the next Valve game is coming this is when Half-Life 3 is coming and I guess you can possibly get it still with the Steam frame

maybe you get a new Half-Life VR thing, a Portal VR thing, maybe you get something. You're not getting anything, though. It's not happening. I know, I know people like, guys, guys, it's going to happen. Guys, the steam frame is going to be when we get the next thing. The steam machine, this is going to be when we get fucking Half-Life 3. Oh my God, guys. Guys, is going to happen. The Cope, man. The fucking, though the, the cope will never fucking end. But at least you need to get one thing. At least one thing is definitely coming away. There is this right here. Valve open sourced the Steam Machine E-ink screen so you can make your own.

This is something that was shown off a long, long time ago. And people like, wow, that's cool. Valve, you should sell it to us. And Valve was like, nah, nah, we're good. That's fucking expensive. knows if anyone's actually going to buy it. So, they went and was just like, hey, here, here you go. Now, J-Sorks,

J-Sorks, J-Sox, whatever the fuck you want to call them. They did say they were going to make their own version, they were working on that, all that good stuff. But I guess if they're going to just release everything, surely they won't say,

hey, don't do it this time. What did they release it under? MIT. Okay, they're released under MIT. I guess they're not going to do anything. So if you want to just go and like make this and sell it and do whatever you want, um, fucking go right ahead,

I guess, which is sick. I, I'm happy at least, even though we're not getting all, like, you know, we're not getting any game.

At the very least, at least we're getting this, which is something, something. I don't know. I think, you know, I'm not going to do my whole rant about.

being really cool again. I already did that one time, but I am so sad about what the steam machine could have been if we managed to get it at a semi-reasonable price, right? Because it's not the steam machine's expensive, it's that all fucking PCs are expensive. But imagine if we were able to get something like this

before all these prices went up. back when things were actually still a reasonable price, I think sentiment would have been very different on the steam machine, right? We know that prices were likely, based on things they've said since the early interviews, that prices were likely going to be somewhere around the original steam machine prices, are the original steam deck prices. And I don't think anyone would have had a problem then. But so much of the discussion around the steam machine has basically just been,

it's expensive hey guys you can build a cheaper one look guys here's a parts list we can buy a cheaper one and that's great and I hope it just

I hope it tricks people into actually going and building Linux PCs but I I do wish it did well because if it did well there'll be more

of incentive to go and make more and I don't think this is going to be like Valve pulling out of Linux game I I'm just I wish it had done better

and we don't know how many it's sold right We don't know how many it's sold, but I can't imagine with how expensive it was that it's done like phenomenally well. It's going to do phenomenally well in the long run. But they have said, um, as you don't find it. They have said in like other interviews, Steam Machine, faster new version. They have said they're going to like, yeah, yeah, yeah, here's this, here's this random website, which is probably not. super reliable site,

but I think it linked to like the Vervech article or something. They've talked about the idea of new steam machines being released faster than the steam deck, which makes sense because it's basically just like a mini PC as opposed to a handheld, which has all of this extra stuff

you're going to deal with because of tiny fucking device. I'm curious to what happens with the deck, though, right? I'm so curious to what happens with the deck because the deck is still being sold. It's still functionally the same hardware. There's a different drive in it from the start, and we have the OLED version, but functionally still like the same main performance critical hardware. And we haven't heard any rumors.

We've not heard any leaks. There's not been any data mine from repos. We've kind of just not really heard anything about the deck. And if the deck does release any time around when we are right now, it's going to have the same problems, right? It's going to have the exact same problems. That's my worry, that if they get to that point and we have another Steam Deck around,

that it's not going to have that same excitement around and that same fervor, because whatever it costs is just going to feel like way too much money. Say the PC industry, man. Say the PC industry just makes me sad. Because I should also use my deck more. that's the other thing. I should use my deck more.

I can talk about the deck being cool, but I don't really travel. I don't go on the train or anything that much. Basically, the only time I get on the train is when I'm going to the city because I don't want to drive in the city and I don't want to park in the city because it sucks and it's expensive

and I don't want to do it, so I don't do it. Also, yeah, it's easy to catch the train. Now train. The trains in S.A. aren't the greatest trains. They're the fastest trains. But they're trains, and they're mostly clean.

And you're probably not going to get stabbed as long as it's not a Saturday night. You'll be fine. You'll be fine, probably. Probably. But, hey, at the very least, at the very least, Valve is still doing Proton. They're still supporting KDE. They still have this whole Steam OS thing. People are gaslighting themselves and they think they need SteamOS.

But look, at the end of the day, if it means more people gaming on Linux, kind of just a good thing for everyone. Because there will come a critical number where developers then have to ask the question, is it now financially viable to support our game on Linux? Is it now financially viable to enable our anti-cheat? Is it now financially viable to worry about bugs that happen running the game through Proton? There comes a point where that is a question that has to be asked, because there came a point where it had to be asked for macOS,

and macOS is lower in a lot of the surveys. Now, MacOS also has the advantage of being a more lockdown system, so it's easier to go and support things like, you know, malware-level anti-cheat. Not to the same extent because there's certain things Apple doesn't let you do. That's the other thing, though. A lot of companies are kind of used to working with Apple and doing things the Apple way.

So doing things the Linux way, we have all of these different distros. It's a... There's a different level of incentive that needs to be there, likely, considerably higher, but there is a number, right? If it's 10% of the market, if it's 15, if it's 20, 25. Like, by that point, reason, like, it would make sense if they would seriously consider Linux. But, I don't know.

Now, it is, it is kind of nice, even though I don't play them, it is kind of nice that we are seeing a lot of the, a lot of the gutcha bullshit actually work on, um, actually work on... on Linux. Now, you gotta run some, like, custom version of protons to make it all work, but you can go and play NTE if that is your thing.

Now, I don't exactly care about gacha slop, but if you do, hey, look, I'm not, I'm not gonna tell you not to play your gacha slop, right? I... Look, I... I cannot...

criticize anyone else for playing Gacha Slop when half the fucking time I'm watching like Isakai Slop seasonals. So is Issa Kai Slop any better than Gacha Slop? Yes, because I'm not spending money to get some fucking role of a character, but it's still Slop nonetheless. It's still not exactly the The most fine dining of media, one might say Speaking of things that are not fine dining, That's a terrible segue, But I have some ideas for a series of videos I'm going to do

I have now ordered the hardware, It should be here by next Monday. Did you know? Did you... Ugh. Eh. Did you know that... J.B. High Fire, are you gonna docks me?

That's why I check it. Okay. Did you know that you can just buy... A new GT710? You can just buy them. This is... Effectively E-Waste. And this is not a second-hand card, by the way.

This is a new card being sold today. Let us find the specs of the legendary GT710. It has a grand total. Firstly, it was released in 2014 based on the Kepler architecture, Kepler GPUs. That is your... Uh, where is it? Where are they? Give me your...

Yes, here we go. This is your GTX 600 cards, up to your GTX Titan Z. Also, the GT1030. No? No, that's a Pascal card. Wait. GT... I thought that was...

Isn't that not a Pascal card? Gt1030 Pascal. Why did... Why am I being... lied to, it's a Pascal card. Yeah, it's a pas... fucking Wikipedia. Fucking Wikipedia.

Now, why does this card exist? There's many reasons why it shouldn't exist. But there are some reasons it does exist. So, one of the primary functions this card is sold for

is ASUS makes a variant that looks like this. it has four HDMI ports on it this is the cheapest possible way to have four more video outputs

I'm not going to say good video outputs but four more video outputs on a system so for like a security system something like that this is a way

you can do it for about 40 Australian dollars actually So I think the, um, I think the HGMI version is a bit more expensive. Yeah, the HGMI version's around $90, which is a lot of money for a fucking literal E-waste. Anyway, um, sorry, I got sidetracked by the specs. It has a, uh, no, wrong page. It has 192 total kudacalls.

A 954 megahertz core clock. and a very low TDP of 19 watts. Now tech power up do you have benchmarks of this GPU. Recommended gaming resolutions 640 by 480. It's not even green. They have it as yellow. Yep. Yep.

I want to see a benchmark of this. GT710 benchmark. Somebody's got to have benchmarked it. Guru 3D, this is a 14 year old card. You guys should have a benchmark, surely. Oh my God, they do. Oh my God. Oh, and this was a Galaxy card.

Oh, it has a fucking ribbon cable on it. Did they even have a benchmark? No. No, they don't even, they didn't even bother to benchmark it. Guys, I want to see someone benchmark this. Foronics! Foronics! Okay.

That... These old versions had... Yeah, so modern versions don't have VGA anymore. But anyway, let us... What are they... Here we go. Here we go. Here we're a bench...

Do we have... Gaming benchmarks. Okay. Woo! Holy! Okay. So... For anyone just listening, we are on high in Biosec Infinite.

A GTX 650 did 16 FPS. A GT710, 6. Hey, hey, you can almost play CSGO. Not CS2 probably, but CSGO. 25 FPS in CSGO. What else do you have on here? We're testing Open Arena. Do you even benchmark any other real games?

TF2, you get 36 FPS in TF2. Zanotic, you get 70. Now you're probably wondering, Brodie, why the fuck did you buy a GT710? Well, well, okay, let me explain. Because I also bought another car. I also bought a GT 1030. I think it was like 80 bucks to get both of them.

GT 1030 benchmarks. Someone's got to have benchmarked it, surely. Surely. Is the GT 1030 worth it in 2020? No, it wasn't worth it in fucking, when did it come out? When did it release? Fucking 2017. Yeah, it wasn't worth it in 2017.

Uh, gamers nexus, Gt1030, a disgrace of a video card. Okay, yep, that's about right. Um, oh yeah, it, it, both of these tend to, um, underperform a, um, an APU, just, just an APU. Hey, you can get 28 FPS in Rocket League. Oh, wow. You can get, um, um, um, um, 39 FPS in Dota 2 on, on high. Hey, hey, on high.

On high. Wow. Wow. There's also, wait, there's a, there's a DDR4 version. Wait, there's a DDR4 version, a GDR5 version. Which version did I actually buy? I don't remember. Either way, I'm not going to be gaming on them.

Just to be clear. I'm not, okay, I might game on them. Um, they'd be funny. Why did I buy a GT 710 and GT 1030? Okay, let me explain. Let me explain. So, Whalen.

Okay, so, why, let me, let me, okay. Do you know that there's certain version of the Nvidia GPU are the invidia drivers that Wayland doesn't work? And I don't mean, like, it's, like, buggy. I mean, like, there was a point where the driver's didn't support Wayland. That point is the GT710. So not only,

not only is it a piece of shit GPU, it also requires Novo to launch Wayland. So my, my idea, my, my thought process here is let's try running Wayland with the worst possible GPU on the market.

Just to see How unusable... Is it unusable? Can you run modern KDE with the open source drivers with literal e-waste of a GPU? I don't know.

I don't have the card yet. But... But it should theoretically work now. The thing with the GT-1030 this is slightly different because... It actually... I believe, I've not mistaken, I want to say...

Uh... Is it 580? 570? 580? Wait, I'm... Uh, Invidia... wait. Invidia Linux, latest... Uh, latest driver.

Um... I think it's... I think it supports 580 Now it's not good because it's still a piece of shit However, it does support drivers It does support drivers Which are proprietary Which theoretically should work with Wayland

So I kind of want to give like Nouveau, open source, utter garbage and then slightly better utter garbage. Because here's the thing. I know there are people out there who have these drivers, not as a meme, but actually just like, have the drivers. I think five...

I want to say it was 580. I'm going to have to check afterwards. Latest supported Linux driver. Um, yeah, yeah, theoretically it should, yeah, it should support 580, which is not the latest driver, but latest enough where I should be out to test it. And I want to do a couple of desktops, like KDE, I want to do Ganyme, I want to try it out with Cosmic. Cosmic would be interesting because I, I don't know, I actually don't know if Cosmic's even going to open with a GT710 with the open source drivers. Um, and then I also want to go and do like an actual like non-stupid sense. up, right? I want to go and test it using... using X-11. Try it out with like XSE, things like that.

Because on X-11, it should... I'm gonna say fine, it should work, it shouldn't immediately crash. It should actually do something on the... on X-11. The whether I was gonna do something on Wayland, well, that's the fun. That's the fun there. I kind of just want to see how how bad it graphically glitches, how bad it graphically glitches, how bad like basic effects just don't play nicely at all, how much they just break, and just see what that experience really is like with a piece of shit GPU, just terrible GPU,

where every APU on the market performs better. every, like just get a secondhand GPU around the same price it'll perform better everything you could possibly get will perform better but some people have them and and they're still sold new they're still sold new they're not made I don't think Nvidia makes them anymore

I can't imagine they do but I guess ASUS and other companies have a bunch of old stock and you might if someone's gonna buy it you might as well sell it. I'm not encouraging you to go buy these GPU. Just so clear. Don't, don't buy them. Who knows?

Maybe they're okay. But considering the fact that, let's see, I want to say like five years ago, LTT, GT 1030. Yeah, yeah, about three years ago, LTT put out a video. YouTube made me review

this budget GPU. They did another video um... was this on the 1630? What's this one? Okay, thank you YouTube. Appreciate it. Um, love playback, not working. What are we looking at here?

Oh, yep. It's easy to look at a... It's a 6,400 here. That's a real GPU that people might actually buy. Um... What are we comparing? Is it... Oh no, no, it's another video on the GT10.30, this time with the 1630. It might be a slightly better country. Can you still buy it?

It's 1630, actually. I didn't check that one. Invidia 1630. No. No, those ones you got to buy, you got to buy secondhand. Ah, that's no fun. That's no fun at all. Because that's a cheering card. Like, if you could buy one of those new, if anyone has one, it wouldn't it? Because a cheering card, that'll support the latest drivers. I don't want to go buy one, but I can't...

If somebody wants to send a 1630 my way, let me know, and we can possibly try to arrange something. Because then I could have garbage shit-tier GPU that only supports the open drivers, garbage shit-tier GPU, which supports a slightly out-of-date driver branch, and then garbage shit tier GPU, which supports the modern drivers. And by all accounts, the modern drivers should be working. Now, it's a garbage shit tier GPU, so it's probably not going to work very well,

but by all accounts, it should be working. Probably. Maybe. It's still a garbage shit tier GPU. Yeah. Yeah. So keep an eye out for those videos. I don't know when they're going to come out.

It's a matter of me. It's not going to be like the Chromebook. It's not going to be like the Chromebook. I know I've said I'm going to work on Chromebook videos quite a number of times, and I never got around to doing it. I still have the Chromebooks somewhere. I think they're in that draw down there, and it's slightly off camera. And I've just not gone around you doing it. This is not going to be that. This is something I actually will do, because this is something I actually do, it is going to be kind of fun. And I don't think anyone else really done it, which also makes it kind of fun as well. And I don't think anyone else is stupid enough to do it anyway. I will definitely sort of clarify the video, be like, this is not going to work well. Like, this is going to break.

There's no world where KDE works well with the GT710. There is no world where Gnome works well. I don't know if there's a world where cosmic works. It might, but I don't think that world is going to be the one that we live in. But it could. One little quick thing. I don't know if anyone's noticed, I have lost a bit of weight over the last couple of months. I was around, what was that?

90, let's, I'll convert this to pounds for the Americans. I was around 97 kilos back in April. That was 214 pounds. I am now down to about 89, which is 196 pounds. So I'm now under both 90 kilograms and under 200 pounds. My goal is to get somewhere in and around the range of 75 to 80 kilograms, which is around 165 to 176 pounds. Somewhere in that range is pretty much where I'm aiming at. Because the number was getting a little bit higher than I would like. And that was becoming a problem.

because I have seen people in my family and many of them do get quite overweight. And that is not a problem that I want to deal with later in my life. I'd much rather deal with that one as early as possible so it doesn't become a problem later on. Mostly it has been a matter of going for walks and cutting down on portion sizes. That's been pretty much what it is.

I do need to get back to the gym. I've said many times, I need to get back to the gym. At the very least, for a sauna, because saunas are nice, especially right now because it's winter, but in general, sauna's just nice anyway. It's actually kind of nice to get in a... It might sound counterintuitive. It's nice to do a sauna in the middle of summer. I know that sounds dumb, but the sauna is much hotter than it is outside. So if you're climatized to the sauna, when you go back outside into the hot weather, you're like, this isn't actually that bad. I know. It sounds dumb. I know it sounds dumb. But it was very pleasant. It was surprisingly pleasant. So that is, that, that, that, that's something that's begun on my life, right? I, I, I need to go back to the gym. I, I did enjoy the gym. That's the other thing. I did enjoy it. It's just, I got sick at one point and then I stopped going for like a, I got like pretty sick. I got sick for like a week or so. And I stopped going. And then. And then.

I kind of broke the habit and then I started sleeping in a bunch more which is something I still also need to address and things kind of compounded in a way that I didn't really like and I've kind of had to sort of bring things back in

so at the very least things are going in a positive direction there and hopefully hopefully we can stay on the horse hopefully we can stay on the horse and I've also been cooking more, which is also nice. And now I say cooking more, but primarily that means chicken and rice, which is fine.

I like chicken, chicken and rice is good. Chicken or rice is good. It's not hard. Sometimes it's chicken and fried rice. Sometimes it's chicken and steamed rice with some like sauce packet in it. You know, it works out pretty well. I can get these like little honey soy sauce packets. I cut up some capsicum or whatever.

What the fuck do you go? Red pepper? Is that what a red pepper is? A bell pepper. Bell pepper. Yes, that one. A bell pepper. Red bell peppers and green bell peppers.

Some onions. Some spring onions. And it's good. And some chicken and it's good to go. It's easy. I usually like to bulk cook. I make enough like three meals at once

and then I just eat it over the next three days and it works it's easy, it's lazy and hey, that fits and then I don't cook the next couple of days because I've already sorted the problem out but you know, that's just me yeah

yeah I don't want to become a problem that's the main thing because if when if you let it become a problem then it is harder to solve I saw the number going up I saw the number creeping

close to 100 kilograms which is 100 KG to LB which is 220 so that's like a not really a round number when we're talking about like you know pounds

but in kilograms it's like this you know a hundred you're adding an extra digit and then it's like I'll like it I'll like it So I saw things going in that direction. I had to turn things around. Also, people in my comments were pulling me fat for a while.

And, you know, at some point I was like, you know what? They're right. They're right. Yeah. Now I have a different problem. I bought some pants during the point where I was a little bit heavier. And now I need to go buy new pants because they're a little bit, a little bit, a little bit falling off. Yeah.

I have a belt. I could wear the belt. Right, I could wear the belt. But I don't plan to go back up the numbers either. So I don't necessarily need that. Yeah, yeah. Also an excuse to get out more. Yeah, because we have a... A lot of...

I probably mentioned it before. A lot of my shirts that I wear are my videos. I've, like, bought at Uniclo. Now, the plain white shirts, I usually get at like Kmart. but I have some like like the the ones that like blue into like a white into like a fade blue

I got those at Uniclo a while ago and there's Uniclo in the city so excuse me to go into the city and then also go to places like Shintokio and good games and various other places and find some like very nice restaurant that I've not been to in the city so who knows

maybe I'll go into the city this weekend depending on what the weather is like what is it going to mean on Saturday. Rain. Okay, maybe I won't go to the city on Saturday. We'll see.

We will see what it is like. Maybe it changes. Also, it's not that big video to go to the city, once raining anyway. I've got an umbrella. We'll see. We'll see how I feel. Either way, though.

Yeah, things are going well for that. Let us, let us move on from that one. And... Oh, here's one that I almost didn't get a chance to talk about because it would have been old news if I didn't do it out this week. Sony and the death of physical media. This is a...

This is a big one. So, I think we all know what was coming. I don't think a lot of people thought it was coming from Sony, but I think a lot of people have forgotten that Sony is a very different coming they were back in 2014? When was the PS4 video? PS4

game sharing video. Game sharing game sharing ad. 2013 was the video. Is it still on their channel? No shit.

It's still on their channel. Oh my God, it's still on their channel. So this is a video from 13 years ago. Official PlayStation used game instructional video. I'll just play it for this. This is how you share your games on PS4. PlayStation. So this was mocking Xbox at the time who I...

What was? Did they... Was it they were doing a disco in a console? Were they doing game... Locking to the... I don't remember the exact reason. But Xbox... was trying to lock down game sharing.

And with that being in case, it is sad to see that Sony are the ones who make this change. If anyone didn't hear it, in 2028, Sony is going to be stopping the production of physical

disc games. There's still going to be collectors' additions of games. There's still going to be boxes for games, but now you're going to be buying a box with a code in it. So I have a feeling a lot more games are just not going to even go

to the retailers and are just going to go direct to the PlayStation store. But, at least on the bright side, I don't give a shit about Sony at this point. I have zero interest in Sony

at this point. There is, I don't even know the last time I was excited for a PlayStation exclusive game. because every game that I've been excited for, with the, one game, every other game I've been excited for in the PS5 eventually came its way,

eventually came to PC. FF16, Stella Blade, both I played on the PS5, but they eventually made the way to PC. Demon Souls is the only game I even remotely care about that is still only on the PS5. I remember when Sony was like,

when Sony was like, the game console? Remember the PlayStation 2? Remember how good the PlayStation 2 was. Remember how good those days were? Remember the days of like really good PlayStation exclusives? Remember those days?

Now, I don't... Like, exclusives are not a good thing, right? Like, exclusives are not good for the consumer. But I missed the days where first-party Sony games actually were good. I miss those days. I... I want to...

I want... Look, I want things... to be good. I want good games. And now the good games are either on Switch, there's some good JRPGs that I don't want to via Switch, but there's some good JRPGs that are locked to Switch, and they're

on PC. And that's, and that's basically what we get. There is nothing, there is no reason for me to buy a PlayStation console. However, with this happening, it's going to happen on Xbox. It's going to happen on Xbox. The next gen Xbox is going to be discontly.

There is no unless they really want to make it like a big marketing thing, I really doubt, especially with the direction X-lostman going anyway. Like, they're firing like 3,200 people. They're going like hyper-streamlined. It's still Microsoft, so it's too of a lot of people. But they're getting rid of a lot of people. I believe the, I believe Id's actually being shut down in all of this as well, which is, yeah.

Another company that, you know, it's not the people who worked at Id that you know about Id for, aren't there anymore. but it is sad to see a company like that being stripped apart. But this is the direction things are going. I don't know what Nintendo's going to do. Because I think... Nintendo has obviously the game key cards, right? Which are already like...

You can sell them, but they are tied to your accounts. I think you've got to like disconnect it from your account or something like that. But is Nintendo going to go... full digital only? I don't... I don't think... I don't think Nintendo will as quickly.

I think there's something about... Maybe I'm wrong. I think Nintendo may still want to keep around that like family toy kind of vibe. That idea of like, we have a cartridge, we stick it in the machine and we play it like that.

Maybe to Nintendo, it doesn't really matter and they're going to go digital only as well. But I have a feeling if anyone's gonna hold out longer, it might be Nintendo. I guess this brings up the discussion I've talked about before. I think it's possible we might see like a cloud-only version of the console. Like you've kind of got with the PlayStation Portal where it only really functions as a console if you have the PS5. It is basically a

external screen for your PS5. I think there is a non-zero possibility. Something kind of similar happens with the consoles as well where you know, you have to have an internet connect. This is something they've tried in the past.

You've got to have an internet connection. You've got... And then you've got to like stream the game. Do I think it's going to happen? I think there is a possibility of an addition. I don't think it's going to be the... I don't think they do only version just yet.

But maybe halfway through the generation, they would consider it. Maybe. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe, maybe... Look, I don't want it to happen, but maybe I'm just kind of like overselling how much they'd really like to do it. because if it was cloud-based, then you would need like a guaranteed subscription, and then it's like you're always paying the money.

And maybe they can even give you some little bonuses and incentives, like a kind of game pass deal. But at the end of the day, you're still getting fucked, basically. I don't know. I don't know. I guess we'll have to wait a little bit. When did the PS5 come out? PS5 release date. 2020. But that's the other thing with the PS5. The adoption is being not great because, well, you had COVID with shortages. Now you have AI with hardware price increase and it hasn't hit the consoles any winner as much. That's the other thing. That's the other part of the reason why I think there's a possibility of a cloud-based version. How much are the next-gen console is going to cost? How much are they going to cost? What is the PS5 right now? Because they raised the price not too long ago.

PS5 Pry, whoa! The Slim version is 919 Australian dollar-re-dos. Price USA. The Slim is 649 for the disc, 599 for the digital 899 for the Pro. Yeah, 99 for the disc and 999 for the Pro. slim, $1399 for the pro in Australia. I think there's a non-zero chance the base version in Australia might actually be over $1,000 when the PlayStation 6 comes out.

I don't want it to be the game. Anyway, there's zero chance I'm buying for. I'm buying it, right? Like there's no world. Unless you've got some, like, it's got to be some crazy list of games. And considering the state Sony has been in, I don't think they have... I don't think they have a crazy list of games anymore.

Unless they're like, we're gonna revive fucking every PS2 classic that people have wanted to come back for a while. It's like, Sly Cooper, Jack and Daxter. We have Ratchen and Clank exclusively on this. We have this, we have that. We have fucking Bloodborn 2. And here's the thing, from software, they've gone to Nintendo now.

So that one's not going to happen. And they're not going to have a Final Fantasy game because Square Riddies is also gone to Nintendo. It's funny, all the big Japanese studios have just fucking left Sony behind. And it's like, hey, Nintendo, how are you guys doing? Because Nintendo doesn't care as much about exclusives to third parties, because they have a really strong first party lineup. Like, Nintendo, you know, they've got Mario, they've got Mario Party, they've got Smash, they've got Donkey Kong, they've got Kirby, they've got Legend of Zelda, they've got Pokemon, even if Pokemon's on a great state. Say, Mario Kart?

I don't know if I said Mario Kart. If I did, I did, if I didn't, then, you know, um, fucking Pickman came back a while ago with another game. They've got Star Fox is back. I don't know if they're going to do anything more with it. Um, like, Nintendo has such a strong lineup and they actually make games people care about. Sony has discount Kojima. Everyone thinks they're Kojima. Everyone thinks they can make this big movie game and everyone and all of them come out and you're like, this is, this is not, um, this is not great. Oh. But, hey, hey, maybe things get better. Maybe they do. There's a non-zero-chance things get better. I don't think it's going to get better. Hey. At least there's one less thing to care about.

At least it is one less thing to care about. Even my PS5, my PS5 has primarily been a PS4 emulator. That's its main function. Like, the last game I played on it was a PS4 game. I guess there was a PS5 version for it, but it was a PS4 game. I played Bloodbourne first on the PS5. Like, yeah, um, I get why Sony's afraid of PC, because they don't have any games. And the games they do have, no one gives shit about. So, what are you going to do? What are you going to do?

Yeah. Yeah. One little things I want to talk about. Um, I don't know, little thing, big thing, whatever it is. Uh, this is a Razor device. and Razor is officially certifying their device with support for Linux. Now it's not the first time they've expressed any interest in Linux, but this is the first time they're officially saying Ubuntu is supported on this device.

Now, I don't really care about the laptop. The laptop itself, it's wildly expensive and no one's actually going to buy it, who really cares. Right? It's a core Ultra 9-290HX plus and a 5090, right? This is a fucking very expensive laptop. However, the fact that they went out of their way, the fact that they have went out of their way

to basically say, we care about Linux. And yes, it's a monetary thing. It's the whole Steam machine. It's the Steam Deck. It's this gaining support of Linux. But it's ultimately a good thing for companies to recognize

that people are using this platform. platform and that people want to know that things work well on the platform because whilst this laptop doesn't matter other laptops are cheaper they do matter and other companies when they see another company doing it whether it be Dell or whether it be framework or whether it be Lenovo or whether it be now Razor they see other companies doing this and like oh well they're doing it I guess we should do it as well and then someone else does it and someone else does it and eventually get to a point where you start having it be kind of industry standard to say this device works well on Linux, this device is supported on Linux, here you go, right?

Like every little step is important, every little change that happens here is an improvement in this direction, and most of Buntry doesn't matter, if it works well on a Bundo, it's going to work on basically anything else. So it doesn't have any weird custom drivers that nobody else ships, which is considering to raise a laptop, it very well might. But, but I'm just excited to see that more and more people are actually, finally, willing to actually try Linux. Because people have been saying it for so long. Year of the Linux desktop, year at Linux desktop, Linux is great.

Try out Linux. Oh my God, Linux is so good now. Look, guys, protons here, you can play your games. People have been doing this for long time. People being me, I am people. and other people as well, but I am also people. People have been saying this for a long time, and it's taken so long for people to act,

for people who are not the same people, to actually consider maybe they're right. Maybe there is something here. Maybe it's actually worth looking into, and it's not a hype. But obviously, you're still going to have the people who are going to be like, well, Linux is bad, because I can't play this thing,

and I can't play that thing. And, hey, if it's your favorite game, and that's your game you play, if you're like a fucking one-game Andy and you play league, hey, I get it. I don't care about league, that's fine. But even so, right, there comes a point where, like I've said before, there comes a point

where if Linux are popular enough at some point, right, it will say, hey, maybe it's like financially viable now to support these platforms. So you should never really just like, discredit the fact that things are getting better, right? Even if you don't care about Linux today, you should support the fact that people are willing to give an alternative platform a try because eventually there's going to be an alternative

platform that is viable for you and you know if you ever get sick of windows and you want to give something new a try knowing there is something else out there and knowing that there is a thing which has been worked on for so long has been supportive for so long and has this future which doesn't really exist anywhere else like that that's a good thing for you even if right at this very moment, this is not the thing that you are willing to use and you are capable of using. So, I don't know if we're going to get to a point where we're going to see, like, a Linux section

in a hardware retailer, like a J.B. High Fire, whatever stores you have. But it would be nice. It's been something people will talk about for a long time. There's always been these, like, cases of, like, a one-off laptop here and there. there, but it would be really cool for, like there is an Apple section in a lot of places,

for there to be a general Linux section, and you can just walk in and buy a Linux laptop or buy a Linux desktop and just get something where just out of the box it works. But even if you can't, right, even if you can't, at least, at least people who are more in the know are getting to a position where they're willing to try. You're seeing big tech channels, even though they're saying some stupid shit in some cases, like some of the stuff that's been said by OTT, at least they're willing to try it and willing to show it off and willing to encourage users to try it

and people are willing to experiment along with it. And it's cool, it's cool. There is obviously a culture change that's happening with Linux because of this because a lot of these people are not developers and don't really know the developer mindset, how to redocumentation, how to like communicate in these repos. So you are going to see like a big shift there, especially one thing you're going to see there is

definitely a lot of people more, willing to adopt AI. I don't think AI is anywhere near as pushed back against as it appears on the internet. I think a lot of people don't really care. Obviously, they care about prices of shit going up, but outside of prices of shit going up, there's a lot of people who are just kind of willing to use it. And a lot of, especially a lot of new developer, I've talked about this a number of times. A lot of new developers who are growing up with AI are using AI from the ground up. So I think there's going to be a big cultural change that happens there. There's obviously still some psychosis about AI.

But I do think over the next 10 years we're going to see a big cultural shift that happens on Linux. And I'm curious to see what comes out on top. I'm curious to see how much of this is going to result in KDE growing more and Gnome not growing more or Gronome growing or Gnome shifting. or something else coming along or whatever happens. I'm just curious to see what happens. I guess we can wrap up on one minor slight AI topic. So, have you guys seen all of these like AI anime clips? A lot of them are trained on work of a studio known as Euphotable.

Euphotable makes many things. Let me find a list of their series. primarily people would know them of series like fate and I guess more recently the Demon Slayer series or the Genshin series which is never coming out

it's never fucking coming out just stop expecting it but those are done Garden of Sinners and various other things anyway they have a new movie that is coming out and this is not AI but because a lot of their a lot of their work has been used

to train AI. A lot of people see something like this and think it's AI because the AI is trying to emulate, let's face the shots like this one. The AI is trying to emulate the style of UFOable. So you see the original source material and you're like, ah yes, the original source material, that's the AI, not the AI that we're actually seeing that is trying to look like this. No, no, no. That, this, this here, that's the AI. And you get this with a lot of things, right? You get this a lot of writing. You get this, especially with artists.

There are a lot of artists that have a very common style, which gets adopted by the AI. And there's a lot of artists to get called out, you're using AI. And it turns out they're not. And they've been doing this style for like 15 years. And people are like, no, but that's AI, because it looks like the AI.

So we're actually seeing a world where, lot of people who think they can identify AI are now at a point where they are mischaracterizing real actual work as AI because they are so confident on the style that they think is AI. And we're seeing, we're also seeing like, I saw this thing from like Gramerly, where they are selling this thing where they can use AI to write your document in a way that that doesn't seem like AI. So we're using AI to trick the AI into thinking the AI is not AI. What a future we're in for, guys.

What a, what an exciting future we're in for. It's going to be, it's going to be great. I'm sure there's going to be nothing bad that comes from it whatsoever. And I'm sure everything is going to be positive. Hopefully at some point, we get cheaper RAM and cheaper storage. I'm not holding out that much hope, though. So, um, let's hope I don't need. any anytime soon.

So, so, I guess we'll end it there. I don't know what's going to be out on the main channel. I guess the big screen video will be out sometime around this time coming out, maybe on Sunday, maybe on Friday, I don't know, around this time.

What else? Yeah, I'll have my teeth. What did I hear that was orange? I don't know. Anyway, on the gaming channel, I will be playing three. Metal Gear Solid 3.

So check that one out. That will be very fun. I've not started it yet, but the day after... Two days after this is being recorded. So on Friday the day before this comes out, that'll be the first stream. And I'm also playing through Yakuza Like a Dragon or Yakuza 7, which is also very fun, and I'm really enjoying it.

We're finally done with Shenmu. Thank fucking God we're done with Shenmu. Oh my God, Shenmu was a mess. Maybe I'll talk about that in the next solo. so we do. Yeah, I might do that. Anyway, maybe we'll talk about trails from Jeryl as well, because I'll be done with that by then as well. I'm not done with them, my spare time. I need to.

I'm in the final chapter. Always done with us. I'll be done this weekend. Yes. Yes. If you watch the video version of this, you find the audio version, basically every podcast platform at Tech Over T. The video is Tech Over T on YouTube. We also have a video on Spotify as well, so check that out.

That is going to be it for me. Be good, be safe. Don't drink too much. And I am out. I'm doing my stream outro for these. I don't know why. I should think of something different for these. We'll see. Come back for the next outro and you'll see something probably the same

because I'll probably forget by then. But see anyway. Bye-bye.