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>With the reintroduction of the Steam Machine, DIY enthusiasts have been having fun making their own versions of Valve's console, often using standard PC components and Bazzite; a Fedora-based distro that resembles Valve's own SteamOS. However, this latest homebrewed Steam Machine creation is quite unique. Handheld/SFF enthusiast YouTube Channel ETA Prime showed off a DIY Steam machine setup using a mining blade that uses a B-grade PS5 SoC. The hardware being used for this setup is an ASRock BC-250 mining blade that takes advantage of a defective PS5 SoC with disabled bits. Specs consist of six Zen 2 cores with 12 threads, 24 RDNA 2 CUs, and 16GB of GDDR6 memory. Compared to the base PS5, which has eight Zen 2 cores and 36 CUs, the neutered counterpart in ASRock's mining board has 25% fewer cores and 33% fewer GPU cores.

Interesting. Archive: https://archive.today/6ucBV From the post: >>With the reintroduction of the Steam Machine, DIY enthusiasts have been having fun making their own versions of Valve's console, often using standard PC components and Bazzite; a Fedora-based distro that resembles Valve's own SteamOS. However, this latest homebrewed Steam Machine creation is quite unique. Handheld/SFF enthusiast YouTube Channel ETA Prime showed off a DIY Steam machine setup using a mining blade that uses a B-grade PS5 SoC. The hardware being used for this setup is an ASRock BC-250 mining blade that takes advantage of a defective PS5 SoC with disabled bits. Specs consist of six Zen 2 cores with 12 threads, 24 RDNA 2 CUs, and 16GB of GDDR6 memory. Compared to the base PS5, which has eight Zen 2 cores and 36 CUs, the neutered counterpart in ASRock's mining board has 25% fewer cores and 33% fewer GPU cores.

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I think quite a bit of steam's popularity is manufactured. What's happening is people are accepting digital "ownership" (sic: you own nothing goy) because Gabe is so heckin awesome! I will never buy a game I don't own, that I need to connect to some server for, that can be taken from me. Otherwse, who are often much younger, have a different view of life and are fine paying for the ability to rent a game. Now, that isn't to say I've never dipped my toes a bit in steam. I own a few games (so like 120 or something because games come with so many additional bonuses), but it's like the Half-Life bundle, the Portal Bundle, a Civ bundle I think, and things that, meh. I"m not, never have, and never will pay $80 for the next slightly upgraded Counter Strike, modern warfare etc.

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I agree with you here. It was an attempt to to drive a knife into windows, move users to linux...fuck just said this.

I too belive in owning the game...but even then, so many ownership games require the validation server to work. If that goes down, you have a shiny mirror hanger.

Remember when...who was it....loadrunner by borderbund just hole punched a fucking hole in the floppy, and went to read that sector, if could be read, then HONK, no play. Based all on if it gets a read error in the right place it works. That was an awesome copy protection point...as the game had no data around that point....good shit.