Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Yep, this is a good explanation of more of the nitty gritty of it in more granular detail!
When you can afford to eat some of the cost... or... you don't have shareholders telling you not to do that... well, then you get good ole 'how capitalism is supposed to work! (tm)'.
Problem of course being that uh, you can just chase the luxury market for greater profit margins, stop making shit for the poors... this can work well in the short/medium term, but in the long run... if everyone does that...
... then you destroy your customer base, and the entire economy, and probably yourself.
And that's not even getting into how companies have their own version of 'keeping up with the joneses'... its called going into massive debt to fund an expansion because your competitor just did that... and then going into more debt to finance a stock buyback... but hey nbd, companies can fail and go bankrupt, no problem, everyone other than those helming the ship get fucked, they get golden parachutes.
Sure would be neat if we maybe had some other kind of system idk