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Ukraine's United24 Media, a government-run platform, shared a video of Ukrainian soldiers using the Steam Deck system to remotely control guns on social media over the weekend.

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[–] 12022081631@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

steam remote play was not made for this sadness gabe is spinning in his yacht

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He’s a libertarian so this is just a good business opportunity ancap-good

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is he? Varoufakis said that, back when he worked at valve, Newel had an "anarcho-syndicalist soul trapped in a private company" or something like that

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't he own the private company though?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can't speak for the rest of valve but last I checked the actual developer portion of the company is run with a flat hierarchy and nobody enforces participation in projects, people work on whatever they want to work on. He does own it though.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

maybe he just sees himself as the union boss

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Maybe. Not sure how relevant it is today but this is the old "new employee handbook" that Varoufakis would have had on his first day there: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf

Interesting read. Cool place to work tbh and as far as bosses go I do think he's on the better side regardless of the numerous criticisms I have of Valve.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Certainly elements of it but it stretches believability when he's a multi billionaire

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Of course but that doesn't make him a libertarian. I'm not saying he's actually an anarcho syndicalist or whatever probably just a business guy

[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe? But the guy still sold lootboxes as gambling for children, so he can't be that anti-capitalist.

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Of course, I meant more that he's probably more of a hippie doo doo kinda guy than an ideological right-wing libertarian.

I mean christ, look how he looks now

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

“Ya got the ninendo guns set up yet?” whywhywhywhywhy

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Steam decks are reliable commercial-off-the-shelf compact battery operated linux computers.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Steam = bibeo games

Deck = console

Now read the headline and tell me if it's epic

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago
[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

Ukrainian soldiers are absolutely going to get mowed down by their own turrets.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

Does this serve any practical purpose, or is this whole thing engineered for the reddit upvotes? (you know the answer)

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how much of this stuff is really useful, or is meant to portray them as scrappy underdogs in need of aid.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

A remote turret you can't reload ain't it

[–] hypercracker@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

scrubs don't even use gyro aim, pathetic boomer mentality

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

abandoned zelensky This is the most thing I've ever seen.

[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago
[–] OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

This truly is the year of the linux desktop

Hey if it works it works. COTS parts are the way to go.