They already had a FPS counter on Windows, but they've expanded that with CPU/GPU/RAM usage, a frametime graph and that separate FPS/DLSS frame counter. No battery stats, surprisingly, even on handhelds.
I don't know what they're wrapping on Windows, but they definitely have decent access, and yeah, the Nvidia overlay sometimes loses the FPS counter where Steam keeps it on Windows. Don't ask me how that works.
Yeah, we're almost there. If you buy a pre-packaged box with Home Assistant you're most of the way there. If you look under the hood most commercial NAS options and even some routers are scraping that territory as well.
I think the way it needs to work to go mainstream is you buy some box that you plug in to your router and it just sets up a handful of (what looks to you) like web services you can access from anywhere. No more steps needed.
The biggest blockers right now are that everybody in that space is too worried giving you the appearance of control and customizability to go that hard towards end-user focus... and that for some reason we as a planet are still dragging our feet on easily accessible permanent addresses for average users and still relying on hacks and workarounds.
The tech is there, though. You could be selling home server alternatives to the could leaning into enshittification annoyance with the tech we have today. There's just nobody trying to do an iServe because everybody is chasing that subscription money instead, and those who aren't are FOSS nerds that want their home server stuff to look weird and custom and hard.
Yeah, that sucks. I've had it get stuck trying to update Proton for a game that no longer existed on an external drive. Steam definitely isn't as "works every time out of the box" as people around here like to claim, and its reliance on reproducing itself to its last state, even if that state is broken, can be super annoying.
But hey, I still think having access to all the games it can run in your system should be the default, even if it warns you when you are doing so under Proton.
As far as I understand it the option remain on the menu, they just changed the default.
I would have been less annoyed at the default being off if the client asked you if you want to switch it on when you click on a non-native game. They instead have the toggle hidden away in their already cluttered and annoying Settings menu, at least on the desktop version.
Likewise, I think the answer to your issue would be to just give you a warning splash screen when booting under Proton the first time. That's fairly established UX language on Steam, they do the same when you hit the controller compatibility layer for the first time and when you try to play games with small UI elements on handheld.
I never encountered that, but Steam can get weirdly stuck on a Proton update or setting if you start manually messing with its library folders. For as much as people like their contributions to the ecosystem it's still a private, for-profit storefront and they're not particularly keen on you fiddling with it or in supporting you when/if you do.
That said, I haven't had that issue. In theory Proton shouldn't mess with your native software regardless of your options setting being on or off. Presumably even with it defaulted to on if you switch it off manually things would go back to showing all non-native software as "unavailable" again, right?
Oh. Well, no duh.
Did they ever explain why this wasn't on by default before? Was there a practical reason for it at all? It's one of those things you do once and never think about again, but it's weird that you even had to.
I guess maybe they thought that having some games try to launch and fail by default would look bad? They've recently added compatibility ratings to non-SteamOS Linux systems, so maybe that's the difference now? Still a weirdly annoying choice originally, though.
It's about time they ported their Deck performance viewer back to other platforms. It's still a bit touch and go whether it picks up some things. No GPU readout under Linux, for example, as far as I can tell, at least with an Nvidia GPU.
The DLSS stuff is interesting, but it wasn't much of a secret before. They took the way they present it from the generally amazing Lossless Scaling and, if anything, I like that you can now compare their solution to DLSS apples-to-apples. I'm a bit confused about their graph display, though. I'm guessing the red line is supposed to be native frames and green is all frames? That's a bit weird, since the color coding on the text is backwards from that.
As a side note, it's weird and has always been weird that Steam's performance monitor has a way better time picking up apps than Nvidia's on Windows. You'd think owning the drivers would give you the edge, but nope.
Yeah, that's exactly where it comes from. And it fits just fine for people like you, doing it for a living. It's just a bit obnoxious when us normies dabbling with what is now fairly approachable hobbyist home networking try to cosplay as that. I mean, come on, Brad, you're not unwinding after work with more server stuff, you just have a Plex and a Pi-hole you mess around with while avoiding having actual face time with your family.
And that's alright, by the way. I think part of why the nomenclature makes me snarky is that I actually think we're on the cusp of this stuff being very doable by everybody at scale. People are still running small services in dedicated Raspberry Pis and buying proprietary NASs that can do a bunch of one-button self-hosting. If you gave it a good push you could start marketing self-contained home server boxes as a mainstream product, it's just that the people doing that are more concerned with selling you a bunch of hard drives and the current batch of midcore users like me are more than happy to go on about their "homelab" and pretend they're doing a lot more work than they actually are to keep their couple of docker containers running.
Well, no, it's a concise way to say some objections are logical and sound and some are stemming from a moral panic.
Whether I agree with the objections on each camp is, again, irrelevant.
I disagree with some of the non-moral panic objections, too, and I'm happy to have that conversation.
Four possible types of objections in this scenario, if you want to be "logical" about it:
I think there aren't any in that last group, but there are certainly at least some objections in all other three.
Neither of those things happened here.
The examples people found include a monitor showing random technical text that someone asked a LLM to write (presumably the writer who goofed is getting paid) and some localized subtitles that were left with a machine localization (the rest of the localization was contracted out).
Even assuming a bunch of other stuff in the game was AI generated and just went undetected, which is likely, if it's all iterations on what people noticed it definitely doesn't fit your description.
Not everything, increasingly. And frankly I find that annoying. Not having admin access at all is certainly more secure, I don't know if it's "better". They're probably both extremes that go past the optimal choice.
I mean, yeah, if you take my wallet and you encase it in concrete my money is certainly more secure than it was laying on my counter out in the open, but I'd argue that's not a better security setup.
Cool.
But the pitch wasn't "everything will be interoperable unless the company doesn't mean it or wants to make money or we aren't "morally aligned", whatever that means".
I don't understand how you can be a "walled garden" and still feature interoperability with a set of open source platforms under a pre-established set protocol. This is not an ethical problem or a problem of ideology, those two things are mutually exclusive.
This also sounds a whole lot like it disproves skrlet13's point on the heterogeneous Fedi where everything fits under different but overlapping bubbles. Seems to me you think Fedi has the one moral and ethical position on this.