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[264.74 --> 267.18] Is it just too freaking new? |
[267.34 --> 268.24] Is that the problem? |
[268.66 --> 270.50] Because I don't know anybody that has one of these. |
[270.76 --> 273.60] Michael Laravel over at Pharonix has one too, thankfully. |
[273.76 --> 276.82] And he's written a couple of articles about this thing. |
[277.94 --> 283.52] And this graphics card is so new that, of course, because Intel ship all their drivers as part of the Linux kernel, |
[283.52 --> 296.88] I need to go and download the 6.0 RC release from GitHub and actually run mainline kernel and compile it and pass a couple of kernel arguments to force it to use the GPU. |
[296.88 --> 301.00] So how's that going, Alex? |
[301.06 --> 301.82] How's that been going? |
[301.88 --> 304.16] It's more effort than I'd imagined so far, Chris. |
[304.42 --> 305.36] I'm going to be honest with you. |
[305.96 --> 306.70] I bet. |
[306.70 --> 311.40] And it's like one of those things where how motivated are you right now? |
[311.40 --> 316.54] Because if you wait three months, it's probably going to be done for you, right? |
[316.62 --> 319.74] It's like, God, how much you just want to do it right now versus just wait? |
[319.74 --> 325.96] Well, I'd love to do it right now because I actually think as part of the public service angle that this show kind of fills, |
[325.96 --> 337.10] that a media server oriented card like this that has a lot of really exciting new hardware encoding stuff on it with the AV1 encoders, |
[337.48 --> 346.42] I'd like to give the people an idea of how well this thing does or does not perform with Plex, with Jellyfin, with Handbrake and FFmpeg and all those kinds of things. |
[346.42 --> 350.58] I suppose all of those things actually lead to FFmpeg under the hood, really. |
[351.46 --> 352.12] But I follow what you mean. |
[352.20 --> 354.64] It's like people want to know, is this worth their money? |
[355.10 --> 356.50] Is this worth actually investing in? |
[356.58 --> 359.10] Is this the next way to build my next media server? |
[359.36 --> 363.68] Yeah, because, you know, potentially you could you could that old Xeon that you've got chugging along, |
[363.92 --> 373.14] you could throw this graphics card in there and potentially have a very low power, highly performant hardware encoding set up for your media server. |
[373.14 --> 380.16] You could do that with an AMD chip as well or even an Intel CPU that doesn't have a latest quick sync in there, |
[380.24 --> 382.56] you know, like an old third or fourth gen, something like that. |
[382.70 --> 385.62] So lots of options if we can get it working. |
[385.88 --> 389.16] And I've been really busy playing Factorio this week. |
[389.96 --> 391.76] And that's not the best excuse in the world. |
[391.80 --> 393.26] That's why I haven't done my homework teacher. |
[393.98 --> 396.82] But the factory must grow, you know. |
[397.46 --> 400.84] Are you playing this on your new shiny Steam Deck by chance? |
[400.84 --> 403.82] Actually, no. That also arrived this week. |
[403.90 --> 406.64] It's been a it's been an expensive month. |
[406.88 --> 408.42] Hold on a second here now. Hold on. Hold on. |
[408.70 --> 414.84] So you get a new Steam Deck, you're playing a Steam game, but you're not playing it on the Steam Deck. |
[415.04 --> 418.64] So here's the thing about Factorio particularly. |
[419.04 --> 423.46] And a lot of the games I seem to like are these kind of isometric kind of city builders |
[423.46 --> 431.18] where you need a big canvas to see all the different bits and bobs all, you know, gesticulating on the screen. |
[431.58 --> 438.92] And unfortunately, the 1280 by 800 little screen that the Steam Deck has ain't quite it, chief, you know. |
[439.10 --> 439.78] And it would struggle. |
[440.04 --> 443.94] It would it would struggle mightily if you tried to hook that thing up to a monitor that big. |
[444.30 --> 445.68] I've experimented. |
[445.68 --> 451.10] And when you go much higher on the resolution and you start to leave the optimal zone of the Steam hardware. |
[451.38 --> 457.88] I've been really, really impressed with the Steam Deck for the, you know, sort of casual gaming like, you know, |
[457.94 --> 465.64] Forza Horizon or F1 2022 or whatever, you know, playing those sorts of games like I'm taking a flight to L.A. soon. |
[465.74 --> 468.38] It's going to be amazing on the plane to be able to do that kind of stuff. |
[468.38 --> 477.16] But for more air quotes serious gaming like Factorio, it's not quite the right fit. |
[477.42 --> 480.30] But my goodness is an impressive device overall. |
[480.96 --> 484.94] And what a fantastic retro emulator. |
[485.82 --> 490.72] Absolutely the most solid retro emulator experience I've had for the Super Nintendo. |
[491.20 --> 497.36] I got the nostalgia feels like it was the good old days playing the Super Nintendo on a CRT. |
[497.36 --> 500.54] It just is so tight the way everything works. |
[501.22 --> 507.36] And then also there's just like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, Shredder's Revenge, also just plays incredible on the deck. |
[507.54 --> 511.74] And you can hook up controllers to it either over Bluetooth or over USB. |
[512.38 --> 514.54] And so, like, for example, my son and I are sitting there. |
[514.80 --> 521.72] I set the deck down and we both have controllers and we're playing Shredder's Revenge on the deck. |
[521.76 --> 523.02] And it's great for that kind of stuff. |
[523.02 --> 527.38] And it's killer, killer for anything that works really good with a controller. |
[527.66 --> 531.84] I saw you pop up in my notifications in Steam saying, Chris Lass is now playing Turtles. |
[532.02 --> 533.72] I was like, yes, good for him. |
[533.86 --> 535.40] Yeah, it's great for that. |
[535.48 --> 535.96] It is. |
[536.18 --> 538.32] I really think that they've got something there. |
[538.88 --> 544.96] And the fact that it's open, that you can install stuff, you can get to the desktop, you can tinker with it. |
[545.04 --> 546.46] I love that trend. |
[546.60 --> 548.50] And I hope that takes off. |
[548.90 --> 549.86] Others see this, I hope. |
[549.86 --> 553.28] Yeah, it's a first generation device, so it's not perfect. |
[553.42 --> 559.68] But again, besides the battery life at two hours, which on a flight is going to be a bit of a problem. |
[560.34 --> 563.36] I mean, at home, it's absolutely not a problem because I just plug in a cable. |
[564.12 --> 573.88] For a first generation device, I think Valve must be absolutely commended for everything they've done to progress and further the Linux narrative with Proton. |
[573.88 --> 582.56] Everything they've done over the last, I guess, seven or eight years since they announced that very first Alienware Steam box, I suppose. |
[582.80 --> 583.94] That's what this has been leading. |
[584.16 --> 586.06] It's been coming since then, really. |
[586.94 --> 591.10] There have been a few things happened in the meantime that have kind of made this possible, I suppose. |
[591.26 --> 600.70] Like AMD's propensity to create gaming console quality mobile chips that things like what go in the Switch and what have you. |
[601.10 --> 602.34] Although that's Nvidia, that one. |
[602.34 --> 604.90] And their work to upstream those, right? |
[604.96 --> 606.34] So that stuff's just in the kernel. |
[606.42 --> 607.00] That's just it. |
[607.34 --> 614.22] And I was saying to someone the other day, like I got the one with the anti-glare screen and the 512 SSD that's in there. |
[614.98 --> 617.26] So it wasn't a cheap, you know, device. |
[617.36 --> 619.34] I think it was about $650 or so. |
[619.34 --> 624.38] So I would pay that again, quite happily, just to support Valve and what they're doing. |
[624.54 --> 629.00] And I think voting with your wallet really is the only way to send a true message. |
[629.14 --> 645.48] And there's so many companies out there, like Nintendo, that want to lock people into gaming so hard that, you know, when you buy a new Nintendo Switch, for example, which I did when my wife was pregnant, I realized that actually I have to spend another couple hundred bucks on games for this thing. |
[645.48 --> 650.98] Whereas when I buy my Steam Deck, I've got the last 10 years of my Steam library sat there ready to go. |
[651.10 --> 655.22] And, you know, we could have an argument about Steam DRM probably until we're blue in the face. |
[655.22 --> 661.58] But the fact is that I didn't get locked into a proprietary ecosystem. |
[661.58 --> 669.84] I'm running Linux so I can go under the hood and, as you say, run like Emudeck, all of that emulation stuff as well on the same device. |
[669.84 --> 672.62] And it's just so, so cool. |
[673.14 --> 678.92] I'd be curious to know if anybody out there in the audience has integrated the Deck into their home lab setup somehow. |
[679.50 --> 680.92] Like, is there something there? |
[681.36 --> 682.54] I had a real wow moment. |
[682.66 --> 684.70] I've got a USB-C monitor just here. |
[684.70 --> 685.20] Oh, yeah. |
[685.40 --> 688.64] And it's got Ethernet in the back of it as well as a couple of USB ports. |
[689.08 --> 695.78] One cable into the Steam Deck charged it, gave me Ethernet, and gave me a 4K output to display to do all the tinkering. |
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