The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs (opens in new tab)

> Some of the shots would fit right in with a Portal cutscene.

The music really helps sell that idea.

Without taking away from the great things they are also doing, I'm mostly amazed at how bad and laggy the Steam app is, and has been for years, on all 3 platforms I've used it on.

(I'm sure there are loads of people who have never had any issues but to me that's like people saying there are no problems with Linux on the desktop because they don't have any problems.)

And they only take a 30% cut! Practically altruism.

Personally I've been pretty disappointed with valve over the last 10-15 years because of the almost complete lack of output on their games and the way they abandon others (TF2). They'd rather squeeze more money out of steam than release new games

>Also steam supporting linux single handedly advanced adoption of that os.

Android using Linux is what single handily advanced the adoption of Linux among consumers.

It's why AI-generated movie shots would make a lot of sense. Hollywood spends billions of dollars, builds and blows up elaborate sets, and hires 100,000s of thousands of people... just to be able to have pixels move in a pleasing way. How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to generating pixels? CGI goes in that general direction but it's still very labor intensive.

I do a lot of YouTubing and the consensus is that every minute of video takes at least 1 hour of work - and this is just amateurs messing around.

I work for a company which has made a huge satellite constellation and after a revision of a hardware component has run its course thousands have made their way to space, incomplete/failing units are shredded, and only a handful are kept. When the satellites eventually burn up in the atmosphere those ~3 builds are all that remain of the entire project, thousands of man-hours to engineer and build hardware that the world will never see. I think about those few survivors a lot.

Props, acts and jigs are always like this. In reality, a small metal structure like this is not really so precious that it need be cherished or repurposed. Metal is very recyclable. It’s function was brief in time, but relatively high in impact.

is there something inherently bad in this? do you feel something is lost?

8hr sounds accurate. There’s a wattage slider and you can only set it so low. You might be able to get more out of using the desktop and forcing some idle modes, however it’s impressive enough as is at a few watts and many hours on a portable Linux machine occupying less total space than a 13” laptop.

Samsung, but BOE may be dual-supplying it: https://twitter.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/17227592388066431...

Last I heard, it's the same supplier as the Switch OLED; that's why it uses MIPI over eDP. Samsung is the manufacturer I think

Only if you drive the display at the top end. If you end up driving in the middle, it helps prevent burn in

> By counting the time each subpixel is displayed and at what brightness, a "wear level" can be determined for each pixel, using an algorithm to estimate the luminance degradation this can be compensated for. However, to do this, you must have some spare luminance headroom that gets utilized as the display gets older. Or alternatively, if the display unlocks full maximum luminance when new without saving any headroom, the algorithm would dim the other pixels over time to bring them down to the level of the burned-in pixels, so the peak luminance of the display would diminish over time as the burn-in occurs.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/why-oled-monitor-bur...

Fortunately in case of Steam Deck it's possible to replace screen in case this become a problem in a couple of years and new parts wont cost like a new device.

Burn-in on OLEDs is really just uneven wear. I don’t think it really matters how bright they get for that, unless panel heat is an issue at higher brightnesses.

I assume that's what "some Steam Deck clips made by an accessory designer on Reddit" is referring to? Going back and watching the video again, yeah, it definitely looks like Deckmate grips holding all the decks to the orb frame.