of course it only took 10 minutes, they probably just enabled an existing kernel module.
deckard-linux-no-oopsies GitHub repository
😂 No oopsies allowed guys, this is serious.
I truly believe a good way to see if a company has had its soul removed is seeing how completely scrubbed of any levity it is internally. This is a great sign imo for how steam runs.
TF2 source code comments are just beautiful.
I mean, I’m certainly guilty of having to tidy up codebases before shipping, to remove all the goofy stuff and swear words, so these comments just make those Valve employees very relatable for me.
there’s a great video about valve code comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k238XpMMn38
and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-BoDW1_9P4Is there a place i can read them?
TF2 source code
The rule is to keep the swear words in the Git commits.
Are people plugging cd-roms into their steam frames? That seems impracticable.
Maybe virtual ones for some funky emulation reasons?
article has the original request in relation to watching a movie on a trip
At least this one person, yes
Why bother disabling cdrom drivers in the first place? It comes with the kernel for decades and costs virtually nothing to load.
The kernel has a ton of optional modules that they’d be stupid to include them all. They certainly don’t need support for an obscure Quebec companies GPUs that stopped producing in the 90s.
Its pretty standard operating to cut out any cruft you can, saves on storage, boot times, etc. This one was probably saving milliseconds and kilobytes, so presumably not much thought was given to disabling it, nor needed to reenable it.
Again?! An unwarranted attack by the anglophones against the Québécois GPU artisans!
L’enterrement de cyber-crapaud!!
Listen here frenchy!
How unloaded kernel module can slow boot time?
Still needs to be read from disk/flash, for the kernel to know it exists. And more relevantly every module has a number of dependencies that will all contribute to size/boot times in their own way.
Maybe even milliseconds is giving it too much, but bloat is really important especially near the release of new hardware.
I imagine the last thing anyone was worried about in crunch time was if they enabled enough random hardware in their config file.
Have you ever configured the kernel? As in
make menuconfig.There’s a zillion options in there and best practices dictates that you only enable that which you need. For example, why would you enable support for sound cards that don’t exist in your board? Beyond wasting space, it could enable some vulnerability discovered in the future.
Example: My PC doesn’t have a MIPI DSI display connector (or support for one on the motherboard), so why would I enable support for that in my kernel? Sure, I could compile it as a module and let it sit there, taking up a few kilobytes of space on my hard drive but why?
It makes no sense to support CD ROMs on a VR headset so I completely understand why they didn’t enable the driver. Even though it’s a “real PC”, the Steam Frame is still embedded hardware.
I want to know why this person wants CD ROM support! The Steam Frame has at least a 256GB SSD and a Micro SD card slot. Just put the ISO (or .bin/.cue files) on one of those and mount it like any other loopback filesystem or use FUSE
cdemu(yes, Linux has support for that built-in; unlike Windows haha). It’ll be a zillion times faster and a vastly superior experience!Aside: Yes, I know Windows 11 can natively mount an ISO file but it only supports a limited subset of the filesystems that you can find on CD/DVD ROMs. So unless the image is ISO9660 with the Joilet extension or UDF, it’s not going to work. Example: Trying to mount a PS1 CD ROM works in Linux but not Windows. Not without 3rd party stuff, anyway.
Free good publicity for “fixing” it.
Uhm, they just did not thought of enabling the kernel module because it’s an embeeded system that has no CD/DVD/BlueRay reader…
… it’s intended to have stuff added to it. It’s like having a modular pc without the drivers for controllers or a keyboard and mouse.
No one though of adding a CD drive to a VR apparently, which makes sense considering you are supposed to move with a VR
Good publicity from… having a bug?
How’s this a bug?
And cd support is the current hot issue with gaming. It’s free publicity, not many people know about it being already available and they artificially limited it. So even if people know and get it out there, the publicity generated is far more positive and washes that out.
This is a common marketing tactic. They look like the good guys for adding a feature that was “requested”. Because of course people are gonna bring it up with everything going on.
Still clearly is now an intended feature, that yeah I’d even consider it being overlooked as a bug.
Assuming every single thing they do is a calculated, profit driven decision is like blaming all your bad luck on the devil, without proof youre just swatting imaginary faries.
I’d be insanely surprised if like 1 TV commercial would market leagues above “some company most old people don’t recognise changed something about a thing most people don’t know how works. The company claims its a positive”.
the devil
IT’S NOT THE DEVIL IT’S GABE NEWELL
STEAM SKIMS 15% OFF OF EVERY MARKET TRANSACTION
30% OFF OF EVERY GAME PURCHASE
THOSE TRANSACTIONS ARE DENOMINATED IN FUN BUCKS THAT YOU ALREADY PAID TAXES ON
EVERY TIME AN ITEM CHANGES HANDS, THE FUN BUCKS DIMINISH AND VALVE KEEPS A FRACTION
YOU CAN’T TAKE OUT THE FUN BUCKS FROM THEIR CIRCUIT LEGALLY, BECAUSE IT’S LITERALLY A FUCKING CASINO
EVERY VALVE GAME IS A STORE FRONT FOR LITERAL FUCKING NFTS AND LOOTBOXES THAT CONTAIN NFTS
AND YOU GUYS KEEP SUCKING THE COCK OF A GUY WHO DOESN’T JUST OWN A YACHT BUT A YACHT COMPANY THAT HE OWNS BECAUSE OF THE ABOVE
It’s literally DIGITAL COIN CLIPPING
Reddit and fediverse users fellate a guy who owns a yacht company for checking a box in a linux distro, news at 11
Yeah fuck them for being responsive to customers, no one should ever acknowledge it
You’re being downvoted but there are no good billionaires. They may run good companies but there are no good billionaires.
Yeah yachts arent exactly environmentally friendly either.
Im a big fan of GabeN on a “based takes” basis, but i swear to god if someone directly quotes the piracy thing in like 4 paragraphs or reposts the 480p video interview of it I think im gonna lose my mind
Some of those yachts are specifically for marine biology research, which is Gabe’s main hobby
Some.
It would have taken 1 minute without bureaucracy because it’s a single line in a config file.
Also this guy when Valve releases something with a bug: “Why don’t those clowns at Valve care about software quality and testing‽ “
“Bureaucracy” like finding the config option, running tests, and committing to source control would all build up to more than one minute if a human does it.
It’s extraordinarily common to underestimate how long easy things take though!
I totally believe it took less than ten minutes. I don’t believe it would take less than one.
