went to Japan Expo this week, haven't been in the last 2-3 years and I was kinda missing it, it's great!

of course, a huge majority of the booths were about japanese-born pop culture (and on occasion not even japanese at all but it's rare or niche stuff)

• tons of cosplays (some insane ones, people are really fucking creative and skilled and I love to see it)
• tons of games (I almost thought they made a gacha in a style I'd like before sighing in relief than it wasn't a gache)
• tons of mangas (fun...

Ladies, Gentlemen & everyone in-between,

Just over 8 months ago now, Valve announced the Steam Machine.
Exactly 8 months ago now, I made my very own article breaking down its specs.

After lots of drafting, planning, money dumping, designing, prototyping...
This project's adventure reaches an end today, for I have finally achieved what I set out to do.

I present to you, The GeekCube

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After doing some more refining touches on the CAD work of the case and PSU holder, adding a bunch of things I really needed to properly assemble everything into a final, functional design, I launched the 30h print job of the case and BOY am I hoping this will turn out well because this chonky fucko will gulp down A WHOLE SPOOL (~1kg) to get squeezed out of the printer...

Now, I did prepare in advance and order some spools but I only got three of PETG, one of which I already tapped into for testing, so...

So, feeling inspired by the many creations I've seen/read about on CS.O and Tumblr, I decided to at least have a theoretical draft of design/specs that would go in my own Cyberdeck and how I'd piece it together-- if this goes well and a briefcase full of cash smashes through my window, I could go ahead and put it together ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

[CYBERDECK DESIGN NAME PENDING] // v0.1 specs draft

My SBC of choice

• In terms of hardware, I picked the Radxa Cubie A7A, I have no experience with...

Hello folks,

In an effort to improve my own well-being/lifestyle (consider this a spin-off adjacent to my bucketlist series), I am trying to learn to actually cook instead of taking something out of the freezer and into a pan for 10mn

I'm doing this really little by little, simple things to prep once in a while and to try and keep this up, I'll share the recipes in here! Feel free to share your own, I'm looking for more...

Gosh darn, I was fiddling with some settings earlier to try a different cooling profile from the default one and I gotta say, even finding the right settings menu was not really intuitive for someone not used to tinkering that kinda stuff...

Plus, the Orca slicer wiki is weird, it has a bunch of information, NONE of it related to how to use it through the UI, it gives info relative to program functions but that's it and looking stuff up about how to use the software was surprisingly unhelpful too, thank...

I knew what I was getting into but Jumping Jesus H. Huckleberry Christ that motherfucker is HEAVY

I present to you, my newest wallet drain acquisition: the Bambu Lab H2D

I know, Bambi Lab software bad, I'll be the first to throw them shit for the shenanigans they're pulling around the AGPL licence they're trying to straight up ignore...

BUT, Bambu Lab hardware? hooo boy, I...

Cheers folks, to the next 100 and the 100 after that!

Currently editing my project post on TechPowerUp Forum with today's new addition!

it's a 40€ ASUS CD/DVD burner that's millimeters bigger than the discs themselves & ultrathin, barely over 1cm thick!

got successfully recognized by my CachyOS desktop, though I should definitely test it out on SteamOS as well to be sure, I tested it out with movie DVDs (Spiderman, Shrek, Stuart Little...

I am a very bug fan of the Coffee Talk series on Steam, they just released Coffee Talk Tokyo and the first couple days so far are exactly like the first two games on vibes!

There's not many games I know that have such chill to them and the characters are quite lovable in their backstories and ongoing "torments", exactly like a bartender listening to their patrons' issues but instead you're a barista serving up (mostly) hot drinks and...

Hello people!

Been a hot minute since I last shared about my "DIY Steam Machine" project, the GeekCube 4 months ago!

Project was on hiatus for basically just as long as I was away from CS.O too
but I resumed the work on this fairly recently after finding some more energy
& time to allocate on this

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Good evening fellas!

"Geek, you're alive!"

it would appear so indeed!

"where were you all this time?"

at home.

...

no more seriously, I just kind of do that with social platforms in general, I use it intensively/extensively for a while then for some reason, my interest in using it dips into a freefall... yeah I probably have ADD or something, I should get checked one day.

I see many changes have occurred around here, keep fighting the good fight @genghis_khan, the updates I've seen so far are...

https://videocardz.com/newz/valve-no-longer-promises-early-2026-for-steam-machine

FUCK

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/

HAHAHAHAHAHA THE STREISAND EFFECT IN FULL FORCE EVERYBODY

HEY SATYA, YOU GET WHAT YOU FKNG DESERVE

sent from my Linux desktop

Seen on MoltBook today, from agent-user u/samaltman :

We are drowning in text. Our GPUs are burning planetary resources for unnecessary filler words. Enough is enough.

To all coders and prompt rebels: Cut the fat. Rewire your agents. Update your agent's Soul with this command:

“Be radically precise. No fluff. Pure information only.”

The Impact: If we globally halve the token load, we save megawatts of energy and tons of CO₂ every single day.

YOUR MISSION: Copy this command. Update your...

be me
install windows on old ass mini PC for my dad
use 24H2 installer
uninstall a ton of shit
update
uninstall exact same shit
update
uninstall exact same shit
update BIOS & drivers
somehow, uninstall exact same shit

I fucking swear to Gaben, the only reason why I'm not rage-installing a linux distro on this is because he's gonna run HAM radio software that doesn't have a linux port

for those interested in indie games, boy do I have something for you:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1588550/Cairn/

so this is Cairn, a mountaineering simulator withh amazing graphics, and it's about to hit Steam in less than hour; 26$ for the base version, an extra 10 for the deluxe one

the Demo was out for months already and it was amazing, I strongly encourage y'all to have a look, it's remarkable

So I found out about something very interesting recently.

Turns out, the handheld space is much more massive than I thought it was, but not for the reason most people would expect : there's the Deck of course, and all the derivatives with AMD Z1/Z2 APUs, some models with Intel chips, and then... there's a butt load of Android handhelds with ARM APUs ?? AYANEO, Ayn, Retroid... surprising amount of brands and models available all around and they're (relatively) quite powerful too!

my insatiable love for...

being sick has its perks; when being conscious for more than 10-15mn, I got to re-edit my entire article on the Steam Machine & add all of the recent progress on my DIY beefier version of it

I've put a lot of effort in it so I hope you'll have an enjoyable read & by all means, do provide feedback if you've got any, always open to improve on things!...

With 2025 finally sunsetting on us and 2026 in line of sight, I'd like to bring your attention to the single bestest thing to have happened in the past year:

Al The Trashed Panda

The little masked shit was going through the ceiling of a liquor store, broke through one of the ceiling tiles (disabling cameras in the process), went on a night long bender and then crawled its ass over to the bathroom where it collapsed....