u/CurseHawkwind

This is annoying the shit out of me. It's happening nonstop on loop. It creeps onto the right-hand side and says "Oh, hello", then about five seconds later my calendar will slide into that right-hand section. A few seconds after that, it all slides away. After another 20-30 seconds? "Oh, hello", it's repeating for bloody eternity... WHY. WON'T. YOU. DIE?!

I considered that it might be trying to sway me towards expanding the right section, and I tried that. I dragged it across. There's nothing special there, and doing so didn't stop it. I'm considering returning my Echo Show 10 because of this. The screen is usually in my peripheral vision, so it's incredibly distracting when I keep seeing that waving hand hundreds of times a day. Oh, and yes, I did try turning it off and on again. Didn't work.

Thought it would be funny to see what Sato would look like as a Ken-style doll. I checked the rules first, and there aren't any against AI generations, so I assume this is okay.

Would you buy this doll if it were real?

My Steam Machine came in the early afternoon today, but I was expecting Friday at a minimum, if not next week. There were no GLS updates, so I assumed it was still stuck in a warehouse, but this morning I noticed an e-mail from Parcelforce saying it was on its way – with very little notice. I'd have been furious if I hadn't been in to receive it.

So far, I don't have a lot to report. I spent a lot of yesterday backing up the grid images and Decky loader plugins/settings on my Steam Deck so I could migrate everything to my Steam Machine. It's worked pretty much perfectly. I'm surprised that none of my plugins has crapped out, so far at least. I only need to fix a spacing issue in the Clean Gameview and HLTB plugins.

I've only tried a couple of games so far, so I can't really report on its performance yet. I just wanted to put this obligatory post out so I could get straight to playing. 😉 If you have any questions, I may be able to answer, though I probably won't be taking performance testing requests.

I've got a custom faceplate coming (might take a week), so I'll show you that when it arrives and use that opportunity to update you as well.

Oh, and since I know somebody's going to ask, no, I don't have my Steam Machine by my TV. I decided to put it on my table to the side of the room and run a 5m HDMI cable to the TV. So far, no complaints.