Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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T means Ton, a unit that nobody uses to measure "game consoles" in any other context.
You mean it's not 50 trillion consoles? Enough for everyone on the planet to have 6,000? Damn.
It clearly means 50 Teraconsoles.
Is a Teraconsole one million times better than a Sega Megadrive?
I'm just gonna gonna go with 'yes'.
I'd rather have one steam machine than one million Sega Megadrives, so that checks out.
It is my pleasure to confer upon you a totally real and legit Associates degree in Economics from the University of Lemmy.
Other than… importing. Are you for real?
The headline can add 3 characters instead of making everyone guess what the letter T means
I am kind of mind blown that people are having problems figuring out T means tons..
Maybe it’s because it’s unusual to measure game consoles in tonnes (in the media) that we look for another explanation.
And I knew a tonne (1000kg) to be "t", this capital T is new to me. I just checked wikipedia apparently there’s a fuckton of different tons.
Or you can use your brain, and use context clues to deduce the correct interpretation.
For game consoles?
You know they don't ship them one at a time, right?
And here I was thinking it was a measure of magnetic flux density.
Only if the Kirovs are not reporting.
Ton, or tonne? There's a difference
Ton because it's the U.S.
The article says "50 Tonnes" tho, so now what...
This article says tonnes, but if you go to the original Verge arrival it’s tons.
Anything but metric
Metric also uses (metric) tons (aka tonnes).
Heck, maybe it's really "TEU" but whoever is reporting has no idea what the EU part means so they tossed it.