There’s a few DECtalk projects on Github (main, but there’s other repos too) that people seem to be working on, including one for the game engine Godot. That one seems to have some problems (need to move files, broken OotB for me, broken dictionary after all that), but I was able to make a script (see my comment here) to properly call+play it.

They have plaintalk too and that’s what I was initially interested in, was trying to get it through WASM (for multi-platform) but even after the above I’m still lost.

but it’s cheaper than Bigscreen Beyond, for example.

Not sure if you’re counting PC hardware cost or needed accessories, but the base pricing seems comparable especially Bigscreen being smaller+lighter+microOLED.

EDIT: Seeing now that the Bigscreen doesn’t include controllers, and the Valve Index controller setup recommended (Knuckles+multi-base-station) is a significant cost. I guess technically you could still do a lot with just head-tracking and other peripherals (and maybe even other VR controllers?) but I see the point especially at this cost level.

No camera either so head tracking is still an issue and passthrough doesn’t seem to be a possibility. So I guess without having anything else, it’d basically be a fancy monitor with eye-tracking. I’d say maybe one benefit would be ability to lie down, but this might be a quick way to get motion sickness depending on the content.

try

It costs money.

I tried something (‘multiplayer demo’, I suspect outdated/barebones export) and it has some neat stuff, the official demo doesn’t work though (Picotron Playground is resting.).

Kind of seems a little bit late now to put in safe guards.

“In stage four we say maybe there’s something we could’ve done but-it’s too late now” (Yes, Prime Minister - Foreign Office Crisis Management - the four stages)

How relevant is CC0 here? Seems like ‘please make (and post) something, no matter the skill/effort’ is much more obvious.

Normal person sad. Temporary sad. A-few-manageable-aspects sad.

Not that the sad bit is even the deciding factor here when we’re talking about an expensive face brick that would probably give me motion sickness in games.

Tell us without telling us

Still using a 1050Ti, non-fiber internet, not buying stuff, and not even the right kind of sad for that.
Mark Zuckerburg sniping me for sport is a more likely scenario.

To me it seems like the VR market might have a high-end foothold but otherwise seems like a “try again in 30 years” for the general market (so, slightly better than 3D TV’s fate). Which isn’t really Valve-specific.

Though I’d also say <top level comment> is uncharitable way to frame it, the headline reminds me of the free PC codes for Portal 2 with Co-op crossplay early on in the Steam days. Though I’m sure AI-market-induced cost increase is a big part of it so apology actually isn’t a bad way to put it, without ‘failure’ factoring in.

I don’t use Gnome3 because I dislike CSD, also Gnomes should be sending me to the Nordic mythology realm known as “the Hidden World” NOT removing features from my file manager.

It’s absolutely true. And that my outdated Arch system is likely still more fresh than Debian.

That said yeah I would like something that can update itself whenever without breaking*, certainly if it expects me to update frequently. And manual interventions (ideally used for things that actually have a choice/fix, not just what ends up being a pasted command or two) should be a warn-step/update-blocker (depending on situation).

Though what the image is probably about (2025-12-20, nVidia 10-series turned legacy, legacy driver put onto AUR) is a bad situation in its own right particularly later when the AUR issues started happening. And it is really an update-or-don’t (or get an AMD card somehow) issue.

Other distros likely do solve the issue of updating, though from what I can see aren’t as good with packaging (dependency handling, lacking optional dependencies) and package availability. Which can be worked around somewhat too, but still needs more trial/input.

Annoyances are also multiplied for me by having non-fiber internet (also shared).

* TBC I also mean the act of updating itself (outdated keys etc), not just the outcome

this year

And one post earlier (2025-12-20) that the image likely could be about:

NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support

Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages [without manually changing to AUR packages] on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

You (Angry Rant by Mattias Pilhede)

I still don’t and I’m not young. At this point due to cost-to-benefit it’s becoming increasingly rare for me to buy things.

Health issues probably don’t help, though. EDIT: I also once had an unpaid internship at a car dealership (nothing else was available) and that didn’t paint employment in a great light for me either.

I’d probably get a monkey’s-paw trip to 3000-years into a bleak future* or straight-up non-existence.

The time portal, after I tried to explain it: “So you want a low-bureaucracy down-to-earth human life, in the far future where you’re a not-always-online symbiotic cyborg?”

* where I wouldn’t understand anyone, but they’re just speaking Swedish

I understand perfectly but it doesn’t make sense. It’s simple, non-intuitive math and I can see 2 answers and it probably is one of those. Hopefully that’s all I need to know, but I won’t find out right now.

Or maybe it’s (the missile knows)… “the triangle knows where_it_is at all times. It knows this because it knows where_it_is-not. By subtracting where_it_is from where_it_is-not…”