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Scalpers are already selling the Steam Machine for over $3000 on eBay despite Valve's efforts (www.tweaktown.com)
submitted 1 day ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I should be shocked, but I'm not.... Some people go to great lengths to get pokemon cards.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 56 minutes ago

pokemon refuses to do anything about scalping they are just halfassing it. the best is to increase the pull rate of rares, preventing them to sell it.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean, sure. I have tons of rare knives, too. But a PC is a commodity item; it's easily susbtituted with any other which is really the whole point of the architecture to begin with.

I think the Steam Machine is neat. I'm still not paying $3000 for one.

[–] ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Neither would I, but if there is money to be scalped.

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While Valve only officially supports 3 devices, it is possible to install its image on any PC (or just run Steam on Linux). But quite a few Steam users don't realise that.

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Also, Valve only officially supports Ubuntu LTS desktop (Gnome). And their own OS of course. Yes, despite having the Steam runtime. The only thing this means is that support agents will say "but did you try installing Ubuntu?".

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

I guess that means steam support doesn't end up being general Linux support.