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Epic Games Launcher V2 preview, which Epic built with AI assistance, starts in about 5.47 seconds against Steam's 5.23 after Valve's quick patch, though Epic still restores from the tray faster (0.36s vs 0.42s).

The stopwatch did not survive HN. A commenter who timed both launchers got 10-15 seconds for a cold Steam boot, and others replied that the faster client had already been sitting in Steam's beta channel.

Valve released the design files for the Steam Machine's front-panel e-ink screen so owners can build or print their own faceplate instead of buying one. The catch, surfaced in the thread: the display is a standard Adafruit 5.83-inch e-ink panel, and Valve explicitly won't sell its own.

So 'make your own' collapses to 'buy a commodity panel and Valve's mounting files' — and readers question modding a $1,049 prebuilt device at all.

Portal — культовая головоломка от первого лица, где вместо оружия у вас пушка, стреляющая порталами: вход и выход открываются на разных стенах, и через них вы перебрасываете себя и предметы. Вышла в 2007 году и до сих пор считается эталоном дизайна загадок.

Распродажа снова загнала её в покупаемое, и большинство новичков в восторге от механики и чёрного юмора ИИ по имени GLaDOS. Но прямо сейчас всплыла другая беда: свежие отзывы сообщают о крашах, которые роняют и игру, и клиент Steam.

The port leans on a rendering mode called ToGLES: the Source engine emits OpenGL ES calls meant for Android, and Emscripten translates them into WebGL2. It started from a friend's Portal port, itself a fork of a Source engine codebase that traces back to the 2020 leak.

It also exposes what's missing. James Darpinian, ex-Meta and Google, counted the absent shaders: G-Man has no eyes, nobody's lips move, Breen's video screens are blank.

And it runs on hardware Valve abandoned, which is most of the appeal.

The Steam Machine runs a semi-custom 6nm AMD APU at ~288 GB/s memory bandwidth and ships with 1GbE networking; to dodge scalpers, Valve gates sales through a Switch-2-style reservation lottery that closes June 25. Owners of the BC-250, a salvaged AMD mining card turned SteamOS box, noted theirs clocks 448 GB/s and costs a fraction as much.