If I run steam with -pipewire-dmabuf and steamvr beta, I get desktop streaming by going “stream vr without a game” and then selecting desktop in the Frame taskbar.

Edit: looks like desktop streaming is fragile though, switching away from the desktop and back later in the same session resulted in an empty frame with no image again

I’m not sure about intentional desktop mirroring, I’ll have to look into that, but it does allow Steam to stream the desktop when games show a popup or launcher window instead of starting. I’m fairly sure that without that option all I got was an empty frame in the Frame.

For the desktop mirroring, if you are using Wayland, have you tried starting Steam with the -pipewire argument? Seems to be required for me for Steam to request the necessary permissions to capture the desktop for streaming.

Sometimes I wonder where we could be if all the AI money was spent on e.g. fusion energy research instead.

Frankly, foul folly feels fitter.

It doesn’t exactly need to be a secret plottwist, given the game literally starts with Simon’s brain damage, but there is also a bit of optional exposition about half way through about the gen 1 brainscans being primitive. Admittedly, it being consistent with the plot didn’t make Simon any less infuriating, at least for me.

Isn’t the smell just because the airlock dries out?

Not exactly the first time, given the incident a few years ago where a dog ran into the street and was struck by a Waymo. It got some publicity at the time but was forgotten relatively quickly, presumably since it was quite clear there wasn’t much any driver could have done in that situation. I expect this case will go over similarly, although maybe it will generate a bit more discussion since there are at least some imaginable ways this could have been prevented.