The Steam Machine Takes on PS5 and Xbox!

While Marques is out enjoying the Ultimate Frisbee on a beach somewhere, Andrew and David sit down to talk about everything from the new Steam devices to Google Gemini 3. After that, things go off the rails quickly as everyone discusses the pros and cons of local storage vs cloud storage. Enjoy!

Chapters: 00:00:00 - Start 00:01:41 - Merch! 00:04:29 - New Steam devices 00:38:14 - Rabbit not paying employees 00:49:10 - LinkedIn (Sponsored) 00:50:22 - Shopify (Sponsored) 00:51:27 - Gemini 3 01:05:49 - Wealthfront (Sponsored) 01:06:43 - Framer (Sponsored) 01:08:28 - T-Mobile (Sponsored) 01:09:31 - Cloud storage vs Local storage 01:23:01 - Trivia

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Links: Valve - ⁠New Steam devices⁠: https://steamdb.info/blog/steam-hardware-2025/ Tom's Guide - ⁠Rabbit next-gen hardware⁠: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/rabbits-next-gen-ai-hardware-is-coming-next-year-to-take-on-openai-and-the-ceo-just-teased-what-to-expect Tom's Guide - ⁠Employee payment story⁠: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/whats-next-for-rabbit-employees-say-they-havent-been-paid-for-months-while-company-teases-new-ai-hardware Google - ⁠Gemini 3 announcement blog⁠: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/#gemini-3 Google - ⁠Antigravity announcement⁠: https://antigravity.google/use-cases Verge - ⁠Cloudflare outage⁠: https://www.theverge.com/news/823562/cloudflare-outage-wake-up-call-websites Damien Wilde YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DamienWilde Dave2D Steam video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=356rZ8IBCps ShortCircuit - M5 video: https://youtu.be/xwJhhPCweWk?si=mQqFXZPVXtefoy0U @Privatetalky on Twitter/X- Storage tweet: https://x.com/privatetalky?lang=en

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