The high temperature efficiency drop off of solar panels is something I’ve only recently become aware of, but am glad this helps with that.

Even in hotter areas, I’ll bet a vertical / near vertical orientation would help them vent heat (if placed on dams there).

Does anyone have any specific experience with this kind of engineering to confirm/deny that would actually help?

So it sounds like its an exchange of size for customizability.

If you had a different installer for each language and/or video quality, then each installation could be much smaller. But since we (gamers) want to be able to change texture quality “on the fly” via the settings menu, we have to deal with all the possible textures coming in the game files.

Does that sound like I have it right?

Wait, didn’t they JUST start rolling these stupid things out? And theyre already to “its a subscription now” levels of enshitification?

Boy, I guess we’re just speed running everything these days.

Yeah, but I can edit docs, send emails, run services (looking at you JellyFin), etc from a steam machine / similar Linux gaming box that I can’t from a PlayStation.

Obv its not the goal of the machine, but in a pinch, it’s an option.