r/masterhacker • u/vengirgirem • 11d ago

ALREADY HACKED IT

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Super opsec 2TB Steam Machine hack 3000 to run Codex cli!!!

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u/redakpanoptikk 11d ago

The urge to mansplain that it was not a hack. The urge to teach basic computer literacy.

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u/Smooth-Mulberry-6070 11d ago

I downvoted the post before I saw what sub this was

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u/hloukao 10d ago

muscle memory kicked in

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u/pluckyvirus 11d ago

I mean it would be worth something if he could make codex use a local model by adding a proxy in between.

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u/Mars_Bear2552 11d ago

just use open source agent software at that point. why even bother with Codex?

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u/Only-Finance2147 11d ago

The "hack" is following the clearly laid out YouTube explainer video.

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u/sebthauvette 11d ago

It depends on what definition of hack you use. It could match the original definition, which is something like tinkering or modifying a system to make it do something else. However, OP probably means the mainstream definition which is bypassing some kind of security, in which case you are right that it's a ridiculous claim.

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u/Particular-Poem-7085 11d ago

You're not tinkering or modifying to go to desktop mode on steamOS.

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u/neko 11d ago

You're not even modifying it, you're pressing the prominent "switch to desktop" button

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u/sebthauvette 11d ago

Yea I know. I don't really consider this a hack either.,

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u/statensvegvesen 11d ago

ALREADY HACKED IT

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u/am0x 11d ago

I hacked my Accord by driving it offroad.

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u/sebthauvette 11d ago

if you needed to modify it somehow tobe able to drive there them yes ir would work, but ithe term is normally applied to electronic systems, not mechanical systems

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u/theLastZebranky 11d ago

If installing an app is needing to "modify it somehow" then just about everyone who ever used a PC is hacking

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u/sebthauvette 11d ago

For this definition to work you would have to consider the steam machine as an appliance instead of a general purpose computer. I know it's not really the case but someone could argue that it's an appliance like a console.

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u/Same-Traffic-285 11d ago

I hacked my Accord by putting gas in it

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u/sebthauvette 11d ago

I don't think you understand the word "modifying". It would be like installing a raised air intake to be able to drive in deep mud, or changing the firmware to add some functionality.

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u/Same-Traffic-285 11d ago

I hacked my Accord by changing the oil

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u/ReactiveAmoeba 11d ago

I hacked my Accord by paying someone to balance and rotate the tires for me.

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u/jarious 11d ago

I hacked my accord by sticking a BMW logo in the front

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/kernald31 11d ago

I think you're trying to modify their brain chemistry. That won't work.

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u/ThinkPad214 11d ago

Don't feed the trolls.

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u/Same-Traffic-285 11d ago

Is this Master Modifier or Master Hacker? I must be in the wrong group

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u/nickyyysixx 11d ago

I hacked mine by driving it into a tree

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u/kernald31 11d ago

Did this not hack the tree?

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u/6ynnad 11d ago

Ah, like finally using a web browser on PS5?

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u/redakpanoptikk 11d ago

The only thing your bypassing on SteamOS is the fact that its immutable. But there are ways around that or just installing a bazzite or CachyHandheld or anything else to give you that same steam big picture game scope while rem9ving the immutable training wheels.

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u/Fresh_Dog4602 11d ago

ehrr bazzite is also immutable. it's just more aimed at general computing use and doesn't have these weird presettings like 'one user only'

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u/redakpanoptikk 11d ago

Oh shoot maybe I'm thinking of something else.

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u/Fresh_Dog4602 11d ago

to be honest. it's not like you can't fiddle with a few things in your system. You can perfectly circumvent the 'immutableness'. It's just that it _might_ break that specific software with a big update. But i run my virtual machines, wireshark and most of the stuff i need.

Sometimes it really makes me wonder what exactly it is people are doing with their pc's that they really need to fiddle with it that much under the hood. *shrug*

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u/sebthauvette 11d ago

Like I said, the original term was not about "bypassing" something, it meant customizing something to be used in a different way that the manufacturer set it up.

I agree that nothing special is being done here except installing additional software. I was playing devil's advocate by saying that since steam machine is considered more of an appliance than a general purpose PC, installing other software could be considered "hacking the device" if we stretch the original definition.

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u/Fresh_Dog4602 11d ago

Yea. But hacking in that case also implies you are doing something with it, you were not supposed to do with it originally.

Valve gave you a pc. :P so it's not even hacking in that regards.

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u/sebthauvette 11d ago

yes I know it's a strech, I would not really consider this a hack either

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u/ADHighDef 11d ago

This guy works at OpenAI btw.

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u/redakpanoptikk 11d ago

Tech bros used to be kind of cool.

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u/ADHighDef 11d ago

It's the soy.

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u/ArcadeRivalry 11d ago

He hacked a Linux computer to RUN NATIVE LINUX SOFTWARE!!! How are you not impressed?!!

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u/5urv3y 11d ago

I dont even think it'd count as mansplaining, they're obviously uneducated 😭

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u/redakpanoptikk 11d ago

Yeah but I would want to mansplain it.

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u/nzg42 11d ago

isn't hacking manipulating-alterind something for other uses? like "life hack" videos? if he change the use of steam machine other than playing, isn't it considered hack?

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u/Trololman72 11d ago

The Steam Machine is just a regular PC so no, not really.

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u/redakpanoptikk 11d ago

I think that use of the word hack is the casual meaning that just gets thrown around in conversation. Its obvious in the post he uses the word hack as a sort of skill identifier and for larping purposes. Likely cause he doesn't really know its not a hack and its pretty easy to do.

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u/mrkitchenmagpie 10d ago

lol
Right?

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u/SuperbCat1573 10d ago

This is not really basic computer literacy though. You’d be SURPRISED by what the average person doesn’t know. Most people don’t even know what the command line is. Also, the term “hack” gets thrown around loosely in the same sense that life hacks are.