Is probably the most “legitimate feeling” giving experience. You can be a legitimate owner of a copy of a game and use a random iso dump of the very same game, but just plug the actual thing gives different strokes.

Laws are those things that anytime touch you and the people around you, should always raise red flags; even (and especially) if they come from people you like… you won’t get people like the MAGA so forcefully fed in any BS if this was a common practice.

Once you haven’t raised red flags on politician you like… you’ll risk to be trapped forever in the shame you share with them.

It must be some kind of fresh new marketing system, I would call it the “Star Citizen” marketing system.

Typo fixed.

I do usually mirror on archive.org/archive.is (whoever save the page first) when a website become annoying with unreasonable amount of popup (“please log”, “please install our app”, “please eat our spyware cookie”, “please pay subscription if you don’t want to sell your data”)… All this on net positive of ublock already blocking most crap.

My reading is this: Nintendo is paying a lawyer firm that, unfortunately for Nintendo, can’t do all the things Nintendo dream (ie: physically slap in the face whoever is NOT actively give them money) because they loss most cases, and when they lose a case… that’s a precedent.

However, the lawyer firm is taking money from Nintendo, and they would like to keep doing so; unfortunately for them “doing nothing” is not a good call to keep the Nintendo money flow in their pocket.

So, they figured this out:

Point A: Microsoft want to be friend with Nintendo (Nintendo publish few games on Google’s Android and MS hope Nintendo will consider MS’s stores too).

Point B: Microsoft own Github, and Github has to please whosoever Microsoft wants pleased)

Point C: lawyer send letter to MS-github: “we represent Nintendo, and Nintendo would be pleased if you do this unlawful thing and you show off your shitty EULA against these poor bugger like it was actual law”. MS-Github obbey hoping some Mario’s money will come in MS-store later or extremely later (which is “sooner or late”, but for very desperate simp)

Point D: lawyer present Nintendo their “doing” as it was actual lawyer job to ignorant morons; being as such, Nintendo pays.

Qualcomm is provider for the next coming Steam Frame, which is an ARM platform planned to run X86 videogames through Valve’s Fex. Their active interest in kernel Linux may be driven more by Android and broad challenge against Intel/AMD in the desktop/laptop industry, but ARM Linux PC gaming is posed to be there by the time Valve’s FEX begin rolling like proton itself is doing today.

The problem with employees and employed is that the thing goes the other way around… unfortunately.

Is also a free game engine if your earning are lower than $200,000/year.

https://unigine.com/get-unigine/

I just wish Valve would try to deliver the SteamMachine in form of barebone: without ram and storage. So customers can find their own way to build their PC.

…and once freed from ram cartel, push for a very alluring price on par with what they did with the SteamDeck.

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Other than the broad “Microsoft hate” people is thinking about, there are two reason I can think about; and none about Gaben being a Microsoft’s scorned ex-employer.

1. conflict of interest: Microsoft’s EEE. Look it up. If they rule the OS on which majority of Steam Hardware work on, Microsoft rules on a competitors against it’s “Xbox experience”.
2. Microsoft doesn’t allow open source drivers to officially run on Windows. Any hardware driver must be done, paid, by close doors at Valve and no extra help as the whole community around mesa and affiliated. There’s a reason why Valve is skipping Nvidia on basically everything.

“Barebone” market does exist, and since market couldn’t exist without money… I guess there are “money-bringing entities” (aka customers) already for that sort of stuff. …but electric cars without batteries and wheels market? not quite sure about that.

Not sure how it became a ‘Steam Machine rival’.

Is a Steam Machine rival in the sense that Valve has to bent and pray to ram cartel to have a batch of machines to sell; AOOSTAR don’t. Of course, AOOSTAR doesn’t have the reaching power of Valve; but this may help Valve to understand there are options to what the ram cartel forces them into.

The problem is how easy you can have a 100% disaster and 100% not-a-problem when the usercase is…well, 1.

Much worse only if you’ve already accepted their ads-spyware through the ads-spyware cookie-wall. If you clear the cache of your browser and step back, they may force you back with the cookie wall.

The point of a “box” like this is an out-the-door experience that anyone can jump into.

The idea is not “get rid of all Steam Machines with ram/sdd and sell only the barebone ones”.

The idea is “add a selling option”; then let buyers, with their money to decide if they want to pay premium for the “out-the-door” thing, or they are looking for something to mess with.

Both kind of clients.

…at the same time (some may want to buy 2 mismatched Steam Machines: one with and one without).

As per “shifting” infrastructure or whatnot. We’re talking pre orders here. “Worst” case scenario no one buys the barebone one or just few: in this case you get little efforts in telling those “extra clients” to wait a bit longer (patient gamers are happy if they get to pay less and have better bugfixed systems).

On the other side, if the volume of the barebone match or surpasses the “premium” one… well, Valve got the answer they need to get rid of the ram cartel.

Valve is not making you paying “premium price” on ram because Gabe need a new Yatch. Valve is making paying “premium price” on ram because the ram cartel need a new Yatch.

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GPU: Semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs, 2.45GHz max sustained clock, 110W TDP
RAM: 16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM
Power: Internal power supply, AC power 110-240V
Storage: Two Steam Machine models:
 512GB NVMe SSD
 2TB NVMe SSD

Wi-Fi: 2×2 Wi-Fi 6E
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 5.3 dedicated antenna
Steam Controller: Integrated 2.4 GHz Steam Controller wireless adapter
Displays:

DisplayPort 1.4
Up to 4K @ 240Hz or 8K@60Hz
Supports HDR, FreeSync, and daisy-chaining
HDMI 2.0
Up to 4K @ 120Hz
Supports HDR, FreeSync, and CEC

USB:
 Two USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 ports in the front 
 Two USB-A 2.0 High speed ports in the back
 One USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port in the back

Networking: Gigabit ethernet
LED Strip: 17 individually addressable RGB LEDs for system status and customizability
Size: 152 mm tall (148 mm without feet), 162.4 mm deep, 156 mm wide
Weight: 2.6 kg
Operating System: SteamOS 3 (Arch-based)
Desktop: KDE Plasma```

That would be up to the customer to choose. The purpose of any product is to be sold/not sold, everything else is just PR and advertisement.

If ram/ssd suppliers force your product to lose its purpose (due the price being too high), there’s no purpose to defeat since there are no sales at all (aside for scalpers that buy everything for speculative hopes/purposes)

My guess is… all of them. Looks like they got speculative money to waste, so heading in random foreign market shouldn’t too complicated to them.

Are these pre-orders for PC: because it’s even offtopic if not (among other things)

Once again, this is an opinion piece that (willfully?)

You don’t get paid as CEO because you make “happy mistakes”. Usually there’s the concept of the benefit of the doubt but, again, if you’re paid for this exact job (lobbying for third party interest: half-truths and open lies)…