While Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine, they have opened it up so anyone can now do it.
  • heh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 days

    Really cool of valve to do this and include a full tutorial.

    Just about any other company would keep it closed and sell the accessory with proprietary software; then if that was not commercially viable, would just not release anything at all.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    English
    3 days

    IDGAF if Newell is a Epstein-class helo-pad yacht billionaire. Valve’s success is built on the recognition that customers are the source of success, rather than a resource to be extracted. Valve is bringing PC citizenship to console subjects. Just in time for the 4th of July.

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3 days

      IDGAF if Newell is a Epstein-class helo-pad yacht billionaire.

      that’s the problem, you should give a fuck about this! as well as valve’s history of promoting gambling, and the superprofits they get by overcharging publishers (especially indie devs which don’t get the special reduced rates bigger publishers get). don’t overlook all of this because they run a cool platform you like!

      (edited because my original reply was uselessly mean)

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 days

        (edited because my original reply was uselessly mean)

        Uhhhh…hey buddy, we’re in a Lemmy thread. No need for anger even if you disagree. It’s a Lemmy thread. Nobody died. It’s far from being worthy of giving this level of anger over, when SOOOOOOOOO much worse shit to get mad about.

        For example, our president is a pedophile surrounded in government by pedophile protectors.

        It’s not a conspiracy that the largest companies ARE working together to make the rich richer while the common man gets less. The world now has a trillionaire. At no point is there any reason why anyone should have even 1/10th of that.

        And the media is designed to keep us divided, and now CBS and CNN may as well be called state media, while Rupert Murdock (founder of Fox News) said something like “I realized I could make a lot of money by emotionally manipulating people based on racial bias. You can sell racism.”

        And now we’re back here, in this Lemmy thread getting heated over publishing fees and gambling. Kinda gives you a scale.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 days

    Too bad that this runs using a battery, would have been nice if the Steam Machine included some pogo pins I/O for that kind of thing.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3 days

    This is a bunch of stuff that you can order from Adafruit, so idk where Steam comes into it.

    Also the screen is 5.83" which is a yawner. It’s a drag that e-ink screens are still all so small. Wake me up when there’s an affordable 14 inch one or larger, that doesn’t take 20+ seconds to refresh. 1 second is tolerable. Motion video is not required.