on Epic

No thanks I’d rather pirate it

If anyone’s curious, it’s a MIPS based/descended architecture from China (Loongson Technology/龙芯中科)

Countdown until some community member patches 2.1 support in

It wouldn’t be a completely effortless port but that stuff is pretty minor especially for single player games.

This is more for their VR headset that’s coming out. It will be running ARM, so no concerns there. It will allow devs to port their existing Meta Quest games (which are Android APKs) very easily.

To be clear, the Steam Frame will run SteamOS. It will use this to run Meta Quest (and a couple other headsets) game ports. Those devices run Android and their games are APKs.

At least the shit is all cosmetic not like EA sports games with their UT packs I guess. Low bar.

Usually because they include by default some proprietary software. Usually that is firmware for processors or graphics. Or they by default include repositories with non-free software. Also media codecs are a common one too.

The FSF takes a pretty extremist approach to FOSS. Which isn’t necessarily bad.

Lmao a huge number of people use it for work still

Can confirm.

I tried to use them for my first Lemmy instance. One day I’m just banned and there is absolutely no way to recover.

It is - that’s just how URLs in non-latin fonts look unfortunately. URLs, (and a ton of tech infrastructure) is hugely English/latin script biased.

The URL is Japanese.

I have a Roborock that supposedly has Matter support (over WiFi not Thread, but still) and integrates into my Home assistant fairly well.

I wonder if it would break without Internet.

Should be able to unlock it if you get it retail. Mainline Linux I very much doubt it.

Bypassing the battery?

They will sell optional controller straps, and the controllers have 5 finger capacitive tracking.

I bet it will be. But I’m not sure if there will really be any OSes developed for it.

Wait but I have been side loading on my Quest 3? They disabled the ability to sideload Android APKs? Still works for me.

It’s not a Linux Vision Pro. Vision Pro is aimed at productivity and “Spatial Computing” or whatever.

This is a gaming device first and foremost, and you can see that from the black and white passthrough on the Valve machine.

But you’re right that it can definitely be the foundation for AR/VR forward Linux environments. It would be really cool to see a 100% spatial compositor that challenges the conventional flat computing paradigm.

But playing with full color passthrough and hand tracking on Quest 3 does make me a little disappointed in this. I was able to sideload standard Android APKs and interact and move them around with my hands which was mega cool. I could do the dishes with YouTube just floating in front of the sink. I didn’t actually do it more than once but it got me excited about the future of spatial computing.

I think it’s just an accessibility thing. VR is expensive, and it takes people pushing through some disorientation/nausea to really enjoy it. Many will simply feel sick the first few times they try it, decide it’s not for them and leave it.

They’ve released a version of every one of these before. Steam Controller, Valve Index VR set, a line of Steam Machines some time ago…