Proper open source, GPLv3

Personally, I always find it weird when a developer relies on free data and then asks for money for a frontend that’s relatively simple by comparison.

The FAQ says nothing regarding splitting the proceeds with ProtonDB for example, yet the app generates traffic on the ProtonDB server.

for something two free browser extension achieve pretty much the same? Lolnope

I have a beefier version by that same brand. It’s somehow on sale almost all the time on Amazon. It works fine, the glossy finish of that screen is super dumb because you basically have to consciously put the cable on the back side of the power bank or it’ll scratch the screen like crazy.

https://www.steamdeck.com/dock or a 3rd party equivalent.

A drop-in low power OLED display upgrade for LCD model Steam Decks

DeckSight requires a custom BIOS

future updates may temporarily disrupt DeckSight functionality until re-flashing is performed.

So, not drop-in after all.

Could Waydroid have anything to do with this device?

No, not specifically. The embedded controller is just a piece of hardware, apparently optimized for low power consumption and it is already compatible with Linux, so it makes sense to reuse that instead of making your own.

My guess is Waydroid will be used to bring Quest VR games to the stand-alone VR headset.

Yeah, that was my thinking too. Lilac is a generic enough platform that OEMs can do the bulk of their platform work with a lilac dev kit before they have real hardware in hand for the last 10%.

What’s weird is that this is using the deprecated embedded controller. Goolge themselves moved to a successor named Zephyr EC years ago: https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/chromiumos/codesearch/+/main:src/platform/ec/docs/zephyr/README.md

Valve hasn’t even announced their own steam machine yet have they? I’d be betting on ASUS to be first to market with whatever’s in the pipe from OEMs.

Valve didn’t announce anything. They technically didn’t even announce Deadlock. I think whatever will be announced, we’ll see next month at CES any my personal opinion is that a new generation ROG Ally with a SteamOS option is at the forefront (no way Asus isn’t also making a Windows one but perhaps with less fanfare).

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/6/24315098/valve-steam-machines-steamos-steam-deck-vr Sounds like they really are working on a standalone console

That’s about devices by 3rd party hardware OEMs.

It could be reference hardware for 3rd parties looking to make SteamOS devices. We at know that’s happening.

I fear that, just like the Steam Deck’s controller, it won’t be usable without Steam running. IMO by default and without any special “driver” running in the background, the sticks and buttons should just behave like a Xbox controller.

I know that I can (I did with another one) but that’s not what being a paying customer is about.

The God of War one is the boot video with the most obnoxious sound I’ve ever encountered. Too bad Valve still didn’t care to add a mute option for boot videos.

I thought Japan was all about Face. I guess Nintendo is the exception?

face, farce.

This isn’t a good argument, right?

The topic is Nintendo who make a handheld console and unless CD Project make a GOGBoy with a bespoke SteamOS-like “console OS”, yet another storefront for Windows PCs is hardly an actual alternative.

I also though of them because they recently improved their subscriber agreement (apparently not for selfless reasons but still an improvement esp. in the light of what Nintendo is currently doing).

Steam takes a lot of money for their service, which is a problem.

They take the same amount of money as other console makers and the store cut is completely unrelated to what Nintendo’s lawyers do which is the actual topic here.

We won’t have much choices left it seems

https://www.steamdeck.com/ is a good one.

Weird that the drivers are that dramatically different for the OLED version.

The WiFi and BT modules are completely different (the OLED’s product page says this since the announcement), hence new drivers required.

I’ll try that, thanks

that’s unfortunate.

Can’t expect Steam Deck Verified games from Microsoft.