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May as well open it - I doubt the SM will be doing massive sales at current prices, so even fewer would have sprung for this add-on. Opening it up is at least good PR/marketing.
Haha, this is cool. I might as well do something like this.
That’s cool that they host their own repository. Maintaining their distance from Microsoft I guess haha.
The steam machine has an eink screen?
Well, it’s a convenient ereader, after all. Fits in any pocket.
What are you talking about? Is this just a nonsensical hallucination of some content ai?
Its a global conspiracy against you personally
Or a joke?
Wait, they have jokes on the internet now!?
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.
Quite literally the first sentence of the article. No, it has not. But there are now instructions to retrofit it with one.
They made a face panel with an e-ink display for their internal testing (display status, temps, speed etc). Said they would not sell it but they released how to make one yourself
That makes sense, thank you!
I know what I’d like to see:
And the ‘countdown clock’ animation for when its booting games or loading in levels. I wouldnt even mind if it randomly scrolled fallout ads while your playing ‘sugar bombs’, ‘radaway’, etc.
Why does the one on the picture look backlit?
Can’t you get backlit e-ink displays? Don’t kindles have them?
Well, technically eink displays don’t have backlight but frontlight.
Don’t know why you’re getting down voted for this, you’re technically correct, the best kind of correct!
Yes, e-readers nowadays have a “frontlight”, a fiber optic mesh overlaid on top of the display. But the list of materials they provide doesn’t have anything that would provide this light.
intensive studio lighting? e-ink is reflective so good enough front light makes them surprisingly bright.
Most of the screens you see on modern cases don’t have firmware for Linux. So good to see a modern one that does. Would make sense for this to be used on any of the Linux gaming boxes that are around.
Firmware shouldn’t care what OS the CPU is running as it’s doing its own thing, running on an embedded processor of some sort on the device.
Though it can be used to lock out unapproved software if it needs an encryption key or relies on an undocumented interface they only told their windows driver writers about.
So I’m not saying firmware can’t be used to lock linux out from being able to use certain hardware, just don’t believe them if they try to play it off as they would need to write a special linux version of the firmware to make it happen; it’s a deliberate lockout either via encryption or by making the information needed to implement it proprietary.
Though at least the latter case could be reverse engineered, especially if you can sniff the bus traffic.
