their desktop OS. Not any.
There is no standardardized firmware interface like UEFI or BIOS, and most device drivers for snapdragon arm chips are not available mainline.
This won’t be as open as the steamdeck unless they put a lot of work into it that I’m not sure they’re willing to do.
Its a better architecture but it has no standard firmware implementation that allows you to implement an OS across a broad spectrum of chipsets and boards from all manufacturers (like UEFI).
Sure you can make a generic arm image, but a lot of hardware drivers are not properly implemented in mainline kernel. For most hardware, such an image would be mostly useful to developers and tinkerers looking to see what’s technically possible. Unless they want to try writing/forking drivers themselves.
To pretend this will be as open and user modifiable is goofy, I kinda doubt well get official support for non-steam OS’s.
Even if we do, would we be able to change the signing key to make sure its secured from evil maid, a-la safeboot?
The interest for me isn’t at just the idea of a gaming device, but an open source friendly face-mounted general purpose computer. Like apple’s HMD without the vendor lock-in.
Also you’re right about the price, not sure where I saw $1300. My bad.
Good it’ll teach companies they don’t get to have “trusted execution” on a custies client device.
My hardware should run the software on it the way I want. If my computer works against me on purpose, that should be considered malware.
If you want me to not do something to your computer you should be increasing your server-side security, not breaking my client-side security.
I get why they didn’t put an x86 chipset in it, but I’m still upset about it. Putting any desktop OS on your handheld is neat, but doing on your vr headset is industry changing IMO.
What really gets me is they couldn’t at least include a sensor array for preexisting steamVR tracking, especially since the controllers seem to be an a direct downgrade from knuckles/index controllers.
No one paying valve 1300 for an HMD is looking to put ease of setup over bleeding edge VR tech. If they are, make it a cheaper side product and actually compete with meta…
Edit: My bad, they didn’t announce price yet. Not sure where I saw $1300…
If it’s the right price it’d be a bit more understandable, even if it wasn’t the rumored magic HMD I wanted lol.
Valve does, they literally have teams dedicated to the work.
Also, do you guys (who can afford to) not have re-occuring donations going out to your favorite open source projects every month?
Every major tech company has a stake in chromium. Google could die tomorrow, and someone would bankroll it for their own selfish use.
You thing Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon wouldn’t jump at basically owning the development of the worlds most popular web browser?
Mission failed successfully: I’m bringing my enby instead and you can’t stop me.
More like the one at dashcon…
I do as little as possible while taking as much resource up as I can.
Also I spend a very sizable fraction of my time hitting my weed pen in the parking lot instead of actually working.
Just do the minimum to not get fired and rack up the companies expenses as much as possible. They’d just replace you with a cheaper, and more efficient replacement any who.
Yes bet so are console platforms.
Jokes on her, I’ve transitioned since last Christmas.
The problem with having both is that the electronic one is always the primary one, and the one people will use daily.
Yeah that’s the design flaw. Thats literally what im saying they shouldn’t do. You can make a mechanical-first door with an internal solenoid thats capable of popping the door.
The main and only handles on all the doors should be mechanical only, with door popper buttons for all four doors on the driver-side arm rest (where window controls go)
What purpose do electric door handles serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?
Electric door poppers ARE NOT the same thing as electric door handles, pick a thing to complain about.
POPPERS (IE:solenoids) allow the driver to open doors for passengers, while also ensuring the main way in and out is NOT dependent on electronics (when properly implemented).
Unnecessary luxury? Sure, but so are cars in a lot of the world. Solenoids are cheap, and the idea is not inherently a danger when done right.
Your issue isn’t electronically controlled door poppers. Its cars being made by silicon valley, y-combinator sucking, tech-bro douchebags who thought replacing the mechanical handle with a button was a good idea.
I think having an electric popper on top of an mechanical door latch (actual door handles are standard mechanic, but there’s solenoid that can actuate them independently) is okay if you can find an actual usecase.
I mean sure still stupid but at least it isn’t dangerous.
Same way electric locks have worked for the past 30 years on cars.
An old civic might be able to unlock from a key fob, but that’s only an electronically controlled solenoid controlling a lock which is mechanical in nature, and who’s main user-accessible interaction point is mechanically linked to the lock.
There where just as many cheesy UI’s done without flash back in the day. Its because web development became more of a commodity as more people got into it. Everything’s been done and the cheapest thing to do is to slap together something using the framework of the month.
These days, with the help of some LLM generating substandard, unchecked code.
All of that is possible with modern JS and WebGL
Really I think a lot of this stems from a toolset designed for programmers, and not one designed for artists.
Interactive Vector Animations as a web standard are technically possible, but it’d be best implemented as animation software that compiles a file/archive that’s usable by a standard browser based client that renders things locally using a canvas element.
In-fact its so possible flash has been re-impmenented this way using an action script interpreter compiled to web assembly.
They didn’t give you the entire kit because that wasn’t the W3C’s job, it was to give you the tools necessary to build the kit.
They call him: “Stinky Mike”
Imagine next time you go to the doctors, they hand you a screw-top specimen container and gesture towards the bathroom for you to fart into the container so they can send it off to the lab for analysis.
Yeah that’s my exact issue. I’m not interested in gaming on the things built in chipset. Were getting to the point where resolutions are high enough that these can become viable monitor replacements.
Imagine the apple vision with the openness of a standard PC. Snapdragon based ARM chips get in the way of that. No standard firmware like UEFI/BIOS, no mainline GPU drivers, and most devices built on them give no way to change is signing keys like secure boot on PC or pixel devices.
They’re going to have to do a lot of work to maintain the openness a PC gives from the get-go. Is it possible? Sure. I just don’t have much hope anymore.