Steam Hardware Thoughts
I know a lot of folks have been going on about it, but Steam's latest hardware announcement has been utterly insane for the day and age in which we live.
Consider that they didn't hype it up with a launch event. They didn't sell a bunch of hype and buzzwords. All they did was release a ~6 minute video that effectively described the hardware and what it would provide, and had a webpage with *actual specs on it*.
They invited a bunch of tech reporters/YouTubers to their HQ, but they let them talk to *engineers*, not marketing people. The discussions focused on real capabilities of the hardware, and actual demonstrations. No vapor and promises. Not glitz and glam.
They made it clear this is all SteamOS driven, and that they have a focus of getting *existing x86 Windows software* running not only on Linux, but on ARM and in VR!!
They aren't pitching a closed ecosystem. They said, outright, "This is your hardware, you can do whatever you want with it".
THEY DIDN'T MENTION AI ONCE.
And they're _already_ making a bigger splash than any competitor ever did, even though those competitors have gobs more money they've thrown at this stuff, and tremendously more staff.
It's flabbergasting. I hope they make enough of an impact with all this that people sit up and take notice.
Very excited to hear that Valve is finally giving us not only the "Year of Linux on the Desktop", but also the "Year of Linux on Your Face".
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.
Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:
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> Linus: This all feels like the usual AI hype-fest. Because THAT is the thing
that is truly special about AI. The hype, and the billions and
billions of dollars.
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/115520210801552443
am ghastly disappointed. i’ve used #KeePassXC since it forked from the original KeePass.
if you aren't developing the LLM itself and are not running it in your servers, then no, there is nothing transparent about using techbros AI. MS is shoving CoPilot everywhere, to not only take away users tech independence. “AI” chatbots are the perfect encryption backdoors fascists & kakistocrats have been asking for decades.
i use KPXC because i trust you. if you now trust MS, i can’t trust you anymore.
RT: https://fosstodon.org/users/keepassxc/statuses/115520210801552443