You can update drivers manually through device manager, don’t know if you’ve tried that. I’m assuming you’ve tested this usb-c hub with another device already to confirm that it isn’t dead, right?

W10 drivers can be used in W11…

Except that the steam machine is not a console? It’s just a linux pc with a UI that can be navigated with a controller. You can just install bazzite and achieve the same result. Software support could actually be worse for the steam deck, considering that it has a semi-custom apu.

Be honest, when was the last time you wanted to use a pc and couldn’t because it didn’t have drivers? Heck, my first server a little over a year ago was using a 15 year-old i5 2400, and it worked just fine for a simple file server + jellyfin with the arr stack and direct playback.

The form factor is slightly smaller than itx and you can buy a pre-built itx pc. Software support is ridiculous, that’s already a feature in every pc and OS.

Also, I don’t think the price is ok at all. If you’re going to take away upgradeability, it needs to be a lot cheaper than diy.

I worry that this is going to be so niche that it’ll die a very quick death.

This is such a braindead take that I really don’t even know where to start.

Hardware console limitations. Everything but the SSD and RAM is proprietary and you can’t upgrade it. Heck, it doesn’t even have an audio output. The I/O sucks hard.

Yeah, it’s close but the ps5 was released 6 years ago and it’s cheaper. The Steam Machine’s bang for buck is awful. It’s a pc with console limitations and a pc price.

“After 3 years” lol. You’re also not mentioning that even the base ps5, which was released 6 years ago, performs better than a Steam Machine.

You’re also comparing against the most expensive PS+ plan. The base one is about 80 per year so you’d “break even” in what? 6 years? What a joke.

Nah, fuck tipping. Pay a livable wage.

I’ve started having problems with bluetooth as well. My bluetooth IEMs refuse to work at all with W11.

So the latter, gotcha.

Nope. They subsidize the product so that people are more willing to pay, and they’re betting that they have deeper pockets than the competition (hence, a race to the bottom). Once they can no longer subsidize the product, the idea is that you’re so addicted to it (or you’ve integrated it so much to your product) that you’ll pay the full price.

Except that no one will, because they’re already increasing prices and people and companies are waking up to the fact the cost does not outweigh the benefits.

Wtf, these folk s are clinically insane. It’d be funny if they weren’t literally fucking over the entire world in the process.

Don’t know about iheartradio but OpenAI’s 3:1 ratio for 2026 does not bode well. That’s without considering therir future operational commitments, which are quite high.

Yes, an incorrect take.

While the strategy is not new, the scale and speed is. Also, there wasn’t an existing market that they’re trying to capture (as opposed to services like Amazon or Uber).

The entire industry is doing the same thing and they’re all losing. It’s a race to the bottom and that is most certainly new (and stupid).

Not to mention that the cost of the unsubsidized product is insane. Hence, it’s not an economically viable product.

This is another incorrect take. OpenAI is not the only one hemorraging money. All of these LLM companies are offering a heavily subsidized product. Once the money runs out, which it will, the bubble wil pop or deflate. It’s not a matter of “if”, just “when”. It’s simply not an economically viable product. My guess is that the only reason they’re doing this, is because they’re hoping for some wild technological breakthrough that will massively lower costs.

Are you being facetious or are you just dumb?

Except that, over those 10+ years, iheartradio accumulated less than half of the debt that OpenAI already has.

That’s a terribly misguided meme.

Uhm, no? Participating in society does not require you to follow every “norm”. If everyone did that, nothing would ever change. Don’t be thick.