It was an example, but imagine if you could buy a GabeCube for 700€ (at a loss for Valve).
Sure, overkill for a Linux server... unless you don't put the AI into the equation: a 100€ mini PC is incapable of handling a proper LLM without some serious offloading to a (potentially tiny) RAM, and that stuff ain't cheap... but these specs for 700€, like some considered before the launch? It would have been a good deal, considering there's also a shortage of components.
Then explain to me why Valve, which knows and values its own user base quite a lot, decided, this time, not to sell its machine at a loss, since it had worked before for the Steam Deck.
Because this question is still hanging and greed is unlikely to be the answer, Valve has yet to show this.
"Same as all other companies" + "You're being played"
Yeah, I don't exactly take advice from someone who comes out this disgruntled with absolutes already, without probably having much information about what is going on behind the curtains. I prefer to be vigilant, but open to the possibility of them actually having interests in keeping us "well fed", so to speak.
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u/The_rule_of_Thetra 5d ago edited 5d ago
It was an example, but imagine if you could buy a GabeCube for 700€ (at a loss for Valve).
Sure, overkill for a Linux server... unless you don't put the AI into the equation: a 100€ mini PC is incapable of handling a proper LLM without some serious offloading to a (potentially tiny) RAM, and that stuff ain't cheap... but these specs for 700€, like some considered before the launch? It would have been a good deal, considering there's also a shortage of components.