circuitfarmer,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I have one of these that I never use. Good to know they’re still getting updates. I do have a potential application for mine in the near future.

Apollo2323,

Wow , Valve is really an amazing company!!

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Wow, when they were practically giving those away, I figured they were washing their hands of it. It’s amazing that it’s still being supported.

Infynis,
@Infynis@midwest.social avatar

Mine was $1! I love it. I just bought a wireless mouse and keyboard for it, because it’s honestly just a great way to stream stuff. Now my computer can be in my living room, and my office at the same time!

Digestive_Biscuit,
@Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk avatar

I remember that sale and annoyed I didn’t buy one. At the time I thought I’d never use it. Fast forward a few years and I occasionally use Steam Link on a Raspberry Pi, so I would have used it. Oh well.

nihth,

Think about it though. Probably some overlap with the deck. And hiring one dev very part time to keep this thing alive is nothing for them. Which makes the steam deck way more lucrative

Cqrd,

Tell me you don’t know how valve works without telling me you don’t know how valve works.

falsem,

If you have proper full continuous deployment infrastructure setup then you can do minor updates of things like dependencies automatically. I'd guess that's what's happening here.

Kata1yst,
@Kata1yst@kbin.social avatar

Amazing how many products just don't.

kratoz29,

The hardware that became an app, good thing it has updates yet.

Rayspekt,

I wish they'd still sell those as hardware units. Same with the Steam controller.

ono,

I bought one during the clearance sale for the price of shipping, assuming that it would be abandoned but maybe still useful as a low-power linux server. I guess I ought to set it up and take advantage of it.

Thanks, Valve, for not letting these things become instant e-waste.

Ashtear,

I wish I had one of these 😩

I used to run the service through the app on my Samsung TV and it ran mostly ok before Samsung pulled the plug on it last year.

I tried setting up a second PC to run it through but I get awful frame loss even on a wired connection, and even in the Steam menus!

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Don’t even need the hardware anymore. The Android app is really good on its own. I can even play games while not on my own home network with minimal lag so long as I am on 5G or wifi. I use it to play a few rounds of Civilization when waiting at the doctor.

ChaoticEntropy,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

I swapped over to a Sunshine host (non-NVidia version of Moonlight) + Moonlight client combo for game streaming and it absolutely blew Steamlink out of the water for me. Went from lag, resolution switching and disconnects to buttery smooth on my Pi400 at 1080p.

dbilitated,
@dbilitated@aussie.zone avatar

huh I was using the nvidia shield and switched to sunshine when they shut it down. had heaps of issues then went to steamlink which seemed better. last game I tried was slow as though, maybe I should give sunshine another run

Drusas,

This post reminded me that I have a Steam Link. Somewhere.

CH3DD4R_G0BL1N,
@CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works avatar

But…but…vAlve doEsNt suPpoRt iTs haRdWare

Honytawk,

And what are those updates?

Are they adding new features? Patching security? Fix bugs? Or just update their DRM with new encryption codes?

ipkpjersi,

That’s the thing about Valve. They really know and do software as good as anyone else in the business.

HATEFISH,

Let’s not pretend alt tabbing a source game was possible pre 2013

Fontasia,

True, but the Steam overlay is a good workaround

EmoDuck,

This post reminded me that it’s supposed to be used for gaming. I’ve had mine since it was first released and have always used it to turn my TV into a PC monitor to watch YouTube and Movies from my bed

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