Also it's *optional*. A USB-C cable without an e-marker chip is assumed to be capable of USB 2.0 speeds and 60W of power, IIRC. There are a lot of marker-less cables out there that aren't capable of that, though.
It's an e-marker chip. It's just information that the host and client devices take into account when negotiating. It's still just a cable.
No, you're not understanding. This was not a standard protocol. This was not a product. It was a hobbyist project.
It's just a cable.
I hear the old chants of "glass parking lot" from the 90s.
No, I mean the MIDI wire protocol over a USB cable. It's just a cable, after all.
I've seen people pass MIDI over USB-C. It doesn't have to "support" anything.
USB-C is just a connector. The USB protocol itself is the problem. And, without the protocol, the appeal of USB is gone.
The problem with USB is that it was decided that it needs to be all things to all people. That means it's going to be very complicated.
Are you sure that you actually restarted Steam? Merely closing the window isn't enough.
I think Valve grossly miscalculated the direction the hardware industry is moving in, and didn't get their orders in on time. They've corrected their update today to say "we are launching in 2026", but I'll believe it when I see it.
Y dey put tiddies on dat monkey?
Never trust a guy from Oklahoma with two first names.
Valve is talking like they're not even sure the Steam Machine is launching in 2026.
Nah, they're just cashing in the Xbox brand one last time. Valve isn't even sure if they're shipping in 2026.
I don't mean like a portable console with a docking station. I mean like they contract out to another company to manufacture hardware and slap the Xbox brand on it.
I think they haven't specified because there's nothing to specify. It makes way more sense to sell a gaming PC with an Xbox emulator than to create a whole new "PC" platform for no gain. It's far more likely this is an Xbox ROG Ally situation.
If it "plays PC games" but doesn't allow users to use Steam, then it's dead in the water. Another "What were they thinking?" in a long line of Microsoft blunders.
They're just cashing in on the Xbox brand one last time before they archive it.
Oh I'm sure that they've been to a church. There are some pretty dreadful churches out there.
And I thought the worst thing about Proton was that all my emails kept getting soaked up by everyone's spam filter.
Maybe, but if that was the case then Valve wouldn't have to do anything. "You can play PC games but not from Steam" would mean Helix is dead in the water.
Y'all are thinking about this way too much. It's likely just a PC running Windows. Maybe it'll ship with a "living room" shell and an Xbox one/series emulator, that they'll also sell to people that don't buy an Xbox.
Valve is absolutely not going to cut off their largest market. Xbox is being reduced to nothing more than a brand. I fully expect Helix to be nothing but a Windows PC made by someone else with Xbox design elements on the case.
Maybe they'll ship an one/series emulator and include a license.
It's the "forced" part that's going to fail. Most gas stations aren't in a place where that kind of charging capacity can be installed
When it initially released, it would respond to audio from the game itself, so if you had voice chat coming in through your TV/Speakers, someone could say "Xbox turn off" and dozens of people would drop from the game.
They fixed that one pretty quick...
Eh, no. Liberals owning guns is one thing, but "gun culture" is just a toxic cringefest. Hard pass.
I think the best part of it all was her face. She was probably expecting the Democrats to give her a hard time. She looked completely unprepared to have other Republicans tear into her.
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
Working on a substantial Love2D project burned me *HARD* on Lua. A lot of the things people like about Lua end up getting in the way when you try to do real work with it. I can't really take it seriously.
Plus the Lua community has a version schism that would make the Python community blush.
