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Tucked into their FAQ about the Steam Machine release was a mention about making your own Steam Machine by installing steamOS to a computer you already have. AMD only for now.

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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

We shouldn’t need a jailbreak.

If Apple has to allow 3rd party stores, why not Sony?

[–] HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Apple only allows 3rd party stores in the EU*

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah and even then, the compliance is malicious

And Google is about to copy it worldwide

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's gone beyond the EU. Last week Apple announced third party app stores will be coming to Brazil and

Apple has already allowed alternative app stores and/or third-party payment systems on iOS in the EU, Japan, and South Korea, and it will likely be forced to do so in the UK and Australia too, due to similar regulations in those countries.

[–] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everywhere except Freedom Land™

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For now, this is just the start and when apple is forced to do it in enough regions, they will have to relent.

I hope my next iPhone will be open like this and have a desktop mode when docked.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The Apple iDroid™

[–] HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, they aren't going to be bringing it to the US unless they are forced to by law in the US unfortunately :( great time to be a postmarketOS user with Google now being as restrictive..

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I was looking at that the other day. I wish my old android could be modded to run it.

[–] de_lancre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There were a case back in the days of PS3, where sony removed ability to run linux from new versions of console. They were sued and lost, but still decided to pay the fine, rather than returning functionality.

The main issue as I see it, is that they sell consoles as cheap as possible (previously they even sold them at a loss) and then return such investment by selling you games and subscription. By opening ability to install linux, not only they will loss profit from upper mentioned part on existing devices, but there a chance people will start buying PS5 to use as a regular desktop or general server or whatever, due to being simply cheapest prebuild option available for such specs. Same point was rised by Valve actually, they too was afraid that if they start selling gabebox at loss, people will buy them for anything, but playing games.

All that being said, fuck sony, microsoft and any other big company, that locks it's hardware. PS4 still have usable x86 hardware, but soon will be a landfill, cause you can't really do anything with, other than play ps4 games.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

gabebox

It's the Gabecube.

Yes, that video is 14 years old.

I mean their tablets/phones are still locked to ios.