Everything I wanted to say in a single comment.
It really just werks™

Not really no, all swapping the launcher does is free you from staring at the ad ridden “Google TV” launcher but they could still track you.

ONN and Xiaomi are different in that they run a version of Android TV that’s closer to stock, and thus is less locked down. As I said, last time I checked the Fire Sticks don’t even let you swap their Ad ridden default launcher without workarounds (that they are hard at work in breaking), meanwhile on the Xiaomi/ONN box you just download one from wherever you want and it’s done, they also are not doing any “piracy app crackdown” (well, until Google’s stupid future Sideloading restrictions come into play)
And yes, ONN is a Walmart Brand.

Yeah same with me getting a Xiaomi Box. Not being able to swap the default launcher on the Fire Stick was motive enough.

And the least believable excuse for layoffs goes to…

So they rewrote the Android Proton Mail app, changed the UI toolkit I think. Cool, whatever.
Recently I got some marketing trash on my inbox, so I clicked the sender and clicked “Block this address” and got a popup saying “Feature coming soon”

Hey motherfuckers maybe don’t launch your new version of the app if the fucking basic functionality doesn’t work yet??? Oh but the obnoxious green Black Friday promo icon and the FULL SCREEN ADVERTISEMENT work just fine…

I’m starting to get sick of them too.

Get a Xbox controller then. What’s the point of them releasing their own controller hardware if it does nothing new compared to the competition?

Some computers have special USB ports that stay powered even when the computer itself is off. Guess you’ll have to see if yours has one or if it’s an option you can turn on in the BIOS or something.

So fucking hyped for this thing. Hope the price is good.

I honestly hope so.
A lot of people talk about running smaller indie and older games on their decks, if the translation becomes efficient enough we could have a Steam Deck 2 with serious battery gains!

That was just an assumption, I should probably make that clearer on my comment.

like steam-input but VR

That’s already a thing, I saw a video of someone streaming a VR game to a Quest 3 via Steam Link and using it to map hand gestures to regular VR controller actions, allowing him to play games with no hand tracking support controller-free

To be fair, I think they’re slightly different markets.
The AVP is a “Productivity” device and seems more focused on “Mixed Reality” use with it’s super high quality passthrough and what not, vs the Frame which is more focused on gaming, has black and white passthrough and (I’m assuming) no Real World mapping so you can’t have floating windows that stay where you put them in your physical space for example.

That being said I think more sales than the AVP is a guarantee, on the price alone.
If anything, the real question is if that “VR Productivity” market that Apple is targeting really exists. (didn’t the HoloLens fail?)

Since when? Because last I used it Video and Audio calls required their native app (their excuse was their encryption couldn’t run on the website)

The one fucking app of theirs that was done really well and they kill it.
Microsoft might as well deprecate their UI Toolkit now. The best 3rd party app to showcase it is dead and even their own apps are just web wrappers nowadays 🙄

This is also my recommendation.
Even if you don’t care about any of the extra features, the fact that you get TMR Sticks, a charging dock and 2.4g dongle included makes it a better purchase than any Xbox controller

If you attack the village chickens multiple times, this event triggers where many more spawn in and attack you. It’s a thing in many Zelda games

Something a little like this:

I can confirm it has no hearts/timer or the usual Freemium Mobile monetization tactics. At most you can watch an ad to revive after death or to get extra coins but it’s optional.
It’s also on Steam for cheap and that version has zero monetization.

Well I think shutting it down before it had any time to accumulate users is silly but yeah, fair enough, I need to put down the tinfoil hat.