Month: August 2024
EmuDeck Enters the Mini PC Market With Linux-Powered ‘EmuDeck Machines’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from overkill.wtf: The team behind popular emulation tool EmuDeck is today announcing something rather special: they’ve spent the first half of 2024 working on their very first hardware product, called the EmuDeck Machine, and it’s due to arrive before the year is out. This EmuDeck Machine is an upcoming, crowdfunded, retro emulation mini PC running Bazzite, a Linux-based system similar to SteamOS. […] This new EmuDeck Machine comes in two variants, the EM1 running an Intel N97 APU, and the EM2 — based on an AMD Ryzen 8600G. While both machines are meant as emulation-first devices, the AMD-based variant can easily function as a console-like PC. This is also thanks to some custom work done by the team: “We’ve optimized the system for maximum power. The default configuration of an 8600G gets you 32 FPS in Cyberpunk; we’ve managed to reach 47 FPS with a completely stable system, or 60FPS if you use FSR.”
Both machines will ship with a Gamesir Nova Lite controller and EmuDeck preinstalled naturally. The team has also preinstalled all available Decky plugins. But that’s not all: if the campaign is successful, the EmuDeck team will also work on a docking station for the EM2 that will upgrade the graphics to an AMD Radeon 7600 desktop GPU. With this, in games like Cyberpunk 2077, you’ll be able to reach 160 FPS in 1080p as per EmuDeck’s measurements. You can preorder the EmuDeck Machines via Indigogo, starting at $322 and shipping in December.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from overkill.wtf: The team behind popular emulation tool EmuDeck is today announcing something rather special: they’ve spent the first half of 2024 working on their very first hardware product, called the EmuDeck Machine, and it’s due to arrive before the year is out. This EmuDeck Machine is an upcoming, crowdfunded, retro emulation mini PC running Bazzite, a Linux-based system similar to SteamOS. […] This new EmuDeck Machine comes in two variants, the EM1 running an Intel N97 APU, and the EM2 — based on an AMD Ryzen 8600G. While both machines are meant as emulation-first devices, the AMD-based variant can easily function as a console-like PC. This is also thanks to some custom work done by the team: “We’ve optimized the system for maximum power. The default configuration of an 8600G gets you 32 FPS in Cyberpunk; we’ve managed to reach 47 FPS with a completely stable system, or 60FPS if you use FSR.”
Both machines will ship with a Gamesir Nova Lite controller and EmuDeck preinstalled naturally. The team has also preinstalled all available Decky plugins. But that’s not all: if the campaign is successful, the EmuDeck team will also work on a docking station for the EM2 that will upgrade the graphics to an AMD Radeon 7600 desktop GPU. With this, in games like Cyberpunk 2077, you’ll be able to reach 160 FPS in 1080p as per EmuDeck’s measurements. You can preorder the EmuDeck Machines via Indigogo, starting at $322 and shipping in December.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Sonos opens a Trello board so we can see how it’s fixing the busted app
Image: Sonos
Sonos is still trying to clean up from the mess from the messy rollout of its new app, and to help give users a better idea of what fixes are in the pipeline, the company has shared a public Trello board detailing fixes that it’s working on.
“All the cards here are sourced from various posts and release notes communications (Future Feature Update, for example), including communications from [CEO Patrick Spence] directly,” says Reddit user KeithFromSonos, who is a Sonos employee. “What we are hearing and working on is sourced from you — the Community at large and our acknowledgment of that area of opportunity.”
Sonos launched its new app in May, and shortly after, bad feedback rolled in over things like missing features and the app taking a step back in accessibility. The company has been releasing updates to patch things up, but Spence still posted a public apology in July that included a roadmap of features Sonos was planning to add to the app over the coming months. Sonos also delayed two product launches as it focused on fixing the app. (The company considered relaunching the old app, but Spence said that would have made things worse.)
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
A screenshot of Sonos’ Trello board as of August 29th, 2024.
KeithFromSonos says that the Trello board isn’t “an exhaustive list of every item on our internal roadmap” or a view of every known issue, but it is “a live document that will be updated with information as soon as it is made available to me.” In a section on the board titled “On The Roadmap,” for example, there are entries for “Full Queue Editing / Management” and “Playlist Editing.” The “Coming Soon” section has entries for things like “Search and Browse Latency Fixes” and “Improved Volume Responsiveness.”
Sonos isn’t the only company to launch a public Trello board to give users transparency into what it’s working on. Epic Games has Trello boards for Fortnite and the Epic Games Store, while EA offers a Trello board for Apex Legends.
Image: Sonos
Sonos is still trying to clean up from the mess from the messy rollout of its new app, and to help give users a better idea of what fixes are in the pipeline, the company has shared a public Trello board detailing fixes that it’s working on.
“All the cards here are sourced from various posts and release notes communications (Future Feature Update, for example), including communications from [CEO Patrick Spence] directly,” says Reddit user KeithFromSonos, who is a Sonos employee. “What we are hearing and working on is sourced from you — the Community at large and our acknowledgment of that area of opportunity.”
Sonos launched its new app in May, and shortly after, bad feedback rolled in over things like missing features and the app taking a step back in accessibility. The company has been releasing updates to patch things up, but Spence still posted a public apology in July that included a roadmap of features Sonos was planning to add to the app over the coming months. Sonos also delayed two product launches as it focused on fixing the app. (The company considered relaunching the old app, but Spence said that would have made things worse.)
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
A screenshot of Sonos’ Trello board as of August 29th, 2024.
KeithFromSonos says that the Trello board isn’t “an exhaustive list of every item on our internal roadmap” or a view of every known issue, but it is “a live document that will be updated with information as soon as it is made available to me.” In a section on the board titled “On The Roadmap,” for example, there are entries for “Full Queue Editing / Management” and “Playlist Editing.” The “Coming Soon” section has entries for things like “Search and Browse Latency Fixes” and “Improved Volume Responsiveness.”
Sonos isn’t the only company to launch a public Trello board to give users transparency into what it’s working on. Epic Games has Trello boards for Fortnite and the Epic Games Store, while EA offers a Trello board for Apex Legends.