FutureProofHomes should sell a "AI Base Station" model that ships with SteamOS as its operatingsystem out-of-the-box so can serve dual-purposes as a embedded x86-64 archirecture(PC-based) game-console AND an always-on AI server

[Hedda]

What do you think of adding dual-purpose feature as a gaming-console-style gaming-PC designed for the living-room running SteamOS (formerly refered to as a ”Steam Machine”) to add more value to the adverage users who can not justify buying a dedicated AI Base Station appliance if it can not aslo used for something else?

The main argument is that many people who are also gamers are probably willing to spend a lot more money if the AI Base Station appliance can be used as gaming-PC running StreamOS Linux image as well, especially if designed to fit nicely under a television in the living-room and be queit enough to be powered-on 24-hours a way while not using to much energy while idle.

Note that this idea is directly related to the suggestion to make a AI Base Station based on an x86-64 CPU or APU, (so a prerequisite is that come out with at least one model of AI Base Station that is based on x86-64 architecture, e.g. the AMD Ryzen AI APU):

• https://github.com/orgs/FutureProofHomes/discussions/16

Another related question that does not nessesary need to be anwered at this time is wheather or not your AI-server application will expose an Ollama Server API (and MCProtocol Server API via Model Context Protocol) so that it can use the Ollama integration in Home Assistant?

Anyway, I would like to suggest that you at FutureProofHomes ever also package the AI-server software as application published on the Steam digital distribution service and sell compatible "AI Base Station" model based on a x86-64 CPU or APU then you consider making it possible to run the AI server part of that on-top of SteamOS so that the hardware can also be optionally used for gaming.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS

I think it would be awersome if someone sold a x86-64 AI server appliance that would serve dual-purpose as as always-on game-console that can sit in your living-room under the TV, as that way you get more usage out of the hardware and better value for the money (and as such also likely willing to spend more money on it).

That is, imagine a target audience of nerds like myself that would love to run an always-on local-LLM at home but is not willing to to spend that much on something that only serves a single purpose however is willing to spend a lot more on a dual-purpose appliance if it could also be used as a dedicated gaming-PC with game-console form-factor (.i.e. a mini-PC) running SteamOS and intended to be used on a large-screen TV in the living-room, (i.e. the second use case being similar to usage of Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox gaming consoles).

I believe this is a more valid idea now then ever now that Valve again are allowing other companies to ship SteamOS on third-party computers:

• https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/529834914570306831

SteamOS is a Linux OS (Arch Linux distrobution based derivitive operating-systemn) from Valve for running on Steam Machines. Originally made for Valve's Steam Machine and later the Valve Steam Deck, the SteamOS distro is freely available for anybody to install for free, (and as an option Valve now days are even licensing for commercially certified implementations as well).

Unless you are not a gamer then you will probably be aware that the Steam Deck runs Steam Deck and is a hugley successfull platform:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Deck

With the success of Steam Deck behind it I believe that Valve's new effort to open up StreamOS will re-start the Steam Machine concept:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer)

So the questions/answers this depends on are:

1. Could you sell an "AI Base Station" that is also an x86-64 mini-PC based on something like the new AMD APU? -> https://github.com/orgs/FutureProofHomes/discussions/16

2. Could you package and publish the AI server software on Stream? -> https://partner.steamgames.com/steamdirect

Alternativly you could make it dual-boot or as a separate SteamOS image but then you loose the convenience of using it as an always-on game console.

• https://store.steampowered.com/steamos

PS: For reference, before SteamOS there was and still is "Big Picture mode" that enable a so call 10-foot user interface in Steam:

• https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/3725-76D3-3F31-FB63

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-foot_user_interface

[Hedda]

Check out this Proof-of-Concept hardware all-in-one Mini-PC from Chinese manufacturer Sixunited based on AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 “Strix Halo” APU (CPU with Radeon iGPU) with up to 128GB unified memory where up to 96GB can be used as VRAM (and all using only up to 140Watt of power while running at full performance ):

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-ai-max-395-strix-halo-mini-pc-tested-powerful-apu-up-to-140w-power-128-gb-variable-memory-igpu/