I mean the last one was released in 2013, it’s not exactly super relevant but if you’re that unaware of it I assume you were playing habbo hotel or whatever little kids played 10 years ago.

I will absolutely take that bet. Given both how unpopular the decision is combined with it being even tangentially related to the gaming community I would be astonished if they didn’t receive death threats.

No, it provides an API as an interface, it is not consuming an API.

I don’t think you understand what this is. It is a local model, it runs locally. It provides an API which you can then use in the same manner as you would the ChatGPT API. I’m not super familiar with GPT4all since llama.cpp/kobold.cpp are pretty much the standard in local inferrence, but for example llama-cpp-python provides an OpenAI compatible API.

It’s cost:performance ratio at the time was crazy, it is widely assumed Valve is selling it as a loss leader or at mfr cost. The only thing they’ve said is that it’s pricing was “painful”. It’s hardware isn’t that niche, it’s just a PC in a handheld form factor.

Yes, I’ve been using it as my PC for about a year now, I do game on it but my primary reason for purchase was that it was just a great deal on a Linux machine.