Remember how I liked the Steam Link? Well, it turned to garbage in the less than three months since that blog post. Will it ever be good again? Don't know and don't care, because I sold the Steam Link and Steam Controller.

Nowadays, I'm using an Idroidnation I-box (started by wiping all the pre-installed garbage off). Is it perfect? No, but it does everything I need it to. I've got Kodi managing my local media and addon streams, the Android Netflix app works perfectly (Essia's using this infrequently, because our TV has a native Netflix app), emulated games play fine with my Rii i28, using an Xbox controller is fairly simple on Android, Remotr takes care of screen-sharing (i.e., what the Steam Link was doing), and the PrivateInternetAccess Android app starts on boot and handles all internet traffic (though this has to be turned off for Netflix, because they decided to be a pain in the ass).

So far, this solution works better than the Steam Link, though I admittedly barely use it for gaming. That isn't because my new solution doesn't work; it's because the streaming/screen-sharing is still, even with a wired connection, a buggy mess that causes massive losses in quality (still, it works better on this than the Steam Link). I imagine screen-sharing will improve with time, but for now, I'll play PC games on my PC.

Steam, you're oh-for-two in the hardware department.