rotopenguin
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- Comment on Low battery notification requrst 13 hours ago:
I don’t think that systemd has a whole lot of sleep-management architecture that does what you want? What it does have is the ability to do “suspend-then-hibernate”, which would suspend for some set time, wake up, and flip over to hibernating. I’ve set that up on Debian (not too hard), Ubuntu (pure hell), haven’t tried on SteamOS.
What you want is technically possible without changing the hardware or firmware, but I think it would take an unreasonable amount of systemd coding.
- Comment on What are some light-hearted, feel-good, comforting games to play on the deck? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that dxvk is a thing that you’re supposed to pull in on its own. Any recent version of Proton (and especially ProtonGE) brings its own up-to-date copy of it.
- Comment on What are some light-hearted, feel-good, comforting games to play on the deck? 2 weeks ago:
Or, you might want to go to the studio’s original title, Sunshine Heavy Industries. It’s pretty much just building spaceships out of legos.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 is just the hot exclusive Valve needs to propel SteamOS past Windows 3 weeks ago:
It’s more than enough to make HL3 a Steam exclusive. And make it run well on the Deck. If Valve really wants to gild the lily, they could put a little side-story just for the Deck’s controls. A follow-up to Aperture Desk Job, perhaps.
- Comment on Steam Deck News 3 weeks ago:
If y’all want your own copy of Tunic, it is available in a new itch.io charity bundle.
- Comment on Best Way to Clone Micro SD Card Linux? 4 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with “cp -r”?
- Comment on FreeTube full screen 5 weeks ago:
Try messing with ~/.var/app io.treetubeapp.FreeTube/config/FreeTube/settings.db , in the “bounds” line.
It doesn’t look like Freetube had a --fullscreen option, so you can’t tell steam to just do that.
- Comment on My SO got a steamdeck today, and it's a lot better than I imagined it to be 1 month ago:
Steam’s “immutable” system isn’t that bad. It will revert a lot of stuff during OS updates, but Stable doesn’t go through that very often. I put all of my changes into a shell script and reapply it when that happens.
- Comment on My SO got a steamdeck today, and it's a lot better than I imagined it to be 1 month ago:
Add anything with sonic in the name. Like SRB2:Persona.
- Comment on Micro SD card suggestions 1 month ago:
The best place to buy Samsung cards is from Samsung’s site, the best place to buy Sandisk cards is from … Western Digital. Sometimes they even have sales that approximate Amazon.
It’s pretty safe to assume that you will get a real card from the horse’s mouth.
- Comment on Valve is looking to add an optional battery charge limit to the SD, to preserve battery life 1 month ago:
Apple’s solution is to integrate a heating strip with the glue. Put some power into it, and the glue warms up and releases.
- Comment on Power bank to Steam Deck full chrages. 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t condemn Anker after whatever IoT camera thing, everything in that space sucks. As far as I know Anker makes good power bricks, and I’ll trust their stuff as long as it isn’t in The Cloud.
- Comment on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS 2 months ago:
For such a “stripped down” OS to fit in a 5GB / partition, it is very funny that they included printing but just left it off.
- Comment on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS 2 months ago:
I picked up a cheap Lumia as the whole WinPhone thing was winding up. They were actually quite nice. The whole winphone project must have been too low-key for the usual Microsoft Management to stick their noses into, and left competent people running the show.
If WinPhone had actually caught on, I’m sure that some asshole manager would have taken over and turned it into yet another Windows 11. But for a brief moment, MS made a good OS. With no apps.
- Comment on Might as well get a laptop??? 2 months ago:
Finally, something I can read VN text on
- Comment on Might as well get a laptop??? 2 months ago:
If an iPad ran SteamOS, it would choke on running out of memory before Steam was done loading.
- Comment on The deck is a damn good manga reader 2 months ago:
If you want to read within Linux, Papers is touchscreen-friendly. KOreader is probably the best touchscreen experience, once you get past its awkward but incredibly configurable interface.
My eyes are too old to read on the Deck’s screen, personally.
- Comment on [help] Black Screen of Death 2 months ago:
Either the battery is toast, or some component like “the chip responsible for rapidly cutting power over to the battery” is toast.
I wonder if connecting to a < 30w power supply would also result in your deck crapping out under load.
- Comment on [PSA] Wifi warning on the refurbished OLED decks 2 months ago:
I heard that some people even have phones nowadays without a single SFP port. Madness.
- Comment on Decksight, an OLED screen replacement for LCD decks, is now in crowdfunding 3 months ago:
I would definitely go for that, if it wasn’t a whole world of pain to tear down the Deck to do a screen change.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - December 2024 3 months ago:
Castlevania Dominus Collection. I don’t know how I ever beat the games way back when, now I have to rewind during boss fights a lot. Got bored with Dawn of Sorrow as it went to the True Ending back stretch, really enjoying Portrait of Ruin. Johnathan’s mobility combined with Charlotte’s “fuck you and everyone around you” make such a great team.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 3 months ago:
Doesn’t everybody play fighting games on “a piece of plywood with a bunch of buttons jammed into it”?
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 3 months ago:
The Steam Deck’s controller is usable without Steam running, except for that long, looong pause when Steam has taken over the controller but hasn’t anything with it yet.
I wish that Steam would not put the mouse buttons on the triggers, just leave them on the trackpad-click. And put “high res trackpad scrolling” on the left pad. But you can’t have everything.
- Comment on Sony is reportedly working on a PS5 portable 3 months ago:
Sony is going to have to invent a new “shittier than SD and ten times as expensive” memory card format first.
The Vita already proved how serious Sony is about the handheld market. “Someday, we’re going to make a system that is ten times as powerful as the Steam Deck and runs for a week on a single charge”. The only purpose of making such a nothingburger announcement is to try to Osbourne Effect the rest of the handheld market.
- Comment on Had to reimage my deck; impressed by how well a backup of my home folder carried over system and app settings 3 months ago:
If it was your only copy, then it wasn’t a backup.
- Comment on Deck to LG TV 4 months ago:
Not a dumb question, I have seen my Deck carry some weird bugs across a reboot.
- Comment on An OLED Mod For The Original Steam Deck Is Being Made - Steam Deck HQ 4 months ago:
I have an early Deck, so I know that pulling the battery* is going to be a huge pita.
*without setting it and myself on fire.
- Comment on An OLED Mod For The Original Steam Deck Is Being Made - Steam Deck HQ 4 months ago:
I don’t need any special advances in batteries, I just need “it’s possible to replace them” and “it’s possible to get them”.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ 4 months ago:
The stable Steam Client is still a September build, even though the whole rest of the OS is dated to a few days ago.
The funny part is that you can hold down the … button, and see the new overlay which has the new recording shortcuts. They do not work.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 5 months ago:
I think the flatpak is still up.
Fuck Nintendo.