rotopenguin
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- Comment on [PSA] Wifi warning on the refurbished OLED decks 2 days 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 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
If it was your only copy, then it wasn’t a backup.
- Comment on Deck to LG TV 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
I think the flatpak is still up.
Fuck Nintendo.
- Comment on [Discussion] SteamOS 3.6 is nearly here, with Valve focusing on bug fixes before release. What are some bugs you've encountered (on either Stable or Beta) that you're hoping to see fixed? 2 months ago:
Sometimes when I go into Desktop Mode, X11 doesn’t have any screens. The deck just sits there with a black screen, until I ssh in and kill plasma
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 2 months ago:
It is rare to see a game get this wrong, the last one I saw was a Borderlands. If you look at a game’s Steamdb cloud listing, they list Windows’s save location, and then Mac/Linux saves are expressed as a rewrite rule.
Cloud saves on PS are handled quite simply - if you didn’t pay for your very own PS Plus then go fuck yourself. I have lost dozens of Aloy hours on my brother’s PS4.
- Comment on Deck Buttons Releases Real Metal Steam Deck Buttons In Our Devices - Steam Deck HQ 3 months ago:
The existing buttons are made out of a plastic that wears well when rubbing against their contact-points in the case. The plastics are chosen to be compatible, self-lubricating and “not spalling or rubbing eachother to death”.
I doubt that these metalized buttons have been tested for their long-term wear characteristics.
- Comment on Adding gog games to steam deck 3 months ago:
Go to Desktop Mode, run Plasma Discover, get the Heroic flatpak, run Heroic, log into GoG there, install games.
Heroic is pretty damn good at doing the rest. It’ll install the Linux or Windows version of your games, it’ll add them to Steam, it’ll run them. Heroic will even give Steam some coverart for your games. (Many are missing the logo, tho. DeckyLoader +SteamGridDB plugin fixes that.)
- Comment on Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.10 Beta 'Tenth time's the charm' fixes some real nuisances 4 months ago:
Is it the same as “sometimes when I go to Desktop Mode undocked, KDE decides that I have zero screens” and I’m staring at blackness? I have to ssh in and shutdown to fix it.
Not reboot, shutdown. If I reboot, the next time I go into desktop mode I’ll get the same thing. I think there is some ring < 0 or EC shenanigans going on there.
- Comment on Valve upgrades Steam Families and Game Recording in the latest Steam Beta 4 months ago:
I don’t think you can opt in, the Families beta isn’t on the deck yet.
- Comment on [Game] Helldivers 2 Gets New Steam Deck Graphics Preset Alongside New Difficulty Level 4 months ago:
Yeah, the problem is that there is a well-set standard for VRR on a regular DP connection, there’s a so-so standard for VRR on HDMI, but there isn’t a good standard for communicating VRR through an internal connection. The market is at a standstill with not enough tablet vendors asking for VRR, and neither the SoC vendors or the panel vendors want to be the first one to build only half of the solution. Apple or Samsung could build a full solution on their own and jumpstart that market, but can’t be arsed.
- Comment on [Game] Fix For Jackbox Megapicker Corrupting Steam Decks Released - Steam Deck HQ 4 months ago:
The main thing that a bad actor would gain is “being kicked off of the steam store”. The bigger threat would be if Gabe figures out which is the bad actor’s main account. Losing all their games would be pretty big blowback for such an attacker.
- Comment on [Game] Fix For Jackbox Megapicker Corrupting Steam Decks Released - Steam Deck HQ 4 months ago:
The problem is that SteamOS doesn’t have a whole lot of boot options besides “start up directly into Game Mode successfully”. If Steam chokes while ingesting any of its config or any metadata in your library, that’s the end of it. You can hold a button to wipe everything (the Playstation solution), or you can figure out how to boot a live-iso and fix “the problem”. Not everybody has the skills to fix stuff in Linux, heck not everybody has the ability to “boot up from a usb stick and have a working keyboard, using only one USB hole”.
- Comment on What have you been playing lately? 4 months ago:
Star Stuff : which is a very cute little programming-puzzle game. Light on the programming - you are heavily boxed into there only being one correct solution.
The Farmer Was Replaced : literally “Python the game”.
Veritus : the sequel to Prodigal. It’s weaker for lacking the whole adventure side of things, and no waifus 😭.
- Comment on Dragon Age The Veilguard will be Steam Deck verified and EA app will be not required 4 months ago:
There is no guarantee that EA won’t change the deal after you’ve bought the game.
- Comment on How do you download your game on SD OLED? 5 months ago:
Ooh ooh better yet, open up a fullscreen browser with this…
- Comment on How do you download your game on SD OLED? 5 months ago:
With an OLED, staring at a fullscreen png that’s all black is the same as turning the screen off.
- Comment on AMD Frame Generation On The Steam Deck Is Here With FSR 3.1 5 months ago:
The “AI boom” means that Intel is going to take die space from the GPU and give it to an NPU. That’s how you get Windows 11®️ CoPilot™️ cetified.
- Comment on Steam deck for a TV party game emulation machine? 5 months ago:
Lol I guess they could mount the deck to show as a scoreboard.
- Comment on [Discussion] Double discussion this month, what games did you buy for your Deck during the Steam Sale, and what are you playing on Deck right now? - July 2024 5 months ago:
Frick, I’m going to have to check out Farmer Was Replaced.
- Comment on Audio on steamdeck with HDMI connected 5 months ago:
I have a monitor with awful speakers (thanks Acer), and SteamOS will dutifully switch to them instead of using its own much better speakers. I made a non-steam shortcut with this abomination to kick it back to the internal speakers.
pactl set-default-sink 'alsa_output.pci-0000_04_00.5-platform-acp5x_mach.0.HiFi__hw_acp5x_1__sink' - Comment on 64GB and 512GB Steam Deck LCD models are 15% off until July 11th, 10 AM PDT 5 months ago:
I presume that dusty is mad about being in a country that Valve won’t ship to. It’s a perfectly fair gripe.