rotopenguin
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- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 18 hours ago:
It’s worse than that. MS could quickly turn the boat around. They have the cash. They have the manpower (well, have recently fired). The only thing they don’t have is THE ABILITY TO THINK ABOUT ANYTHING BUT AI AI AI AI GOTTA HAVE AI AIIIIIIII. The brainrot has eaten Nadella, and eaten the whole board.
- Comment on Valve's huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds 18 hours ago:
Lol. I was kinda hoping that $80, and “made by the same vendor”, and “made by a reputable company” would get me a dock that works better than a $20 SIXLTR off of Amazon.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 23 hours ago:
I think you’re a bit better off with SteamOS’s gamescope rather than going through gnome-shell.
- Comment on Valve's huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds 2 days ago:
The Deck update is great so far, but the Dock update is not. I couldn’t get any video on DP until I rolled the dock firmware back.
- Comment on Is upgrading the ssd easy enough that it is worth the cost savings? 2 weeks ago:
Little pro-tip - I got a Corsair drive and tried putting it in external enclosure to copy to it, that didn’t work.
These small Nvme drives are dram-less, so they borrow some memory from the host system. All of these drives have a fallback mode when they can’t borrow host memory, which is slower. Apparently, the fallback mode is so well programmed that drive can crash during large write sessions.
It worked just fine once I put the new drive inside the Deck, and pulled data from the old drive sitting in the enclosure instead.
- Comment on A few questions before getting a used Steam Deck after my wedding 3 weeks ago:
“Gnome Power Statistics”, which you can install from Discover Store in Desktop mode, will tell you the battery’s health.
If it’s an earlier build of Steam Deck, the battery is probably glued in like hell. I think Valve eased up on that later on.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025 3 weeks ago:
The default graphics on Deck are unbelievably ugly, doing the StreamDeck=0 thing is mandatory. I was never great with reaction games, so the slight framerate loss means I go from “missing counters 98% of the time” to “missing counters 98.2% of the time”. I’ll take that.
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 1 month ago:
Haven’t tried these out on a calibrated six year old, but some that I liked which might be in the ballpark are Tinykin, a Short Hike, Smurfs Vileleaf, Loddlenaut, Lil Gator Game, Little Kitty Big City, Costume Quest, What the Golf/Car.
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 1 month ago:
Luanti is all the minecraft a kid needs these days
- Comment on Show off your Steam Deck's home screen! 1 month ago:
I think the xray is from ifixit? I nudged trimming it until the port and volume down button lined up just so.
- Comment on Low battery notification requrst 1 month 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 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
What’s wrong with “cp -r”?
- Comment on FreeTube full screen 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Add anything with sonic in the name. Like SRB2:Persona.
- Comment on Micro SD card suggestions 3 months 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 3 months 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. 4 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 4 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 4 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??? 4 months ago:
Finally, something I can read VN text on
- Comment on Might as well get a laptop??? 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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.
