rotopenguin
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- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 8 hours ago:
The future of gaming is this. Move the Memory Pak®️ around into whatever system you’re currently using.
- Comment on [Deck] Make it make sense 1 week ago:
The circular scrolling thing has never worked right for me. I set it to “vertical swipe”.
What I would really like is for the left pad to do panning, like a two-finger trackpad scroll. No notches, just a smooth scroll please.
- Comment on Takeaways from Steam Next Fest : February '26 fro ma player perspective 1 week ago:
Yeaah, who the heck wants to download a 20GB+ demo that gives you a 15 minute slice of a game? I’ll give a bunch of 1GB demos a shot first.
- Comment on Here's how I fixed my Steam Deck when it stopped turning on. 3 weeks ago:
Here’s how I did it: take a can of electronic contact cleaner, dribble it in the switch. You have to open up the system to really get it in there (remove your SD card first). Just a drop or two, work it in, repeat.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Biden isn’t president anymore. The only function of government bodies such as the SEC is to punish companies that this president doesn’t like. OpenAI is very much in favour, and even if they weren’t they could afford to bribe their way out.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
As I’ve heard it, the AI industry is borrowing against their mountain of computers to get their next round of money. The problem is, computers depreciate fast - their hardware is on like a two year replacement cycle. The solution - pinch the supply to make the value of your depreciating assets go up. Now you have higher valued collateral to borrow against, so you can buy more of the supply, pinching more, which makes your collateral more valuable again, ad infinitum.
Congratulations! You have now won at Capitalism. Now stare at the Game Over screen forever.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s because “The Ides of March: Et Tu Edition” is on its way
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Did you say you wanted “more agentic AI experiences”? Right away, my good sir!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
My biggest regret is not getting a whole crate of 2TB intel SSDs when they were going for $70. “Surely, this is a sign that prices are just getting better and better!”
- Comment on Keyboard and mouse suggestions 1 month ago:
But you didn’t directly plug it in, there was always some sort of adapter involved (thanks for the generous ports, Valve). There must have been something wrong with the adapters. Sometimes, you just have to flip USB-C over for it to work (thanks, Intel).
- Comment on Cannot run game bought from itch.io on steam deck because of missing licenses 1 month ago:
You might be the first person to run the Linux build, including the developer. I have a few games where the Linux version is a mess, so I have to use the Windows ver. “Win32 is Linux’s stable gaming API”.
- Comment on Cannot run game bought from itch.io on steam deck because of missing licenses 1 month ago:
I think the problem is that the game is literally the same build as steam’s, but the dev didn’t do a very good job of neutering the “ask a steam api” bit. They accept “lol what is steam?” as a valid answer, but not “steam is responding, and says you own 0 copies of game 8675309”.
First, check protondb. Then put a comment up on itch.io. Is anybody else complaining? Is anybody else commenting on the game at all?
Add the game to heroic and let heroic add it to Steam? I recommend always using either the latest proton-ge, or the latest of the previous proton-ge (9.27).
Or remove the steamapi library from the game’s folder. Or add a steam_appid.txt.
Or a last resort would be Goldberg.
- Comment on Keyboard and mouse suggestions 1 month ago:
I rather like the Logitech MX 2. It’s comfortable (for a right hander), and is shockingly reliable for a bluetooth device.
My recc for a keyboard is “good god never an Epomaker”. They look like a discount Keychron, but are fucking useless. A stuttttering messs.
- Comment on Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone 1 month ago:
This is all assuming that the dollar is worth anything in the future. The way things are going, uh maybe not
- Comment on How to fix built-in speaker audio on Fedora 43 1 month ago:
Bear in mind that the speakers don’t work by default because they are being driven by an amp that can totally blow them up. You are installing software protection that is supposed to physically model how the waveform is turned into sound and heat, and veto signals that might damage stuff. If it’s wrong, your speakers can die.
- Comment on Has anyone done diy repair on power button (not the outer plastic but the actual button on the mobo) 2 months ago:
You could try working a little deoxyit or contact cleaner into the switch. Considering that it didn’t have a period of being flaky before it died, I am not optimistic that this will help.
Isn’t it great that the most important button is soldered on the backside of the mainboard, and is also fragile af?
- Comment on I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get? 2 months ago:
Tomb Raider Survival Trilogy for $7.19
Shadow of Mordor/War for $6.99
Prodigal for $1.49 - Zelda plus date sim
Toem for $3.99 - gotta photograph em all
Crosscode for $5.99 - SPMMOOTY
Saint’s Row 4 $2.99
Vampire Survivors for $3.74 - everybody is legally required to have a copy
20 Small Mazes for $0 Doronko Wanko $0
My main recommendation is “don’t put all of your money into a bunch of PS5 AAA games”. PS5-ish games fit “if we turn all of the settings down, and render in 1/4 rez, and then AI upscale, and still your battery only lasts an hour”.
A strength of the Deck is in delivering an endless back catalog of PS4 and prior styles of games. Another is in bringing forward a ton of indie games that can’t win at “marketing”, so they fight like hell on “mixing up new and interesting gameplay” and “price”.
- Comment on Valve is stopping production of LCD Steam Deck models, once sold out they will be gone forever 2 months ago:
The Deck’s reader does the full 80MB/s UHS-I well enough. It works well electrically, but the ejector sucks. I’ve picked up my system, and had the card randomly hang out like 😛. It is vital to tape over the card to keep it from wandering off on its own.
- Comment on Valve is stopping production of LCD Steam Deck models, once sold out they will be gone forever 2 months ago:
With the way that memory prices are going, Valve is going to bring back the 64GB model.
/s
/not s
- Comment on [Discussion] Have you experienced drift or other issues with your original Steam Deck thumb sticks? Also, people who have replaced their thumb sticks, how has your experience been? 2 months ago:
My left stick started jittering after a year. Switched the sticks out with Gulikit, and they were fine for a few years, then the right stick went bonkers psycho.
Replaced it with a̶n̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶-b̶r̶a̶n̶d̶ Gulikit again, cuz that was the only make available. Sigh.
- Comment on Steam Machine 3 months ago:
When you’re playing HDR, any movie can be a Smurf Movie.
- Comment on Steam Machine 3 months ago:
Some people don’t want the same beige tower as you.
- Comment on Steam Machine 3 months ago:
I don’t think the rest of Linux is ready for HDR.
And judging by my mum’s LG OLED tv, nobody else is ready for HDR either.
- Comment on The Steam Controller 2 May Be Able To Detect How Far Away Your Hands Are From It - Steam Deck H 3 months ago:
Glass Harmonica Erotica
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - November 2025 4 months ago:
Öoo was a nice quick play. Logic Bombs is a brutal puzzler with a fantastic Gameboy rom included.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 4 months ago:
Hey, speaking of “early lcd models”, how is your power button holding up? Mine is getting flaky. Have to press it a couple of times, maybe tilt it a little, to get it to work.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 4 months ago:
Go to bluetooth settings, and tap on each of your paired devices. There is a (probsbly brand new) setting to Allow this device to wake the deck.
- Comment on Heroic game files 5 months ago:
Heroic’s installed as a Flatpak, right? Any path that flatpak doesn’t actually allow out of the sandbox is going to be inside the sandbox.
find ~/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl -iname games
- Comment on [Help] Swapped nvme from old deck into new deck, now headphones don't work 6 months ago:
Huh. Mmmaybe the LCD model has board revisions that are still different enough to trip things up? It’s definitely a bug to have wireplumber not “do the right thing no matter what hardware it booted up on today”, it would probably take a Valve engineer to chase that down and submit a patch.
- Comment on [Help] Swapped nvme from old deck into new deck, now headphones don't work 6 months ago:
👆 this sounds like the most probable fix. OP buried a very critical factoid - they moved the drive between OLED and LCD models. The systems have some significant hardware differences (as evidenced by the Windows drivers changing so much that Valve took a long time to update em). Somewhere, Pipewire has squirreled away details about routing or preferred devices from the old system.
Heck, there might be journalct log entries being generated you plug into the headphone jack. Pipewire could already be trying to tell you exactly what’s wrong.
