Telorand
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- Comment on Facebook shut down in PNG in 'test' to stop 'pornography, misinformation' 1 day ago:
Damn, aren’t they lucky?
- Comment on Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like the perfect use case for an email alias service like addy.io, though, if Revolt is something somebody wants.
I agree that federation would be better, though.
- Comment on What are some light-hearted, feel-good, comforting games to play on the deck? 2 weeks ago:
Same. I should replay that one.
- Comment on What are some light-hearted, feel-good, comforting games to play on the deck? 2 weeks ago:
- Lost in Play - adorable game about two siblings and their imagined adventure…or is it?
- Tinykin - platform puzzler collectathon with zero enemies. Just cozy vibes.
- Freshly Frosted - Want to feel personally encouraged by a soothing narrator while making donut machines?
- Tiny Glade - make cute castles. That’s it!
- KeyWe - kiwi mail delivery. Literally.
- The Were Cleaner - werewolf janitor.
- Little Inferno - silly game where you burn things to get more things to burn. Also, Sugar Plumps!
- A Hat in Time - puzzle platformer collectathon that’s cute and creative
- Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate - silly point and click adventure. Looks like I’m gonna have to jump…!
- Hidden Through Time - Where’s Waldo but more animated.
- Thomas Was Alone - platformer where Thomas might not be as alone as he thinks (in a good way).
- Comment on Some questions before probably getting a Steam Deck 3 weeks ago:
I should also mention that you might want to look into a Deck Saver. It’s a little bit of plastic you can 3D print that fits into the original Deck case, and it will hold your device in place in the event you pick up the case with the lid open.
If you don’t want to bother, I have a rule I follow: if the Deck is in the case, the zippers go shut. First thing. No exceptions.
- Comment on Some questions before probably getting a Steam Deck 3 weeks ago:
-I love Gnome, but I’d be willing to give KDE a shot. If I don’t like it, how difficult would it be to have Gnome while keeping the normal Steam OS?
Afaik, not possible. SteamOS uses a mostly immutable A/B partition structure, so while you could likely install Gnome, the next time SteamOS updates, I expect it would wipe out your tweaks (or enough of them to break shit).
-I know that I could wipe Steam OS and get Bazzite with Gnome. Except getting Gnome, what are the advantages of getting Bazzite over Steam OS? What are the inconvenients?
Pros:
- It won’t wipe out your system tweaks at every update.
- It will use the most updated versions of things available in Fedora’s repos.
- A bad update can be easily rolled back.
Cons:
- It’s not like traditional Linux distros, like Workstation, so learning how to work with an atomic distro can be a challenge at first.
- It might not have every patch SteamOS has, or at least not right away. This tends to be minor in practice, but Valve has a vested interest in making the Deck awesome, not Linux as a whole. The community is pretty good at keeping up with downstream patches, though, if any.
Noteworthy:
- It uses Wayland by default. That matters to some.
- Some software cannot be easily installed (like some VPN clients) or installed at all. The more a program has to touch system files, the less likely it is that you can install or use it.
- Updates take a long time due to how the snapshot imaging works.
-I think that KDE is now in version 6.3 or 6.4. What is the version that you now have on Steam OS?
5.27.10. SteamOS uses X11.
-What can you easily upgrade on a used Steam Deck (probably not Oled)?
For the LCD version, lots. From the screen to the shell to the buttons. I vaguely remember there being a fan mod, too. There’s a whole ecosystem of Deck mods out there. You can even remove the screen and controllers entirely, if you’re so inclined.
- Comment on Heroic Games Launcher v2.16 released with improved Steam Deck / Linux game compatibility 3 weeks ago:
Yes, you could use it as a replacement for Lutris.
- Comment on Heroic Games Launcher v2.16 released with improved Steam Deck / Linux game compatibility 3 weeks ago:
No. It’s an alternative, just like how Bottles is an alternative to either of those. I like Heroic, but use the launcher(s) you like.
- Comment on Modder transforms Steam Deck with broken display into a mini PC, and you can too 3 weeks ago:
People are so creative!
- Comment on Modder transforms Steam Deck with broken display into a mini PC, and you can too 3 weeks ago:
A Valve x Framework collaboration would be awesome.
- Comment on Modder transforms Steam Deck with broken display into a mini PC, and you can too 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes, you just do things because you can.
Here’s the Steam Brick, a very similar project. To quote the maker:
I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could that I didn’t stop to think if I should.
- Comment on Does anyone else miss Marcan42's Mastodon page? 5 weeks ago:
Perhaps it’s incumbent upon those visionaries to take time to train their replacement, rather than focus upon code.
In practice, that might be easier said than done, however.
- Comment on Does anyone else miss Marcan42's Mastodon page? 5 weeks ago:
Very true, and that’s kinda the crux of my point. We should prepare for the inevitable loss of any person and not take them for granted. Whether through burnout, death, or whatever, most people won’t stick with the same project their whole life.
And so, somebody(s) should join those people such that they aren’t irreplaceable.
- Comment on Does anyone else miss Marcan42's Mastodon page? 5 weeks ago:
No. Perhaps you’re new to change, but I’ve experienced project leads come and go with less notice than this.
We need to normalize, again, the fact that these leaders are human, and they have limitations. Celebrity idolization is not a particularly endearing human trait, and people need to learn to respect that when those aforementioned leaders need to break from their past, they are under no obligation to leave anything for posterity.
- Comment on How to Install Waydroid on Steam Deck: Full Guide 5 weeks ago:
Still, I believe and hope next big SteamOS update will switch to Wayland, leaving X11 behind
Same! This would be amazing, and hopefully their teamwork with Arch will see that happen sooner than later. I noticed that they fixed some CVEs in this latest stable update, so perhaps we’ll see more!
- Comment on How to Install Waydroid on Steam Deck: Full Guide 5 weeks ago:
How does this work? SteamOS uses X11, and Waydroid requires Wayland.
Xwaylandtranslates X11 calls to Wayland, but I’m not aware of any Wayland to X11 compatibility projects. - Comment on The DeckFilter app got a big update recently, with faster library/wishlist sync, IsThereAnyDeal integration, and more 5 weeks ago:
Not the person you asked, but maybe they also mean the SteamDB extension?
- Comment on Best Steam Deck games under $5 in the Couch Co-Op Fest sale 5 weeks ago:
I’ve experienced similar in 2D games that are more or less fancy Flash games. I wonder if that has less to do with Godot (it might, anyway) and more to do with optimization and LOD.
Either way, I still appreciate the heads up that it’s battery intensive. Good to know before traveling and winding up searching for an outlet.
- Comment on Best Steam Deck games under $5 in the Couch Co-Op Fest sale 5 weeks ago:
Have you tried forcing lower TDW? I don’t have the game, but I wonder if that would help
- Comment on Tuttle Capital files for ‘alien tech’ ETF 1 month ago:
How to lose a lot of money, a case study.
- Comment on Steam Deck Brick Mod: No screen, no controller, and absolutely no sense, just a power button and a USB port. 1 month ago:
Reminds me of mods like the GameCube Nano. I dunno if it’s possible, but it would be kinda cool if someone figured out how to shrink the Deck further.
- Comment on PC game development surges in Steam Deck handheld era — But don't count Xbox and PlayStation out 1 month ago:
I’m not. I’m more hoping for Nintendo to get a wakeup call that improving customer satisfaction and giving them actual value, rather than clawing and squeezing and litigating every dollar possible from their freaking fans, is actually a viable business strategy.
- Comment on PC game development surges in Steam Deck handheld era — But don't count Xbox and PlayStation out 2 months ago:
I mean, I know what you’re saying. Nintendo is no slouch when it comes to drawing people in, but they’re no longer the only fish in the pond. Couple that with the general customer satisfaction with Deck-likes and the flat deluge of games to which you have access, and there’s a real chance of people at least thinking twice before jumping on a Switch 2.
Some people won’t care, but Nintendo is going to have to really work to pull others away from all those extras you get by design. Plus, that’s not even getting into how stupidly easy it is to set up emulation, which you have to pay a lot for via Nintendo.
- Comment on PC game development surges in Steam Deck handheld era — But don't count Xbox and PlayStation out 2 months ago:
They’ll also have potentially more exposure, as many other companies have and will be coming out with SteamOS handhelds of their own. So if anyone had to choose, it might make more sense to skip the Switch 2.
- Comment on GPD WIN 4 handheld plans to support Valve's SteamOS in 2025 2 months ago:
It looks like it’s trying to be a dual-purpose handheld, a controller with a laptop inside. 32GB of RAM is for running multiple programs simultaneously, and with their special dock connector to get it going with a monitor and other peripherals, I would guess they are targeting people who want to replace their setup with something smaller than a traditional gaming laptop.
Their previous offerings have been laptops with controllers attached, but given the popularity of handhelds, this seems like the logical move for them to stay relevant in the market. It’s niche, but it will probably attract some.
- Comment on After a year in its company, I’ve done a complete 180 on my Steam Deck 2 months ago:
It helps me play games that I would otherwise avoid on my desktop (usually low-requirement games like Vampire Survivor-likes or action platformers). If I gotta pick up a controller to play it, the Deck is probably better. I can also play in shorter bursts, so if I have ten minutes of nothing to do, that’s ten minutes I can make progress on a game.
And because of that I’ve finished a lot more games than I did with only my desktop.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Mac should be able to read Fat32, and so should the Deck. You should use a universal drive format when possible, not whatever each one recommends (probably HFS or APFS for Mac and ext4 for Linux).
If you’re trying to install Windows on the Deck via Mac, you might need to create a virtual machine first with Windows on it:
www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/
Or possibly Linux (which you could probably do via the Deck, too):
linuxiac.com/how-to-create-a-windows-bootable-usb…
I did read that the WoeUSB program mentioned in that article might also work on Mac, but I can’t verify if that’s true. Option three is to ask a friend to create a Windows Media USB for you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
- Get a USB-C flash drive for system reinstalls or flashing a new distro.
- Look into handheld-oriented distros like Bazzite, Nobara, and CachyOS (there’s others, too).
- Consider a screen protector.
- Look into getting a Deck Lifesaver or printing one yourself.
- Comment on [help] Getting my first steam deck tomorrow 3 months ago:
Bazzite supports Secure Boot…😉
But thanks for the info! I’ll be looking at it more closely later.
- Comment on [help] Getting my first steam deck tomorrow 3 months ago:
If you plan to use yours as a laptop replacement, get Bazzite (maybe CachyOS, but I don’t have experience with their handheld version). SteamOS is great, but the major drawback for daily computing is that every update will wipe out your modifications to the core system (not your home directory). Bazzite and some others will give you a persistent system with each update.
For gaming, Hades works flawlessly. It’s easy to pick up and put down, doesn’t consume a lot of battery, and the story/gameplay are phenomenal.
Make sure to also check out RetroDeck/EmuDeck and Decky Loader to extend what your Deck can do