ekky
@ekky@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Do you use your Deck for non-gaming purposes? If so, what do you use it for? 4 days ago:
“I let Twitch chat control this machine gun mounted turret, and the first thing they did was draw dickbutt in the sand, after which they kept shooting at the passing heavy armor.”
- Comment on Do you use your Deck for non-gaming purposes? If so, what do you use it for? 5 days ago:
Used mine as my main PC for half a year, doing everything from gaming (duh) to embedded development. Used RWFUS to install packages not available on flathub, but have recently started experimenting with the NIX package manager (I’m still running SteamOS).
My sister uses hers as a test and development machine for linux and Android applications.
Thought about using my SD in my model aircraft hobby, but never got around to that. Maybe I’ll use it when playing around with my car with the OBD2 adapter, since i can easily connect to it from my current main rig.
- Comment on Hori’s officially licensed Steam controller is coming to the US 2 weeks ago:
What really sets the Steam Controller (and the Steam Deck’s control layout) apart from the market are the dual touchpads and dynamically/easily programmable buttons. The above just looks like a reskinned XBox controller, and, if I read the article right, it needs a “companion app” to get full functionality out of the controller.
I hope that they at least made sure that the companion app works on the Steam Deck.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks some Linux dual-boots in a recent Windows update 2 months ago:
Huh, is Windows screwing over GRUB and Linux not a bi-monthly experience anymore? Sad that it happened, but glad that it’s become novelty enough to write about.
- Comment on Hori Announces Controller Made Specifically for Steam 4 months ago:
Could be worse, could be like XBox’ layout. shudders
- Comment on [Game] Apex Legends Upheaval update live with EOS Anti-Cheat breaking it on Steam Deck / Linux 6 months ago:
I guess that’s one way to announce End Of Service.
- Comment on Discord Quests have started (ads) 7 months ago:
That does make way more sense. Though, the ad makes it seem like a (clothing) set and not a skin, but I’ve never played the finals so I wouldn’t know.
- Comment on Discord Quests have started (ads) 7 months ago:
So the way that promotion is worded, if I stream “the finals” to a friend for 15 minutes I’m guaranteed to receive that item, shipping paid for and all, like in a quest? Or are they just baiting and entering you in a lottery?
Seems like an easy way to farm real life merchandise.
- Comment on Someone redesigned the Steam UI, and I need it. 11 months ago:
All in all? Pretty horrendous. Looks like a template taken from Soulless MoneyGrab Inc. but with some added steam elements.
Change and innovation is not bad, but while perhaps not especially beautifully, the current user interface is pretty decent in the storm that is nowadays “looks over function”-mentality.
- Comment on They forgot the LGBTQ... 11 months ago:
The rich Americans are seldomly native Amaricans, so the meme is right about the immigrants holding all the money.
- Comment on What do we think of greenpeace activists? 11 months ago:
Right, I thought it was a group of employees doing this over an extended period of time, might not be a fair comparison after all then.
Not that it’s a fair comparison to begin with, I just held a similar amount of annoyance toward the two.
- Comment on What do we think of greenpeace activists? 11 months ago:
Can’t talk for anyone else, but I put them in the same category as PETA.
They probably do a lot of good, but it feels like the good they do is outweighed by all the bad they do to get there.
Like kidnapping collared dogs from the streets to euthanize them (PETA), or fighting the (at the time) only realistic alternative to oil, giving all the rich oil sheiks a hard on and adding to the already bad global warming problem (Greenpeace).
- Comment on Why is anti-cheat always client-side? 11 months ago:
So is cheating, yet we still have cheaters.