TheGrandNagus

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED Limited White Edition announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Ngl a 90s PC beige steam deck would be amazing to run emudeck on
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED Limited White Edition announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I tried this but even permanent marker kept rubbing off
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED Limited White Edition announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Idk where you live, but a number of countries give you a 14 day cool-off period where you can return purchases for any reason.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A lemmy.ml mod, being an absolute joke of a mod? Say it ain’t so!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
and 40fps feels like it’s a lot closer to 60fps than it really is.

Counter-intuitively, 40fps, not 45fps, is the mid point between 30fps and 60fps, so it really is closer than what a lot of people think.

On the surface that seems impossible, but looking at frame times tells the story.

Let’s divide 1 second by 30, 40, and 60:
- 1 / 30 = 0.033s per frame
- 1 / 40 = 0.025s per frame (0.08s less time per frame than 30fps)
- 1 / 60 = 0.017s per frame (0.08s less time per frame than 40fps)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Channel? I think you may be thinking of the other tech Linus
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Being thelcreator of the most successful open source project in history gives you a bit of leeway.

Besides, Linus had a major personality change years ago and has since endeavoured to be a lot more polite to people, and it certainly shows.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve is working on a version of proton for ARM devices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
IIRC, the M chips also have a couple of specific hardware accelerators for some parts of x86 code that ARM devices would usually struggle with. That’s something that other ARM chips (presumably) don’t have.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
So the most comparable console there is $456, and this is $700.

That is bad.

The PS5 Pro barely costs more to produce.

$700 is bad. $913 is awful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No, but it’s been getting stronger relative to the dollar consistently over the past 2 years. But we aren’t seeing that in prices.

I’m not expecting it to be like ~2007 time where £1 was $2.

But things should definitely be better than it was 2 years ago, relative to USD pricing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The PS5 Pro pricing is testing the waters for PS6 pricing. If they can’t sell well, they can easily drop prices (the PS5 Pro barely costs more than the PS5 to produce). They’re just gathering data on what people will accept.

Doing that with the PS6 is too risky. Sony botched the launch of the PS3 and it backfired on them hard letting MS get a foothold with the 360. MS then did the same with the XBone launch and the PS4 ran away with it.

If people signal to Sony now that the PS5 Pro is way too much (it’s £700/$913 here ffs), then the PS6 will be cheaper. Don’t accept their greed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If you think $700 is bad, it’s £700 in the UK.

Which is $913. 🤢

Also:
- median household income, UK (2022): £32,400 ($42,265)
- median household income, USA (2022): $74,580
A PS5 Pro is 26% of the typical UK household monthly income.

A PS5 Pro is 11% of the typical US household monthly income.

The US pricing is bad. The UK pricing is absolutely insane.

The OLED Deck starts at £479. Still a lot but not as egregious. The LCD Deck is currently £262 ($344), which is pretty great.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LCD Steam Decks on sale. 64GB LCD (15% off - $296.65) and LCD 512GB LCD (25% off - $336.75)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Based on my pricing…

LCD Deck: starting at £262 ($344)

OLED Deck: starting at £479 ($630)

It’s certainly better. But by enough to justify an 83% higher price?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Myth: Wukong shows very clearly Valve are selling a lot of Steam Decks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a nonsensical comparison, as Black Myth has just come out and games take a long time to develop. And the Steam Deck 2 literally doesn’t exist yet.

If Nintendo announced a Switch 2 tomorrow, saying it’s compatible with existing Switch games, do you think sales of the Switch would go up, or down?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Dolphin is such a well fleshed out emulation monster that I’m consistently disappointed with other emulators that don’t let me tweak things quite to the same degree

And yet despite the options, it’s not overwhelming like a lot of other highly-configurable software often is. They’ve done such an amazing job.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
For anybody confused – or I guess for anybody who wants Dolphin as a Flatpak immediately – Dolphin is already available on Flathub, it just currently isn’t verified. It’s packaged by a third party.

Honestly it’s great to see more first party support for Flatpaks/Flathub. Compliments to the Dolphin team, it’s probably the most impressive emulator I’ve ever used.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And the 3DS emulator that the same team also created!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamescom Showed Me That Devs Really Care About Steam Deck Compatibility - Steam Deck HQ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Tim Sweeney being so against Linux is baffling to me.

You’d think that with Epic battling against Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems that he’d think “huh, we really shouldn’t put all our eggs in the Windows basket, what with Microsoft clearly trying to go down the locked-down mobile-like route for Windows”, but he doesn’t. He’s just relying on Microsoft’s goodwill (lol). It’s crazy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market [if it's going to compete]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s testament to Microsoft’s incompetence that they still haven’t got an “Xbox handheld OS” so-to-speak, or at the very least offered a trimmed down windows with an Xbox UI frontend to handheld OEMs.

The Steam Deck is a success, there’s other handhelds on the market (a common review criticism often being how poor windows works on them), Sony is in discussions with AMD for hardware for a handheld (albeit it’s a long way off).

MS’s incompetencein gaming is staggering.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Open source just means you can get the source code, it doesn’t mean you can take over a project.

Asus can’t just take SteamOS, apply some driver tweaks, change some options, and release it as a SteamOS device.

A lot of SteamOS is proprietary, and Valve of course owns all the IP related to the branding.

Asus are certainly welcome to help Valve with their code, but Valve could also say no this is our project.

And of course they can fork the open part of SteamOS and brand it as something else, and not install steam/steamUI, but that’s half the reason people use the steam deck. It wouldn’t be SteamOS without that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You don’t think the developers of SteamOS should be the one working on wider device compatibility?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s had a revision which appears to have fixed that, and brought other improvements.

However it also came with a price bump, and Asus has been under fire recently for awful handling of warranties all across their business
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dBrand Releases New Steam Deck Skin Based Off of $1 Million Counter-Strike Skin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s true, although it’s the same with the whole vinyl skin industry in my experience.

The markup on what is essentially a pretty sticker is so insane that they’d be foolish for not just sending out replacements willy-nilly to anybody who needs them. The materials cost is close to zero, and being a 5 gram envelope, postage costs are practically nothing too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dBrand Releases New Steam Deck Skin Based Off of $1 Million Counter-Strike Skin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s an extremely reasonable opinion, no?

For example, Nintendo make excellent games. Almost everything they make is a good game.

But they are an awful company due to how litigious they are, their hatred of fan projects, their clampdowns on people just streaming their games, their cloud save policy, and how they just shut their eShops prematurely locking you out from your purchases.

You’re acting like “like the product, dislike the company” is an absurd take, and it very much isn’t.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD Frame Generation On The Steam Deck Is Here With FSR 3.1⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Intel graphics has improved leaps and bounds but it’s still problematic and more poorly supported than AMD.

I imagine part of it (beyond general stuff like Intel trailing AMD in efficiency, both on the CPU and GPU side, as well as the die size being far larger for the same performance, meaning more expensive) is that Valve really didn’t want Intel graphics issues being reported in reviews and forums as being Proton/Linux issues.

On top of that, Intel straight up doesn’t have a custom semiconductor division. AMD does (predominantly for Xbox/PS).

Intel would either have to set up an entirely new working group for Valve (expensive! Something that Valve would’ve wanted to avoid considering they had no idea whether the Deck would be a hit or not) or they’d have had to go with an off-the-shelf intel CPU.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not to mention there could easily be a court case where Valve gets told they can’t host mods that infringe on copyright and are told to remove it all and not accept anything like it.

Kiss goodbye to your Skyrim mods that add Thomas the tank engine characters as dragons, Spiderman as a playable character, LOTR characters and weapons, etc.

As much as I think steam workshop is great and convenient, it shouldn’t be the only accessible option.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Uhhh yeah of course it’s a cash grab, it’s a product from a for-profit business. They want to make money from it. Valve is trying to grab cash too.

And eh, the deck isn’t better in all departments. It costs significantly more, it’s far bulkier, you can’t share your physical game cartridges with friends/family, the battery life is worse, couch gaming isn’t as refined, detachable joycons are great, the switch is better at split screen gaming especially considering you don’t need to buy any extra controllers to do it, etc.

I have a Switch and a Steam Deck, I’ve played on both for thousands of hours. They’re both good devices.

Liking one doesn’t mean you have to hate the other one. They’re not even directly comparable. Sure they seem similar on the surface, but IMO they’re pretty different devices with less overlap than you’d expect.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS 3.6: How the Steam Deck atomic updates are improving⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Why? Fedora is an amazing distro, don’t be put off by the “tips fedora” memey-sounding name
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The de facto truth is that while Windows is installed, it’s not your PC, it’s theirs. Of course they’re going to add advertising. Of course they’re going to spy. Of course they’re going to use Copilot as a mechanism to do that.

If you don’t want that, your options are basically limited to installing an OS that doesn’t do that shit, or voting for parties that care about consumer rights, if one exists where you live.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be a frame rate snob but owning a Steam Deck has made me realise the error of my ways⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yup.

And in the wider PC space, VRAM is a big issue as well.

Everybody keeps acting like every single big game that comes out is “unoptimised” because it uses more than 8GB of VRAM when playing at 1440p or above at ultra settings, and people with 8GB or lower GPUs are struggling.

Are all these games unoptimised? Or is it simply that they’re done targeting consoles with 8GB RAM, are now exclusively focusing on ones with 16GB, and because of Nvidia being notoriously stingy with VRAM, lots of people on PC are suddenly finding their cards falling short?

Thank fuck Valve had the sense to put 16GB of unified memory in the Deck. Could you imagine if they only went with 8GB, or even 12GB?