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- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 1 day ago:
All Elon Musk has ever done to earn a living is charge people rent and own valuable things and you and are telling me I should believe Elon is against the idea of charging people rent for digital things?
lol
- Comment on The platforms cash in their chips with Trump: From Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want — and it's working. 4 days ago:
Imagine being one of the richest people in the world and still being a coward.
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 1 week ago:
yeah, I am glad egg game exists, but Xonotic is just too fucking cool I am sorry. I don’t want to go back to not having the xonotic rocket launcher, it is just too fun
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 1 week ago:
Fuck that shit, play Xonotic
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 1 week ago:
That and Vintage Story!
Ok Veloren too
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 1 week ago:
Valheim is one of the best survival games ever, not splitscreen tho
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 1 week ago:
Honestly the remake of the first three is gorgeous too
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 1 week ago:
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 1 week ago:
wobbly life! i fuckiing love wobbly life it is like GTA but more physics based and family friendly
store.steampowered.com/app/1211020/Wobbly_Life/
lego games are great too!
For more chill gameplay I REALLY like Farm Together, I haven’t tried the second one yet.
I can recommend a lot of local-splitscreen games too.
- Comment on 12 Nintendo Switch 2 Games You Can Play On Steam Deck Today 1 week ago:
Even if the hardware doesn’t match up, why the hell would I want to spend $450+ on a handheld computer that I can’t use as a handheld computer?
No, I will buy the handheld computer I can use to play games, or choose to use as a handheld computer that I can install whatever software on it I want.
Fuck consoles and corporate control over how you can use your gaming devices, fuck that this ever got normalized.
Buy a steam deck and forget giving Nintendo money.
- Comment on To Curb Online Sexual Abuse of Children, Experts Look to AI: Researchers in Norway and the U.S. are training artificial intelligence to address cybergrooming. Will it work? 2 weeks ago:
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AI researchers often don’t understand basic aspects of how biases work in a cultural sense, like they get lost in the technical power and specifications of the machines they make and completely ignore the fact that they are working with a problem where you cannot eliminate bias or subjectivity in your filters, you can only be lucid and clear about what they are and try to minimize them in every way you can.
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This kind of narrative, and reasoning is VERY VERY VERY hard to stop once it gets momentum and can lead to a quick degradation of civil rights in a society, especially for younger people.
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AI is crap and it is always always always always always going to be worse than putting actual human beings who are professionals into positions where they can stop cyber grooming, bullying or harassment.
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Honestly, the fact that people are looking to AI to solve a problem like this inherently shows how little people actually give a fuck about solving this kind of problem shrugs . If kids are experiencing rampant toxic shit online, they need more adults to spend time with them and talk to them who they can trust, they don’t need more computer automated crap surveilling everything they fucking do and randomly dragnetting people with algorithms that are constantly wrong. The problem is that society has deemed children not worth the time for adults to spend quality time with enough that kids would be able to discuss and share these things easier, or that kids only have like a handful of adults in their life they can actually trust and they just don’t feel comfortable talking to any of that handful.
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- Comment on To Curb Online Sexual Abuse of Children, Experts Look to AI: Researchers in Norway and the U.S. are training artificial intelligence to address cybergrooming. Will it work? 2 weeks ago:
No, no it won’t
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 2 weeks ago:
I would be lying if I said I didn’t find the fact that Reddit’s stock is crashing physically arousing.
- Comment on WW2 shooter Squad 44 from Offworld updates Easy Anti-Cheat enabling Linux support 2 weeks ago:
meh, Easy Red 2 never had any of that nonsense
- Comment on I love Easy Red 2 on my deck! 3 weeks ago:
It is good, idk, it isn’t flashy but if you give the gameplay a try it is just good. It isn’t really arcadey like bf2 though, everything is very lethal.
Also the big “swingset frame” looking structure repairs and rearms vehicles.
- Comment on Using the Steam Deck docked has been a dreadful experience for me. Is it just me going wrong? 3 weeks ago:
Nah it isn’t ideal, I wanted to make a post about it eventually but I wanted to try some third party docks and/or see if updates fixed it.
What I have figured out is that the best way to use the dock is to boot the steam deck up not connected to the dock, get it to the home screen and then connect it to the dock. I find this has the best chance of inititating everything right.
Make sure to check the controller order under the control settings for a particular game, use change who is the number 1 control input easily once you learn where it is, and that can help some of the problems that arise.
I don’t have any performance issues, but not that if you try to run a really high resolution tv at anywhere near a native resolution the steam deck just is going to quickly be outclassed by the performance demands. So idk, 720p sounds suspiciously low though, try checking the settings (under the lefthand bar) and examining how the display settings are set. Change it to native or some other setting and see if that helps, it might be that the settings are keeping your steam deck from jumping up to a higher resolution. Same thing with framerate lock, which you can check under the righthand bar, I recommend setting framelock settings (maximum framerate) on a pergame basis.
- Comment on HP hasn't made an OMEN gaming handheld because of Windows, but they are open to making a SteamOS-powered handheld 3 weeks ago:
Look, same, but just for the fun of it I like to imagine there is some magic point here where HP decides to make a steam deck os handheld, but doesn’t give a shit enough to focus on loading it up with shovelware, they just sort of say ok lets make a handheld that can run steamos and just focus on the hardware, leave em to the wolves I mean steam support.
They can make decent hardware, at least on their business laptops, it can be wildly inconsistent, kind of reminds me of like an audi car (at least in the US) some of them are actually pretty decent and reliable but some of them are fucking horror stories that never end for the owner lol…
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 4 comments
- Easy Red 2, a cross-platform multiplayer, big map vehicle battlefield-like, announces new Shanghai-Nanking DLC and PS4/PS5 release!store.steampowered.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on land games? 3 weeks ago:
Stunt Rally 3 and it has splitscreen.
- Comment on The UN contacted Helldivers 2 studio about giving a talk on "psychological defense against manipulation" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the vibe of most Helldivers streamers I see is not “this is satire” rather it feels like they lean as hard as they can into the military propaganda vibes, but it doesn’t feel subversive to me at all even though on paper it is.
- Comment on Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations: Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers. 3 weeks ago:
Why is that framed as a question? How the fuck is this a virtue? Israel is wildly out of control and actively commiting genocide of Palestinians.
This is bad, period.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #6 3 weeks ago:
hell yeah on the revolt server
- Comment on Trump plan to fund Musk’s Starlink over fiber called “betrayal” of rural US 3 weeks ago:
This had the potential to change so many lives for the better :(
- Comment on [Help] YouTube TV stopped working today, now redirects to normal YouTube 4 weeks ago:
they have been acting sketch af
- Comment on [Help] YouTube TV stopped working today, now redirects to normal YouTube 4 weeks ago:
FYI it is a good time to move away from firefox given recent events at mozilla.
I have been liking Librewolf which is on the discover app downloader in desktop mode.
- Comment on Cheat Sheet Solution For Steam Deck Control Schemes? 5 weeks ago:
Here is a quick dirty outline I made in inkscape, lemmy won’t let you upload .svg files or anything, but whatever, maybe this will be a helpful quick starting point for someone.
- Comment on Cheat Sheet Solution For Steam Deck Control Schemes? 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if you could make a script that would read a steamdeck control scheme file and convert it to an html or .svg or equivalent along with editable text boxes for putting a short description, author name, game name etc.
- Comment on Cheat Sheet Solution For Steam Deck Control Schemes? 5 weeks ago:
I am kind of confused, I seem to remember the front steam deck control page didn’t really display all the information.
I have two main complaints with this display.
I think the button that switches between Action Sets should be highlighted and unmistakably obvious given how important that is to learning the control scheme (and how utterly confusing it is when you switch into a different action set by accident in a new unfamiliar control scheme for a game).
Virtual menus should also be displayed on the control scheme front page as they appear when they are displayed on screen in use, there should be a view that displays all of the keybindings visually for the steamdeck and then below it should be a display of all the virtual menus used with indicators of what control inputs those menus correspond to.
I also think there is a deeper issue with the steamdeck control scheme display here though, any good control scheme is going to be best conveyed by a visual aid and a short text description of not only the specifics of the control scheme but more importantly the motivation and general concept of the control scheme. Adapting a complex games with many keybindings like Beyond All Reason, Armored Brigade, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Cold Waters, Wayward etc. require not just an intuitive and practically usable mapping of the game’s full core control scheme but also a thoughtful approach and organization of the control scheme into something that can be saliently encapsulated by a keybindings cheatsheet.
What I am trying to say is that the endgoal of any good complex control scheme for the Steam Deck that adapts a complex mouse and keyboard game to the onboard controls of the deck is to have a control scheme that you can easily make a keybindings cheatsheet for, so why not include some functionality of creating a cheatsheet WITHIN Steam’s interface itself? Make it purely basic .svg graphics, no raster images so there isn’t a big risk with offensive content or anything, it takes up basically no additional storage space either.
You are right though, the default control scheme display has gotten a lot better.
I think what I will do is take a screenshot, convert the main shapes into an .svg image and then maybe upload/share it somewhere? Is there somewhere that would make sense to share an .svg template for steam deck control schemes to this lemmy community? Can I just directly upload an .svg?
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 6 comments
