NeatNit
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- Comment on The "SteamBoy" project is now fully working, modder demonstrates Expedition 33 running on it 1 week ago:
To be fair it is pretty chunky. If you think about it for a minute, we’ve had x86 laptops (portable, very thin) and very small desktop computers (NUC for example) for decades. So I don’t think the x86 architecture has anything to do with it.
I’ve seen countless YouTube videos making similar projects with a Wii or something, and it’s just as unbelievable.
Mad props to this maker!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s called procrastination, Valve do it too
- Comment on Valve released the 3D models for the Steam Frame, so I made some pretty renders in Blender 2 weeks ago:
You can’t embed a YouTube video as if it was a picture!
Link you tried to post: youtu.be/gqfLYIJMv7I
- Comment on Valve released the 3D models for the Steam Frame, so I made some pretty renders in Blender 2 weeks ago:
Jokes are a bit like airplanes: they don’t always land.
- Comment on Valve released the 3D models for the Steam Frame, so I made some pretty renders in Blender 2 weeks ago:
Is that a reference to the Mitchell and Webb sketch?
- Comment on DroidDeck 0.3.2 (SteamOS on Android) 2 weeks ago:
PSA: there is no official website for DroidDeck right now. There is a malicious website pretending to be that. Do not download anything from it!! Only download from the official GitHub releases.
The info on the fake website might be useful, but might be inaccurate or completely wrong, or even malicious. Take it with a bucketload of salt, or not at all.
There is a note near the top of the DroidDeck readme about this.
- Comment on My Steam Frame Questions Answered (Desktop Experience, Steam Controller, etc) 4 weeks ago:
I realized that after posting my comment, but the sentiment stands. Thanks for sharing :)
- Comment on My Steam Frame Questions Answered (Desktop Experience, Steam Controller, etc) 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! I am hoping to get one Eventually™ and this is exactly the kind of stuff I want to know about ahead of time.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview 1 month ago:
Switched WiFi backend to wpa_supplicant by default for new installations, improving compatibility with various WiFi networks
Fantastic. The only reason I enabled developer options is to switch this, since I wasn’t able to connect to my university’s wi-fi otherwise.
Known issue: Existing installations will continue to use iwd unless manually enabled in Developer Settings
Damn.
- Comment on The Steam Deck Is Now Being Used To Control Mars Rovers 2 months ago:
Not really, he makes a lot of short side comments like this in the Tom Scott: England series.
- Comment on The Steam Deck Is Now Being Used To Control Mars Rovers 2 months ago:
Knowing him, I expected something like: “Turns out, it’s a Steam Deck, and half of you will have been screaming at the screen about how I could possibly not know that.”
That’s it. Not an explanation of what it is, just an acknowledgement of what it is. This kind of thing happens on Lateral pretty often.
- Comment on The Steam Deck Is Now Being Used To Control Mars Rovers 2 months ago:
No idea how you got that from my comment
- Comment on The Steam Deck Is Now Being Used To Control Mars Rovers 2 months ago:
And somehow, Tom Scott doesn’t even know what it is! He just calls it “basically a gaming console” with no further clarifications.
- Comment on A Steam Deck Was Turned Into a Game Boy 2 months ago:
Yeah, I know that it’s just a nickname people gave it, like “Wiimote” for the Wii Remote which caused trouble for the Weemote but was obviously not Nintendo’s responsibility. But as I said, it’s a kinda-funny meme description of what the Steam Machine is, I get annoyed when people actually use it as a nickname for it in conversation or videos.
- Comment on A Steam Deck Was Turned Into a Game Boy 2 months ago:
Honestly I’m so sick of it being called the “GabeCube”, partly because it’s too close to GameCube phonetically that it actually sounds pretty much identical to GameCube in most cases, but moreso because it’s the result of the hard work of so many talented and passionate engineers at Valve, it feels really disrespectful to call it after the businessman who funded it.
It’s an amusing pun, I enjoyed hearing/reading it the first time. Second time onwards it’s just annoying.
- Comment on dBrand Announces 9 Steam Machine Skins That Are Now Available 2 months ago:
I’m convinced that Valve must have been waiting for contact from dbrand. Valve probably already decided what their terms would be, but needed dbrand to contact them and not the other way around. Since dbrand failed to do that, they had no choice but to send a C&D.
- Comment on GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux 2 months ago:
What I’m hoping is that they start supporting cloud saves for Linux native games, e.g. Silksong. This is something GOG needs to support server-side, and they’d only bother to do that if they have an official Linux client to do the syncing.
- Comment on Steam Machine updates: Reservations, waitlists, and more 2 months ago:
I’m assuming/hoping you configured the LED strip to be all red :D
- Comment on Steam Machine LED support on Linux has been merged into OpenRGB 2 months ago:
Just curious (I don’t have a Steam Machine and don’t plan to get one), doesn’t Steam fight for control of the LEDs if you run both Steam and OpenRGB at the same time?
- Comment on Steam Machine LED support on Linux has been merged into OpenRGB 2 months ago:
Yup, OpenRGB has audio visualization support in the Effects plugin: openrgb.org/plugin_effects.html
- Comment on leds-valve-dkms - Steam Machine LED driver for other distros 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, OpenRGB is awesome— oh, it’s you :P
- Comment on The Steam Machine calls itself steamdeck in my network 3 months ago:
One might say the Deck still isn’t fully baked. I got mine a few months ago, so well after it launched, and there were still some rough edges. For example, I wasn’t able to redeem the OLED goodies (startup animation and keyboard theme). Steam Support advised me to switch to the SteamOS beta at the time, which worked. So the release version of SteamOS had a known redemption bug for months, likely to affect a large number of new users? Sure it’s a small thing, but exactly what I mean by not fully baked.
I have some other nitpicks with it but overall I’ll admit it works quite well.
- Comment on Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all. Valve won’t be sunsetting the battery yet. 3 months ago:
From my understanding, the first and second parties are the seller (Valve) and the buyer (you). They are the two who have a contract between them. A third party, then, is any party which isn’t signed on the contract. That is, an outsider to the contract.
Any other meaning of second party is probably a back-formation from a misunderstanding of the terms 1st and 3rd party.
Disclaimer: I literally have no idea what I’m talking about
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The company may be big, but their hardware orders are nothing compared to the orders for compute farms. They’ve gone on record recently about the Steam Machine saying there are some components they could not secure at all, for any price. Their service contacts are just not attractive when the world-ending AI farms are happy to pay more per unit and ordering more units total.
I do think they really should try their hardest to keep those replacement parts coming, but from the outside it’s impossible to know how hard they actually tried. The only question is whether you give them the benefit of the doubt. You don’t seem to, and that’s fine (honestly I’m not sure I should give it either), but what I’m saying is there is doubt, the market is so fucked right now that this is actually believable.
- Comment on What solution, if any, do you use for gaming in bed? 3 months ago:
I’d be shocked if not. There’s just no reason whatsoever for it to not work.
- Comment on What solution, if any, do you use for gaming in bed? 3 months ago:
Awake while you play? Weird! :P
Kidding aside, if you can find or improvise any way for the Deck to stay where you want it to be without having to hold it with your hands (for example, place it on your lap), I still recommend the joy-cons. The arm freedom is amazing.
Other split controllers are available, for example certain VR controllers.
- Comment on What solution, if any, do you use for gaming in bed? 3 months ago:
To the user who downvoted me and hasn’t posted on Lemmy in more than a year… Idk what to say actually, it’s weird that you’d do that.
- Comment on What solution, if any, do you use for gaming in bed? 3 months ago:
I haven’t tried it on the Deck yet, but expect it to work:
Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons. Lean the Deck (or Switch) on its side on something, such that with your head on the pillow you can look at it. With one joy-con in each hand, you can reposition your arms however you want and independently of each other.
This method with Ace Attorney games on the Switch is my sleeping pill. Works amazingly well for me. After I finish my current Ace Attorney game, I plan to finally try it with the Steam Deck and a different visual novel.
Foreseeable caveat: charging the joy-cons will be annoying. If you put them in a Switch to charge (which is my only charging solution right now), they get paired to it automatically and will need to be re-paired with the Deck.
- Comment on Deck: Does anyone have an idea or way of estimating how many Steam Deck are in use? (Speculation) 3 months ago:
In the Steam hardware survey, under Video Card Description, you can find: Steam Deck GPU - 0.45%.
Random sources online for which I cannot find a source (though I didn’t really look much) say Steam has 132 million monthly active users.
If we take both of those figures at face value, assume being a monthly active user on Steam is a good proxy for “in use”, then that makes 594,000 Steam Decks in active use.
This is far less than the sales figure that @breadsmasher@lemmy.world cited, which could be a combination of a lot of factors:
- Steam Decks which have been sold but are not in active use for whatever reason.
- The monthly active users figure for Steam seems low to me for a platform as big as Steam. It could be wrong.
- It is possible that Steam Deck users are under-represented in the Steam Hardware Survey, and they make up a bigger percentage of Steam users. Maybe they are less likely to participate in it?
- People might be using Steam Deck for other purposes besides Steam, so they are not active Steam users. Personally I doubt this is a significant factor.
- Some users might participate in the hardware survey more than once, causing the calculation to be wrong. I’m not sure how the hardware survey works, but this could be a huge factor.
- Who know what else I didn’t think of.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.8 is supported for *all* PCs with discrete AMD GPUs 3 months ago:
What are those benefits?
