noxypaws
@noxypaws@pawb.social
Furry (feral dhole), he/him, feet/(hind)paw worshipper, car appreciator, mechanical watch wearer, cloud engineer, thinkpad/pop!os!!/i3wm user, occasional synth/guitar/handpan player, car/track enthusiast
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- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
I do a lot of couch gaming. I do have a wired lapboard for keyboard and mouse but it’s nice relaxing with a gamepad too
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
From what I’m reading they are not independent buttons though. They can only be copies of other buttons. Utterly useless.
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
L4/R4: slow down or speedup time R5: move screen faster, also hold down to select multiple L5: something to do with the touchscreen but I don’t use it
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
and I say yes, without caveats.
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah! I use mine as a media device sometimes. With the first party dock. And with KDE Connect on my phone already since I use KDE on both my work and personal machines, adding the Steam Deck to that works so incredibly well for remote input
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
Totally stock controls, dozens of hours. Works really really well!
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
Seconded, never had any issue with the elastic strap holding in the power supply.
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
I have an original Steam Controller as well. The Steam Deck is a lot better in my opinion because I can choose between thumbstick or thumbpad on each side, whereas with the old controller you have to live with the touchpads and the single stick on the right.
The build quality feels a bit better too, and the haptics a bit more refined.
Really, the Deck offers everything the Controller did aside from form factor. And maybe if some folks vastly prefer the bigger touchpads, that might possibly be a downside, but I doubt that’d be the case for most
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
Nope! Both the Xbox Elite and Dualsense Edge controllers don’t add new buttons, they just add buttons that can only be copies of the regular Xbox/Playstation buttons.
Steam Deck does it better since the four back buttons can be used as completely independent buttons.
I’ve heard that the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 controller also can use its extra buttons as net new buttons, and I’ve been tempted to get one for that reason (and because I really liked the Ultimate “1” I had before my dog chewed it up!)
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
Your touchpad issue may be a fluke, both the steam decks in my house (one original, one OLED) still work great with both trackpada
I use the touchpads constantly, mostly for Rimworld, but also desktop usage and other games, and I find them to be outstanding
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
Only two and they don’t function as additional buttons sadly
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 weeks ago:
You may become spoiled by the Steam Deck’s excellent controls, such that no gamepad currently for sale will ever come close.
For me and Rimworld, I became dependent on the four back buttons, and now I can’t stand playing it on desktop with a controller because no controller on the market offers four additional buttons that work like that (as far as I know)
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 2 months ago:
Get a Steam Deck OLED. Just do it. It is currently and will remain for a very long time a very capable device.
I actually kinda HOPE they don’t release a new generation for a good long while, so devs have some pressure to target it for new games, which also means that those new games will remain playable on other older hardware as well.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 4 months ago:
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 4 months ago:
- Comment on Steam deck OLED 1TB or Asus ROG Ally X with Bazzite? 5 months ago:
Steam Deck. I have the OLED, and also an older LCD one. They’re both great. OLED definitely a small improvement to an already great device.
Asus sucks. Good luck if you ever need warranty service. Even more so if you need out of warranty service…
- Comment on Half-Life 3 is just the hot exclusive Valve needs to propel SteamOS past Windows 6 months ago:
Crassius Curio says hi!
- Comment on Half-Life 3 is just the hot exclusive Valve needs to propel SteamOS past Windows 6 months ago:
What would be the point of actually making Half Life 3? The void caused by that game’s non-existence is too culturally important to ever replace!
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 6 months ago:
Is a prompt which results in output that satisfies the user in and of itself art, in your view? or only the actual output?
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 6 months ago:
Photography is absolutely art. Humans put a lot of thought and intent into what and how they photograph and how they process and exhibit the photos.
I’d say that some stuff like JWST images definitely count as art, and some such imagery is far more technical and research focused than purely emotional. Maybe some visually boring but scientifically significant images aren’t artistic to laypeople. Nuance here is totally fine.
I vehemently disagree that all machine output is art.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 6 months ago:
Art has to be made by people. It’s literally not art otherwise.
- Comment on After a year in its company, I’ve done a complete 180 on my Steam Deck 8 months ago:
It’s great! Mine is five years old and still working just fine.
I have needed to replace the cable (was getting weird green static), but that was really easy to do myself and Valve directly sells replacements.
Also my right speaker is a bit loose so I have to adjust it occasionally during gameplay.
Otherwise it’s been solid. Easy recommendation.
- Comment on Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm 8 months ago:
Wolfenstein would be better. Prove you’re human by shooting Nazis.
