Quibblekrust
@Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB model on sale until December 1st! 6 days ago:
I’m looking forward to the new Steam Controller to basically enable that.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB model on sale until December 1st! 6 days ago:
Canada should change its currency symbol to 🍁399.20
- Comment on Steam Deck Client Update: Display-Off Downloads 1 week ago:
the one that allows you to scrap the covers for your non steam games right in gaming mode UI.
Scrape, not scrap. Your version doesn’t sound very useful. :D
- Comment on DF Direct Weekly #240: Steam Machine - Pricing, Specs, VRAM, ARM Ambitions + More 1 week ago:
Doesn’t have to be a loss, just competitive with what a self-built PC would be.
Daniel Owen does good PC part breakdowns. Especially video cards. Here’s a cheap build he threw together using PC Part Picker to see what it would be like to build a PC using comparable parts to what the Steam Machine has, but a garbage power supply and case. It came out to $706.
(This link skips to 27:24. You have to rewind 2 minutes or so if you want to hear him talk about the bad power supply and case, which you definitely shouldn’t buy.)
If Valve can come in around $700 it will be a good deal. If it’s sub $600, it’s an outstanding deal. Especially because of the premium wifi, special Steam Controller antenna, small form factor, and stuff like that. SFF cases and motherboards have premium prices.
- Comment on DF Direct Weekly #240: Steam Machine - Pricing, Specs, VRAM, ARM Ambitions + More 1 week ago:
That’s disappointing.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - November 2025 2 weeks ago:
Fallout 3.
I spent the time to learn how to make action layers, radial menus, and multi-action keys. It’s great! (Emulating mouse/kb controls)
- Holding L2 for sights/scopes enables gyro aiming.
- X button presses Ctrl and Caps Lock at the same time to toggle both crouching and walking. (I will disable Caps Lock once I take the Silent Running perk.)
- Holding L1 enables an action layer that changes nearly every control:
- Right stick becomes a radial menu for item hotkeys, 1-8
- X presses Caps Lock alone to toggle walk-run by itself
- Y is hotkey 8, which is my hotkey for Stimpack. It’s easier to hit in an emergency than the radial menu.
- B becomes X (keyboard) for exiting shops
- Right trackpad become a a scroll wheel for menus
Stuff like that. Basically, I have every important keyboard key mapped somehow. I have the E key mapped two different ways. R3 for just opening doors and such where aiming isn’t important. And L4 for when I’m using the right trackpad as mouse for carefully picking up individual items like bottlecaps, Nuke Colas and such that are often surrounded by junk, or landmines.
It’s not as good as a real kb/mouse, but it’s much better than the default XBox 360 controls. Steam Input is so amazing.
- Comment on [Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame? 2 weeks ago:
Sure! The only thing I’m worried about taking over the community is the Steam Frame. There’s a chance it becomes super popular. But if that happens, we can just make a new community for it. No biggie.
- Comment on Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been replaying Fallout 3 on Steam Deck, and I only have Gyro enabled when I hold down L2 for aiming. It’s pretty awesome because it’s so much easier to fine tune aim by pivoting the whole steam deck than it is to use a stick. Like I can get headshots with a 10 millimeter pistol at close-medium range pretty easily. I could never do that with a stick.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild) 2 weeks ago:
That’s funny. I could have written your exact comment. I, too, have been hoping for this controller and have the original HTC Vive.
- Comment on The Steam Controller 2 May Be Able To Detect How Far Away Your Hands Are From It - Steam Deck H 2 weeks ago:
Oh man! Can I use it like the U-Force?
- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is targeting Steam Deck and other handhelds because players want more "freedom" nowadays 1 month ago:
Regurgitate
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - October 2025 1 month ago:
- Final Fantasy Adventure DX
- Loop Hero, but it became too hard at Chapter 3, and I have no idea how to get good. (I guess grinding resources and building more things in my town to see what they do.)
- Balatro, but it got repetitive and boring.
- Dave the Diver (Beat it. Loved it.)
- Nova Drift, but after 140 hours, I think I’ve had enough. Awesome game!
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 2 months ago:
Ah, gotcha.
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 2 months ago:
Thanks. I understand better, but I feel like I would just use one of the rear buttons as “disable gyro” if I were to use that kind of setup.
When I played Horizon Zero Dawn, I had gyro activate on left trigger, like you are saying, and it was very nice. I was so used to playing BotW that I couldn’t play any other way…
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 2 months ago:
You can disable wake from bluetooth in system settings now
Good to know!
The JSAUX one is definitely robust enogh to handle Steam Deck charging. Also, I’m pretty sure it has a chip in it. It was advertised as such when I bought it. That means it probably is compliant.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 months ago:
It was just a contrived example for the purpose of the comment, and I admit it wasn’t a good one.
How about turning a directory tree of dozens of .url files (Windows web shortcut files) into an HTML file? Directory names as section headings, and nested bulleted lists of hrefs using the .url file names as the link text, minus the “.url”. Can you do that on the CLI? Sure, but it would be a hell of a hack. It would be a disgusting blob of awk code, probably. You’re much better off writing it in something like Python.
It’s not hard stuff. It’s simple directory recursion, string building, and file writing. It’s just so mind-numbingly boring to write, and it takes time. Instead, Copilot made that for me in 10 seconds. As fast as I could articulate the need in text. No debugging needed. Worked the first time. All I had to ask for in a second pass was more indenting of each nested list, and I could have just added that myself.
I would argue that I can probably do it faster by hand than you can prompt your LLM and debug the slop it hands you back.
It’s funny that you’re not even sure you can do that extremely simple thing in my original comment faster than I could prompt an LLM. And your prejudice is showing by assuming I had to even debug it, or that the code was slop. The code looked great. It was perfect Python.
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried. Because it just makes you sound bigoted, using words like “slop” and making assumptions about the quality of the output while never having tried it yourself. Prejudice is never a good thing.
I’ve written a fair amount of advanced command line stuff using grep and sed and whatever else. Anything non-trivial takes just as much debugging as Python code, and it’s harder to read and debug. And when it’s boring, one-off code, why would you even want to do it yourself?
I’ll never understand the LLM hate on lemmy. Feel free to hate on capitalism, or on using fossil fuels to power LLMs, or on having no social safety net when LLMs displace jobs, or any number of other things, but to be prejudiced and assume it’s always slop when you’ve never even tried it just makes no sense to me. It’s a revolutionary tool in its infancy, and it’s already very useful on certain tasks.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 months ago:
That hasn’t been my experience for something this simple. Not at all. I vibe coded a 75 line Python script the other day and it worked perfectly the first try.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 months ago:
And most devs I know use it everyday, so… 🤷
Especially for repetitive mundane code, like they said. It’s much faster to check code for correctness than it is to write it in the first place.
“I need to restructure this directory tree. If a file has “index” in the name, then it has to go in a parallel directory structure starting at “/home/repos/project/indexes/” with the same child folders as the original.”
There, I just finished a custom Python script to accomplish that. Can I do it myself? Yes. Can I do it in 30 seconds? No. Why would I waste my time writing such a mundane script for a one-off thing?
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 3 months ago:
Can you give an example of how you use them?
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 3 months ago:
It comes with a free Portal-inspired game that teaches you how all the controls work. It’s fun. Play it immediately. It will teach you that the thumbsticks are capacitive. Turns out that’s a useless feature, so just get some nice thumbstick caps that make them larger, more rubbery, and more comfortable.
I highly recommend a 180° USB-C adapter to use the power cord while playing. It makes the cord angle down instead of up, which feels more natural. Plus, I feel like it would be gentler on the cord and USB-C port if the cord got tugged hard when plugged into an adapter instead of directly into the Steam Deck.
Plus, with a 180° adapter, you can keep the Deck in it’s case while charging. Normally you can’t do this because the top of the Steam Deck faces the hinge of the case. But the adapter fits in the case OK and reroutes the wire downward. It definitely raises the deck up slightly, but you can still zip the case halfway closed. I do this because I live in a very small apartment with a high chance of knocking or spilling something onto the Steam Deck if I were just to leave it laying around.
Fun fact: the touch pads don’t actually click when you press them like a button, but you will swear they do! The haptic feedback mechanism is incredibly good.
Major Overheating Issue
I don’t know how this is not a more widely complained-about problem.
I paired a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller to my deck, played a game, then put the deck in its case while asleep. (You tap the power button and the deck goes to sleep.) Well, apparently, “Wake on Bluetooth” is enabled by default and you can’t turn it off! So, I threw my Nintendo Switch controller in a drawer, and of course a button got hit. It woke up my Steam Deck in it’s case. I had a game running, so the Steam Deck starts rendering the game and creating a lot of heat that is just being circulated within the case by the fan. The Deck got insanely hot!
I noticed it sometime later only because I heard it make a sound. When I took it out, I used my infrared thermometer to measure the back of the deck, and it was over 140° F. Uncomfortable to touch! It would have sat there for hours like that if I hadn’t noticed.
Solution: I had to install the Decky Loader plugin system in order to install a plugin that disables Wake on Bluetooth. I still don’t see any way to disable it without using Decky. Decky is pretty great though, and it has tons of cool plugins. Of course, you could also just turn off Bluetooth before putting this Steam Deck in its case, but if you forget, it’ll be a problem.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025 6 months ago:
Nova Drift, and then some more Nova Drift. Followed by a long session of Nova Drift. I think I need help.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 6 months ago:
Deception? I asked what you thought GIMP was missing and then you went and made huge assumptions about me. That’s on you. I only replied the way I did because of what you said. Next time maybe just answer a question instead of insulting someone for even asking. Or don’t answer it. That’s fine, too.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 6 months ago:
Name a few features in Photoshop that cant be done in GIMP?
