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  • I just found this!

    https://github.com/steam-deck-controller/steam-deck-controller

    Looks like a project to basically cram the steam Deck components into a 3dprinted shell - but it isn't finished yet!

    There's a proof of concept video in there where it's shown connected to a PC with a standard USB ribbon pinned to a 2.0 A head... Might have to give it a go someday!

  • Dude, seriously!! I really do hope this becomes a thing. I would LOVE to have a controller that mimicks the steam deck's controls, but without a screen... That SteamVR leak looks like that's basically exactly what it is!! 😭 PLEASE, valve!

  • Sick!

    I dug into this a bit and couldn't find and easily locatable guides to setting this up on Deck (at least, not without disabling the read-only protections of the system), and I ended up finding Boxes, made by Gnome! It didn't seem to want to download Debian on its own, but I just downloaded it from Debian.org and it was installed in like 10 minutes! Couldn't believe how easy it was - and all with a single flatpak app! 😃

  • Thanks! Definitely true about the reinstall! I guess in my case I worry it'll cause a hard crash right when I'm too kaput from a long day to go troubleshoot, and just wanna drop into a relaxing game before bed, ya know? Like at that point I'm just gonna sleep early and fix it another day lol. It's nice to have an ultra-reliable gaming rig around, and without tampering with CSS the steam Deck is certainly that!

    The artwork plugin is another one I hadn't used, since I figured I'd have to find & sideload images on my own -- I didn't realize it has crowd-sourced submissions to pick from!! Makes it infinitely worth installing!

  • I've been resisting installing decky since my last (LCD) Steam Deck ended up a bit janky from too many mods 😅 but this post inspired me to make the jump and install the CSS loader for the first time!

    I leaned super hard into the OLED's blacks and picked red as an accent, since saturated red really 'pops' on an OLED screen. I think it turned out pretty nice!!

  • modded from other sources

    True! But depending on the obscurity of the app it can be hard to find non-malware versions of such modded apps.

    Scan your sus APKs, folks! Its fast and free -- Virustotal.com does a pretty good job 🙂 I've caught a coupla apk Trojans there in the past!

  • Grew up in southern Idaho. Yeah that's pretty much what I experienced growing up, too!

    Wasn't just admitting wrongness that was seen as weakness, though - honestly I came to find that most empathetic, society benefitting behaviors are spun and contorted into a weakness.

    Ironic to me that, at least thru my eyes, spinning stuff like that into a "weakness" indicates to me that they're avoiding the work they'd need to put in to be better.... Which, is the real weakness here!

    I think a significant portion of the problems in the US stems from a lack of willingness to work on themselves, aiming to minimize their impact on those around them (and thus themselves, through societal proxy). On the contrary, people install loud 'mufflers' to show they don't give a fuck. Or leave carts outside the corral. Or scream at fast food workers, display flagrant racism, refuse to wear COVID masks - whatever.

    Good ol Golden Rule really would solve it all, I think.

  • Nnnooooo god is it really? I fucking despise discord but I have a couple dipshit friend groups that refuse to shift off the platform (hard to argue w/ Xbox integration).... Jfc if that shit goes public its downhill from an already downhill slope 😭 horrendous

  • Steam Deck @sopuli.xyz
    xttweaponttx @sh.itjust.works
    • What are some niche applications / use cases you've gotten working on your deck?

    I got the hell outta the US a couple of months ago, and had to ditch my main PC and home server due to shipping costs (kept all my drives, of course). This left me with just a laptop and the Deck -- but, after the laptop's screen kaput, I was left with just a USB-C dock and the deck to get me by! I was worried I'd be walled in a bit by the deck's read-only system, plus my unfamiliarity with Arch (I'm a bit new to the linux game, and have been mostly main-ing Debian distros so far)... but I've been pleasantly surprised at how much is doable, given the constraints! In fact, besides DaVinci Resolve, I don't think there's anything I haven't been able to get running!

    It's been a lot of fun configuring the deck's desktop environment to serve as my main machine! Between video editing in Kdenlive, working on documents and code projects for school, and (of course) playing just about every game I'd normally play... this thing is an absolute beast!! For fun and function, I use this thing just

    Privacy @lemmy.ml
    xttweaponttx @sh.itjust.works

    Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included team digs into privacy issues in "Romantic AI Chatbots". Spooky stuff

    The whole article's a great read, but here's a fun excerpt=

    To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ Privacy Not Included

    Privacy @lemmy.ml
    xttweaponttx @sh.itjust.works

    Is there a way to lookup data linked to your Advertising IDs?

    I'm taking a class on data privacy at the moment, and it made me think it would be interesting to see exactly what kind of advertising data has been generated by services like Google \ YouTube \ Etc. Is there somewhere online that's easy to punch in an advertising ID & find that sort of data, or is that something you'd have to request from advertisers themselves? (AdSense etc?) Or maybe do the service providers (mentioned before) store that data?

    Forgive my ignorance - still learning about this stuff!

    Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
    xttweaponttx @sh.itjust.works

    Steam cloud stuck at checking \ out of sync

    Not sure if this will help anyone else, but I couldn't find anything online about this and thought I'd share this with online just in case!

    I just started playing Outer Wilds on the steam deck for a week or so, and was immediately in love with it. I decided to install it on my PC (popOS) to see how it looks with cranked graphics, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to sync my cloud saves! For some reason the deck kept saying the saves were syncing fine up to the cloud, but my pc kept sticking at 'checking....' when I asked it to sync...

    In the end, I ended up finding a setting in the steam client that enables compatibility for every title in steam that isn't Linux native... when I flipped it on, Outer Wilds (along with like 4 other games in my library) all immediately resolved their bugged cloud sync!

    So, I guess, steam will complain that it can't get your cloud saves to download, when really it doesn't have a compatdata folder for the saves to download to. Kinda ja

    Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
    xttweaponttx @sh.itjust.works

    I swear just one more week

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    xttweaponttx @sh.itjust.works

    oh damn here we are

    Damn this is a fkn cool platform amiright