Xttweaponttx

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[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 2 points 10 hours ago

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!

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've been resisting installing decky since my last (LCD) Steam Deck ended up a bit janky from too many mods ๐Ÿ˜… 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!!

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[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 3 points 4 days ago

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 ๐Ÿ™‚ I've caught a coupla apk Trojans there in the past!

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 2 points 5 days ago

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[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 2 points 1 week ago

Ffffuuuuuuuuck that

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 2 points 1 week ago

Not the gel packs!!

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
 

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 about all day, every day, without it skipping a beat (except that one time I broke fstab ๐Ÿ˜…).

Today I had the realization that I could get a local LLM instance installed for the hell of it... and I had to just sit for a moment in awe of how incredible this machine is. I felt compelled to share my love for this machine with a community that shares the sentiment, and so here I am! I'm taken back to the early NVIDIA shield tablet days, when HL2 was ported to android... man, I struggled trying to get a cracked APK working on whatever android tablet I had at the time, wishing I had the money to get that shield to play HL2 on the go... Now, here I am playing Master Chief Collection, Helldivers 2, even Factorio and FTL, all on the toilet or in bed... and all on the same machine I can install a Deepseek instance on. Absolutely amazing.

What are some niche applications / use cases you've gotten working on your deck?

P.S. - I apologize for the state of my setup -- it's the best I can do at the moment! A new desk has not quite been on our priority list for the last couple of months ๐Ÿ˜… we're getting ourselves to an IKEA this weekend to get one, but until then I've been standing at this wobbly-ass bookshelf, making due!! ๐Ÿ™‚

 

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.โ€ --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included

 

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!

 

I'm a big fan of Brittle Hollow! The dynamic plates falling into the black hole, & the huge amount of lore on the planet... Not to mention the amazing Lantern raining down hell all the time!

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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 jank!

 
 

Damn this is a fkn cool platform amiright

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