I’m not sure Russia has been capable of producing any other kind of generations except “screwed” for quite some time now. Probably centuries.

You can’t replace petrochemicals with sunlight, let alone convert everything that runs on some form of oil product into eg. electric - not nearly enough rare earths in existence, and hydrogen is not the solution either for the majority for a variety of reasons (starting from ridiculously low energy density to being absolute ass to store)

I doubt we’ll get that far before running out of resources (especially oil, which is necessary for pretty much everything even though not necessarily directly for space travel) and/or climate change ends mass-scale industrial society. Long term space travel is incredibly hard and it has a ton of effects on the human body, and solving those problems will be pretty low on our priority list when shit really hits the fan

And Tacitus described a people he called Fenni in northeastern Europe, and it’s been conjectured that he could have meant one of the Finnic peoples around the continental side of the Baltic.

You can thank the completely obscene financialization of everything for that. Suits don’t care about making things people enjoy, they care about making things that generate money. Skinner box microtransaction mechanisms etc. are just a result of that – many games aren’t made to be fun, they’re made to make you pay

At least in RDR2 (the only Rockstar game I have) the launcher works like you’d expect – ie. it’s annoying as shit but no different from the PC version. I’ve had a Deck for a couple of years now and haven’t needed my desktop for anything related to it.

Yes exactly, and this is the beauty of games as a medium.

I think the label originally was pejorative, but then fans of the genre took it as their own. Personally I like walking sims and I think it’s a hilarious way to describe them, but yes it was originally some neckbeard complaining about how as a genre they’re barely even games

Note that even though a game isn’t verified, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll need to do any tinkering. You might have to, but it’s not a guarantee or even necessarily incredibly likely.

The only time I’ve had to do eg. configuration file editing was to get Starfield (yes yes I know, shame on me) to run a bit better, but otherwise I haven’t had to do any sort of fuckery to get non-verified games to run.

The fact that the Sámi are really not very well known outside the Nordics speaks volumes to how they’re treated here. In each country here they have historically faced everything from forced sterilization, forced relocations, forced labor, attempts to completely erase their languages and cultures etc., and while we love to pretend that they’re now equals with the non-Sámi population, in reality they’re still widely treated as nuisances and especially conservatives tend to hate any attempts at more Sámi self-determination or even mentions of their existence.

Historically we really did try to pretend they didn’t even exist, so it’s no surprise that even though the Sámi are often said to be the only indigenous people in the EU, people quite often don’t know anything about them

Depends on how you view it, I guess. Officially we are a bilingual country and everybody speaks both Finnish and Swedish, but practically since the Fenno-Swedish minority is only about 6% of the population and they’re highly concentrated in specific areas, the vast majority of Finns don’t speak Swedish all that well if at all. Sure, we all have mandatory “other national language” classes all the way up to university level, but if you rarely use the language outside some tests, it might as well be a foreign language. Been 20 years since my last Swedish class, and I need a dictionary to read anything but the simplest Swedish text and speaking it would be painful to say the least.

So, officially it’s not a foreign language, but practically it might as well be

edit: here’s how Finnish, Swedish and Sámi are distributed when looking at the official languages of municipalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish-speaking_population_of_Finland#/media/File:Languages_of_Finnish_municipalities_(2016).svg

Danish of all languages being 2nd in Iceland caught me off guard. In Finland Swedish is 2nd because we’re a bilingual country, but why on earth would Icelanders go for Danish? Does Icelandic have like a large vowel inventory or something that makes Danish more natural to learn than say Norwegian (Nynorsk maybe?) or even Swedish? Because while grammatically Danish is nothing all that surprising among the Germanic languages here, their pronunciation is something else and their vowel inventory is so large that Danish kids acquire language slower than eg Swedish or Norwegian because the language is a frickin nightmare to learn to listen to

edit: ah I didn’t even know they were under Danish rule at one point, so it’s the same as we Finns have with Swedish

Well, it partially matches it. There’s a lot of surprising shit going on on the Eurasian plate, for example, or in eastern Africa

Yeah the Steam user is just used for Steam, which is just an application that the deck user (that you also pointed out) runs

I’m Finnish and can confirm our government mainly communicates with grunts and biting

But what are the current alternatives? Really seems like the options are either using Emudeck or a whole lot more work

Hey @lounges@lemmy.world (do pings even work on Lemmy?), do your buttons not work both in game mode and desktop mode?

But yeah like you said, the problem having survived a factory reset makes this feel more like a hardware issue, but it doesn’t hurt to check if the problem persists on “both sides” of the OS.

Hmm, looks like iFixit has a Steam Deck page, which could be helpful. The fact that none of the buttons work is a bit strange; I wonder how they’re attached to the motherboard? Feels like some sort of connector or controller problem (as in hardware controller, not game controller 😄), but I haven’t looked into how the Deck’s hardware handles the button inputs

I gamed on a regular 'ol potato PS4 (not the Pro) up until last year when I bought a Deck. Gave the PS4 to a friend who’s still using it.

Not everybody has to have the absolute latest tech the second it comes out.