A cylinder or triangle elongated semi-soft object you can lay lengthwise on your torso and balance the steamdeck at a pivot point on. Think foam yoga roller, stiff bolster pillow or headboard wedge pillow or something where you can rest but still pivot the steam deck around a central point. A large hardcover book or two with something on top also works. Just make sure it narrows near the pivot point/top so you can lay your arms comfortably on either side.

A basic clamshell camping chair if it is stiff enough works as a decent platform to use the steam deck “laptop style” with a bluetooth keyboard especially if you lay a thin wide book behind the steam deck as a backing to prop it up.

Billionaires are a threat to all of us.

Ok sorry I got frustrated, this AI stuff is very frustrating and I am pretty damn worried it is going to send my country into a depression because of how much fake money is being tossed around… but you are right I shouldn’t have used the phrase “mentally incapable” like that, this is complicated stuff, life is hard, and that is a valid point that being ableist about isn’t productive for anyone or anything so fair enough I am sorry about that.

I don’t apologize for being a dick though, just because my tone is harsh doesn’t mean I am the one doing the damage here, the people lost in the sauce about AI are going to ruin real human lives with this when it comes crashing down, so to be clear I apologize specifically for being ableist because you are right that was shitty.

I am going to make a post soon, especially if people are interested, about how to use Boxbuddy with Distrobox to create mutable atomized linux distributions you can add packages to and do whatever you want with while retaining the vanilla immutable Vanilla SteamOS settings. There are a lot of advantages to this method, one of them being that you can easily set up many different atomized linux environments with different versions or combinations of packages for testing or other use cases.

I am still encountering some limitations but I have Debian with R and Python along with multiple geospatial packages for both languages and Pandoc installed in an atomized linux distribution and it works great. I just installed emacs on the atomized linux distribution itself and having been using org mode to execute R and Python with codeblocks and set up a workflow that way.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.dvlv.boxbuddyrs

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Distrobox

Yeah I just use my Steam Deck as my main computer, everyone always seems to be surprised but like… the reason I didn’t buy a Nintendo Switch was so I wouldn’t have a piece of essentially bricked hardware outside of very narrow controls…

Sorry I misunderstood

Ok sure they aren’t new but do you not think there is a rising interest in these operating systems? Especially for gaming purposes where more and more people want an immutable linux distro for the consistency and reliability?

My point is there is a natural intersection of interest here between people who want a good linux video game focused immutable distros and people who want immutable linux distros for things other than gaming like development for example.

Don’t waste comment space by lazily pasting in the output of an AI, you bring down the quality of conversation here.

Use your damn brain.

If you think the video is clickbait (it is not, Nerdnest is a massive fan of the Steam Deck/Steam) and you are too mentally incapable of checking yourself, just keep scrolling and don’t bother interacting next time please.

Operation Harsh Doorstop multiplayer playtest.

I played in the match in this video!

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=oTEBj3PiB10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTEBj3PiB10

OHD is a blast! It is like Battlefield but moddable and not owned by EA or Tencent or some other worthless massive company. Oh yeah it is free, and not in a sketchy way, it is a genuinely community focused game. No microtransactions or any of that crap.

You aren’t wrong, but it just feels right, is this what being an Apple fan is like?

It is ok, your mom already told me about it.

Yeah it sucks but imagine spending a good chunk of that on a Nintendo Switch that has built in planned obsolescence and will be a poorly supported brick in a couple of years limited to never surpass the potential the original Nintendo developers could see in the device at an architectural level and set into stone by the mass armadas of copyright weapons that Nintendo deploys.

Does the price difference matter as much when you see it in that light? You can always use your Steam Deck as a computer in any way you want to. You can load stuff onto it using the sd card… the nonsense is astronomically less with the Steam Deck I just can’t imagine thinking the Steam Deck wasn’t worth it over the Switch when you actually think about the value either device brings to your life longterm. One is disposable, the other is not.

They are CRITICAL, I can make control schemes for complex games like Cold Waters DotMod that I could never dream of doing with a normal gamepad and no virtual menus… or rather the gamepad control scheme would be too complicated to remember.

Luanti is in the Discovery app which is the stock flatpak repository gui app “store” that comes with the Steam Deck.

No reason for it to be on Steam really, but I wouldn’t be against it.

edit: The ./ is essential once you’re in the directory when you’re running stuff this way. It essentially means “in this directory, run …”. Otherwise the shell will just look in your $PATH directories list and not find “pandoc” anywhere in it. You can add “.” to your $PATH to avoid this but it’s not there by default on the deck.

This was the issue, I am fairly comfortable with the command line there are just lots of little things that were never explained to me because I have learned it all myself.

I appreciate the recommendation for a front end engine! I want pandoc for exporting org files to document/website formats from org mode in emacs so I don’t need a front end but I will definitely check it out!

I actually think I still need to add pandoc to the $PATH directory so emacs can run it though.

Thank you for pointing out the specific file, that was helpful confirmation but I do not seem to be able to run it either by running it in the command line or by changing its properties to be able to be executed as a program.

Will disabling the read only system access mess up updates on my Steam Deck?

I fly helicopters and airplanes in battlefield type games on multiplayer servers on my steam deck framelocked at 40 fps and do fine, I play shooters all the time at that framerate. I think if you get used to a higher framerate your brain just must lose the capability to fill in the blanks or something, it really doesnt bother me too much.

My brain sees it like distortion in a quadcopter fpv goggle feed or something lol. The issue is really rapidly changing framerate, the acceleration and deceleration is disorienting.

I remember seeing someone play a Steam Deck in an airport awhile ago and the 3D game had a HORRIBLE frame rate.

To the person playing to their credit they didn’t seem bothered but I couldn’t look away for a couple of seconds it was so shockingly bad. It made me think that a lot of people may have not really had the importance of framerate explained to them and what the relevant numbers are (film is 25, 30 is generally minimum for games and 60 is best).

Almost by definition we aren’t going to know those people but that is because if you are here you are probably a nerd, so this is good for all those blindspots. No one deserves a poor framerate if they don’t have to, unless you are Mitch McConnell.

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