Quoting: PyreticWhat's a Kensington slot?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Security_Slot [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis file renaming thing is kind of uniting two of my pet peeves. I find it annoying and pointless when people rename their companies or projects or whatever to an acronym based on what previously was a perfectly good actual name with a meaning, often claiming that the acronym doesn't even stand for the name it was based on but is just meaningless now. Why?! So for instance, what was once the Royal Bank of Canada, a perfectly good, dignified name, is now RBC, which according to them means nothing whatsoever and does not stand for Royal Bank of Canada but is just three arbitrary letters. What the fuck, really. But I mean, banks are evil so what do I expect, right? So this project, which used to have a descriptive name so if it got mentioned I'd be able to tell what it was, now has an acronym which if I see it referred to I'll be going "So what the hell is 'ES-DE'?" (Acronyms are also generally less searchable than actual names, because there are so often other things with the same one, so it's a pain and a bad idea in the internet age to change a descriptive name into an acronym)

But since it's a project with computer files involved, it gets to also add in my pet peeve about filenames and data formats and stuff, which is that in this day and age with lots of memory and sophisticated string handling there is no excuse for making such things less human-readable rather than more. So before, if I was browsing around and saw this configuration file, I'd be able to tell, ah, that's a configuration file for that Emulation Station thing. Now, again, I'll be going "Huh. What the hell is this file? Should it be there? Will something break if I delete it? No clue."

You missed a third: with all the tarting around the developers are doing, the user has to manually rename files. JFC, you know what you used to call the file, you know what you've arbitrarily changed the name to, the absolute least you can do is see if there's a file called the old thing and rename it to the new thing when you introduce a version that demands the new thing rather than the old thing.

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Quoting: grigiI can totally see the Steam Deck being a fantastic tool for games developers.
It's affordable, powerful, and easy to deploy software to.
It has many input schemes you can try, is a nice portable size, etc...

The trick they missed, that I hope they correct with the Deck 2, is having a Kensington slot. Load up your game/demo on some Decks and let people play.

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I've found this site [External Link] which has a handy scrollable list of all the Next Fest game descriptions.

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Voxlands [External Link] was pretty fun.

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Quoting: Marlockcan a user on a linux pc pass

SteamDeck=1 %command%

to fake being on a steam deck too?

Yes.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/forspoken-desktop-linux-spoof-steam-deck/

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Emberbane [External Link] looks like it might be interesting. Synergy [External Link], too (although there's not a Linux demo for this one - the full game is supposed to be coming for Linux, though).

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It's very close to being a viable device.

It has trackpads!... But they're in an awful position (and the rest of the controls are also terribly placed).

It comes with Linux!... But it's Manjaro.

It has a 16:10 display!... But the resolution is too high for the GPU to comfortably drive in the power envelope of a handheld.

Having multiple RAM configurations is also very silly: it increases production costs with zero benefit to either customers or developers.

Still, maybe someone else will do better on another attempt.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderI wouldnt share a car with a crazy person who cant type "art of rally" correctly...... (There are no capitals in the art of rally [External Link] title.....)
:wink:

I'm not gonna write Metal Gear Solid [External Link] as allcaps, either.

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Quoting: chickenb00This in-home streaming bugginess has really been crappy for my Deck useage. Either the video freezes entirely, with sound and input continuing, or, I get a green screen error. I tried out the Beta fix but I prefer being on Stable channel. I should really just install Moonlight...

I don't get that. There was the dead sound issue that had hung around for years on Linux and eventually got fixed after the Deck had been out a year, but then with the recent stable update after the OLED released the stream is just way too dark on the Deck. Apparently there's a fix in preview, and disabling hardware decoding acts as a workaround. I don't use streaming that much (in-between breakages, obviously) because it needs to be a specific middle ground game where I'd prefer the performance of the desktop but not the spectacle of the big screen. Outside of that middle I'm either playing directly on the Deck or playing directly on the desktop. But it would be nice if it worked.

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