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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 51: It’s Not Easy Being Green
3 Mar 2026 at 2:10 pm UTC Likes: 6

Thank you so much for this series :) I love reading these posts!

SteamInputDB is a new site to help you find Steam Input configurations for your gamepads
2 Mar 2026 at 6:49 pm UTC

^ Welcome! So glad you are here and thank you for that info!

That's a good explanation, and yeah I guess I have very little experience doing anything with any controller configs, so I am just unaware of the steam issues. I know now though. I think the only custom controller config I ever did was with Dave the Diver on the deck to remove the QTE's.

California law to require operating systems to check your age
2 Mar 2026 at 6:01 pm UTC Likes: 6

^ also tie that directly into how the current US republican gov wants to utterly destroy all trans people. It makes me want to vomit.

If a young person interested in transitioning were allowed to use a computer to access a website that might help them learn about that process in a healthy way, then how else could the republicans destroy their entire life starting right then and there unless they had lockdown access and tracking on everything all the time! WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE RICH OLD STRAIGHT WHITE CHRISTIAN MALES IN THE GOP. HORRORS.

California law to require operating systems to check your age
2 Mar 2026 at 3:20 pm UTC Likes: 13

^ LOL I always do the earliest date possibly in the picker. So I was often born on January 1st, 1901. I've seen some stuff man.

California law to require operating systems to check your age
2 Mar 2026 at 2:54 pm UTC Likes: 18

Quoting: Eocene84As someone who doesn't have kids (thank God) and never will, I'm really tired of being punished because other people can't or won't parent their children, which makes the government feel the need to step in. Hopefully the state I live in, Colorado, doesn't do something like this.
This has nothing to do with parents properly parenting their kids or not. This is all about control and consolidation of power. Taking the power away from the individual and putting that power into the hands of the gov to tell you what you can and can't do. This is just one tiny aspect of the overall goal. The gov doesn't give two shits about parenting.

so instead of you going about your day doing whatever you want with your computers and websites, now you have to check in with the gov and ask them if it's okay if you go about your day doing whatever you were doing. Then they can tell you yes or no. They have the power now, and you have lost your freedom. Yay Murica.

Here's the most played Steam Deck games for February 2026
2 Mar 2026 at 1:50 pm UTC

on deck: nothing really. Just no time right now.

On desktop: I gave up on Ghostwire Tokyo about 2/3 or 3/4 through. AWESOME GAME! Absolutely loved it, but my god that end game just got REPETITIVE. Wow. I pretty much maxed out the combat and exploration skills, so there was nothing left to unlock there, and they had the same ol collectathon missions over and over again, just getting more tedious with their mechanics which makes them LESS fun. Overall I'd give it a solid 7.5/10 and I absolutely loved all the cool x-files side missions.

So now I moved on to Sector Unknown. A small indie crpg from a solo dev. I've had this one on my radar for a long time, and it just recently released out of EA! so far so good! I'm just at the beginning building my base up, but seems cool! I'm a sucker for a scifi crpg since there's so few of them.

Here's some of the most-played demos during Steam Next Fest - February 2026 edition
2 Mar 2026 at 1:43 pm UTC

Here's my thoughts:

  • Ardenfall - absolutely loved it. Can't wait for release! Morrowind is back baby! (it never left but hey ...)

  • Replaced - can I just hook myself up to this art style and mainline it all day every day? Incredible.

  • Dead Fibers - ouch. Shouldn't have released this demo. Sadness.

  • Dungeons of Dusk - seems great for the Deck!

  • Darkhaven - meh. TQ2 is top of my argp list right now, and I have seen SO MANY arpgs with promising EA periods flame out and get abandoned (cough cough wolcen). So it's a "wait and see" and I hope it turns out awesome! We need more good arpgs to challenge the diablos and poes of the space!

Steam Survey for February 2026 shows a big swing to Simplified Chinese
2 Mar 2026 at 1:33 pm UTC

is this just a change of reporting method? Strange.

Steam Deck OLED gets a price increase across Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
2 Mar 2026 at 1:26 pm UTC

so a 15% increase. Honestly not bad and I was expecting higher.

Also ... how does HK get away with no price increase?! lmao

Quoting: ChrisznixNarf. I even got scammed while trying to buy a used Steam Deck OLED... not fun.
just curious: what was the scam?

SteamInputDB is a new site to help you find Steam Input configurations for your gamepads
2 Mar 2026 at 1:24 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'm not a huge controller user (only on deck) so I'm wondering: isn't this just recreating the steam community layouts feature? Why not just utilize that?