Quoting: ArehandoroCan the original Steam be upgraded with this new OLED?

My suspicion on this is no, just because the OLED is slightly larger, so presumably something about the chassis had to be adjusted for the bigger screen to fit.
I wonder how that works, actually. Is the whole thing just 0.4" bigger overall, or was there space around the edge of the existing screen that could be moved into so the device is the same size just with a bigger hole for the screen, or somewhere in between? Did they need to shift the controls any?

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Well, this may not be a Steam Deck 2, but it seems at any rate something around Steam Deck 1.2 or so.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: LungDragoit gives me PTSD from using 4 chat programs to talk to different people back in the 2000's.

You mean like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Telegram, ...?

I miss using pidgin. Instead the chat I mostly use these days is Teams because Corp... it's crap.

Yup, Teams is the platform I avoid using use at work.
I still haven't figured out what it does that's better than just using email.

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Quoting: PenglingShocking nobody, a whole lot of Super Bomberman R 2.

I never would have guessed that in a million years......... Thats totally shocking.......

OK, shocking almost nobody . . .

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Quoting: slaapliedje

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: anewsonI think this marks the denouement of the latest VR push... seems like it's going to stay an optional nice-to-have for supported games.

I suppose it's sort of akin to having a HOTAS setup for flight simulators. Sure, you COULD play it with a keyboard and mouse... but are you really getting the full enjoyment out of the game? Like I can't even imagine playing Elite: Dangerous with a keyboard / mouse, or for that matter a gamepad, though I've tried this on the PS4, it just doesn't feel the same.

This is one of the reasons I prefer real hardware over emulation; half the enjoyment is from using the original control scheme.

I had a lot of fun with Elite using M+KB, then switched to HOTAS, eventually sold the HOTAS, and now I can't go back to Elite, it's just not the same :(

Yeah, the peripherals / controls definitely make you more immersed in the game. I need to fire it back up now that I got chair mounts for my Thrustmaster Warthog setup... granted, I'll need to re-learn the controls, since it's been quite a while since I played it.

"Thrustmaster".
Mounted in your chair, you say?

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: dziadulewiczThis survey appears not very useful until we get some absolute numbers. Also the "other" section includes probably Linuxes and then also Chrome OS is definitely Linux but is often left out from Linux share.

"Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market. It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't".

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/18/linux_desktop_debate/ [External Link]

ChromeOS shouldn't be in the 'Desktop Linux' share, as it doesn't run normal Desktop Applications, right? As far as I know it's about as Desktop Linux as the Samsung Dex thing.

ChromeOS is a weird case. Because I mean, unlike Android it is actually Gnu/Linux (Android as I understand it is the first major example of a Linux without Gnu). Somewhere deep under the hood, ChromeOS is basically perfectly normal Linux. It's just, the Desktop Environment is serious crippleware. So like, yes, functionally, unless you do some weird stuff, it doesn't act like a real Linux, 'cause it won't run the normal Linux ecosystem of software (or much of any software, really). But then, I'm sure that's also true of whatever is running the box under my TV that came from my internet provider, and nobody says that isn't real Linux.

One could argue that ChromeOS is real Linux, but it's not real desktop Linux.

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Quoting: scaineThese Simplified Chinese spikes are just noise (to me). Steam isn't explicitly blocked in China, but it's such a grey area, I'd rather filter out the whole country when considering the Linux marketshare globally.

Well, but, if it's so grey-area-almost-blocked, how does Simplified Chinese manage to show up as 45.93% of the total Steam use? That seems like a market chunk big enough it should maybe not be filtered out or treated as noise.

China is a huge important country. And certain other powers' determination to change that situation do not seem likely to work; it is just going to keep on getting more important as time goes on. That's not a judgement of values; it's not about whether I like China or like US dominance better or whatever, I'm just saying that's what is going to happen, unless there's a hot war that goes nuclear and everybody loses. So for Linux people, I think them not using Linux is a Big Deal and likely to get bigger.

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As usual, my takeaway from this kind of thing is, we need to get the Chinese using Linux.

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Quoting: ShmerlAbout HDR, see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDnbWaIMJJA [External Link]

In short it's not about making things brighter selectively, it means larger color space.

That presentation looks like it's going to gloss over far too few details!

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Quoting: Grogan

Quoting: slaapliedjeCurious why you say a VR headset wouldn't be good for you? I know a guy who only has one eye, so it'd be pretty useless to him, for sure.

I have two eyes, but only one of them focuses at a time, the other kind of goes off in the periphery depending on which one I'm using. I can still alternate, but I used to be able to force focus both eyes (e.g. to see a stereoscopic map or something) but the muscles have atrophied since to the point that it is severe strain to even try now. In other words, I'm a cross eyed bastard (the real term is a strabismus). Ah well, it does make it harder to sneak up on me (it extends my periphery lol)

Interesting. My two eyes have radically different vision--apparently they are actually not the same size, so different focal lengths. So, left eye has decent, just slightly nearsighted vision, while right eye is ludicrously nearsighted. But they don't wander--they both look in the same direction, my brain just sort of "edits out" everything the right eye sees that's in the left eye's field of vision. So I basically see with just the left eye. But the right eye gives me peripheral, and I can close the left eye and behold the blurry splendour that is my right eye's visual ability.

I've tried a VR thing once--it kind of worked for me. I probably didn't have depth perception, but I don't anyway so . . .

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