Questions:

• Can you use both ports for video input (plug the SD in either port)?
  


• Can you use the other USB port as a video output, to connect an external screen? (Daisy chaining)
  


• Can you opt out of charging whatever is connected? As in, If I'm doing light office work, the Steam Deck could last for 12 hours, no need for charging, I'd rather have the external screen last longer.
  


• I assume either USB-C ports can be used as power inputs as well?
  

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Quoting: JarmerAt first I was having an absolutely wonderful time in bg3 but then the ending happened ...

I haven't played this game myself, but I think there are more than a hundred possible endings, plus minor ones... Was it just yours, or would it end in a similar way had you made different choices? (I've read your spoiler tag).

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Hugh, another hero-based game. I am not very interested in the genre, sadly.
This looks like a fun game otherwise, with these rails reminiscent of BioShock Infinite's skyhook. So Maybe I'll play a single-class (or few-class?) mod one day. It would be pretty nice with a command system similar to Nuclear Dawn or Natural Selection.

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With a name like this, I had initially assumed it was a KDE project :grin:

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Ah, nice, this game has been on my Steam wish list for some time, though it seems it won't go lower than 5€. I'd need a deeper sale to buy it "just in case", as otherwise I'll just play my backlog meanwhile.

Other games in a similar situation before I decided to play them: Nier Automata, Bayonetta, Katamari Damacy. Others I keep an eye on: Vainquish, this one, and Subnautica.

It's a bit weird to me how some games never adjust their base asking price, even when they haven't been updated in 10-20 years (6 years here). Well, I guess inflation will eventually make them cheap enough.

Being released on GoG shows that they haven't forgotten about the game though, and I can justify a slightly higher asking price there.

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Quoting: MayeulCAlso, is it just me, or does the steam deck OLED loses charge faster than the non-OLED when sleeping? The battery can be drained in 1 or 2 days. They should probably hibernate if the console hasn't been used in a few hours.

I've not particularly looked into it, but the Bluetooth chip in the OLED stays powered when the device is in sleep for Bluetooth wake; I expect that would cause higher drain.

Interesting, I will try to disable Bluetooth then, thanks for the tip. Though I shouldn't have anything currently connected 🤔

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Hmm, I haven't encountered these bugs, but I was struggling to configure a radial menu yesterday, with the interface ignoring my clicks on "add menu item". The controller configurator is one of the buggoer areas in Steam, in my experience.

Also, is it just me, or does the steam deck OLED loses charge faster than the non-OLED when sleeping? The battery can be drained in 1 or 2 days. They should probably hibernate if the console hasn't been used in a few hours.

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I am not sure the trackpads will be comfortable to use in this location.

It's interesting that they didn't go with AMD's Z series chip. This handled will probably be more powerful and use more power, though I hope they took the opportunity to include more than one USB port.

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It's interesting and promising to see a mainstream company releasing their mainstream closed-source software on Linux. This may also have to do with sanction on Russia and Russian companies helping people and companies move towards Linux there? Sadly I don't have any data on this.

However, as visible even in their press release, the biggest threats come from closed-source software. The xz vulnerability was identified in part thanks to its open source nature (part of the backdoor was never present in source code repositories, only in release tarballs). I would personally only trust FOSS antiviruses.

Be careful before handing the keys to your kingdom (root access) to any kind of software.

And I don't need to mention kaspersky's shady track record here, others have done so already.

Quoting: StalePopcornMaybe comments should be disabled since a pattern is already present, but Kaspersky are not doing operating from a country directly or indirectly involved in mass genocide, if we're going to be throwing rocks, remember that we're in a glass house.

I don't want to start a flame war or highly (geo)political arguments here, but you should 1. look up the definition of genocide [External Link] 2. Have a look at https://icj-cij.org/case/182 [External Link] (hint: forced assimilation, killings, indoctrination and deportation of children fit the bill, collateral victims are a tragedy but not genocide). I'm quite sensitive about this topic.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: blindcoderWill it ever get proper PLAYER documentation? Like what to do early, mid, late game? How to get X, Y, Z resource? You know, stuff that kids want to know when playing.

There's a basic version of that on the Minetest wiki [External Link], though it's still under the old "MineClone 2" name right now.

Thanks, I know that one, but it's, well, better than nothing, but just barely. I've spent in-game days (well, nights, really) holed up in a shed waiting for night to pass, because there was nothing else to do except go out and die because there's a dozen archers, several spiders and an exploding enemy or three.
Much, much later I learned that if you're lucky you can find sheep and if you're luckier still you can find a smidge of iron to craft shears and THEN make a bed. Maybe, I don't know, never found sheep.

Sounds like vanilla Minecraft TBH :)

In Minecraft, you can also collect spider silk and assemble it to craft wool, that you can then use for the bed. Don't forget to get some coal for torches, mobs spawn in the dark. If you don't have the resources for a bed, you can spend night time digging for ore, crafting/smelting, etc.

Of course, there is a bit of joy in figuring that out for yourself. I remember my first few nights in Minecraft, they were very rough, spent waiting for daylight in a hole somewhere (that was more than 15 years ago).

Regarding MineClone diverging from Minecraft, I can understand, some things were hard to achieve with the Minetest engine, and not every Minecraft mechanic is worth emulating, IMHO. That said, it was an interesting stress-test for the engine, and I think it drove some of its development. Curious to see where this leads.

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