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Community Giveaways / Re: Bundle Leftovers: Humble Bundle 2K Megahits
« on: October 01, 2022, 09:33 PM »
PM sent with details. :Thmbsup:

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Living Room / Re: Google Stadia shutting down
« on: September 30, 2022, 02:54 AM »
Add another corpse to the Google graveyard.

And even faster than I predicted.

I also forgot to mention that since this is Google we're talking about. You can expect them to pull the plug on it within the next 5-10 years. :P
-Deozaan (March 22, 2019, 04:29 PM)

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC
« on: September 27, 2022, 07:01 PM »
I have it connected to my jsaux dock
-wraith808 (September 27, 2022, 03:55 PM)

Speaking of which, JSAUX released a firmware update to their docks to increase compatibility with some displays or something.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/09/jsaux-released-a-firmware-update-for-their-steam-deck-docking-stations/

Ironically, the updater only works on Windows.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC
« on: September 26, 2022, 11:37 PM »
Didn't get it in time, but it's only $5.
-wraith808 (September 26, 2022, 04:02 PM)

The reason for the price increase before the game released out of Early Access is because the developer has expressed a desire to list the game in upcoming holiday sales and Valve require that the price of a game doesn't change within a certain amount of time before being listed in a sale. In short, if you don't mind waiting a bit, it will be on sale soon™. But personally I feel it's worth $5. I've put 30 hours into it and I'm still not finished playing it yet.

I also figured out by accident that I can wake up my Steam Deck with the Xbox controller.
-wraith808 (September 26, 2022, 04:02 PM)

Cool. How?

Is it connected wirelessly via Bluetooth? Or wired? Or with a wireless dongle? I ask because I have an Xbox One controller, and it has a compartment for batteries, but I've always only used it wired via USB because it was my understanding that I needed to have a special/proprietary dongle to get it to work on my computer wirelessly. I've never actually tried putting batteries in it to see if it worked over Bluetooth. 😅 Well, and my PC doesn't have Bluetooth anyway, so that's another reason I didn't try it. But if it comes with Bluetooth I may start connecting it to my Deck wirelessly instead of having to drag so many cords around when I dock it to the TV.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC
« on: September 26, 2022, 01:16 PM »
Support for multiple user accounts was a big concern of mine early on, as I haven't found there to be a lot of information about it online. Most of the YouTube videos I've seen that focus on the Deck seem to be made by people who don't have to share it with anybody else. Switching accounts isn't quite as seamless or fast as it is on, say, the Nintendo Switch or the Wii U before it. It feels slightly buried in the UI but it's not too bad. I think Gaming Mode is basically just a new Steam Big Picture Mode interface, and when you change accounts it appears to completely restart the Steam client, if not the entire device. It takes about 25-30 seconds to completely change accounts once they're on there.

It does not make a new Linux user account, so all the Desktop Mode stuff appears to be shared. Same Downloads folder, same Documents folder, same Desktop icons/files, etc. If your browser is set up to restore tabs when it launches, it will restore the tab(s) that the last person had opened. That kind of data sharing is not ideal, IMO. I don't necessarily want someone else to be able to access and edit/overwrite my files, whether intentionally or not. That said, there are probably workarounds to most of the issues. For example, internet browser profiles are a thing that exist, so each person could probably just have their own icon on the desktop that launches their browser profile.
-Deozaan (July 16, 2022, 03:35 AM)

I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but it just occurred to me that I can still create more Linux user accounts on the Steam Deck in Desktop mode. So I can have the general purpose, shared user account that comes with the Deck by default, and I could also have a separate, private/personal--and password protected!--account for when I'm intending to use Desktop mode for "serious business" and the like. And I suppose it has the added bonus of providing separating the gaming aspect of the device from the desktop "work" environment, so that if I'm using it for work there's more effort required to get into a game and therefore hopefully less of a chance I'll get distracted and not get anything done.

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