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General Software Discussion / Re: Open selected files from a windows folder

« on: September 07, 2022, 11:48 AM »

• if more than one file is selected, only one file opens

-tomos (September 07, 2022, 03:42 AM)

This surprised me because I was pretty sure selecting multiple files and pressing enter would open all of them. So I did a little testing of my own.

File Explorer in Windows 10 Version 21H2 OS Build 19044.1889.

• If I select multiple files of the same type and press enter, they all open.
• If I select multiple files of various types and press enter, whichever one I selected last might open, or none of them open.   
  • For example, if the last selected is a JPG it opens. If the last selected is a PDF it doesn't open.
  • I didn't test this extensively, but I suspect it may have more to do with the default app/program the filetype is set to be opened with than with the filetype itself.
• If I select one file and one folder, whichever one I selected last opens.
• If I select one file and a few folders, whichever one I selected last opens (either the file, or all the folders).
• If I select a few folders, they all open.
• If I select a lot of folders (~100), none of them open and I usually get an error saying "the parameter is not correct"
• If I select a lot of folders and files (~200) and press enter, nothing happens.

So basically it appears to have no rhyme or reason.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: September 06, 2022, 06:24 PM »

Now I'm thinking about getting another SD Card....

https://www.reddit.c...rd_swapping_storing/

-wraith808 (September 06, 2022, 01:45 PM)

That's clever, and cheap. But I still think this is a better solution, if you're using the default carrying case and you have access to a 3D printer:

Here's something I found that may be useful if you have access to a 3D printer. It's a little carrying case for the power cord, and even includes a few microSD card slots. The 3D-printed case goes in the little cavity behind the elastic strap of the Deck Carrying Case.

https://www.thingive...se.com/thing:5356412

-Deozaan (July 19, 2022, 09:48 PM)

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: September 05, 2022, 01:05 PM »

Yeah. I have an Xbox 360 and an Xbox One controller, both of which I use for PC gaming. I've connected both to the Deck (via USB hub) and they both work flawlessly. I'm sure the newer models of Xbox controllers will also work just fine.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: September 04, 2022, 08:41 PM »

This is the one on using a NAS. The actual post with the instructions can be found at https://www.reddit.c...44l/comment/il6xlti/

-wraith808 (August 29, 2022, 07:15 PM)

I finally got around to attempting this, but I got stuck pretty early on. I copied and pasted the first script and when I run it I get prompted for a password, but it will not accept the password I set using `passwd` so I'm not really sure what to do.

-Deozaan (September 03, 2022, 12:20 AM)

I got it working, sort of. No matter what I tried it wouldn't accept my password. So then I replaced the `kdesu -c` command which causes a GUI password prompt to pop up with regular old `sudo` and was able to create the directories and mount the SMB if I ran the script from Konsole. But I also had problems getting it to accept my Windows login details, so I actually couldn't mount the SMB until I changed the shared folder settings from Windows to allow anybody to access it, even if they didn't have a username and password.

Then I had the bright idea that I could try just sharing my Steam directory on my Windows PC instead of trying to share a separate folder and possibly duplicate some of the games being installed, so while I was messing around with that, I decided to try `kdesu` again and suddenly it started accepting my root password. No idea what changed with it, but now at least the Linux side of things is working as advertised in that post. I'm still not sure what I was doing wrong with my Windows username/password combo, but I suppose that will be for another day.

I've been trialing controllers for use with my steam deck, and the steel series I use on my desktop isn't working, so I got a Ps5 controller, and it's pretty good, though I'm getting some strange behaviors on certain games.

-wraith808 (September 03, 2022, 11:59 AM)

I tried an Ouya controller fairly early on and the mappings were all wrong. After that I tried a Nintendo Switch Online SNES Controller and it had similar issues where the mappings were incorrect. Since then there have been notes in the Steam Update Logs saying support for NSO controllers was added, but I just tested it and I'm still having trouble getting about half the buttons to register properly.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: September 03, 2022, 12:51 AM »

The original Mafia game is free on Steam for the next couple of days:

https://store.steamp...com/app/40990/Mafia/

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: September 03, 2022, 12:20 AM »

This is the one on using a NAS. The actual post with the instructions can be found at https://www.reddit.c...44l/comment/il6xlti/

-wraith808 (August 29, 2022, 07:15 PM)

I finally got around to attempting this, but I got stuck pretty early on. I copied and pasted the first script and when I run it I get prompted for a password, but it will not accept the password I set using `passwd` so I'm not really sure what to do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is it possible to SFTP a file to an email inbox?

« on: September 02, 2022, 07:14 PM »

Is there a reason why it needs to go into an email box specifically, or use SFTP specifically? If all you really need is to securely get a file to someone, there are plenty of other file sharing methods which have various levels/layers of security.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: September 02, 2022, 12:19 PM »

Immortal Redneck is free on GOG for the next ~3 days:

https://www.gog.com/...ame/immortal_redneck

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open selected files from a windows folder

« on: September 02, 2022, 12:16 PM »

Only open one folder in the case of three shorcuts to folders.
What Am I doing wrong ?

-Contro (September 02, 2022, 12:01 PM)

You asked about opening files/programs, not opening folders.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ultrabook that has spill resistant keyboard/touchpad

« on: September 01, 2022, 05:48 PM »

Any idea?

-kalos (September 01, 2022, 08:34 AM)

Not what you asked for, but probably still a decent idea: Keep food and drink and other wet/sticky substances away from your electronics.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: September 01, 2022, 05:46 PM »

I see people installing larger drives in their deck- I'm just not comfortable enough to do that, so looking for other ways around it.

-wraith808 (August 31, 2022, 10:58 AM)

Ditto. But I think it's likely that the storage limitations, especially of the 64 GB Deck, will lead to frustrations and eventually end up with me opening it up to replace the internal storage with a larger drive.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: August 30, 2022, 06:01 PM »

Yeah, I was thinking about it because even with 512 GB additional, I'm down on space

-wraith808 (August 30, 2022, 01:01 PM)

Tell me about it! I don't have an SD card in my 512 GB Deck, and when I connected the 256 GB external drive and queued up a bunch of games I forgot to set default installation location to the external drive first. So it all went to the internal drive and I ran out of space. I had to keep moving games to the external drive as they finished downloading to make enough room for the next thing in the queue. I remember being surprised at how quickly the 64 GB Deck filled up after seemingly only a few games, even with a 128 GB SD card in it. So when I got hold of the 512 GB Deck it felt so spacious. But I have found myself surprised once again at how little space even the 512 GB feels like.

Maybe in a year or two I'll be able to afford a 1-2 TB SD card to help alleviate the storage issue.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: August 30, 2022, 03:36 PM »

By all accounts on ProtonDB, Halo: The Master Chief Collection works just fine despite being ranked as Unsupported, with the caveat that the game's Easy Anti-Cheat doesn't work on Deck/Linux and therefore online multiplayer doesn't work.

-Deozaan (August 30, 2022, 11:26 AM)

Thanks for this! I'd wanted to get it, but passed when I saw unsupported.

-wraith808 (August 30, 2022, 01:01 PM)

I just remembered that I did have to boot into Desktop mode and delete an EAC-related file before it would work, but other than that I didn't need to set any custom compatibility options or do other tinkering:

For the game to work at all, you need to move or remove this file: "steamapps/common/Halo The Master Chief Collection/easyanticheat/easyanticheat_x64.so" Then launch using the "Play Halo: MCC Anti-Cheat Disabled (Mods and Limited Services)" option.

-https://www.protondb.com/app/976730#7mf8VPh6e7

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: August 30, 2022, 12:15 PM »

I just learned about Remote Play Whatever, which is an app that allows you to use Steam's Remote Play Together feature on any game, including non-Steam games (such as emulators). It also now has an AppImage to make it usable on Steam Deck.

GitHub repo:
https://github.com/m...i/RemotePlayWhatever

Reddit post with some details:
https://reddit.com/r...now_has_an_appimage/

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: August 30, 2022, 11:26 AM »

I should mention that I had another success with a game marked as "Unsupported" last night. With some caveats.

By all accounts on ProtonDB, Halo: The Master Chief Collection works just fine despite being ranked as Unsupported, with the caveat that the game's Easy Anti-Cheat doesn't work on Deck/Linux and therefore online multiplayer doesn't work. I'm not interested in the PvP anyway, but I do enjoy playing co-op through the campaigns. I haven't had a chance to test if co-op still works, whether online or via LAN, but I'm not sure why you'd need EAC for co-op in the first place. So I don't really have my hopes up but I'll keep my fingers crossed that co-op still works. But I tested it on Deck by playing through a mission in single-player without any issues, so if all you care about is the single-player campaign(s), give it a go.

EDIT: I guess that answers that question. I just restarted the Deck while still plugged into the hub and now the drive is no longer showing up.

-Deozaan (August 29, 2022, 03:26 PM)

You will probably have to have a script that runs on boot.

This includes shell scripts for recreating the mount and remounting if necessary from game mode after restart.

-wraith808 (August 29, 2022, 07:15 PM)

Thanks for the link. And for the extra info as well, Shades. It should be helpful for re-mounting the external drive. And even better: I didn't think I was interested in setting up an SMB share but after seeing the image and skimming the instructions, I'm starting to see the potential appeal. I can see it being especially useful for having a large ROM/emulation library accessible on demand without having to take up space on the device itself.

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Living Room / Re: Any Twitch users here?

« on: August 29, 2022, 03:37 PM »

I've had an account for several years, I think before Amazon bought it out. Only occasionally use it. But it's always just been username and password for me. Same account still works.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: August 29, 2022, 03:26 PM »

but hopefully having part of my Steam Library on an external drive will be "plug and play" when I connect to or disconnect from the dock/hub.

-Deozaan (August 29, 2022, 03:12 PM)

If it works with SDcards, I don't see why it wouldn't work.

-wraith808 (August 29, 2022, 03:18 PM)

I imagine that the Deck is designed to automatically mount microSD cards when they're inserted.

When I first connected the external drive, it didn't show up in the "Storage" section. I had to go into Desktop mode and mount the drive first, at which point I could then manually add the drive as a secondary location for the Steam Library from within the Steam client. Then I booted back into Gaming mode and it appeared there and allowed me to install/move games to it. So my concern is that I'll have to boot into Desktop mode and manually mount it each time I connect it. But perhaps now that I've added it as a Steam Library it will remember and automatically reconnect.

EDIT: I guess that answers that question. I just restarted the Deck while still plugged into the hub and now the drive is no longer showing up.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: August 29, 2022, 03:12 PM »

I've [...] ordered this Dockteck 7 port USB Hub (with 4K@60Hz HDMI, 1 Gig Ethernet, SD & microSD, 2x USB 3.0 A, and a USB C 100W PD port)...

-Deozaan (July 20, 2022, 05:57 PM)

I've just connected my M.2 SATA SSD to the Deck using this hub with the idea of installing only games I intend to play while the Deck is "docked" to it. And since I didn't have to worry about filling up the internal storage, I queued up a bunch of larger games to install.

The downloads were going a little slow over WiFi, so I connected an ethernet cable to the LAN port in this hub for the first time and the activity light is blindingly bright! It's a pure white LED that's constantly flickering (on network activity, of course) and it's just sooooo bright! I don't really understand it, because the other "connected" LED indicator, which is constantly lit, is a nice, soft amber color. Why couldn't the activity light be a soft green light? So puzzling...

Other than that I don't have any complaints about the functionality of the hub. But to be honest I haven't really used it a lot, so it's possible there could be issues I'd be displeased with that I haven't discovered yet. That said, my experience with it has been positive overall, other than the near-strobe-light effect I'm getting from the LAN activity LED while downloading games.

Anyway, I'm still getting files on the external SSD so I can't test it yet, but hopefully having part of my Steam Library on an external drive will be "plug and play" when I connect to or disconnect from the dock/hub. 🤞

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: August 29, 2022, 02:21 PM »

Lovecraft's Untold Stories is free on GOG for the next couple of days.

https://www.gog.com/...rafts_untold_stories

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: August 29, 2022, 02:20 PM »

It sounds like Lutris and Heroic pretty much do the same thing. And maybe Bottles, too? Anyone with experience with all of them have a preference? If so, which one do you prefer and why?

I only have a little experience with Heroic to install a few GOG games, but it feels pretty clunky on the Deck using the gamepad controls to navigate. I'm not very attached to it and would happily switch to something else if it was better.

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General Software Discussion / Re: duckduckgo for email?

« on: August 28, 2022, 12:38 AM »

I followed your link and signed up for an account but could never get signed in. I had the DuckDuckGo extension installed but it would never accept my one-time passphrase and just kept reloading the login page. It was probably my ad-blocker (Brave Shields) interfering with things, but I didn't care enough about it to pursue it further.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: August 26, 2022, 05:47 PM »

According to Gaming On Linux, you can now install Lutris from Discover.

Lutris adds Amazon Games integration, plus Flatpak finally out (good for Steam Deck)

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: August 26, 2022, 11:26 AM »

I also learned recently that a couple of twin-stick shooters on Steam were made free because the creator died of cancer.

https://store.steamp...om/app/107600/Waves/
https://store.steamp...0/Waves_2_Notorious/

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: August 26, 2022, 11:25 AM »

Dex is free on GOG for the next ~3 days:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/dex

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: August 22, 2022, 06:42 PM »

Are you by any chance running Skype or Teams on your Steam Deck (in the background)?

-Shades (August 21, 2022, 06:32 PM)

I was not running Skype or Teams. I may have been running Telegram and/or Discord. I've been sick lately and haven't spent much time at my PC or using the Deck. And it has been long enough that I don't remember the details exactly, but I think I only noticed the problem in Desktop mode. I don't think it happened while in Gaming mode. But then again, I don't think I spent long in Gaming mode except for a bit of Factorio.