I’m looking forward to the new Steam Controller to basically enable that.

Canada should change its currency symbol to 🍁399.20

Windows is 100 layer lasagna.

https://youtube.com/shorts/QEVaIbhwTHI

the one that allows you to scrap the covers for your non steam games right in gaming mode UI.

Scrape, not scrap. Your version doesn’t sound very useful. :D

Doesn’t have to be a loss, just competitive with what a self-built PC would be.

Daniel Owen does good PC part breakdowns. Especially video cards. Here’s a cheap build he threw together using PC Part Picker to see what it would be like to build a PC using comparable parts to what the Steam Machine has, but a garbage power supply and case. It came out to $706.

(This link skips to 27:24. You have to rewind 2 minutes or so if you want to hear him talk about the bad power supply and case, which you definitely shouldn’t buy.)

https://youtu.be/RTB-lP_qwc0?t=1644

If Valve can come in around $700 it will be a good deal. If it’s sub $600, it’s an outstanding deal. Especially because of the premium wifi, special Steam Controller antenna, small form factor, and stuff like that. SFF cases and motherboards have premium prices.

That’s disappointing. However, being a mass produced, single spec device, it has to be cheaper than comparable self-built PCs. Otherwise, no one would buy it.

Fallout 3.

I spent the time to learn how to make action layers, radial menus, and multi-action keys. It’s great! (Emulating mouse/kb controls)

• Holding L2 for sights/scopes enables gyro aiming.
• X button presses Ctrl and Caps Lock at the same time to toggle both crouching and walking. (I will disable Caps Lock once I take the Silent Running perk.)
• Holding L1 enables an action layer that changes nearly every control:
  • Right stick becomes a radial menu for item hotkeys, 1-8
  • X presses Caps Lock alone to toggle walk-run by itself
  • Y is hotkey 8, which is my hotkey for Stimpack. It’s easier to hit in an emergency than the radial menu.
  • B becomes X (keyboard) for exiting shops
  • Right trackpad become a a scroll wheel for menus

Stuff like that. Basically, I have every important keyboard key mapped somehow. I have the E key mapped two different ways. R3 for just opening doors and such where aiming isn’t important. And L4 for when I’m using the right trackpad as mouse for carefully picking up individual items like bottlecaps, Nuke Colas and such that are often surrounded by junk. Same with landmines.

It’s not as good as a real kb/mouse, but it’s much better than the default XBox 360 controls. Steam Input is so amazing.

Sure! The only thing I’m worried about taking over the community is the Steam Frame. There’s a chance it becomes super popular. But if that happens, we can just make a new community for it. No biggie.

Yes, every distro requires a password for sudo. That’s the whole point of it. But editing .bashrc does not require sudo. You can add aliases and functions to .bashrc. A malicious script can append to .bashrc, and by doing so, it can alias sudo to be whatever command it wants. For instance, a malicious function. So the next time you run sudo it runs the malicious command, instead, which itself can act just like sudo and prompt you for your password. So now you just entered your password into a malicious function. Do you see the problem with this?

that’s the part that can keep malicious stuff out because it doesn’t have permission.

All a malicious script has to do is alias sudo in your .bashrc, and you’re fucked. The script can do that without privileges. It takes surprisingly little to go from “I’m only running this script without privileges” to getting totally owned immediately after.

I’ve been replaying Fallout 3 on Steam Deck, and I only have Gyro enabled when I hold down L2 for aiming. It’s pretty awesome because it’s so much easier to fine tune aim by pivoting the whole steam deck than it is to use a stick. Like I can get headshots with a 10 millimeter pistol at close-medium range pretty easily. I could never do that with a stick.

Why would a person choose to use fewer words to relay a thought when using more words is clearly better?

I propose instead, OP change their comment to say:

him, her, them, hir, zir, em, xem, xim, per, ve, ey, faer, aer, or thon

Good luck! I hope it works out for you.

That’s funny. I could have written your exact comment. I, too, have been hoping for this controller and have the original HTC Vive.

Oh, that’s weird. I just suggested the same thing up above with a bunch of extra explanation. I’ve done this exact thing twice. In that comment I talk about changing some registry settings, but like I said in the comment, I didn’t think that actually helped. So I dunno. This was with Windows 10 both times, and both USB devices boot on a laptop.

You don’t need to do anything special. Take an NVMe or SSD and put it internally in some PC—ideally the same computer you want to use it on, for driver reasons—then install Windows on it. (Windows won’t let you install to a USB device, so you have to put the drive internally in the PC.) Then take it back out, put it in an external enclosure, plug it into USB and it boots right up. (Well, as long as you know how to choose a boot device at startup or make USB a higher priority than your internal drive.)

I just did that on my laptop by taking out the Windows NVMe, putting in a new one for Linux, and then sticking the Windows NVMe in an enclosure.

Obviously, this can’t work on a thumb drive, but it’s not terribly inconvenient to carry around an enclosure and a cable.

(An LLM told me I should change some registry settings to make loading the USB drivers occur earlier during boot, but that doesn’t make much sense. How could it boot enough to load the Registry in order to know to load the USB drivers earlier? It’s already booting. But if you try this and have any troubles, I can probably figure out what Registry settings I changed. I’ve also done this with an M.2 SSD from one PC and booted it from a USB enclosure on a different PC, and I definitely made no registry changes then.)

Oh man! Can I use it like the U-Force?

Pretty much a noob here, and OpenSUSE has been fine for me. I previously ran Mint for nearly a year, and then Manjaro for a while, but that was like 8 years ago. Now I’m back on Linux, and OpenSUSE has been great.

The only weird thing that happened in OpenSUSE so far was a thumbdrive getting added to fstab for some reason, and then my system wouldn’t boot until I removed it.

Regurgitate

• Final Fantasy Adventure DX
• Loop Hero, but it became too hard at Chapter 3, and I have no idea how to get good. (I guess grinding resources and building more things in my town to see what they do.)
• Balatro, but it got repetitive and boring.
• Dave the Diver (Beat it. Loved it.)
• Nova Drift, but after 140 hours, I think I’ve had enough. Awesome game!