Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: lukas333Steam Deck 64 + NVME is the way to go imo.

Come to think of it, how's the dock? Or is it better to still get a 3rd party one?

I have both the official one and the first of the upgradeded docks from JSAUX and well, both are good! I honestly can't really find much difference between them, except for in the firmware. The official dock can upgrade its firmware directly from the Steam Deck and it happens pretty seamlessly, while the JSAUX one requires plugging it into a Windows PC - which I probably won't ever do, so I'm using the official one. Plus, the official fits the dbrand Killswitch case just slightly more securely (with the dbrand adapter, that is).

The one with an M.2 slot does look pretty inviting though, so if you have a need for that extra storage, I'd recommend it.

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Interesting, especially considering that High On Life is still up for sale, despite containing AI generated film posters. I'm not saying anything for or against the decision, but I'd like to know what kind of evidence they require to ascertain that the publisher has "adequate rights", especially since High On Life used MidJourney, which - from what I know - doesn't really provide such information.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI'm hoping Diablo 2 eventually gets the same treatment. Mainly because playing it on one of my Amigas would just be sweet.

You don't how hard I'm crossing my fingers for this!
Also... Diablo II would run on Amiga?!

I think slaapliedje's referring to the modern-day Amiga port of DevilutionX. I'm pretty certain it requires a very beefed up Amiga (RTG card + accelerator), not just a stock one. I'm using a Vampire-equipped A500 myself, so I'm never quite sure what that translates to in period-accurate terms.

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Quoting: CybolicAh, I was hoping they'd have fixed the Store/Web view going black when switching windows, before labelling it as stable. Maybe next update.

I used to get this all the time on Gnome, but now that you mention it, Ive not had it at all since jumping over to KDE, so maybe it a compositor bug.

I've been using the beta of this for a few months now and can't recall seeing anything like that, what exactly did you do to trigger it?

Any time I switch to a different workspace / virtual desktop than the one Steam is on, the Store page contents area is black when I come back. As my workflow is heavily workspace oriented, it's fairly annoying.
It's actually not related to my compositor (picom) as it happens whether it's running or not, so it's something in the way my WM (bspwm) handles switching workspaces, but Steam is also the only application that shows this behaviour.

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Ah, I was hoping they'd have fixed the Store/Web view going black when switching windows, before labelling it as stable. Maybe next update.

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Okay, I know this is not a realistic reply, but I really do wish the next update brings a redesign of the individual game pages. Every time I browse through my games, I have to either click through to the community page or the store page on each and every game, in order to remember what kind of game I'm looking at.
Something closer to EmulationStation, with a couple of screenshots of the game, would be immensely helpful in wading through large libraries!

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Quoting: bekoOdd. Can't click "Like". Ajax fails with internal server error: sql error :/

Same here on both Firefox and Vivaldi on all pages for the past couple of hours. The response headers seem to point at something with CloudFlare, but that might be irrelevant.

Anyway, game looks very cool; love the aesthetics and the native Linux version!

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Quoting: jarhead_h

Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: Cybolicwhen it became possible to play DVD films on PC DVD drives

Wait, it wasn't possible initially?

If you bought a capable drive with legal software it was. I bought mine at a CompUSA so that I could play the DVD version of Wing Commander IV.

It would be a few years before DVD John cracked the DVD copy protection, which is the reason all the media software these days can play it all.

I used to rip copies of movies off of the DVD specifically to have a copy without the unskippable commercials and stupid menus. Thanks to DVD John.

Precisely. I was already on Linux when I got my first DVD drive in 2000, which meant I was sort-of technically a pirate for playing my legally purchased DVD on my computer (and double the pirate when I played my imported region-locked ones that weren't even available for purchase in my home country of Denmark, the import of which was actually illegal).
The law (at least in Denmark) quickly changed so that any tinkering needed to be done to enjoy legally purchased media, was covered by consumer rights. Looping back to the main topic, I would expect this to also cover playing a purchased Nintendo game on the hardware the consumer has available - at least in theory.

Side-question: Could any of the people against emulation, explain to me how I'm hurting Nintendo when I play the Wii U games that I physically have on my shelf, on my Steam Deck instead of dragging the console out of storage?

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Quoting: legluondunetThe gap between today's consoles and working emulators is narrowing. We had never known an emulator that emulates a console still on sale. I don't think it's ethical to publicly release an emulator of a console that's still on sale, in my view, developers should at least wait for the end of life of a console. Nintendo is an innovative company and produces user-friendly games, switch emulators must be costing them a lot of money.

That's only if use the emulator to play pirated games, which is quite the assumption to make.
I see emulators more like when it became possible to play DVD films on PC DVD drives; the movie industry immediately saw this as piracy, but in reality, people just wanted to play their movies where they wanted.
Emulation is the same, it allows people to play their purchased games where it's most convenient for them, with the added bonus of ensuring the games don't become unplayable when the original hardware eventually dies / goes out of production.

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Quoting: DrakkerDo they work like VR for 3d scenes, do you get good depth perception? I was never really interested in those big VR headsets, but something light like these glasses might be interesting.

From what I've seen of other people trying them out, they are able to show stereoscopic content, so 3D movies and "flat" 3D content in general should work just fine. Anything where you look around is not supported when plugged into the Steam Deck, but basic things like "VR" YouTube videos should work when connected to an Android phone using their app.

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