u/NeatNit

Switched WiFi backend to wpa_supplicant by default for new installations, improving compatibility with various WiFi networks

Fantastic. The only reason I enabled developer options is to switch this, since I wasn't able to connect to my university's wi-fi otherwise.

Known issue: Existing installations will continue to use iwd unless manually enabled in Developer Settings

Damn.

Not really, he makes a lot of short side comments like this in the Tom Scott: England series.

Knowing him, I expected something like: "Turns out, it's a Steam Deck, and half of you will have been screaming at the screen about how I could possibly not know that."

That's it. Not an explanation of what it is, just an acknowledgement of what it is. This kind of thing happens on Lateral pretty often.

No idea how you got that from my comment

And somehow, Tom Scott doesn't even know what it is! He just calls it "basically a gaming console" with no further clarifications.


Yeah, I know that it's just a nickname people gave it, like "Wiimote" for the Wii Remote which caused trouble for the Weemote but was obviously not Nintendo's responsibility. But as I said, it's a kinda-funny meme description of what the Steam Machine is, I get annoyed when people actually use it as a nickname for it in conversation or videos.

Honestly I'm so sick of it being called the "GabeCube", partly because it's *too close* to GameCube phonetically that it actually sounds pretty much identical to GameCube in most cases, but moreso because it's the result of the hard work of so many talented and passionate engineers at Valve, it feels really disrespectful to call it after the businessman who funded it.

It's an amusing pun, I enjoyed hearing/reading it the first time. Second time onwards it's just annoying.

I'm convinced that Valve must have been waiting for contact from dbrand. Valve probably already decided what their terms would be, but *needed dbrand to contact them* and not the other way around. Since dbrand failed to do that, they had no choice but to send a C&D.

What I'm hoping is that they start supporting cloud saves for Linux native games, e.g. Silksong. This is something GOG needs to support server-side, and they'd only bother to do that if they have an official Linux client to do the syncing.

I'm assuming/hoping you configured the LED strip to be all red to match :D

Just curious (I don't have a Steam Machine and don't plan to get one), doesn't Steam fight for control of the LEDs if you run both Steam and OpenRGB at the same time?

Yup, OpenRGB has audio visualization support in the Effects plugin: https://openrgb.org/plugin_effects.html

Oh yeah, OpenRGB is awesome--- oh, it's you :P

One might say the Deck still isn't *fully* baked. I got mine a few months ago, so well after it launched, and there were still some rough edges. For example, I wasn't able to redeem the OLED goodies (startup animation and keyboard theme). Steam Support advised me to switch to the SteamOS beta at the time, which worked. So the release version of SteamOS had a known redemption bug for months, likely to affect a large number of new users? Sure it's a small thing, but exactly what I mean by not fully baked.

I have some other nitpicks with it but overall I'll admit it works quite well.

From my understanding, the first and second parties are the seller (Valve) and the buyer (you). They are the two who have a contract between them. A *third* party, then, is any party which isn't signed on the contract. That is, an outsider to the contract.

Any other meaning of second party is probably a back-formation from a misunderstanding of the terms 1st and 3rd party.

Disclaimer: I literally have no idea what I'm talking about

The *company* may be big, but their hardware orders are nothing compared to the orders for compute farms. They've gone on record recently about the Steam Machine saying there are some components they could not secure at all, for any price. Their service contacts are just not attractive when the world-ending AI farms are happy to pay more per unit *and* ordering more units total.

I do think they really should try their hardest to keep those replacement parts coming, but from the outside it's impossible to know how hard they actually tried. The only question is whether you give them the benefit of the doubt. You don't seem to, and that's fine (honestly I'm not sure I should give it either), but what I'm saying is *there is* doubt, the market is so fucked right now that this is actually believable.

I'd be shocked if not. There's just no reason whatsoever for it to not work.

Awake while you play? Weird! :P

Kidding aside, if you can find or improvise any way for the Deck to stay where you want it to be without having to hold it with your hands (for example, place it on your lap), I still recommend the joy-cons. The arm freedom is amazing.

Other split controllers are available, for example certain VR controllers.

To the user who downvoted me and hasn't posted on Lemmy in more than a year... Idk what to say actually, it's weird that you'd do that.

I haven't tried it on the Deck yet, but expect it to work:

Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons. Lean the Deck (or Switch) on its side on something, such that with your head on the pillow you can look at it. With one joy-con in each hand, you can reposition your arms however you want and independently of each other.

This method with Ace Attorney games on the Switch is my sleeping pill. Works amazingly well for me. After I finish my current Ace Attorney game, I plan to finally try it with the Steam Deck and a different visual novel.

Foreseeable caveat: charging the joy-cons will be annoying. If you put them in a Switch to charge (which is my only charging solution right now), they get paired to it automatically and will need to be re-paired with the Deck.

Also, leaning the Steam Deck on its side won't be as easy as it is for the Switch. Might have to improvise something for that.