u/nfreak

I actually got in the queue but I probably can't afford the damn thing right now, I was being a bit optimistic when I signed up lmfao

That's almost the entire reason I'm even using CSS Loader, holy shit

"at least partially vibecoded" meanwhile the github repo itself says *the entire thing was*

hard pass

I looked into this when the SM price tag was shown because it seemed like a much cheaper alternative for essentially the same power, but the effort to build one and the quirks it'll always have (like sleep mode) pushed me away from it.

Super cool to see as a hobby project, but they're wildly different things.

Spoken like a true lib lmao

Electoral politics means nothing when the entire issue is rooted in the very foundations of the country and capitalism as a whole. One dumbass being elected isn't an anomaly, he's an inevitable symptom of the problems that have been there for ages.

it's not just the one dumb motherfucker in charge, it's practically the entire goddamn government. anyone who isn't vocally outspoken against AI companies and aiming to put a hard stop to their data centers is fully responsible for any and all harm they're currently causing (and the hardware inflation is such a minor part of said harm).

anyway abolish capitalism and send techbros to the guillotines

Steep as shit but still somehow cheaper than expected. We love AI bullshit destroying the entire hardware market hell yeah

That's a big part of why I wanted one. Sure I can just use a laptop or build a small PC (hardware prices today notwithstanding), but the form factor alone is enough of a motivator for me.

Not particularly, it works great for what it does, but I much prefer the SRM approach. I don't want to use a separate launcher for emulation when Steam is right there.

Honestly the only reason I've clung to Emudeck instead of Retrodeck is because it seems so heavily based on ES-DE which I don't want to use whatsoever. Even their SRM support seems to require favoriting games in ES-DE.

Eh the password stealing shit definitely is but the special conditions for "israel" are hilarious (even if their code is borked and doesn't actually work)

tbf the vast majority of that country support him and everything he stands for, so getting rid of one fascist won't change much


It's incredible how they had almost 0 scalper protections in place here. Like I think the Deck required a 30 day old account at launch?

Honestly same. I dabbled with Arch back in college but that was over a decade ago, and I just kept going back to Windows for everything but especially for gaming.

The deck was a bit of an eye-opener, I hadn't kept up with linux news basically since I deleted that old Arch install, and I had no idea things were this good over here now. The deck convinced me to give a desktop distro another shot, and I've been daily driving CachyOS for over a year since.

I won't lie, it hasn't been *flawless*, as it's a bleeding edge distro with a much smaller userbase than its desktop counterpart, but it's served me well enough for 6 months or so now. Only ran into one major bug, which promptly reported after finally finding a workaround/root cause (i.e. steam's background recording seems to break their latest customized gamescope).

If you like to tinker with your devices and SteamOS wiping out anything installed via pacman after an update pisses you off like it did me, then it's worth a try, but if you literally just use it for gaming and never really touch desktop mode, it's not really worth considering.

Hate to admit that when I first got my deck at launch, I immediately set up a dual boot just so I could play Destiny 2 on it.

Needless to say, I no longer play Destiny 2 or even use Windows at all on any of my machines. Hell, I even installed CachyOS Handheld on my deck over SteamOS for shits and giggles.

I've done a good amount of maintenance on my home server setup through my deck on the couch. Just a keyboard and the touchpad. Works just fine, no Windows needed. Basically just a weird shaped laptop.

And if you really do want to activate it (which is kinda worth it because some system settings are locked behind it), Massgrave takes 2 seconds.