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**Fuck.**

Even if we ignore the silicon shortage, it doesn't make sense for Valve to set up the facilities and supply chains to fully satisfy the day-one demand, only to shut them down months later when the demand falls off and no longer justifies the expense of operating them. The up-front cost of setting up additional factories, especially for the custom high precision optics, would be a massive waste. The other option would be to build up a larger stockpile before the product is released, but then you'd still be waiting all the same.

In terms of hardware, Valve is not a significant player. They sell niche products meant for enthusiasts, and the lottery is the most pragmatic way to get them into hands.

Please suggest an alternative, then, that prevents scalping and doesn't only favor the specific demographic that you are in.

Is "being constantly miserable online" how younglings define "bullying" these days? I apologize, I didn't know. Could you at least call me fat or make fun of my name or interests? Then maybe I'd feel something other than slightly sorry for you. I don't want to leave you hanging.

Says a lot about you that, of all of her achievements and qualifications, and the fact that she not just revolutionized but practically *created* the field of consumer-grade wireless VR... you get stuck on her being a woman.

God's menagerie is vast, but the fences are low.

Hey, I've found the target audience for the DLSS5 instagram filter!

"It's open source, you can review the code" has become one of the most annoying thought-terminating clichés. Sure, we could:

• Parse the code that the owner likely doesn't fully understand

• Figure out the application logic that the owner also likely doesn't understand

• Check the logic for anything that might cause unwanted side-effects

• Check the logic for malware behaviour

• Run tests (and review the test code because it's also likely vibe coded)

• Pray and beg that everything works

• Repeat every time the software needs to be updated

Or we could warn others that the owner couldn't be assed to either write the code or review what some LLM farted out, and that neither they nor their code should be trusted.

It's gas station weed. It's a drink from a stranger at a night club who swears there's nothing in it.

That's valid. The only thing I miss from my previous XBone controller was the ability to use the D-pad with my right thumb, or even the middle of my left thumb to an extent. The asymmetric Xbox layout is supreme.

I'm pretty sure you can also combine radial menus with mode shifts. Dishonored 2's default Deck config has a mode shift bound to L1 (which opens the in-game weapon wheel), which temporarily reassigns the left analog sticks as mouse input while the button is pressed. I'm pretty sure the same could be done with Steam Input's radial menus too.

You should give radial menus a try. I use one in Dishonored 2 and a different one in Warframe, both on the left trackpad.

In Warframe, the entries send keypresses for the eight numpad numbers corresponding to the direction that I press on the trackpad (bottom left is 1, top is 8, etc), which activate some of the hotkeyed gear items. In Dishonored 2, it just sends a number row keypress in order (first entry is 1, second is 2, etc), which switches the active power or weapon.

In other games, I just use it as a secondary D-pad (usually directional swipe) with a mode shift on one of the back buttons. My ideal setup would be to have an eight-way directional swipe without having to define a radial menu.

Steam Input is great, I just wish the config app was better.

Both Lutris and Heroic are front ends that manage the compatibility tools and runtime environments of Windows applications.

• Lutris provides deeper, more advanced configuration options. It's better if you want to tinker. Lately it's been having some difficulties with zombie processes and failing to shut down games.

• Heroic is a more streamlined experience with most of the advanced options tucked away in sub-menus, and it has storefront integrations for GOG, Epic, and I think Amazon. For downloading and installing games, it's comparable to Steam. I use it exclusively for games I bought on GOG.

• Faugus Launcher is similar to Lutris, but lightweight, reliable, and without the zombie process issues. I use it for most non-Steam games.

• Bottles is a Flatpak app that runs apps in a sandboxed environment, i.e. it doesn't expose your filesystem to the apps. It also tends to have fewer compatibility issues than other runners.

Correction: It's `SteamDeck=0 %command%`. Environment variables can't have spaces in their name.

If issue \#1 is about MangoHUD, you should read its manual to find out how to set the overlay size. If it's not MangoHUD... you should switch to MangoHUD, it's a fantastic application.

Issue \#2: Gamescope has built-in support for FSR1 and NIS upscaling. Use this as the launch options: `gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -w 3840 -h 2160 -F fsr -r 120 -- %command%`. This will run the game in a 1080p 120 FPS graphical session, but upscale it to a 4K output resolution using FSR. Unfortunately Gamescope is not perfect and sometimes introduces compatibility and stability issues.

Alternatively, you can use *Lossless Scaling* for either upscaling or frame generation. It works on Linux and is well-liked, but I've never personally used it.

Issue \#3:

The default Proton version is the latest one available. You can set it globally in Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility.

By default, games use the global Proton version. If you want a game to use a different version, you can set it in the game's Properties -> Compatibility by checking the "Force the use [...]" checkbox, then selecting one from the menu.

Regressions *can* and *have* happened. Steam offers the latest release of every major version, so if a game needs an older version, you can use it. Older 32-bit games in particular might have issues with Proton 10 or above, but it is possible to downgrade.

You can also use third-party compatibility tools that offer different game-specific fixes. The most popular ones are GE-Proton, Proton-EM, and Dawn Winery (the last one specifically for Chinese gacha games with horrid anti-cheat). You can install them by extracting the archives into the `~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d` directory.

I strongly recommend consulting ProtonDB if you're having issues with a game.

That's literally what happened with the black PS5 shells. They used Sony's trademark without permission, got a cease and desist, and didn't learn a fucking thing from it. I'm sure they had the best intentions, but doing it *twice* was monumentally stupid.

!Because it's there.

I don't think they've ever had any sales for hardware. The only discounted hardware I've seen was the refurbished Deck. If you don't want specifically Valve-branded hardware, you're probably better off building a proper PC from comparable second-hand parts.

A few notes on Linux.

Recent versions of Wine use SDL2 to implement XInput support. Any game running on a decently new version will work with the SC2 out of the box. Run `wine control joy.cpl` (with the correct WINEPREFIX obviously) to configure and test both XInput and DirectInput devices.

This unfortunately causes issues with SISR. Since both SISR (through Steam Input) and the Wine game (through SDL) process the input events separately, using SISR will result in double inputs. This can be fixed by telling SDL to ignore the SC2 altogether by passing this environment variable to the game: `SDL_GAMECONTROLLER_IGNORE_DEVICES='0x28de/0x1304'`

The Mystery Of The Droods. It runs perfectly, it records perfectly, I can save the game, and I didn't even have to gut my PC to get it to work. Linux appears to be the ideal environment for the skeletonized remains of ancient Windows games.


Time to harrass Vivec's well-dressed cousin, then poison a bum and steal his money.

I have horrible news.


*Ring* works perfectly on Linux. Apparently this game is an absolute wanker on Windows. Here it just glugs along gluggingly.

Mostly I can only describe it as "game no worky". Steam pretends to launch a game, then nothing happens. My hypothesis is that Steam does something to the runtime environment that fucks with some games.

One other thing that I've noticed is that on Wine/Proton environments launched from Steam, the lettered drives (aside from `C:`) are mounted as some kind of overlay filesystem. Writing to them (e.g. by an installer) causes data to be written into memory, not to the mass storage where the drive targets are located.