u/thingsiplay

Maybe it is. But I'll stick for now, because I don't see any problem. That does not mean there aren't any, I'm just not convinced.

I remember the reason why I didn't chose Sopuli, it was one of the top contenders BTW. At that time I had no idea if that instance is good or bad, and searching in the web for the reputation of an instance wasn't much fruitful. The reason why Sopuli fall out of the contender list was, ...

1. it is run by a Finn (nothing against a Finn!!!! don't get this twisted!). Why could that be a problem, maybe in the future? It could be too opinionated towards a single persons or country, not as neutral as I hope it would be. Because it specifically mentions Finn and their rules also in their language, I would think it could be a political reason and a strong focus. I would avoid the same, if it was run by any other country and mentioned it like this! In example I'm in Germany and would avoid German instances too, especially if it was written like the Sopuli style on their description.

2. it lists Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency on their main page description, alongside with Patreon. While its not a problem trying to cover the costs of the instance, I am always a bit allergic if cryptocurrency is put in front and center. Yes, normal people do that too, but it always feels a bit off putting to me.

My goal was to find the biggest and neutral possible instance, with a description and rule set that sounded good enough, and is not blocked by many. I don't know if ml instance was the best choice, and I don't know if Sopuli would be better. But I had to make a choice and tried to do a safe bet, as the ml instance description sounded minimalist and focuses on Open Source and is run by their developers.

I think you read and fantasize too much into. Not everyone sees it through those eyes. In example, because I like a certain character from a videogame (or even film) does not mean I like everything the person likes. In example I like the character Di Caprio played. It does not mean I'm racist.

I noticed that a few instances are banned. I actually wanted to avoid that, unless the instances are bad or extreme. I don't know what tankies mean btw. But I'm probably not switching that soon away, unless it gets bad.

You mean why this instance specifically? I looked around and there was a few candidates. For one, I wanted a big one with many people. One of the reasons to is, so the instance seems to be lively and won't close too soon. Because I don't want another kbin situation. I don't want want that blocks many instances or get blocked by many (besides the extremes off course).

One that is not tooo much opinionated like beehaw, because I don't want that anymore. I looked into the rules, and some instances had bad rules, don't remember details. It's even run by the Lemmy's developers themselves. Not sure if that is a good thing, but it ensures a bit of longevity I think. And first class support and updates.

Other than that, I don't remember too many details. Why you guys chose the instance you chose?

This is my only account I am using, since I abandoned my previous main account with same name and icon. My previous account was on beehaw instance at https://beehaw.org/u/thingsiplay , joined 3 years ago. I left that place because I disagree with moderation and switched to lemmy.ml. I do not use multiple accounts at the same time, BTW, always a single main account.

I actually don't understand your question. My current account https://lemmy.ml/u/thingsiplay is the last and newest one I created. Before that, I had an account at beehaw instance. I had disagreed with a deletion of my reply, just because they didn't like it (or even understood). No toxicity was involved. ... aand before that I also had an account on kbin, but switched over to Lemmy, because kbin seems to be dead. I didn't check in years.

Unless I misunderstood your question.

Guess I’ll be selling some CS2 items.

Back then when Steam Deck launched, my brother purchased the cheapest Deck for about 379 Euros or something like that by selling CS:GO items. That was one of the most impressive things I saw, given he almost never purchased anything (expensive) there.

I want to remember people, that I was right and Tyler McVicker was wrong. He predicted a launch price of 1500 Dollars. There were entire articles and discussions in the web around that prediction: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/112988/the-steam-frame-could-be-priced-at-dollars1500-at-launch-according-to-insider/index.html and linked to Lemmy post for discussions: https://lemmy.ml/post/51014971 I just find it fun to see and read what people expected, and then what reality is.

I quote myself:

BTW the article is based off Tyler McVicker’s prediction. He was never good at predicting…

Its just one click switch and it changes immediately without reload. So I wouldn't say there is any effort needed if you just want to see the difference. I'm not trying hard to change you mind BTW, just sayin' its really simple.

I just wanted to ask the other user about the compatibility breakage issue. It was breaking with every update of the Steam Beta and I had to rerun the installer for the plugins. I really like the plugin system, but this breakage is annoying.

The Big Art mode is not so much different from the regular Home screen. It just puts the "camera view" more up, so that only the games are seen in a list below (the same list you get in regular Home screen) and the bottom news are now out of the view. You have to click down to get there. I always wanted to have this, because it bugged me how cluttered the Home screen was. Feels more like how it looks on Playstation now (never used modern Playstation, just judging from images).

I'm just explaining this, because you may have misunderstood it from the description. I don't know if there are other changes, this is just what I personally have noticed.

Last month I wanted to get into Vampire Survivors. But there was this other game I saw all the time, Brotato. After reading reviews about both games, I decided to play Brotato. And off course the price was never the issue, only my time. I'll expand to other games later. Players said that Brotato has enemies in waves, with Pause in between to upgrade. I liked that idea more, which gave it a little bit of tactical note. Also the builds and characters you can choose in the beginning have huge implications and changes the playstyle dramatically.

So my suggestion is, have a look at Brotato. The other game suggestions I got last months have not played yet.

I don't.

According to https://steamdeckhq.com/news/star-wars-zero-company-not-good-on-steam-deck/ the playing on Deck is a bad time, struggles to hit 30 fps (often 18 to 22 fps in action) with lowest settings applied. I don't know about the resolution, probably native 720p or 800p, and if he tried upscaling. But at this performance level, I do not think it will help to get stable 30 fps.

With Steam Input you an play with gamepad, even if they don't support gamepad. Either the community made a configuration you can easily download and apply, or you can create yourself one. But that is not convenient and straight forward like an official gamepad support for sure.

I'm not a fan of coloring for age of post. Usually the compromise is, when mouse hover it will show the actual date in a on hover popup. How about when clicking the time it changes to a timestamp (and back) or while mouse is hovering / touching the time it changes on the fly (without any hover tip, **Edit**: I just realized that most people don't use a mouse on their phone :D also this would require dynamic changing with JavaScript).

Yes, but it makes sense in relation to other posts. It is just frustrating after longer period of time then a few minutes or hours, or when screenshot like this.

Especially because it is vibe coded. I wouldn't even do this with every application on every update for a software that is written by good humans. At most for a single application I fall in love with.

On a personal level, I also don't like Epic and Tim Sweeney, but recognize how important this is of a change. Tim said in the past they don't care bout the Steam Deck, because it is not selling well. They will care if it is selling in the tens of millions. (I can't link to the original Twitter/X post, so I rely on correct quoting from other places.)

“If we only had a few more programmers. It’s the Linux problem. I love the Steam Deck hardware. Valve has done an amazing job there; I wish they would get to tens of millions of users, at which point it would actually make sense to support it.”

\- Tim Sweeney