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

Playing chess. Stockfish is a hungry beast.

Here are the things I love about Mint:

• Everything is doable with a nice GUI, sometimes more than CachyOS+KDE Plasma
• Very stable, very reliable
• Mint’s Update Manager is great
• Matches my personality/philosophy a bit more
• I installed it for my mom after her old drive died, and it just works for her (she is not a computer person so this is a big win)
• I quite like Cinnamon, though my feelings on this aren’t that strong, I’d be happy with just about any sane desktop environment

Here are the reasons I switched to CachyOS:

• My hardware is new enough that it really benefits from being up to date on everything upstream. On Mint, it’s not hard to switch to a newer kernel and stuff like that, but the more I stray from Mint’s defaults, the more I have to do to maintain my PC rather than just using Update Manager.
• I could not get VRR (FreeSync) to work on Mint Cinnamon. I think it might be impossible.
• I wanted to try other desktops like KDE, and see if Wayland makes any difference to me as a user (it doesn’t). Mint’s supported desktop choices are quite limited (just Cinnamon, Xfce and MATE) and I didn’t want to screw around getting an unsupported desktop to work, defeating a lot of Mint’s advantages.
• Generally wanted to be on the bleeding edge of software updates, just because.

I do have some qualms about CachyOS, specifically I feel like Shelly (their choice of GUI package manager) is undercooked and not ready to ship as default. You don’t have to use it though.

I’m going to stick with CachyOS for now, mostly because it’s just working for me and I don’t feel a strong reason to switch. I hear that Mint/Cinnamon is getting closer to Wayland, which might make for a good time to switch back to it. Or I’ll just stick with what’s working for me until it doesn’t.

I have a regular donation going to Linux Mint. But I’ve kinda switched my main PC over to CachyOS a while back, so technically I’m not paying for the distro I’m using.

I still think Mint is the best. Just kind of confused about where my money should be going.

… And die.

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.

This is the relevant quote:

“In the current state of things, mangaka are not allowed to use AI. But using AI actually drives up the quality by a mile. So doesn’t that mean it would be best to not draw the manga now? Maybe they suddenly lift the ban [on AI] next year, so it might be better to start drawing after that happens. I’m currently on standby in that sense,” Asano says. Though he didn’t elaborate if or to what extent he hypothetically plans to use AI, he said that using it could significantly speed up the modeling process.

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

*twice every day

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.

I like this variant (note, I’m slightly biased):

And Englishman, a Frenchman, an Israeli, a Spaniard and a German are sitting in a room when a man enters and asks, “Can you see me?”

They respond: “Yes.” “Oui.” “Ken.” “Si.” “Ja.”

I’ve heard that it named itself, and the oui+ja interpretation is a false etymology. This is also what’s written on Wikipedia at the time of posting this comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija#Etymology

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.

I was not aware that the diamond monopoly was broken. Neat.

In the Steam hardware survey, under Video Card Description, you can find: Steam Deck GPU - 0.45%.

Random sources online for which I cannot find a source (though I didn’t really look much) say Steam has 132 million monthly active users.

If we take both of those figures at face value, assume being a monthly active user on Steam is a good proxy for “in use”, then that makes 594,000 Steam Decks in active use.

This is far less than the sales figure that @breadsmasher@lemmy.world cited, which could be a combination of a lot of factors:

1. Steam Decks which have been sold but are not in active use for whatever reason.
2. The monthly active users figure for Steam seems low to me for a platform as big as Steam. It could be wrong.
3. It is possible that Steam Deck users are under-represented in the Steam Hardware Survey, and they make up a bigger percentage of Steam users. Maybe they are less likely to participate in it?
4. People might be using Steam Deck for other purposes besides Steam, so they are not active Steam users. Personally I doubt this is a significant factor.
5. Some users might participate in the hardware survey more than once, causing the calculation to be wrong. I’m not sure how the hardware survey works, but this could be a huge factor.
6. Who know what else I didn’t think of.