Fubarberry @ Fubarberry @sopuli.xyz

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I feel like this won't stop anyone who was already refusing to use a Microsoft account for windows. Anyone who was already bypassing the account requirement will still do so, it just will be more difficult. They've accomplished nothing except further pissing off some of their most competent user base.

That was really fast. I don't know exactly when they opened up sales for them, but I figured we'd have more time than that.

Edit they're still showing up as available for me, I've checked on a few devices. They're either going in and out of stock, or have limited regional availability.

I was recently playing Cosmoteer, and the visual similarities to FTL had me feeling nostalgic. Then I heard about a greatly improved control scheme for FTL and knew I had to try it out.

I'd also like to give credit to the Cosmoteer devs, the default steam deck control scheme handles great. The game wouldn't pe playable on a normal controller at all, but is very easy to play on the steam deck specifically.

To be honest, I haven't really seen any usb-c only hubs. All the Steam deck focused ones are covered up with USB-A ports and at least one HDMI.

Looking on amazon, I see this one and this one. Is that the kind of thing you're looking for? Edit: ok, looking at those further they don't actually support video over usb-C. Here's one with 4 usb-c ports and video output.

I have a somewhat similar theme setup. I think having the cover art near the bottom with a big hero image looks a lot cleaner than the default home screen layout.

The SteamGridDB is possibly my favorite plugin as well, I love how easy it makes it to switch out game art.

They're worried about advertising growth, not user growth. If anything this will make them more likely to ban users as they try to make the site more acceptable to advertisers.

That sounds lovely, just send me your matrix id and I'll add you, or you can add me @fubarberry:matrix.org

Thanks for reminding me on the FTL control scheme, I saw something on it lately but forgot about it.

The return of gameinformer is interesting. I'm really nostalgic for gaming magazines, and have really missed them since they all pretty much died.

That's modern CEOs in a nutshell. Damage the company long term to get those good short term returns for shareholders.

They have a survey right now asking people if they would be willing to alpha test and what they would be willing to pay, and there are only one-time payments on the survey. They're somewhat high payments though, $30-60.

The dev is looking at a one time payment afaik.

The old Decky extension for Junk Store required a one time payment of $6 for GoG early access, and anytime the extension would come up a lot of people would complain about that.

There's a lot of pushback against junk store for switching to a paid model, but I'm fine with it. Obviously FOSS is great, but we don't have any issues with games requiring payment and being closed source.

Heroic and the original Junk Store plugin will still exist, but I'm looking forward to seeing what the stand alone version of junk store is like. The plugin is already a big step towards having epic/gog games feel like they're natively supported on the deck, and I'm hoping the standalone version can take that even farther.

because it was more popular

Meanwhile the Deck is outselling all other handheld PCs combined

Yeah, I'm just guessing that sleep is less disruptive than hibernate, because the ram never even has to be unloaded and reloaded.

Edit: seems like I'm wrong, doing some searches shows that people with the ROG Ally are disabling sleep and forcing the Ally to hibernate mid game. Doesn't work for all games, but does for more games than sleep. People also report that the Ally was frequently waking up on it's own from sleep and overheating in their bags, and that wifi would stop working after sleep, so definitely sounds like hibernate is the way to go on windows devices.

I know HP printers are generally considered the worst printers you can get, but I don't really know how good their other product lines are.

It's different departments, so possibly they could make a decent handheld? Mainly it's just good to hear hardware companies are aware of how bad windows is for gaming devices.

A lot of games do weird things on windows after sleep or crash outright, I'm assuming hibernation would also mess things up.

HP has gotten in trouble multiple times now for firmware updates that intentionally brick their own printers, usually in an effort to stop people from using 3rd-party ink. Their system for verifying authentic ink is unreliable though so everytime they do it they also brick a bunch of printers that are overpaying for HP ink.

Generally HP is the poster child for the worst inkjet printer company.

I've heard the opposite, people having lots of issues with official dock while 3rd party docks will work fine.

I've got a $20 3rd party dock, and it's been doing fantastic for me.

Definitely agree. Most printers are sold at a loss with the plan to milk the buyer long term through ink and other services. EcoTank printers are more expensive, but Epson makes their money at the time of purchase. The ink is extremely cheap, and there's no way for them to tell if you use 3rd party ink at all. We've been printing out textbooks with ours, which would be financially disastrous with a traditional inkjet printer.

Overall I've bought two, one for home and one for the office at work. The cheaper ink has paid for the printers several times over now.

Linux too, at least in most applications I've tried. Some will ask you when you ctrl+shift+v if you want to paste formatted or unformatted text.