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So what happens? The screen just goes black in the middle of a game? I guess that would be a clue to plug it in, if you’re expecting it.

Right now, having it shut down when you didn’t realize the battery was low is really annoying.

But here’s something I’ve done many times. I pick up my Deck, I turn it on without thinking, and it turns out it’s at 0% (or very close to it), and—as the screen comes on and the CPU wakes up—the voltage has suddenly dropped below the low-voltage shut off, so it shuts down immediately. Really sucks.

I did this like three times before I learned to always plug in the Deck before turning it on if i’m not certain I have good battery.

So what would happen with this plugin installed? Would it wake up and then immediately go to sleep again? Or is there a threshold where it doesn’t check if it should sleep within a certain period since waking up? In that case, it would likely shut down as normal. But I’m wondering if there’s a chance the plug-in catches that and makes it go back to sleep. Because that would be excellent as long as I knew what was happening.

Is it painful to go back to stable from beta? Like, do I risk losing anything… Steam input options, settings, anything like that? I never know when some new-to-me feature I just dicovered is beta or not.

I previously uninstalled Decky because it broke my Steam Deck too often, and the advantages just weren’t compelling enough to deal with that. I’ve wondered several times if going back to the stable branch would make it work better, and if I should try it again, and I’m glad you confirmed that it does.

Makes sense. Like MAME, like the other reply mentioned. No one says Multi Arcade Machine Emulator.

Oh, I see. I did some looking and it seems it’s a lightweight, UEFI-only replacement for GRUB.

I installed it last Summer. Does that mean I’m currently running a different init system?

That is what sweaty means, yes.

The link in your blog post that goes to the OLED screen on AliExpress is a 404 error.

Some of us don’t even know what RPCS3 is, so LBP could have been anything. I get it now. No need to explain. But maybe use fewer initialisms next time.

Sweaty

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The fact that that “right” angle isn’t square makes me so angry.

If you call your debate opponent anything like “little buddy”, “sweetheart”, etc., you instantly lose the argument.

Chads have deoxyribododecahedron genes.

Turns out, we see in low light with our eyes.

Damn… Jenny Slate could sell me a doorbell.

It’s not a bachelors degree in anything. It’s just a BS degree.

I dunno, ducks have maze-like vaginas to avoid pregnancy from rape. Evolution optimizes for the survival of the species, not for reproducing some maximum possible amount. Perhaps they evolved when limiting reproduction wad a benefit to the species.

Soon, though, using gravitational lensing of the sun. Sometime around 2035 maybe.

Nwver heard of Smell-O-Vision!?

Snails and slugs have eyes. I feel like this shouldn’t be a surprise, and yet I was surprised, too.

Orginal Oblivion with mods. I have never played it. I just got the game installed yesterday, and set up in Vortex. Now I have to go grab all the mods, which is very manual. Vortex mod installation links on the Nexus don’t work on the deck. There might be a way to fix that because the mod suggestion list I’m looking at said there’s a way to make links work with Mod Manager 2 on the Deck.

I’m following a curated list of mods that will be a “vanilla+” experience. Not too crazy or anything. It’s called “A Pocket Full of Cheese Wheels” on the Nexus. It comes with a one-click installer shell script that installs Mod Manager 2 and a bunch of other stuff on the Deck but I’m just going to do it manually. The script is old and no longer maintained.

I modded Fallout 3 with Vortex on my Deck, and it was pretty easy when the game is installed on the SD card. I feel like that was key, but I don’t remember exactly why. You also have to symlink the “My Games” folder from the Fallout 3 (or Oblivion) Proton prefix into the Vortex Proton Prefix. That’s so Vortex can manage the INI files and such. Plus you set the SD card as the D: drive in the Vortex Proton prefix so it can see the game’s folder, too. In fact, I think that’s was done automatically done by Steam. Maybe that was why I installed the game on the SD card. But it’s not like you couldn’t make your own drive mapping. It’s a simple symlink named like “d:” or “e:” in the “dos_devices” folder. I don’t see why that couldn’t point to the NVMe drive, but I feel like people online said that wouldn’t work. Vortex is also installed on the SD card.

Maybe some day I’ll document all of this.