Björn Tantau

This is so stupid. I love it!

You can try it out. But apart from that everything runs on Valve time.

Honestly, by now I’ve come to hate games where you can’t figure out how to play them from the game itself. It seems like nowadays you can’t play without a whole community figuring out what’s currently the meta way to play.

I haven’t used the console yet. But at least cheats like IDDQD work without pulling up the console, using Steam’s OSK.

It makes Corona!!!111

I am very satisfied with my Fairphone 3. I still get monthly security updates. I can easily unlock the bootloader and install any alternative ROM I desire. I can repair any broken part without having to unglue something. But it also seems to be the most robust phone I have used in years. There’s a reason a used Fairphone is as expensive as a new one.

If you really want to go all-in on privacy a Pinephone or Librem 5 would be options but they have their own bag of problems. They are better suited for tinkering.

And regarding the comment on firmware updates of the parts themselves, that is a general computing problem that seems to be the worst with single board computers like smartphones. The solution would be parts with support for open firmware but they are almost impossible to find. I think Fairphone is going a good middle ground. I don’t expect there to be any phone where this is better.

I’m always astonished how little some other parents care about their children’s privacy. Schools as well.

It shows an on screen keyboard when you use the mouse to select stuff. That should at least be workaround.

I used to play this game on an early VR headset. Descent on its own was already pretty nauseating. Add stereoscopic 3D and janky headtracking and puking was guaranteed. It was awesome!

If I didn’t have a Steam Deck already I would still get one.

1. It’s one of few devices with Linux preinstalled.
2. The battery life is better.
3. It’s much cheaper. Especially if you get the discounted 64 GB version and buy a larger SSD.
4. The touchpads, gyro, additional back buttons and Steam Input integration make it much better suited for playing general PC games that would never work on a gamepad.

I haven’t tried it, but it should be basically the same. You still can only get the Play Store version, so it should work most of the time, but it might still break then and again. But at least Chrome OS is now officially supported by Bedrock, so maybe they will watch out more for compatibility, I don’t know.

Controls shouldn’t be a problem. The Steam Deck is great in that regard. You can map everything however you want and somebody has also probably already done that for you.

And if push comes to shove you can always install Windows to play Bedrock.

Ah, yeah, whenever you took just one cent from traffic.

I recently played Detroit: Become Human for the first time. That’s pretty good, although it’s a little bit more grounded in reality than the usual neon light infested stuff.

And of course there’s the Blade Runner point and click adventure. But I haven’t played that yet.

Depends. Many games from Epic have that built in. For everything else I use Nextcloud. I think most people use Syncthing.

I am yet to discover a game that can’t be played on the Deck. Steam Input, the touchpads and the gyro are great at getting a good control scheme for everything. I even played StarCraft on that thing.

Just throwing out there that nowadays the only games that don’t work on Linux are multiplayer ones with intrusive unsupported anti-cheat (for support see areweanticheatyet.com) and Gamepass games (and others from the Microsoft store). And VR is finicky.

If you don’t play those you could also go Linux on your gaming PC. Or wait until Windows 10 support runs out and look at the situation then.

I instantly sent it to my mom. She’s been reading teletext news for years.

Yes, I know. Stupid workaround to an artificial problem.

Yes, I loved it! I think I beat it once or twice. The races were especially hard. We would get a pen and use it to quickly alternate between a and b. That seemed to be the best technique. I’ve also installed the game on my Steam Deck, but I don’t want to abuse it like that.

God, and the boss fight with the werewolf was super hard.

Funny story, my older brother made me believe that he had an exploit to see the game’s ending. He would press all buttons and then it would show. But every time I tried it it just made the game reboot and show the intro.

Thing is, that’s what he did as well. I have no idea how I didn’t see that every time he did the “cheat” it would show the same thing as when I tried it. Especially because I knew both the intro and the end. And he confirmed this the other day as well. Guess I was just a very stupid kid.

It was honestly a life saver for me. I got Long Covid and became increasingly bed bound. The Deck enabled me to somewhat keep me sanity by playing in bed.

And that way I don’t have to fight with my kids over the desktop PC. Although they sometimes want the Deck for those games that play better with a gamepad.

Simultaneous play also showed the dark side of Steam. Unless one of the devices is offline you cannot play two games from one Steam library at the same time. Luckily I also have many games on Battle.net, GOG and on my old discs, so I can easily move to another game in case of a clash.

I’m currently playing Spider-Man Miles Morales and having a blast.