“the lawsuit states that Google is profiting from the scam, too.”

Google has the resources to prevent this. Google’s leadership chose not to.

2 of 2. That’s what the “Final” in the title means.

Edit: They wouldn’t have named it “Final” if they intended to make more games!

Edit 2: Final means “Last” in English. It’s a clue that this is the final chapter of the series!

“I appreciate covering my screen in fingerprints, obviously. But what really makes me happy is trying dozens of times to get my fat thumb to register on an interface designed for a mouse.”

• a quote by someone making hardware decisions at SteamDeck rival manufacturers, apparently.

Oooh. Yeah. I could justify it as a laptop expense. Heh. Maybe I’ll use that as my excuse…

I feel the same except it’s a lot of money.

This looks like an ideal version of the “SteamDeck Lite” I’ve dreamt of.

But $850.00 isn’t pocket change for me.

You’re very welcome! I’ve had that issue with VSCode. I tend to create my venv outside of VSCode and force VSCode to use it. I’ve had issues Usually because VSCode is very particular about where the venv folder can be (it really wants it in the root of the current open folder).

All that said, everyone I know with a PyCharm licence likes it better than VSVcode anyway.

Have fun! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you get stuck.

Rock and stone!

No module named pip is usually because I have Python earlier than 3.9ish and the vast majority of recipes expect Python 3.9 or later.

A virtual environment that removes access to pip certainly isn’t working as desired.

Here’s some things your outputs tell me:

• The system version of Python has a lot of stuff installed. So using a virtual environment is definitely worth the effort.
• Your activate script looks fine, on a casual read. (One of the problems we have ruled out is an empty activate file.)
• Python and pip are both installed and available on your PATH, at least before you activate the virtual environment.
• Your virtual environment is doing things - at least enough to break pip.

Having ruled out an empty activate file, I would check on what shell is running. Your activate script expects bash - a classic - but your SteamDeck terminal could default to something else.

I would also try tossing a 3 at the end of the Python and pip commands. In some situations it can help a missing command be found.

Try these:

which python
which pip
python -V
bash
which python
which pip
python -V
source .venv/bin/activate
which python
which python3
python -V
which pip
which pip3
pip3 freeze

Some questions that would help folks help you debug:

• What is the output of cat .venv/bin/activate?
• What are the results of which python both before and after running the source command?
• What are the results of python -m pip freeze both before and after running the source command?

Oh, and a Python pro tip - when a virtual environment misbehaves in any way, I’m pretty quick to rm -rf .venv and rebuild it, in case I did something I forgot about. (If I’ve run more than 5 commands and my venv isn’t behaving as expected, I figure I am way off track.)

Should such a (100 year) ban stand, players risked entirely missing the much- prophesied Year of the Linux Desktop or Mainstream Mac Gaming, almost certain to happen at some point in that span.

Lol. Harsh, but fair.

• For the way I treat my SteamDeck, a clip on screen cover was a necessity.
• A larger case with space to keep the charging cable with it, for longer gaming sessions at my siblings place.
• A tiny Bluetooth gamepad (fits in the case beside the charger) for easily adding a second player for (admittedly intimate) couch co-op.

Editors update, an hour later:

“Wait… I’m just realizing that’s the count of Steam Verified games in my personal library. We are waiting to hear back if any of the 15 games I have not purchased on Steam impact this total.”

Yep. That’s the delicious irony here. They could probably release a Linux or Windows based clone next week, if they wanted.

The years of work they’re putting in is probably 90% to avoid leaking their game engine on non-proprietary hardware. Which is the same choice that will make it an unprofitable market flop.

I had one Nintendo Switch fry itself when plugged into a non-nintendo USB C connection, so I wouldn’t risk it.

I learned the hard way that the switch is apparently notoriously picky about it’s chargers.

I’ve been trying, but it’s tough. Is there a book club or something where we can share tips?

(I’m kidding. Instead I’ve settled for making sure they experience the great movies, books and videogames.)

make me question who bankrolled this research group.

Yeah. This reads a lot like “well known harmful but profitable product not as harmful as previously understood”. I’ve seen that headline a lot of times over the years, and rarely was it honest.

Is there somewhere where people have tried to have this civil discussion that I could look at where it stayed civil?

I find that place can be here, with some liberal blocking of asshats.

I was surprised how much thoughtless angry contrarianess was from the same accounts over and over, once I started blocking them.

Yep. Luanti / MineTest. My battery life while playing it is so good, it’s weird. I certainly don’t mind. But I thought my SteamDeck had a battery tracking bug, at first.

I haven’t noticed any loss of battery performance in the year I have had mine.

Weirdly, the time I notice the battery the most is while playing Lunati. Because playing Lunati for two hours somehow costs no battery at all on my SteamDeck.

The Lunati developers are some kind of mad geniuses, I figure.

Lots of devices will kill their own battery to maintain Wifi connection rather than drop.

When is happened to me, it’s always a combination of a specific place I’m sitting and a specific wifi access point.

I haven’t, myself, noticed it happen to my SteamDeck, though.