People who buy these things to play whatever Windows-only anticheat games seem willing to put up with a lot of jank. The issues you’re describing were exactly the sort of things that made me initially skeptical that the Stand Deck could deliver. Valve really managed to pull off something that is quite stable and easy to use compared to other devices in the same category.

Half Orc Barbarian already gets you like 50% of the way there.

Some sort of bug or mod issue caused Lae’zel’s camp clothes and underwear to go missing by default so the first camp cutscene with her threatening Tav she is completely nude. It’s very intimidating. I thought it was a one off thing but it happened with two other characters too so now shamelessly nude Lae’zel is part of my head cannon for the game.

I imagine the other characters telling her to put some pants on and she’s just like “Chk! No, make me.”

I don’t really engage with the online mechanics in Elden Ring… Maybe I should? I’ve put hundreds of hours into the game otherwise. I rate and leave messages but I’ve never summoned help for co-op or invaded people except for Varre’s quest where I always just get obliterated by people who are way better prepared than me.

Backups need to be reliable and I just can’t rely on a community of volunteers or the availability of family to help.

So yeah I pay for S3 and/or a VPS. I consider it one of the few things worth it to pay a larger hosting company for.

I’m from the Midwest US and I know there are words and sounds I pronounce with a Midwestern accent but I can still type and spell them correctly.

If’n I typ lik dis den o’course people gonna think I hev the big dumb or that I’m a mole from a Redwall book.

I intentionally do not host my own git repos mostly because I need them to be available when my environment is having problems.

I make use of local runners for CI/CD though which is nice but git is one of the few things I need to not have to worry about.

I’ve been testing Bazzite out on a variety of hardware. It’s very easy to setup and required no additional fiddling at all to get working, even with an Nvidia card which is the usual source of Linux gaming frustrations.

If you’re used to the limitations of the Steam Deck OS and haven’t had any issues there then you should have a good experience with Bazzite which is presented in a very similar way even if it’s a little different under the hood.

Bazzite is basically exactly this already. If you have an AMD gpu you can boot straight into steam. The desktop mode uses KDE like the Steam Deck and the package manager makes it much easier to layer in additional system packages which is kind of a pain on the Deck. Plus there are some additional gaming specific tweaks popularized by tools like cryoutility included by default.

Do you have any links or guides that you found helpful? A friend wanted to try this out but basically gave up when he realized he’d need an Nvidia GPU.

I’ve been testing Ollama in Docker/WSL with the idea that if I like it I’ll eventually move my GPU into my home server and get an upgrade for my gaming pc. When you run a model it has to load the whole thing into VRAM. I use the 8gb models so it takes 20-40 seconds to load the model and then each response is really fast after that and the GPU hit is pretty small. After I think five minutes by default it will unload the model to free up VRAM.

Basically this means that you either need to wait a bit for the model to warm up or you need to extend that timeout so that it stays warm longer. That means that I cannot really use my GPU for anything else while the LLM is loaded.

I haven’t tracked power usage, but besides the VRAM requirements it doesn’t seem too intensive on resources, but maybe I just haven’t done anything complex enough yet.

DuckDNS is great… but they have had some pretty major outages recently. No complaints, I know it’s an extremely valuable free service but it’s worth mentioning.

Cloudflare has an api for easy dynamic dns. I use oznu/docker-cloudflare-ddns to manage this, it’s super easy:

docker run \
  -e API_KEY=xxxxxxx \
  -e ZONE=example.com \
  -e SUBDOMAIN=subdomain \
  oznu/cloudflare-ddns

Then I just make a CNAME for each of my public facing services to point to ‘subdomain.example.com’ and use a reverse proxy to get incoming traffic to the right service.

Google is stuck because they can’t actually improve user experience without threatening their revenue model.

The original Resident Evil 4 if you count its 2005 release date instead of the 2014 PC HD rerelease.

It’s a favorite of mine and I was having fun comparing it to the Remaster.

I do this with Xbox controllers and it’s very easy. Depending on the emulator you usually have to assign which physical controller should be used for which console input. Usually this is a one time setup unless you switch back and forth a lot between the built in a Steam Deck controller and an external one.

I recommend launching the emulator from Steam when setting that up so there isn’t any confusion between connecting directly to the controllers vs using Steam Input. Once the setup is done you can launch individual ROMs directly from Steam.

You can even mix and match controllers. I’ve played Smash Bros with a mix of Xbox, GCN and PS4 controllers on the Deck.

It’s kind of crazy how off the rails this series got later down the line.

It means he wants one but it’s in poor taste to join in with the fan outcry when it’s not up to him, it’s up to Sony.

FromSoft… how the fuck am I supposed to know that I’m supposed to go to a single random point of grace and pick a dialogue option to talk to a doll… not once… but MULTIPLE TIMES in a row while nothing happens before the quest finally progresses.

Seriously it’s the bizarrely obscure stuff like this, or expecting that after every single boss I’ll just randomly wander the entire world and talk to everyone just in case they moved or have something new to say. Drives me up the wall. I like that FromSoft is okay with you missing content so they shut up and get out of the way but some of these quests are cryptic as hell.

The adaptive triggers are great. I’ve assumed that support for them on PC is basically non-existent, does anyone know if that is true? I figured I’d be lucky if it worked on the handful of PS5 games that have come to PC.