The problem isn’t (just) the display, it’s the… well, everything else

Edit: not to say that you couldn’t or shouldn’t try it out. Shit, might work out depending on what you want to do

So far I haven’t installed a single non-Steam game. I don’t have the energy for tinkering with things anymore, and I like the Deck because it’s easy and doesn’t require any fiddling to get things to work

At least in RDR2 (the only Rockstar game I have) the launcher works like you’d expect – ie. it’s annoying as shit but no different from the PC version. I’ve had a Deck for a couple of years now and haven’t needed my desktop for anything related to it.

Yes exactly, and this is the beauty of games as a medium.

I think the label originally was pejorative, but then fans of the genre took it as their own. Personally I like walking sims and I think it’s a hilarious way to describe them, but yes it was originally some neckbeard complaining about how as a genre they’re barely even games

But what are the current alternatives? Really seems like the options are either using Emudeck or a whole lot more work

Hey @[email protected] (do pings even work on Lemmy?), do your buttons not work both in game mode and desktop mode?

But yeah like you said, the problem having survived a factory reset makes this feel more like a hardware issue, but it doesn’t hurt to check if the problem persists on “both sides” of the OS.

Hmm, looks like iFixit has a Steam Deck page, which could be helpful. The fact that none of the buttons work is a bit strange; I wonder how they’re attached to the motherboard? Feels like some sort of connector or controller problem (as in hardware controller, not game controller 😄), but I haven’t looked into how the Deck’s hardware handles the button inputs

This is like keeping every website you know open in a tab, just in case you plan to visit it.

Yeah, and what kind of an utter moron would do something like that? 😅

Honestly it feels like there’s something wrong with my brain that just stops me from making good use of bookmarks (and that something might actually be the ADHD, now that I think about it.)

Generally I just forget that I bookmarked something, so keeping a tab open serves as a sort of reminder to get back that page – right now I have 4 tabs “bookmarked” with a bunch of different WiFi AP models I was looking into, and seeing those tabs reminds me that yeah I need to do that shit at some point.

Yes, in theory I could just use the reminder application that comes with my frickin’ operating system, but somehow that always eventually goes to shit too 😂