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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I suspect we may see a lot of countries get pushy about trying to encourage people to have kids. There were lots of short term economic benefits to pushing families into having both partners working, but in the long term countries are still built around needing a growing population to do well.

You can offset lower birthrates with immigration to an extent, but itherwise we would need pretty major social changes to sustain society if birth rates continue to decline.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Alternative wording is gives you an erection for the rest of your life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just to make sure:

  • The games will run on other platforms, just fail to run if you have the save file from the deck?

  • Have you tried an md5 check or anything to make sure the save files aren't somehow being corrupted during sync?

[–] [email protected] 154 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I remember one of my first thoughts on the Deck was "even if this fails commercially or can't play any new games, I want it for old games and emulation. Even if it goes nowhere else, it would be worth it for me."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I have a 3rd party dock, but it's worked pretty well on the 3.6 beta as far as those issues are concerned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, I straight up had two different installation media's fail until I went back and shut down windows fully. I've never run into that before on an install before.

First I tried ZorinOS, and it would fail to even boot into the live environment. I tried multiple times and even made a new install media. Then I tried fedora silverblue, it would get into the install environment but couldn't do any kind of partitioning etc to the drive. I then rebooted to windows, shut it down fully, and tried again. This time fedora could edit the drive partitions, and zorin could load the live environment and install.

Previously I've had issues with shared drives being locked by windows, but this was the first time I've ever had an install fail because windows wasn't shutdown fully. I don't usually dual boot these days either though (I was setting up this computer for family) so I figured maybe something had changed with newer versions of windows or device security.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Currently, swapping the battery is one of the most complex repairs on the Deck,

Is it really? I know there's some glue holding the battery itself, but otherwise my understanding is that the battery is really easy to access.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Make sure windows was shut down all the way. Normally when you shutdown windows, it only hibernates and it locks it's partitions to prevent editing. I tried installing Zorin for a family member recently, and it couldn't install until I booted back into windows and shut it down fully.

To shutdown fully, in windows you need to either hold shift while clicking the shutdown button, or open the run box and run the command shutdown -s -t 00

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It happens to the best of us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

First, I would go to https://packetlosstest.com/ on your deck in desktop mode and see if it shows any issues. They have some game presets you can pick to hopefully test network traffic use similar to the games you're having issues with.

Once you have a baseline test of how your internet is performing, some basic things to try to improve it are:

  • Reboot deck and wifi router.
  • Switch between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz
  • Try playing closer to the router and see if the lag goes away.
  • Disable the wifi power management setting on the deck

Even if nothing has changed with the Deck and router, it's possible another device in the house is causing interference, especially on 2.4Ghz networks. If the problem is something else causing interference, it can be really confusing to troubleshoot from the network side of things because the problems will be very intermittent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh my bad, I accidentally skipped over that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The default scroll settings now is circular scroll (where you move your finger in a circle on the track pad). If you don't know it's circular it will make it seem like it changes directions at times.

It used to default to swipe up/down to scroll, and the change in defaults has confused a lot of people.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/16434132

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/uScsmjvdwyo

Invidious video from YouTube without YouTube: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=uScsmjvdwyo or https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=uScsmjvdwyo

Video description:


It’s clear there are some people who don’t understand Proton. So let’s talk about it. #Proton #SteamPlay #CompatibilityLayer

00:00 Introduction
00:41 The basics of a computer
01:46 What Proton is not
03:04 What is an emulator
04:32 Proton acts like a map
05:25 Proton translates API and system calls
06:18 Proton provides a Windows-like software environment
06:55 Why are some games incompatible?
08:52 Shouldn't we demand native Linux games?
11:07 Conclusion
 

You can re-enable these options by using the SteamDeck=0 %command% launch option, but this might cause the deck to crash if it runs out of RAM/VRAM.

This crash shouldn't happen if you're on SteamOS Beta (version 3.6 or newer) because it uses ZRAM, or if you've increased your swap file size. However memory having to be moved between ZRAM/swap and RAM/VRAM does cause reduced performance too, so more testing will be needed to see if it's better to use FSR3/XeSS this way or not.

 

The also mentioned that it will support SteamOS specifically, which I would assume means that the Deck will be specifically supported.

 

UMU comes from GloriousEggroll who is well known for making protonGE that's required to run several games on linux/deck.

It's not a launcher by itself, but rather something that can be built into other game launchers like Heroic, Lutris, and Junk Store. Right now most all steam games that don't have anticheat run great on deck without any tweaks. However many of those same games don't run by default if you install them from Epic/GOG/etc using one of the previously mentioned launchers. The games often require additional windows components to be manually installed with winetricks/protontricks, and many have lesser performance than their steam counterparts.

UMU is supposed to help other launchers have comparable compatibility and performance to what we see in steam native games. This project will hopefully improve the 3rd party launcher experience a lot.

 

This beta update doesn't change much, but the name of the update makes me think Valve is nearly ready to push 3.6 to stable.

 

This would presumably let x86 windows games run on ARM hardware.

This is almost certainly meant for the next Valve VR headset, but ARM has so much better power efficiency than x86 that a future ARM based Deck would be a huge improvement to battery life.

Also see this tweet:

VR games that have already secretly pushed Android ARM builds onto the Steam Store are ran via Waydroid (androidARM to LinuxARM)

VR games that do not have an ARM build on Steam (windows x86) are being translated/emulated via ProtonARM and FEX

Edit: here's gamingonlinux coverage of this info, includes some more information

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