I think the Deck's killer feature is really just having a library already ready to go when you buy it. Compare this to having to rebuy duckhunt wrapped in an emulator again on the Switch, or whatever.
The touchpads are such a nice controller innovation too.
Steam controller :D I grabbed one for like 5 $ when they were going out of production. It's not exactly the same but...
I wasn't really impressed by the touchpads, until I actually used them. Been playing stellaris on my bed every day now and I can't imagine a portable PC like this not having pads.
Yeah, I didn't get them either until using one and realizing conceptually they're more like a trackball.
Clickbait cringe video or no: this is my honest take also. Only reason I don't own a steamdeck right now is I'm still convinced there's going to be a Steamdeck 2 sooner rather than later. My PS4 basically just sat for the past year and a half gathering Dust while I've been shifting back and forth between my PC's depending on whether or not I want to play on my TV or my desk after work is done. Only reason I ever booted the ps4 up in the past two years was to play god of war ragnarok and that just hit PC also along with the valhalla DLC i've been wanting to try.
Steam Deck has all the benefits of portability that the switch has combined with even more ways to play on your TV since you can use either a dock or the cloud saves features to swap back and forth almost seamlessly. Also: 3 cheers for piracy and emulation if you want nintendo content also.
Consoles are dead to me. I'm PC exclusive for the foreseeable future.
Same vibes here. I actually started having issues with my TV gaming PC where it would crash under load so started using moonlight/sunshine to stream over my LAN. The results were so much better than expected that I bought a cheap tablet off aliexperess that I use to game around the house and my backyard like a giant switch/deck, is great.
Only read the title (as is tradition) but this is how I feel too. Main reason is that the device is not locked down at all. Having high end hardware like PS5 only for it to be so locked down that there is no way to use it as a Jellyfin client (for example) feels like ass. With no lock down, Steam as a platform adds value to the Deck with their work on proton and dxvk etc. rather than just hold a gun to your head and demand money. I don't even play games through it most of the time. I rather use Lutris because I can wrap my head around it easier. But being able to do it on a console you paid money for feels nice.
I'm wondering if there should be a guideline about this on this comm at the very least, and maybe on hexbear in general. Some sort of requirement for a minimal description or commentary. Maybe timestamps for excessively long videos so that people can skip to the relevant part.
I don't want to name names, I'm not interested in drama. But there's an awful lot posting of videos by a few very specific people who just use the original video's title and never provide context in text form.
I've thought the exact same thing. At least have the YouTube channel in the name. At least on my end there's no thumbnail embed or anything, just a text title and the small embed thing below saying it's a YouTube video. Not a lot to go on.
I don't get thumbnails at my end either. And I fully agree on requiring the Youtube channel name to be mentioned at the least. I almost never engage with this comm because I have no idea whose metrics I'm going to be contributing to. A drop in a bucket in an ocean in a water-rich solar system to be sure. But it matters to me.
A lot of sites with YouTube embedding have rules about posting videos where you have to comment about the video and why people should watch. I don't click any of the videos on hexbear or lemmy because I'm not going to sit down for 20 minutes to watch something by someone I don't know.
I don't think people need to write more than a sentence or two and I wouldn't expect there to be anything on stuff like music or 10 second comedy sketches. But holy hell could we use something for video essays and political commentary.
Honestly I've been emulating everything I wanted from the switch (not on a steam deck though) and the only thing I even want from the PS5 is demon souls
Let me know when the higher-end Steam Decks have IPS screens. I don't go near planned-obsolescence OLED shit.
What is it about OLED screens that makes them planned obsolescence? Just curious, not challenging this statement. Burn in?
Yellowing and burn-in. Not temporary image retention, but actual real genuine burn-in (well, burn-out, but it amounts to the same thing - just unusable black pixels instead of unusable white ones). The technology is fundamentally flawed. Don't trust the tech reviewers who claim it's a solved problem, because it's not, and will never be. All the display manufacturers can do is hacky workarounds to slightly delay the inevitable. IPS displays like on the lowest-end Steam Deck and the original Switch and Switch Lite may not have the deep black levels of OLED, but the technology is immune to OLED-style burn-in and yellowing. Of course from the phone manufacturers' perspective this means OLED is better than IPS because it's one more reason to encourage people to buy new phones more frequently.
Anecdotally, OLED also gives maybe 5-10% of the population headaches to varying degrees due to the use of something called "pulse width modulation" (or PWM) to control the pixels. I'm not one of them fortunately but I do have several relatives and friends who straight-up cannot use OLED Apple or Samsung or Google phones (which is almost all the phones they make) because they get headaches within minutes of using those screens. Those three manufacturers also supply most of the phones available on contract from Canadian mobile carriers. Many times I've had someone I know call me while almost in tears about how their expensive new phone gives them a headache and they can't return it because it's leased through a carrier, they're locked into a contract, and the carrier refuses to make a swap.
Many times I've had someone I know call me while almost in tears about how their expensive new phone gives them a headache and they can't return it because it's leased through a carrier, they're locked into a contract, and the carrier refuses to make a swap.
I'm not a primitivist, but
I can see this being a big concern for something like a living room TV purchase where the screen is the entire device and very expensive. And it's obviously a much bigger issue for those personally affected by these specific kind of headaches. But otherwise for a handheld device? I imagine it will become a lot less usable in other ways before burn out renders it fully dead. Battery life and wear on the buttons, triggers, and pads would be of higher concern to me, not to mention the joysticks which aren't Hall effect and will drift inevitably. Anyway, all of these components are technically replaceable, including the screen. As much as I despise e-waste and rapid obsolescence of tech, I'm not convinced OLED isn't worth it for smaller devices.
I don't believe in disposable technology. Why shouldn't I be able to use a device with no consumables other than electricity for decades if need be?
Because there will always be parts that eventually fail. It's important that those parts be repairable or replaceable because you can't count on the whole thing lasting forever. Nothing does.
I still fret over the lifetime of my belongings. When I hear a mouse is tested and guaranteed to function up to several million clicks, I think of that like an approaching deadline. In reality, that many clicks would take decades on average. Ideally that's the kind of lifespan we're talking about when we purchase a product. Personally, I've never had an OLED phone burn out to the point of unusability or even minor annoyance after years of heavy use, more use than my Steam Deck will ever likely see. But if/when it does happen, it's good to know that I could replace that component.
OLEDs don't burn in, they burn out, which is much worse, since you can't prevent it from happening by shifting static content around on the screen.
All OLEDs will eventually fail or look so bad that they become unusable.
I've been saving up for a looong time and I'm probably going to pull the trigger on a Legion Go when the next model gets announced/released and there's a price drop.
Bazzite OS is rapidly bringing non-Steam Deck handhelds up to the same level as the SD with regards to functionality and essentially I'm intending on using the LeGo as a desktop main as well, given that I don't need anything particularly powerful for stuff like graphic design or whatever, so it will justify itself and its exorbitant pricetag because I'll have a handheld and (with a dock) a PC that meets all my needs.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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but it's Gaben
