It was probably said as a joke at some point, and just became normal.

The same way I’ve started using irradiate. It’s technically accurate, but normally a word used in much more concerning context.

Hence, funny :D

I’ve also used “nuke” but recently “irradiate” has been funnier.

Couldn’t you just use any wireless mouse? It’s not like the deck is limited to only controllers.

Or is the idea that you want the left controller for movement, rather than using the left controls on the deck or a full controller?

That said, I’m sceptical that the joycon mouse experience is any good on surfaces other than a table. Or even then, considering the ergonomics of the thing when used as a mouse.

Even if the sensor in it is a good one, it’s going to be bluetooth, and bluetooth mice have always had painfully noticeable latency in my experience.

There should be a library type called “Home videos and photos” for that.

Huh? Like just sitting there?

Or is it running a heavy background task like trickplay generation? You can disable trickplay (scrobbling previews) if your system isn’t beefy enough to keep up with them.

I run video game servers on my system, and while stream transcodes used to interfere with them, even that was fixed my assigning JF and the games to run on separate CPU cores.

Download mode is definitely not a thing yet.

One of the things that’s a bother with the deck is having to leave it on and probably on the charger, if you want to install a couple hundred gigs of games.

Once that’s done, updates don’t take long on my connection so they haven’t been a problem.

But even better if they can pull off a mode where it can do updates while near-sleeping.

Cope-pubes?

Is the idea to entangle the rotors?

YouTube isn’t a piece of software. It’s a web service.

You can’t “crack” it to trick it into thinking you have a license to use all of its features. The authentication required to access the paid content is a lot more complex than a program running on hardware you can control.

You’re essentially asking the same question as people who want to access netflix for free.

The answer is no. But someone else might’ve ripped the content you want to see and made it available as a torrent.

Most Final Fantasy games mix sci-fi and magic. Only the specifics of the lore around how it works changes with each FF universe.

You can delete uploaded media since v.19 iirc.

There’s a media tab in your profile on supported clients where you can see and remove uploaded media files.

Yes, it should be safe to force a shutdown, and then re-doing the re-image.

Again. I know.

That’s why I’m hoping steam would make their own thing that’ll just always be there for linux users.

In desktop mode, on the desktop client, outside big picture mode?

I want this on my desktop, and not just in big picture mode. I already know it can be done on the deck.

I realize you’re making a joke, but it’s a false dichotomy.

It’s not one or the other. We absolutely can, and should, move people around to where they need to go both safely and on schedule.

I wish I could have protondb badges inside the desktop steam client.

Would be nice if this worked with linux in general.

Are you being deliberately obtuse?

The device isn’t going to cease to exist, just because it was only for sale for two months.

Even if it had only been for sale for two months, I’d have gotten to enjoy using it for at least three years by now.

Yes, exactly. Getting it repaired (both within and outside of warranty) and spare parts availability.

What do you mean, “exactly”? The vast majority of owners will not need to repair theirs, and the vast majority of units will outlive their owners interest in using them. You’re assuming you’ll be one of the exceptions, which is always a possibility, but you can’t factor it in as if it’s a 100% chance.

Software eventually too, but usually that takes a while longer.

What do you mean? It’s an x86 PC. The same way I can grab a 15-year-old laptop and slap a linux distro on it, the same thing is possible with the Deck.

Would you have bought a Steam Deck if Valve would stop producing them after 3 years? I wouldn’t.

I would and I did. In fact every person who has bought one before today, technically did. That’s a million points of contest against the argument you’re trying to make with this. Are you seeing the catch 22 you’re asking your tech to adhere to?

I’d have bought a Deck even if it only lasted a few months, because I got one two months after launch on pre-reservation.

And why not? It’s a great device that is worth the price of admission, as-is. It runs games right now that I will still want to play years from now, and is durable enough to last that long. I do not need valve to make several million more, and to keep doing so for several years, for my unit to somehow become worth owning. It is worth that all on its own.

I get wanting companies to do hardware better, but the level of the standard you are claiming you want here, is absurd. The Decks potential for longevity is above and beyond almost any other hardware product in the tech industry right now, with the exception of the framework laptops.

My one unit has given me three years and hundreds of hours of gaming away from home, and will likely give several hundred more before it stops working. When it does, there are a variety of possibilities to get it back to working.

If it had stopped working within warranty, I’d either have gotten a new unit, or my money back. There is no gamble there.

Again, what do you mean “continued”?

The only impact the discontinuation of those devices had on the people who bought them, is that they can’t buy another. Aside from that, they still work. You’re talking as if the end of sale has some kind of significant impact that makes owning the product less worth it, or like the device ceases to exist on that day. But you clearly know otherwise.

If the Deck stops being sold tomorrow, that has zero impact on the one I already have, save for the possible decline in spare parts available.

There are lots of reasons to wait to buy something, but “they might stop selling them” seems more like a reason to get something you want to have sooner, rather than later. So that when sales stop, you have one you can keep.

Fair enough. But that only further confuses me on how you came to the conclusion you did.

Surely it’s enough for a given product to either be worth the price one pays at the time of purchase, or not be. Judge a product for what it is, not what it will be. And in Valves case they’ve shown they won’t arbitrarily take that away at some later date. Your only complaint then seems to be that they don’t always add value with time.

We almost certainly are getting a second controller, but that will in no way take away, nor improve, the value that people who bought and still use the first one got and get out of it.