Where is your evidence of this?

Everywhere? Every decade humankind becomes more uniform worldwide, but especially last few decades.

What? Do you not listen to music? Or enjoy art? Do you not watch theater or tv? Do you not enjoy going to local craft shows and seeing local artists? No matter what happens in the 2000s, the 1900s will be remembered as one of the most artistically prolific, free and diverse periods of human expression and art. Yeah there is censorship, yes western culture is very conservative in ways it doesn’t want to admit sometimes, but in general the shear volume and variety of art created in the 1900s is immense.

Another issue, is that publicity and interconnectedness of all discourses we have nowadays, increases a homogenuity of thinking patterns, in other words it hurts the diversity of the ways of thinking, that is also something that can be improved by more people going private and having closed interest groups in chats invisible to public web.

Where is your evidence of this?

It is a mistake to think pushing everybody to talk only in private will increase the diversity and quality of discourse. It will NOT, it will collapse conversations into simpler more reductive narratives.

It is good, idk, it isn’t flashy but if you give the gameplay a try it is just damn good. It isn’t really arcadey like bf2 though, everything is very lethal.

Also the big “swingset frame” looking structure repairs and rearms vehicles.

Nah it isn’t ideal, I wanted to make a post about it eventually but I wanted to try some third party docks and/or see if updates fixed it.

What I have figured out is that the best way to use the dock is to boot the steam deck up not connected to the dock, get it to the home screen and then connect it to the dock. I find this has the best chance of inititating everything right.

Make sure to check the controller order under the control settings for a particular game, use change who is the number 1 control input easily once you learn where it is, and that can help some of the problems that arise.

I don’t have any performance issues, but not that if you try to run a really high resolution tv at anywhere near a native resolution the steam deck just is going to quickly be outclassed by the performance demands. So idk, 720p sounds suspiciously low though, try checking the settings (under the lefthand bar) and examining how the display settings are set. Change it to native or some other setting and see if that helps, it might be that the settings are keeping your steam deck from jumping up to a higher resolution. Same thing with framerate lock, which you can check under the righthand bar, I recommend setting framelock settings (maximum framerate) on a pergame basis.

Look, same, but just for the fun of it I like to imagine there is some magic point here where HP decides to make a steam deck os handheld, but doesn’t give a shit enough to focus on loading it up with shovelware, they just sort of say ok lets make a handheld that can run steamos and just focus on the hardware, leave em to the wolves I mean steam support.

They can make decent hardware, at least on their business laptops, it can be wildly inconsistent, kind of reminds me of like an audi car (at least in the US) some of them are actually pretty decent and reliable but some of them are fucking horror stories that never end for the owner lol…

Well let me state this explicitly then, I don’t consider AI to be some kind of existential threat in terms of becoming sentient, or stealing all of our information and hoarding it away.

LLMs are powerful and have lots of use cases, but right now we are going through a really tiresome scifi novel delusion about mistaking the current wave of LLM innovations as being somehow able to transport us to the singularity or whatever boring tech bros are calling it these days.

yawn

Anyway, the more general tendency of moving away from public spaces is a right and natural thing.

Let me emphatically say that NO it isn’t.

If you need to anonymize or disguise your identity because you feel threatened, I never want to make you feel like you shouldn’t take whatever steps of protecting your privacy that you feel you need to.

That being said, no, I fundamentally consider societal progress to be roughly equatable to how open the systems are in a society both in the material and ideological realm. Public forums/the fediverse are progress because they allow anybody with an internet connection to read through conversations, learn and eventually participate and add to a general collective benefit and community. This is the power of the internet.

quit whining tho?

No, it isn’t.

Make no mistake a primary monetization vector for Discord is to scrape the shit out of everything said on its chats.

By suggesting Discord for privacy you are effectively only giving corporations the benefit of a commons while denying that to people.

Discord is NOT private, it is a corporation and your data is valuable.

Discord may offer to sell chat histories in certain communities (after “anonymizing” the data, yeah right like they will do that effectively) directly to AI companies.

Discord is only private in the sense that you are advocating for only a private for-profit corporation being able to enjoy the benefit of scraping and collecting our conversations.

This is not healing, this is the vision of the internet as a truly open shared space that benefits all… dying because people like gamers were too foolish to see the coming catastrophe from putting EVERY community under the control of a single company struggling to make a profit.

Discord is a terrible format to manage large, complex communities and projects, I don’t know what you mean by an alternative to Discord because my argument is that Discord is shit for organizing.

Discord is great for chat, both voice and text, it is a great live space to have for a community. I don’t dispute that. Sure there hasn’t been good alternatives to recently for that specific usecase…

What I dispute, and what I am pointing out is that Discord ate forums, it ate all kinds of public, publically accessible formats for online communities that were much more easily searchable and collatable into useful information for everybody.

Discord is a fucking hallway of a thousand fractured silo’d conversations locked behind an account login. I hate Discord for destroying the internet before it which I could freely browse and learn so much more from.

Yeah I remember voicing this concern when all online communities seemed to be going to discord and people seemed to mainly laugh at me in response at the time.

Fuck Discord

Stunt Rally 3 and it has splitscreen.

Fuck AI

hell yeah on the revolt server

they have been acting sketch af

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-promise-to-never-sell-personal-data-asks-users-not-to-panic/

FYI it is a good time to move away from firefox given recent events at mozilla.

I have been liking Librewolf which is on the discover app downloader in desktop mode.

I wonder if you could make a script that would read a steamdeck control scheme file and convert it to an html or .svg or equivalent along with editable text boxes for putting a short description, author name, game name etc.

I am kind of confused, I seem to remember the front steam deck control page didn’t really display all the information.

I still have two main complaints with this display.

I think the button that switches between Action Sets should be highlighted and unmistakably obvious given how important that is to learning the control scheme (and how utterly confusing it is when you switch into a different action set by accident in a new unfamiliar control scheme for a game).

Virtual menus should also be displayed on the control scheme front page as they appear when they are displayed on screen in use, there should be a view that displays all of the keybindings visually for the steamdeck and then below it should be a display of all the virtual menus used with indicators of what control inputs those menus correspond to.

I also think there is a deeper issue with the steamdeck control scheme display here though, any good control scheme is going to be best conveyed by a visual aid and a short text description of not only the specifics of the control scheme but more importantly the motivation and general concept of the control scheme. Adapting a complex games with many keybindings like Beyond All Reason, Armored Brigade, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Cold Waters, Wayward etc. require not just an intuitive and practically usable mapping of the game’s full core control scheme but also a thoughtful approach and organization of the control scheme into something that can be saliently encapsulated by a keybindings cheatsheet.

What I am trying to say is that the endgoal of any good complex control scheme for the Steam Deck that adapts a complex mouse and keyboard game to the onboard controls of the deck is to have a control scheme that you can easily make a keybindings cheatsheet for, so why not include some functionality of creating a cheatsheet WITHIN Steam’s interface itself? Make it purely basic .svg graphics, no raster images so there isn’t a big risk with offensive content or anything, it takes up basically no additional storage space either.

You are right though, the default control scheme display has gotten a lot better.

I think what I will do is take a screenshot, convert the main shapes into an .svg image and then maybe upload/share it somewhere? Is there somewhere that would make sense to share an .svg template for steam deck control schemes to this lemmy community? Can I just directly upload an .svg?