moormaan @ moormaan @lemmy.ca

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Yes, that's what I meant. I take courses using Firefox in desktop mode. The Unity course was one of them.

Depends on the size. Of the pics I mean.

Yep. I listened to a course on Coursera about Unity game development (alas, Unity), and installed Unity Hub and the engine, and made actual (simple) games on the Deck it self using a keyboard and TV. Then I was able to test play the said games on the Deck right there. Here are the links to the games if you care to check them out:

• https://moormaan.itch.io/solar-system-project-for-the-coursera-unity-course
• https://moormaan.itch.io/2d-shooter-for-coursera

Sounds very uplifting!

I was on a decade-and-a-half gaming hiatus (job, kids, the usual) until we got the Nintendo Switch early in the pandemic (and it was a saviour for the whole family). When the Steam Deck was announced, I hesitated a day or two (this probably pushed me three to four months in the delivery queue), but eventually realized that this is the device I've been waiting for my whole life (a Linux-based gaming hand held which can also be used as a general purpose computer) and ordered it. I had a dormant Steam account with only Civilization V in it (my wife got it for me on DVD when it came out, and that's when I made the account). Since then, I bought >200 games and >100 DLCs (I started playing some of the lighter ones on my under-powered Linux laptop before the Deck arrived and continued on the Deck using cloud saves), finished multiple games, and felt sleep depraved for months.

Currently, me and my wife are playing Divinity 2 in split screen mode on the big TV. I also use the Deck for online courses, responding to emails, writing documents, surfing, etc. I created a desktop controls binding for handheld desktop mode usage which allows me to change zoom and brightness, bring up the keyboard easily, copy and paste, open the start menu, alt-tab between windows and go in and out of full screen mode etc. all with one or two motions of the controls. For example, I mapped swiping up and down on the left touchpad to mouse wheel up and down, and swiping left and right on it to SHIFT+mouse wheel up and down, allowing me to scroll in all directions using my left thumb. This allows me to use it for reading illustrated books where I need to zoom in and out and scroll across the page.

Steam Deck is a game changer in so many ways.

Removing books is so misguided, and whoever instigated this should not be running anything related to schools, let alone the library. Books reflect our history, and the school is there to teach the kids about values, why they are important, and how societies and time periods that espoused different values looked. Only this can reinforce our commitment to these values. Censoring history does the opposite. Books are not monuments that celebrate their content, they are historic records of societies, events, values and people.

I'm sorry to hear people having issues with FF. I remember the instability spell it had way back (6, 7 years ago?) but I've had zero issues with it on Mac, Linux and Android.

We have both. Kids play on the Switch, parents play on the Deck. Also, Switch is a great, hassle free, family friendly, small & light, cheap and versatile gaming console. Deck is awesome and let's not forget Windows free, it's a god send (thank you Valve). I think they are both great, and while there's overlap of course, they also aim at different markets.

It is referring to that Roblox developer conference. But yeah, somewhat click baity as people might be hoping to get one for cheap.

"To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, "Busy now, please check back later." (To be fair, in this case "check back later" is a good summary of what happened.)" 😂

If your wife likes gaming, you can play co-op on the said TV! The dock is somewhat expensive, but any USB C hub with power in and HDMI out will do. We have a thin keyboard with the mouse pad built in and two blue tooth controllers - voila! For optimal play on large screens, you should run it in Desktop mode. For gaming, I still use the Big Picture mode for Steam to be able to navigate to games with the controller, but with the keyboard and mouse, you can use it for anything really. I've responded to school emails, done online courses, even built small games in Unity (did a course on it), all from the comfort of my armchair and big TV screen.

Steam Deck is so versatile, you'll love it!

It's possible. I didn't know. Now I do, and now I get it. Hell, there might be stuff even you didn't know. Knowing is that way.

We should. Yes please.

Good luck to Lenovo and all the others, but the Steam Deck has changed my life and it's such a versatile and magical device for a modest price, and Windows-free to boot, that I'm not even considering any of these other ones.

I'm a long time Mastodon user, and I've observed multiple cycles of user influxes (usually caused by some unpopular decision at Twitter) followed by slow but steady decline as these new users got frustrated, disappointed, attacked or something similar. Each wave however did leave a portion that stuck around. I can't tell you whether Mastodon or Lemmy will "succeed", but it's clear by now that both their respective user bases couldn't even agree on the definition of success.

This might sound like a negative, but if you look at corporate social media which has a pretty clear vision of what its own success looks like (is this fair?), it might also be partly positive. Also, while success might be hard to define and agree on in the Fediverse, I think that these networks are more resilient to total failure than traditional social media (though again, this statement hides some implicit assumptions).

Ultimately, I've learned to stop worrying about this. People will talk about what they want to talk about, and this will continue to change and evolve. Lemmy needs better moderation tools (as demonstrated by the recent CSAM attack), but I believe it will get them in time. If you want to talk about something different on Lemmy: do! Just post it, or create a community. It might not explode over night, but it might catch on.

Mastodon and now Lemmy are the only social media I actively use now (permanently deleted my Twitter account on the day the Tate interview was published "exclusively", but was less active there for years) , and I feel the better for it. I've observed tremendous progress in the Fediverse during the past six years and it's very encouraging in the long term.

Yeah, I figured. I just couldn't resist taking a stab at the latest scandal 🤷

I beg to differ! Ford keeps talking about it even when asked about -ahem- different things.

Awesome article. Funny, serious, smart and insightful at the same time. It cracked me up and worried me all at once.

"And how to unleash a house-building frenzy without protective bureaucrats when any rush to mass construction clearly requires adult supervision, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford so dangerously discovered in his greenbelt housing debacle."

How indeed. I look on transfixed...

Let's see how far they'll go: https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-says-the-province-will-review-and-re-evaluate-all-lands-in-the-greenbelt/article_ca13c0f6-9f64-5413-97ac-33eb9ef14d0e.html

Edit: Oh wait, they aren't re-evaluating the 14 sites that were carved out using the flawed process! They are just looking to give out more land swaps to other land owners!

Hopefully not. There's no (legitimate) reason why this would prevent an investigation by the RCMP. Also, Ryan Amato’s resignation didn't sweep it under the rug either, on the contrary. In my eyes, this puts everyone in the spotlight to get to the bottom of what actually happened here.