Thanks for the feedback everyone! I really thought you got to *be* the plastic duck. I appreciate your help, because I wasn’t expecting a glorified screensaver.

You keep saying this but haven’t posted logs showing their side of the conversation. I’ve had my difficulties reaching someone who wasn’t just copy and pasting prewritten responses from a script, but the way you’re avoiding answering peoples questions is suspicious.

Roy, is that you…?

Apple will sell you a laptop with dead pixels on the screen and refuse to replace it unless a certain minimum number are dead. I was furious.

Tutorials on how to use and install the legal side of emulators are allowed, it’s when you encroach on copyright that things become a problem. Piracy is not allowed.

Do not post links to sources of copyrighted materials.

Pictures of your Deck running software never published to PC are questionable. My biggest problem with /r/steamdeck is how it made me feel like I joined a bad faith community by buying the device.

There are a handful of moderators and we discuss as a group before we take action. I am not the only voice, so you may opt to wait for others to comment.

I use Deck mainly docked in 1080p. The only issues I have are with very recent games. After some questions and learning, I’ve come to expect not to use it for current big-name games. To that end, well optimized modern games like Powerwash Simulator run fabulous. Most of my Steam library plays very well and is perfectly enjoyable!

I mostly use it to set up Non-Steam Games like Diablo. Once set up, I go back to gaming mode. I once briefly considered using it to resolve a server issue for a business client (by using SSH which for who knows why is expensive as fuck on iPad), but decided against it – I was home to relax not work.

When I first got my Deck I installed several emulators for nostalgia (of course for games I own legitimate versions of), but after recently re-imaging my Deck I haven’t had the urge to do that again. I got what I needed, and may do it again some day; but for now I’m satisfied by Steam games and Diablo.

+1 for Skyrim!

The way people who cheat talk about input modifier devices leaves a bad taste in my mouth, so I can understand why a driver level system was considered.

Cheaters in online games really are the worst type of people because they feel entitled to ruin other peoples games. It’s one thing to “level up” your solo experience. It’s a different thing to intend to ruin someone else’s.

I had problems with the “basic” method of launching battle.net as a non steam game. The Lutris method worked for me.

You might have better luck asking a Yuzu community, since your problem is with Yuzu and not Steam Deck.

https://lemmy.world/c/yuzuemulator

That’s a bummer, I wish I had another idea.

As an alternative, you could try Desktop mode and SGDBoop.

Grab SGDBoop from the Discover store, and then enable the shortcut button on the SteamGridDB website. You can browse for your games and apply artwork with a button that appears. For non-Steam games you may have to select the title from a list.

I haven’t found this process to be too painful for the handful of games I have that don’t have grid art.

I’ve played games on both Switch and Steam Deck, and older games the Steam Deck blows the Switch out of the water at 1920x1080. Examples include Avicii Invector, Skyrim, and Yooka-Laylee.

It’s games like Diablo and Metal Hellsinger that make me concerned about Hogwarts Legacy and LEGO 2K Drive.

Not that you should have to for a confirmed game, but when in doubt ProtonGE tends to fix things.

TIL. That’s not cool.

Warning: The 1TB versions are 65% off their never actually used price of $300. They are only a couple bucks cheaper today than yesterday, and I opted not to buy one because that’s just shady behavior on Amazon’s part.

Tools like CamelCamelCamel can help you avoid getting scammed by Jeffery!

Those should all be built in to Retroarch (Dolphin for GameCube). You will need to ask a piracy community for help with Switch emulation. Emudeck will install just about everything you need except for the parts that fall under copyright.

An update for what I’ve found:

The path Google/Reddit had was invalid, but there was a cache file there that helped me locate the actual directory (at least for my Steam Deck) and identify which layout goes with which game.

The path I found was: /home/deck/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Steam Controller Configs/{USER_ID}/config/

I’ll bring this up to the others.

Google’s result was a Reddit post, so it is best to have a copy of this information in lemmy.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks so much for this, it’s what I really wanted to know.

Is the conversion from mAh to Whr something you can explain to a five year old, or should I really just search-engine that conversion if I need to in the future?

The problem is the insane CPU usage by the steam process and it’s associated web helpers as shown in the other comments. The fans are doing what they’re supposed to.

No, you are not understanding correctly.

The Genki covert dock was DOA when I got one, so I don’t trust them.

(1)(deck@steamdeck ~)$ ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%cpu --sort=-%cpu | head -n 11
    PID    PPID CMD                         %CPU
   1880    1632 /home/deck/.local/share/Ste 44.5
   1551    1275 /home/deck/.local/share/Ste 15.0
   1643    1631 /home/deck/.local/share/Ste 15.0
   1274    1181 mangoapp                     6.7
   1204    1181 gamescope --generate-drm-mo  5.2
   1591    1551 /home/deck/.local/share/Ste  5.2
   1211    1075 Xwayland :0 -rootless -term  5.0
      1       0 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd sp  1.9
      7       2 [kworker/u32:0-btrfs-endio]  1.5
   1213    1075 Xwayland :1 -rootless -term  1.3

Something Valve implemented is out of control. How do I get this to not truncate the command?

Here are the results from top – again just sitting on the main home screen doing nothing at all.

Done several reboots. If I go to desktop mode and kill the steam process, the fans stop.

How do I go about getting the thermal readings?